The Currency Wars and Bitcoin's Neutrality: We Didn't Start the Fire [Talk from 2016]
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2016-12-10

Bitcoin has changed the world. Andreas M. Antonopoulos talks about how there is a fully-fledged global currency war that started just after the financial crisis in 2008, and has been gathering speed since. This currency war has billions of people as hostages, being tossed around like pawns in a geopolitical game. That currency war has changed the trajectory of Bitcoin.

This talk is featured in The Internet of Money volume 2, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://aantonop.io/tiomv2ebooks/

This talk took place on December 3rd 2016 at the Coinscrum {MiniCon}, hosted by Imperial College in London, England: https://www.meetup.com/coinscrum/events/235709468/

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Currency wars and bitcoins neutrality in the currency wars
3:28 This currency wars has billions of people as hostages
6:44 World governments to once and for all eradicate cash
7:50 Nationalism
11:38 In this currency wars, there is one force that stands neutral
13:43 The people who exit
15:50 Sim City
17:51 These currency wars are wars on populations
20:28 Who benefits in the end?
21:47 Gresham's law
24:07 Cash is being eradicated around the world but they can't win that game because cash is something that we can create
24:52 Exiting the currency wars
26:16 As this happens, we are going to be called criminals

Watch Currency Wars II: The Ships are Sinking [2021] https://youtu.be/stN03wk_Wzs
In this talk Andreas gives an update in the currency wars saga. Watch and learn. 

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