Designing Future Payments: Stablecoins vs Bitcoin | Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Show Notes

The future of money is inseparable from the future of payments. Will the next generation of global money apps be built on Bitcoin’s decentralized rails or on stablecoins, dollar-backed tokens with growing regulatory clarity? In this session, Nick Slaney makes the case for Bitcoin as the most accessible, censorship-resistant system for payments, while Daniel Nordh argues for stablecoins as interoperable rails that align with user habits and compliance regimes. The discussion explores the challenges of building a truly global payments app, the role of self-custody, the tradeoffs between stable value and censorship resistance, the UX of on-ramps and off-ramps, and the impact of emerging regulations. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:24 Bitcoin for Payments 17:26 Stablecoins for Payments Presented at Presidio Bitcoin Design Week hosted at 📍Presidio Bitcoin A big thanks to co-hosts: Bitcoin Design Community! 🌐 Learn more about the event: https://event.bitcoin.design/ 🐦 Follow us: https://x.com/PresidioBitcoin Learn more about PB: https://presidiobitcoin.org Learn more about the Bitcoin Design Community: https://bitcoin.design/