Bitcoin - Keeping Digital Communities Weird
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2018-05-26

In this talk, part of "The Future of Programmable Money" series, Andreas discusses digital gentrification and corporatisation, how this relates to the "blockchain not Bitcoin" phenomenon, and why we should maintain interesting communities both offline and online.

This talk is featured in The Internet of Money volume 3, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://aantonop.io/tiomv3ebooks/

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:31 Neighborhood gentrification
6:11 Digital community gentrification
14:01 Bitcoin was weird
15:01 The weirdness in bitcoin
21:36 The weirdness in Ethereum
25:33 A digital community that can't be gentrified

This talk took place at the Sheraton Warsaw for the Polish Bitcoin Congress (Polski Kongres Bitcoin) on May 12th 2018 in Warsaw, Poland: http://kongresbitcoin.pl/

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