In this monologue, Alexander Lorenzo argues that the primary source of security for Ethereum and Bitcoin is their massive scale, which cannot be bypassed by any technology. He contrasts this with centralized banks, which become more fragile as they grow because a single entity must manage all responsibilities. Lorenzo explains that blockchain technology distributes that responsibility to every participant, making the system more resilient. He introduces the term "Victor'd" to describe how banks can freeze or seize accounts, a power that does not exist in crypto where funds are immutable and cannot be taken away. He critiques banks for relying on economic mechanisms—such as printing money and absorbing fraud costs—to maintain a façade of security, which ultimately leads to inflation and devalues the dollar. Lorenzo concludes that while crypto is not perfect, it is "better" than traditional banking because it lacks the centralized control that enables censorship and monetary dilution.
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The central focus of security on Ethereum and Bitcoin is the fact that it's huge. That is literally it. So you can't— there's no technology, there's no innovation that you can make to bypass that. It's just big. It's that simple. It's too big. Wow. And, and then not only that, but not only is it too big, but also the entire network was made to become more secure as it got big. For example, this centralized entity, as it gets big, it actually becomes more fragile. Because they have so much they have to operate through one centralized entity. There's one guy, or there's like a group of guys that have to deal with so much responsibility. And the concept of the innovation of blockchain technology, it literally took that responsibility and gave it to the hands of everyone. So the current internet— so if you think about it, right, so like, how secure is crypto is what the person was asking. How secure is crypto versus— The internet. What do you have now, right? So you just compare it. It's not that it's perfect, it's that it's better, right? So what do I mean by better? So nobody can tell you to stop your bank account. Nobody can Victor you. They got Victor'd. We're gonna call it Victor'd. In your crypto, they can't take your money out and send it to you because you said something you don't like and say, we don't want to do business with you. They can't do that. You cannot do that in crypto. It is literally impossible. In your current bank account, The reason why it's so secure is not because they have a technology. The reason why it's so secure is that if you plead your case, they'll just give you the money back. The point is they don't even have security on lockdown. They just print more money. They just work it. They don't have security on lockdown. What they do is they just work it into the economics of how much money they make. So they write it off, correct? Basically, they— so they don't really— so that's where like this debt and the inefficiency comes Because what they'll do is they'll be like, okay, I'm gonna take one person on this credit card. Like, and we know that the chances of them doing fraudulent activity is like this much on average, according to the massive amount of people that we've scraped. And so if they do that, we are already gonna make money anyways. Now there's a certain threshold. I know this. There's a certain threshold where we start losing money on them. We'll just stop doing business with them as soon as they get to that threshold, which is good for you because it's super convenient, but it's bad for the entire network of the world because If they just keep giving your money back, this leads to inflation, and then your actual dollar gets— loses value. So you're still getting robbed. Does that make sense?
