Bitcoin: Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money - Barcelona Fablab Meetup March 2016
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2016-04-13

A talk about Bitcoin, privacy, identity, surveillance, hierarchies and the future of network-centric private and secure money.

This talk is featured in The Internet of Money, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://aantonop.io/tiomv1ebooks/

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:15 I want to talk about the concepts of neutrality, decentralization, and privacy; what makes Bitcoin so special
4:32 There is no more absolute power than the power of money
5:14 Bitcoin is one of the things that will greatly disrupt centralization of power
11:09 The internet's power comes from net neutrality
12:35 What is a spam transaction?
14:02 Starting in the 1970s, we have seen the world adopt digital currencies.
16:53 We have been creating a system of global, totalitarian financial surveillance throughout the world
19:45 On January 3rd 2009, the dream of nation-states to create a totalitarian financial system died with the invention of Bitcoin
31:05 In which direction will bitcoin evolve?
32:39 Attacks cause the system to evolve resistance
35:22 Bitcoin is much more than currency
36:50 Bringing knowledge to as many people as possible
41:18 Do you have any thoughts about made safe and the safe network?
43:49 How do you foresee that we are going to pass go through that mining centralization power?
52:01 Will mass adoption of bitcoin happen soon?
53:45 What do you have to say about other coins?
59:27 I just wanted to ask you a question about your metaphor.
1:07:45 Would like to ask you about the scalability of bitcoin. What options has bitcoin right now? And what are the advantage and disadvantage of its each of the audience that are and what's your opinion that? Which of those options should be should the community adopt?
1:10:48 I would like to know if you forecast a moment when there will be a passage between fiat currency and crypto currency in the world. That it's so fast that there will be blood and revolution, or will be smooth passages between the two different systems.
1:14:08 Opinion on centralized systems and revealing personal data

This talk was delivered on March 24th 2016 at the Fab Lab in Barcelona, Spain: http://bitcoinbarcelona.cat/es/2016/02/29/andreas-m-antonopoulos-thoughts-on-the-future-of-money/

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.

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Russian, 'Интернет денег' (v1) - https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg
Vietnamese, 'Internet Của Tiền Tệ' (v1) - https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang

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