name: title background-image: url('img/shrug.jpg') background-size: contain background-position: 80% 50% # Who needs<br>cryptocurrency<br>today? --- background-image: url('img/1280px-Ceifa_em_Anticoli_Corrado_-_Pedro_Weingärtner.jpg') .big[underbanked] ??? Rural or third-world regions (Image by Ceifa em Anticoli Corrado, by Pedro Weingärtner, 1909) --- background-image: url('img/payday-loans.jpg') background-position: 50% 60% .big[underbanked] ??? (Image CC-BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewbain/524195139/) --- background-image: url('img/cannabis-leaf-hemp.jpg') .big[underbanked] ??? Politically or socially marginalized groups (cannabis dispensaries) (image is in public domain) --- background-image: url('img/Exchange_Money_Conversion_to_Foreign_Currency-1024x574.jpg') class: right .big[expatriates] ??? Sending money overseas into another currency is very expensive and slow. (Image CC-BY 2.0 epSos.de) --- background-image: url('img/zim-trillion.jpg') class: right bottom .big[inflation<br>victims] ??? Countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe have inflated their currency into uselessness, and instituted harsh monetary controls which sap people's purchasing power overnight. These regions are comfortable with the comparatively mild swings in cryptocurrencies' values. (Image is in the public domain) --- background-image: url('img/14713883257_dd30ef9f51_k.jpg') background-position: 50% 25% .big[savers] ??? Inflation is a problem in first-world countries too. Most first-world nations practice _financial repression_, which is mild inflation which remains higher than common interest rates. This is a way to reduce national debt without quantitative easing. (Image CC-BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/126131780@N08/14713883257/) --- background-image: url('img/Trading-desk.jpg.png') class: center .big[speculators] ??? image origin unclear --- background-image: url('img/business.jpg') background-position: 50% 30% class: bottom .big[businesses] ??? image origin unclear, used in memes