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Bitcoin Q&A: Alternatives to centralised exchanges
Keywords/phrases: Risks with centralised custodial exchanges. There are small-scale solutions of online decentralised exchanges (ex. Bisq, formerly Bitsquare) and offline decentralised exchanges (ex. Local Bitcoins). The best way to get bitcoin is to earn it through the expenditure of your labour, which you have now removed from the war machinery of the state.
This talk took place on September 13th 2016 at the Silicon Valley Bitcoin Meetup in Sunnyvale, California:...
Related topics : online bitcoin exchange / ways to earn bitcoins
Bitcoin Q&A: What will replace our current banking system after the currency crisis?
Keywords/phrases: Will Bitcoin replace the current banking system? Is Bitcoin the life raft of the coming Bretton Woods system collapse? Signs of growing currency crisis, Venezuela.
Related topics : bitcoin banking system / bitcoin current currency / bitcoin bank / current bitcoin
Bitcoin is punk rock - deal with it!
Presenting as part of the session "Beyond Bitcoin, Unleashing the Blockchain", Andreas M Antonopoulos opens with a contrarian perspective. It's not about "beyond bitcoin", and you can't put this technology on a leash to make it more palatable. Bitcoin is the real thing, the revolutionary and disruptive technology that can't be tamed.
Bitcoin is punk rock and you can't turn it into smooth jazz just to satisfy the sensibilities of a timid boardroom.
Related topics : bitcoin technology blockchain
Bitcoin Q&A: Will banks, which are software companies at heart, adapt to digital currencies?
In this talk in Berlin, Andreas looks at the inner structure of bitcoin and how high-level financial and trust applications are composed from smaller elements. Using analogies from Lego blocks to a chef creating new recipes, this talk highlights the connection between creativity and the flexibility offered by fine-grained components.
Keywords/phrases: Banks as software engineering companies using old vs. new financial technology. Banks adapting and transforming to digital currencies....
Related topics : digital currency companies
Bitcoin: Money as language & the multi-currency future
In this talk, Andreas looks at currency as a form of language, discusses the implications of a multi-currency future and the proliferation of non-national money. From the Bitcoin Expo in Toronto, April 2014.
Related topics : bitcoin currency of the future / bitcoin money of the future
Bitcoin Security: Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat
A whimsical security analysis of the open, public and decentralized bitcoin system, compared to the closed, proprietary and centralized alternatives.
Related topics : bitcoin security analysis