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Alle reden über Bitcoin – aber wie entsteht er eigentlich? Unser Host Gregor erkundet eine Bitcoin-Mine und taucht ein in die Welt des digitalen Goldes. Hinweis: Diese Folge wurde am 20. Februar 2025 aufgenommen, auf eventuelle Bitcoin-Kursschwankungen können wir daher nicht eingehen.**********Zusätzliche InformationenWir haben gewählt. Unser Podcast-Mitarbeiter-des-Monats ist: Der Rechner in Kristians finnischer Mine, der 3.125 Bitcoins zu Tage gefördert hat. Habt ihr einen anderen Vorschlag? Meldet euch bei whatthewirtschaft@deutschlandfunknova.de  Hörtipp: Dlf-Hintergrund | Bitcoin entzweit die FinanzweltHörtipp: Update Erde | Dicke Luft: Wie können wir uns davor schützen?**********An dieser Folge waren beteiligt: Gesprächspartner: Kristian, besitzt eine Bitcoin-Mine und ein mittelständisches Unternehmen Hosts: Gregor Lischka und Marcus Wolf  Produktion: Uwe Breunig  Redaktion: Anne Göbel**********Die Quellen zur Folge:Gill, M. and Stinner, J. and Tyrell, M. (2024): Economic Limits of Bitcoin's Environmental Promises: Pathway or Pitfall for the Green Transformation?  Nakamoto, S. (2008) Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.Eine Zusammenfassung der Studie, die sich mit der Umweltbelastung des Bitcoin-Mining und den Potenzialen bezüglich Erneuerbarer Energien beschäftigt, findet ihr hier: Studie der UW/H nimmt die Umweltbelastung des Bitcoin-Mining unter die Lupe .**********Weitere Beiträge zum Thema:Tupper, Amway und Co.: Die vielen Leben des NetzwerkmarketingsFinanzen: Das Einmaleins des GeldanlegensKryptowährung - Klage auf Änderung des Bitcoin-Programmcodes**********Habt ihr auch manchmal einen WTF-Moment, wenn es um Wirtschaft und Finanzen geht? Wir freuen uns über eure Themenvorschläge und Feedback an whatthewirtschaft@deutschlandfunknova.de.**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok auf&ab , TikTok wie_geht und Instagram .

"Bitcoin Demystified: The Whitepaper That Changed Everything" Episode Summary:In this special edition of Blockchain DXB, we dive into Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin Whitepaper, a document that revolutionized the way we think about money, trust, and decentralization. This episode is uniquely crafted and recorded entirely by AI using Notebook LM by Google, showcasing the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in content creation. Join us as we explore the core principles of Bitcoin, the technology that underpins it, and the philosophical shifts it inspires. Episode Highlights: The Genesis of Bitcoin (Timestamp: 00:01): Understanding the peer-to-peer electronic cash system. The revolutionary concept of removing trusted third parties from transactions. How Bitcoin Solves Double Spending (Timestamp: 05:15): Introduction to blockchain technology as a distributed ledger. The role of Proof-of-Work in securing the network. Transactions and Transparency (Timestamp: 10:30): How Bitcoin ensures immutability and trust without central authorities. Public keys, digital signatures, and anonymity. Decentralization and Incentives (Timestamp: 15:45): The role of mining and transaction fees in sustaining the network. How Bitcoin aligns economic incentives to encourage honesty. Implications and Future of Bitcoin (Timestamp: 20:50): The philosophical impact of decentralization. How Bitcoin sets the foundation for a trustless financial ecosystem. Why This Episode is Unique:This episode marks a technological milestone for Blockchain DXB as the first-ever episode created entirely by artificial intelligence. From content drafting to recording, AI tools handled every aspect, providing a fascinating glimpse into the future of podcasting and digital storytelling.

Bitcoin läuft nun schon seit über 15 Jahren. Doch das ist keinesfalls selbstverständlich. Denn alles entwickelt sich weiter. Auch die Anforderungen an ein Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (oder wie es die coolen Kids von heute nennen: Bitcoin: A Homie-to-Homie Digital Cash Vibe). Dass Bitcoin stets up-to-date ist, immer sicherer und gleichzeitig effizienter wird, wenn nötig neue Features erhält, neue Erweiterungen und Layer-2-Protokolle wie Lightning ermöglicht und dabei keine überraschenden Sicherheitslücken auftreten, darum kümmern sich die Core-Entwickler, die die gleichnamige Bitcoin-Referenzsoftware pflegen, die auf tausenden Nodes läuft, die wiederum das Rückgrat des Bitcoin-Netzwerks bilden. Und auch wenn die meisten Bitcoin-Nutzer, im Alltag vermutlich eher wenig von der Arbeit der Bitcoin Core-Entwickler mitbekommen, waren diese immer fleißig. Immerhin wird dieser Tage bereits das Release von Bitcoin Core Version 28.0 finalisiert. Doch was bedeutet das eigentlich? Wer kümmert sich genau um den Code und nach welchen Regeln läuft das ab. Wie transparent ist der Prozess und wie unterscheidet sich Bitcoin, als rein dezentrales Projekt, hier von anderen Organisationen und Software-Projekten? Das alles und noch viel mehr besprechen wir mit Fabian Jahr, der seinerseits Vollzeit-Bitcoin Core-Developer ist. Mit ihm werfen wir einen Blick unter die Haube von Bitcoin und lassen uns erklären, woran er derzeit arbeitet, was sich hinter dem Berufsbild Core-Entwickler verbirgt und warum es auch okay sein kann, wenn nicht alle Prozesse und Strukturen fix und vorgegeben sind, sondern es auch Raum für eine spontane Ordnung gibt. Dass es bei diesem Thema viele Anglizismen, Abkürzungen und Fachtermini gibt, ist unvermeidlich. Doch lasst euch davon nicht abschrecken. Denn auch ohne alles bis ins letzte Detail zu verstehen, vermittelt dieses Gespräch doch einen sehr guten Eindruck davon, wie Bitcoin und die Arbeit an den Grundlagen funktioniert und was das Faszinierende daran ist.

Our guest on the podcast today is Matt Hougan, one of the world's leading experts on crypto, exchange-traded funds, and financial technology. He's the chief investment officer for Bitwise Asset Management, which offers several cryptocurrency-related funds and ETFs. He was previously chief executive officer of ETF.com and Inside ETFs. Hougan is co-author of A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals” for the CFA Institute's Research Foundation. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a BA in philosophy.BackgroundBioA Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), by Matt Hougan“Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals,” by Matt Hougan and David Lawant, CFA Research Foundation Briefs, January 2021.The Beginning of Cryptocurrency“The Bitcoin White Paper Is Now Officially 15 Years Old,” by Pete Rizzo, Forbes.com, Oct. 31, 2023.“Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” by Satoshi NakamotoCrypto Scandals“What Was the Silk Road Online? History and Closure by the FBI,” by the Investopedia Team, Investopedia.com, June 29, 2024.“What Was Mt. Gox? Definition, History, Collapse, and Future,” by the Investopedia Team, Investopedia.com, April 23, 2024.“FTX Crash Is Eerily Similar to the Bernie Madoff Scandal, ex-regulator Sheila Blair Says,” by Matt Egan, cnn.com, Nov. 15, 2022.Crypto Performance“Crypto Market Review (Q2 2024),” by Matt Hougan, Juan Leon, Ryan Rasmussen, Alyssa Choo, Gayatri Choudhury, and Mallika Kolar, bitwiseinvestments.com, July 9, 2024.“Ether ETF Is One Step Away From Approval as Price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Shiba Inu, and Dogecoin Turn Mixed,” by Dan Runkevicius, forbes.com, June 26, 2024.“What Financial Advisors Don't Know About Bitcoin ETFs,” Big Picture in Practice podcast, Morningstar.com, June 6, 2024.“BlackRock's $20 Billion ETF Is Now the World's Largest Bitcoin Fund,” by Katie Greifeld and Sidhartha Shukla, Bloomberg.com, May 29, 2024.“Bitcoin's Role in a Traditional Portfolio,” by Matt Hougan and Gayatri Choudhury, bitwiseinvestments.com, Aug. 28, 2023.“The 60/30/10 Portfolio: How to Build a Diversified Crypto Sleeve,” by Matt Hougan, bitwiseinvestments.com, July 22, 2024.“Five Things to Expect by the Next Halving in 2028,” by Matt Hougan, bitwiseinvestments.com, April 23, 2024.“The Crypto Market Sell-Off: What Happened and Where We Go From Here,” by Matt Hougan, bitwiseinvestments.com, Aug. 5, 2024.“Ethereum ETPs and the Path to a New All-Time High,” by Matt Hougan, bitwiseinvestments.com, July 15, 2024.Other“Bitcoin Price Surges Above $30,500; But Warren Buffett Still Thinks It's a Gamble,” by Harrison Miller, investors.com, April 13, 2023.“SEC Approves Spot Ether ETFs,” by Kyle Torpey, Investopedia.com, July 23, 2024.“What Is Tokenization?” by Matt Hougan, bitwiseinvestments.com, April 17, 2025.SolanaCoinMarketCap

Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 by an enigmatic figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity remains one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world. Nakamoto published a whitepaper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," outlining a decentralized currency system that operates without a central authority. This groundbreaking idea aimed to offer a new form of money that could be transferred instantly and securely across the globe. The story begins with the mining of the first Bitcoin block, the Genesis Block, in January 2009. Nakamoto himself mined this block, embedding a cryptic message about the financial crisis, hinting at Bitcoin's purpose as a response to traditional banking failures. Over the next year, Bitcoin remained an obscure experiment, used primarily by a small group of cryptography enthusiasts. In 2010, Bitcoin began to gain wider attention when it was first used in a real-world transaction. A programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz famously paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, an event now celebrated annually as Bitcoin Pizza Day. This transaction highlighted Bitcoin's potential as a medium of exchange and sparked broader interest. As Bitcoin's popularity grew, so did the community around it. Developers continued to refine the software, enhancing its security and functionality. In 2011, Nakamoto vanished from the public eye, leaving behind a legacy that would be carried forward by others. This period saw the emergence of Bitcoin exchanges, enabling users to trade bitcoins for traditional currencies. The following years were marked by rapid growth and significant milestones. Bitcoin's price began to climb, attracting both investors and scrutiny from regulators. The infamous Mt. Gox exchange hack in 2014, where millions of dollars' worth of bitcoins were stolen, underscored the need for better security measures in the burgeoning cryptocurrency market. Despite challenges, Institutional interest grew, with major companies and financial institutions recognizing Bitcoin as a legitimate asset class. By the end of the 2010s, Bitcoin had cemented its status as "digital gold," a store of value comparable to precious metals. Today, Bitcoin remains at the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution. Its decentralized nature, limited supply, and robust security make it a unique financial instrument in an increasingly digital world. As Bitcoin evolves, it continues to inspire discussions about the future of money, technology, and trust in an ever-changing global economy. Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcast Our Website - www.theconspiracypodcast.com Our Email - info@theconspiracypodcast.com

Everything is Bigger in Texas.  Especially blockchain technology and Bitcoin mining operations.  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Lee Bratcher (Founder & President, Texas Blockchain Council), who is one of the pivotal figures making Texas a leader in Bitcoin, blockchain and digital asset innovation.  Lee shares how he and the TBC are shaping Texas as a front-runner in blockchain policy and they both delve into the intricacies of blockchain technology including its governance, potential for solving societal problems and implications for property rights. Lee highlights the energy economics of bitcoin mining in Texas and the pivotal shifts he has seen in digital asset regulation, with the advent of Bitcoin Spot  ETFs. This episode also breaks down the policy initiatives and legal battles the TBC has had with the U.S. Department of Energy over their emergency energy survey and data collection, as well as TBC's recent amicus brief submission supporting Coinbase against the SEC.  Minute-by-minute episode breakdown 2 | Lee's background and how he went from Army reserves to getting into cryptocurrency 4 | The concept of digital property rights and identification and its significance in society 6 | Texas Blockchain Council's impact on changing the narrative around blockchain in Texas and suing the Federal Government 10 | Texas becomes a mining epicenter due to China's blockage 14 | Filing an amicus brief to support Coinbase against the SEC 20 | DeFi Education Fund files preemptive lawsuit against the SEC  22 | The North American Blockchain Summit aims to bring policymakers and regulators together with industry executives  26 | Lee reflects on his interview with Balaji Srinivasan and how the share many profound perspectives 29 | Discussions on criminal activity in crypto and impact of Bitcoin spot ETFS Related resources Check out more resources provided by Chainalysis that perfectly complement this episode of the Public Key. Website: TBC: Making Texas a Leader in Bitcoin, Blockchain & Digital Asset Innovation Video: What We Do at the Texas Blockchain Council w/Lee Bratcher Blog: US energy officials agree to ‘destroy' all data from crypto mining survey Policy: Texas Blockchain Council Policy Initiatives Whitepaper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto Book: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto Video Podcast: Crypto & AI are Redefining US Federal System | Balaji Srinivasan and Lee Bratcher on Shifting Dynamics of US Power Blog: Bitcoin Fog Case Confirms Chainalysis Analytics is Reliable and Admissible in Court Blog: Chainalysis Links NYC Summaries | Day 1 | Day 2 YouTube: Chainalysis YouTube page Twitter: Chainalysis Twitter: Building trust in blockchain Tik Tok: Building trust in #blockchains among people, businesses, and governments. Telegram: Chainalysis on Telegram  Speakers on today's episode Ian Andrews * Host * (Chief Marketing Officer, Chainalysis)  Lee Bratcher (Founder & President, Texas Blockchain Council) This website may contain links to third-party sites that are not under the control of Chainalysis, Inc. or its affiliates (collectively “Chainalysis”). Access to such information does not imply association with, endorsement of, approval of, or recommendation by Chainalysis of the site or its operators, and Chainalysis is not responsible for the products, services, or other content hosted therein. Our podcasts are for informational purposes only, and are not intended to provide legal, tax, financial, or investment advice. Listeners should consult their own advisors before making these types of decisions. Chainalysis has no responsibility or liability for any decision made or any other acts or omissions in connection with your use of this material. Chainalysis does not guarantee or warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, suitability or validity of the information in any particular podcast and will not be responsible for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies of any part of such material.  Unless stated otherwise, reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Chainalysis. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by Chainalysis employees are those of the employees and do not necessarily reflect the views of the company.   

The Last Trade: a weekly, bitcoin native, interactive podcast covering where Bitcoin and traditional finance meet on a macro scale. Hosted by Marty Bent, Jesse Myers (Croesus), Michael Tanguma, and a special weekly guest host. Join us as we dive into what Bitcoin means for how individuals & institutions save, invest, and propagate their purchasing power through time. It's not just another asset - in the digital age, it's the Last Trade that investors will ever need to make. 1:56 - The Vegas rip missed Vegas 8:04 - Whitepaper is 15 14:04 - Introducing Alex and Coincover 19:17 - MPC vs multisig 24:43 - Perspective 29:49 - Interaction between key agents 34:26 - Message from Onramp 34:51 - Coincover's unique value 43:37 - Tip of the spear for a new market 48:11 - Bitcoin financial products 51:56 - Transparency and due diligence 56:10 - Evaluating counterparties 59:16 - Building for trillionaires 1:06:36 - Feeling bullish 1:08:23 - BitStein's 15th anniversary video 1:11:16 - Jesse's on route to Texas 1:12:34 - Wrapping Schedule time with the link below if you would ever like to learn more about Onramp and please sign up for weekly Research and Analysis to get access to the best content in the ecosystem weekly: https://onrampbitcoin.com/contact-us/ https://onrampbitcoin.com/category/podcast-the-last-trade/

In October 2008, a paper titled ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' was published, announcing the creation of one of the world's first cryptocurrencies. This paper was written by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Nakamoto then created a message board called BitcoinTalk and wrote, “I've developed a new open-source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It is completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on cryptographic proof instead of trust. Give it a try.” Obviously, people did. But who is Satoshi Nakamoto? The short answer is no one knows. There is at least one real person behind this alias because someone wrote the code for Bitcoin, published a paper about crypto, sent emails and made forum posts about the new digital currency. But beyond that, Nakamoto's identity remains a mystery. Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch

This week, Anna Rose (https://twitter.com/annarrose) chats with Stefan George (https://twitter.com/stefandgeorge) from Gnosis (https://twitter.com/GnosisDAO). They start with an update on the projects that have spun out of Gnosis - Safe, Zodiac, CoW Swap - as well as older experiments that the team had incubated. They then cover the evolution of Gnosis Chain from its origin as xDai, discuss the new aggregate bridge architecture Hashi and explore Gnosis Pay - an on-chain p2p payments product that fulfills some of the original motivations of Bitcoin. They discuss a range of relevant topics such as intents, prediction markets, account abstraction, ZK Bridges, decentralization and more. Here's some additional links for this episode: Previous Podcast Eps * Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor & Austin (https://zeroknowledge.fm/65-2/) * Episode 183: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis's Martin Köppelmann (https://zeroknowledge.fm/183-2/) * Episode 255: Verifying Consensus On-Chain with Succinct (https://zeroknowledge.fm/255-2/) * Episode 285: Intents with Chris Goes from Anoma (https://zeroknowledge.fm/285-2/) Papers * Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties (https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/04/07/sharding.html) * Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto (https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf) Websites * Gnosis Pay Website (https://gnosispay.com/) * DXdao Website (https://dxdao.eth.link/) * xDai Website (https://docs.gnosischain.com/about/tokens/xdai) * EigenLayer Website (https://www.eigenlayer.xyz/) zkSummit 10 is happening in London on September 20, 2023! Apply to attend now -> zkSummit 10 Application Form (https://9lcje6jbgv1.typeform.com/zkSummit10). Polygon Labs (https://polygon.technology/) is thrilled to announce Polygon 2.0: The Value Layer for the Internet (https://polygon.technology/roadmap). Polygon 2.0 and all of our ZK tech is open-source and community-driven. Reach out to the Polygon community on Discord (https://discord.gg/0xpolygon) to learn more, contribute, or join in and build the future of Web3 together with Polygon! Bonsai, RISC Zero's (https://r0.link/ZKpodcast) most anticipated product, allows developers to prove huge programs off-chain, roll them into one succinct proof, and verify anywhere with low amounts of gas. Visit https://r0.link/ZKpodcast (https://r0.link/ZKpodcast) to learn more and sign up today for the Bonsai waitlist. If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (https://zeroknowledge.fm/)

Le 31 octobre 2008, une personne se faisant appeler par le pseudonyme de Satoshi Nakamoto publie un document scientifique intitulé Bitcoin : A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Dans ce White Paper, il décrit les grands principes du futur protocole Bitcoin. Cela va faire bientôt 15 ans que le White Paper a été publié, et malgré les nombreux développements opérés sur le protocole depuis, ce papier n'a pas pris une ride. Il nous permet encore aujourd'hui de comprendre les premiers objectifs de Bitcoin et les mécanismes ingénieux qui permettent son bon fonctionnement. S'il y a bien un ouvrage que vous devriez lire pour comprendre Bitcoin, c'est celui-ci. Puisque c'est un papier scientifique, sa lecture peut paraître austère. Dans ce podcast, nous allons expliquer simplement ce que Satoshi Nakamoto décrit dans le White Paper de Bitcoin. Pour pouvoir suivre cet article, vous pouvez, vous aussi, télécharger le White Paper de Bitcoin dans sa version du 24 mars 2009 en anglais, ou bien la traduction d'Arnaud-François Fausse en français. Bonne écoute ! (Podcast disponible à la lecture sur le Blog "Comprendre Bitcoin" de Bitstack : Le White Paper de Bitcoin expliqué simplement - Chapitre 1) --- Ce podcast vous est présenté par Loïc Morel pour Bitstack, la première application en France qui vous permet d'épargner en Bitcoin sans aucun effort. ---

If you start to dig into the origin story of cryptocurrency, don't be surprised if you find the ideas and values of the American Libertarian movement all over it. Finn Brunton teaches science and technology studies at UC Davis and is fascinated by the historical narratives and subcultures behind modern technology. His books include Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency and Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures). Finn and Greg discuss how spammers and scammers were actually some of the earliest adopters of cryptocurrency, the American Libertarian roots in the movement, and the dark future cryptocurrency pioneers worried about.  *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:Cryptographic algorithms as a weapons of war39:50: Cryptographic algorithms were classified as munitions, as weapons of war. Like you needed a foreign export license for them in the same way you would if you were selling tanks or something. So, as people were figuring out these sort of cryptographic primitives and fundamental algorithms and things like that, they started doing stuff like getting them printed on t-shirts because then you could be like, if I wear this t-shirt on an overseas flight, I am doing the equivalent of selling crates of AK-47s. And most famously, people got this extremely laconic version of this algorithm in a programming language called “perl” tattooed on themselves. And then you could say, my body is classified as a deadly weapon. You know, it's like this military device. So that tension, I think, is a really good tension for us to bear in mind as we look at how cryptocurrencies developed because part of their heritage was this awareness that strong civilian cryptography was seen as posing a genuine threat to the safety and security of the state.American libertarianism as an ideological strain of the history of cryptocurrency09:08: All of these different agendas for what technology should do represent different threads in libertarian, ideological ideas about what money should be and how society should operate. So that's part of what makes it so fascinating—that it's this new technology.What crypto as a whole shows10:01: To get certain kinds of technologies off the ground ,you can't just build the tech. You have to tell people about the future in which the tech is going to do something of value for them. And that kind of storytelling that media work is for me, where the rubber meets the road of these new technological ideas. And I saw both of them in crypto.On the value of science and technology studies01:01:05: What STS (Science and Technology Studies) provided was a space where all of these different areas, which are all adjacent, could have like a common center in the Venn diagram to meet up and hang out there, and part of what I love is that it gives you a passport to go and meet and learn from really interesting people in all kinds of different zones.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Gadsden FlagBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi NakamotoThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThis Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information by Andy GreenbergEnigma MachineExtropianismGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at UC DavisHis Work:Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (Infrastructures)Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

Les premiers jours de Bitcoin remontent au 31 octobre 2008, lorsqu'une personne (ou un groupe de personnes) opérant sous le pseudonyme de Satoshi Nakamoto a publié le White Paper de Bitcoin intitulé « Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System » (en français « Bitcoin : un système de paiement électronique pair-à-pair »). Ce court document scientifique expose les bases théoriques et les principes techniques du système Bitcoin. Le lancement effectif de Bitcoin a eu lieu le 3 janvier 2009, date à laquelle Satoshi Nakamoto a miné le premier bloc du réseau, appelé Block Genesis. Ce premier bloc contenait le célèbre message « The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks. » Cela faisait référence à un article du journal britannique The Times et soulignait les problèmes financiers mondiaux, tout en mettant en évidence l'une des motivations de la création de Bitcoin : proposer une alternative aux systèmes financiers traditionnels. Le 9 janvier 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto a publié la version 0.1 du logiciel Bitcoin. Trois jours plus tard, la première transaction Bitcoin a eu lieu entre Satoshi Nakamoto et Hal Finney. Satoshi a envoyé 10 bitcoins à Finney lors de cette transaction historique. Cet événement a marqué une étape importante, car il a démontré que le transfert de valeur entre deux personnes sans intermédiaire de confiance était techniquement réalisable grâce au protocole Bitcoin. Durant les premiers mois de 2009, la communauté Bitcoin a commencé à se développer lentement, avec l'arrivée de développeurs et d'utilisateurs rejoignant le réseau et contribuant au projet. Satoshi Nakamoto a poursuivi les communications avec la communauté sur des forums en ligne, des listes de diffusion et des emails privés, tout en apportant des mises à jour et des améliorations au logiciel Bitcoin. Cependant, début 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto a brusquement cessé de communiquer avec la communauté Bitcoin et a quitté le projet. Son départ inattendu, sûrement causé par l'adoption de Bitcoin par l'ONG WikiLeaks, a soulevé de nombreuses interrogations et spéculations. Cette décision de Satoshi de se retirer du projet et de préserver son anonymat a alimenté le mystère entourant son identité. Bonne écoute ! (Podcast disponible à la lecture sur le Blog "Comprendre Bitcoin" de Bitstack : Qui est Satoshi Nakamoto, le créateur de Bitcoin ?) --- Ce podcast vous est présenté par Loïc Morel pour Bitstack, la première application en France qui vous permet d'épargner en Bitcoin sans aucun effort. ---

Hello and welcome to Entangled! The podcast where we explore the science of consciousness, the true nature of reality, and what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience. I'm your host Jordan Youkilis, and today I'm joined by my friend Blaine Rhoden. In this episode, Blaine and I discuss the intersection of cannabis and crypto, and what drew him to both products/industries. We then discuss the philosophy of Bitcoin and why Blaine was inspired by the prospects of decentralization. Blaine describes how he learned not to chase price actions of different coins, but rather to develop a thesis on the underlying assets. We next discuss Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper, and how it was Satoshi's solution to avoiding another 2008 Global Financial Crisis. This reference point is particularly timely as we publish this episode in May 2023, when regional banks are collapsing on a seemingly weekly basis. We next discuss the idea of stablecoins, hard wallets, and self-custody of crypto assets. From there, we discuss the FTX collapse and speculate on what was actually happening behind the curtains. We then talk about NFTs, the democratization of currency, and Wall Street Bets. We compare and contrast the benefits of minting NFTs on Polygon vs. Solana. We switch to the user experience and discuss platforms for networking with other crypto enthusiasts, such as Discord, Twitter and Telegram, as well as exchanges for minting NFTs, such as Exchange Art and BoomBox. We end the conversation theorizing about the future intersection of traditional finance and cryptocurrency.Please note that we will be discussing a number of crypto tokens, and nothing in this episode should be viewed as investment advice. This discussion is for entertainment and philosophical purposes only. Nothing about cryptocurrency is simple. Get over it, and start figuring this stuff out. The principles of decentralization, cryptography, elimination of trusted third parties, and currency independence will change the economy forever – for the better. The traditional economy, especially the USD, is at a dangerous position today – possibly more fragile than at any time since becoming the Global Reserve Currency after WWII. It is my firm conviction that cryptocurrency will prove a critical technology is transcending the Ponzi Scheme of an economy we've built based on debt-lending and central banking. This outro is titled Bitcoin is Freedom. Outros available for this and all episodes at entangledpodcast.substack.com. Music from the show available on the Spotify playlist “Entangled – The Vibes”. Please enjoy!Music: Intro: Ben Fox - "The Vibe". End music: Rex Banner – “Easy Money”.Recorded: 4/13/2023. Published: 05/13/23.Outro: Bitcoin is Freedom (Starts at 1:52:30).Check out the Resources Mentioned:* “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto - https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper* “Bitcoin for the Open-Minded Skeptic” by Matt Huang - www.matthuang.com/static/Bitcoin_For_The_Open_Minded_Skeptic.pdf* Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr* Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins* One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Whitney Webb This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit entangledpodcast.substack.com

Companies don't stay small on purpose. So how can you scale faster? Anu Hariharan (Gusto, Instacart) discusses the growing pains of going from start-up to success, how to grow as a builder and a manager, the importance of ruthless prioritization, and shares new technologies to help SMBs unlock their operations, and customer support.    LINKS & MENTIONS FROM THIS EPISODE Tech to help SMBs: Brex https://www.brex.com Stripe Atlas https://stripe.com/atlas  Gusto https://gusto.com/product Amplitude https://amplitude.com Mix Panel https://mixpanel.com Live Flow https://www.liveflow.io Keeper https://www.keeper.app Plan Grid https://construction.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-plangrid-build/ Mutiny https://www.mutinyhq.com Canva https://www.canva.com/ Other Mentions by Anu: DoorDash https://www.doordash.com  Faire https://www.faire.com  NVIDIA https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ Boom https://boomsupersonic.com Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf   CONNECT Learn more about Anu's role as Managing Director of YC Continuity Fund https://www.ycombinator.com/continuity Anu on twitter https://twitter.com/anuhariharan Anu on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuhariharan/ Brent on twitter https:/https://twitter.com/BrentBeshore Brent on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentbeshore  David on twitter https://twitter.com/DavidACover David on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cover-318752230/  Visit https://www.permanentequity.com/ for more Sign up for our weekly newsletter for operators, Permanent Playbook: https://www.permanentequity.com/newsletter  Sign up for a new daily newsletter from our very own Tim Hanson, Unqualified Opinions: https://www.permanentequity.com/unqualified-opinions    TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Who Is Anu? 5:00 This One Time at Capital Camp 6:19 Characteristics of a Successful Founder 11:01 The Two Stages of Scaling 13:02 Biggest Mistakes Founders Make 17:12 Hiring From the Outside vs Internal Development 20:37 Learning How to Deal with People 20:04 Builders vs Managers 27:16 How to Hire a Builder 30:39 Why Do Companies Fail? 32:35 What Silicon Valley Has Lost 34:51 Dealing With Stress 37:22 What it Takes to Succeed  40:47 Helpful Tech for SMB 46:54 Emerging Technology 48:33 Lightning Round Hariharan Hot Takes 60:43 How to Win in 2023 and Beyond 64:24 What Drives You 66:36 Where We're Going 68:01 Legal Disclaimer   EPISODE CREDITS Produced by David Cover Intro music by David Cover, Andy Freeman, Rhett Johnson, & Andrew Luley Outro music by Jees Guy   LEGAL DISCLAIMER This podcast is made available solely for educational purposes, and the information presented here does not constitute investment, legal, tax or other professional advice, and should not be construed as an offering of advisory services, or as a solicitation to buy, an offer to sell, or a recommendation of any securities or other financial instruments. The thoughts and opinions expressed by or through this podcast are those of the individual guests and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Permanent Equity. The discussion on this podcast of any entity, product or service does not imply an endorsement thereof, and the guests may have a financial interest, whether through investment or otherwise, in one or more of any such entities, products or services. This podcast is presented by Permanent Equity and may not be copied, reproduced, republished or posted, in any form, without its express written consent.  

Blockchain and financial applications have been linked from the beginning. When Satoshi Nakamato published the original Bitcoin white paper in 2008, he titled it, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Today, the lion's share of crypto headlines are about financial losses. So it's understandable that people associate chains with financial assets.  But open, public blockchains have massive utility beyond financial applications. One of the first innovators to recognize this potential was Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin*.  In Ethereum, the Russian-Canadian computer programmer has conceived, developed, and upgraded a decentralized chain with smart-contract functionality and made it into a transformative piece of infrastructure that enables new forms of political, corporate, and social organizations. (USDC circulates on many blockchains; as of January 12, 2023, a majority of the supply circulates on Ethereum.) In a conversation they recorded this past September in San Francisco at Converge22, Circle's inaugural ecosystem summit, Vitalik and Jeremy Allaire reviewed Ethereum's important technological progress, impediments to scaling utility, and the new models of cooperation this base layer of trust can enable.

Blockchain and financial applications have been linked from the beginning. When Satoshi Nakamato published the original Bitcoin white paper in 2008, he titled it, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Today, the lion's share of crypto headlines are about financial losses. So it's understandable that people associate chains with financial assets.  But open, public blockchains have massive utility beyond financial applications. One of the first innovators to recognize this potential was Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin*.  In Ethereum, the Russian-Canadian computer programmer has conceived, developed, and upgraded a decentralized chain with smart-contract functionality and made it into a transformative piece of infrastructure that enables new forms of political, corporate, and social organizations. (USDC circulates on many blockchains; [as of (date)] a majority of the supply circulates on Ethereum.) In a conversation they recorded this past September in San Francisco at Converge22, Circle's inaugural ecosystem summit, Vitalik and Jeremy Allaire reviewed Ethereum's important technological progress, impediments to scaling utility, and the new models of cooperation this base layer of trust can enable. Their Money Movement episode covers:

Is Bitcoin just a bubble, or the first face of the future? What about blockchain and DeFi? Hanna Halaburda and Yannis Bakos join Vasant Dhar in episode 48 of Brave New World to dig deeper into these questions. Useful resources:1. Hanna Halaburda at NYU Stern, Twitter and Google Scholar. 2. Yannis Bakos at NYU Stern and Google Scholar. 3. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog -- New Yorker cartoon. 4. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System -- Satoshi Nakamoto. 5. Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money -- Lex Fridman Podcast #276. 6. Artifact of the Month: Ross William Ulbricht's Laptop. 7. How FBI caught Ross Ulbricht, alleged creator of criminal marketplace Silk Road -- Tim Hume. 8. Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets -- Nick Szabo. 9. Obelix and the Sleeping Cups -- Vasant Dhar. 10. Antoinette Schoar on Decentralized Finance & Crypto -- Episode 42 of Brave New World. 11. David Yermack on The Crypto Revolution -- Episode 30 of Brave New World. Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!

In this week's episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Guillermo (https://twitter.com/GuilleAngeris) chat with Brian Retford (https://mobile.twitter.com/brianretford) and Jeremy Bruestle (https://github.com/jbruestle) from Risc0 (https://www.risczero.com/). They discuss their previous work in cloud infrastructure and how ZK offered unique solutions to long standing scaling problems. They cover topics like RISC-V, building VMs, and how Risc-0 aims to build a system which could support a decentralized public Cloud. Here are some additional links for this episode: RISC Zero: General Purpose Zero-Knowledge Computation by Brian Retford and Jeremy Bruestle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zzt5V4dnH0) RISC-V Website (https://riscv.org/) Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto (https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf) AirSnort Website (https://ftp.unpad.ac.id/orari/library/library-sw-hw/linux-1/airsnort/AirSnort%20Homepage.htm) Arduino Website (https://www.arduino.cc/) Metal: Mac OS's acceleration framework (https://developer.apple.com/metal/) Episode 131: Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis (NYU) (https://zeroknowledge.fm/131-2/) Check out the ZK Whiteboard Sessions here (https://zkhack.dev/whiteboard/). Produced by ZK Hack (https://twitter.com/__zkhack__) and powered by Polygon (https://polygon.technology/). Join the ZK Hack Discord (https://discord.com/invite/tHXyEbEqVN) ZK Hack Twitter (https://twitter.com/__zkhack__) Today's episode is sponsored by Mina Protocol (https://minaprotocol.com). If you're a developer looking to get hands-on experience building zero knowledge applications then you should apply for Mina's zkApp Beta Testers Leaderboard. Participants will get access to test challenges where you can learn how to build zkApps on Mina for a chance to rank on the leaderboard against other participants. The top participants will have the opportunity to be considered for a grant! Learn more about the zkApp Beta Testers Leaderboard and how you can start building zkApps by heading to minaprotocol.com/zkpodcast (https://minaprotocol.com/zkpodcast). If you like what we do: * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on Youtube (https://zeroknowledge.fm/) * Head to the ZK Community Forum (https://community.zeroknowledge.fm/) * Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://zeroknowledge.fm/gitcoin-grant-329-zkp-2)

Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work   I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility of a decentralised internet where the users would simultaneously be producers, distributors and earners.   - How does Blockchain - or Web3 - impact the world of work? - What applications outside of currency have we need with Blockchain? - What are the most promising HR related opportunities? - What the technical and cultural challenges behind Web3 projects? - How do we make Web3 more accessible to genpop? - What kind of recruiting goes on Web3?   All this and more with Pedro Oliveira, Founder, (Talent Protocol), Andy Spence, Founder, (WorkForce Futurist), Inês Santos Silva, Ops Lead (AthenaDAO) & Fem Markslag, Head of Talent & People Operations (Cryptio)

#37 暗号資産イーサリアムの大型アップデートは何がすごいのか、新しい概念「Proof of Stake」とは／運動を続けられる「習慣化のために必要な心構え」をご紹介 今回は、暗号資産のイーサリアムが大規模なアップグレードである「The Merge（マージ）」を完了したというニュースについて、今回のアップデートで変化したポイントや意味、技術的な難しさなどを紹介し、イーサリアムなどの暗号資産についてご存知ない初心者の方にも基礎知識から分かりやすいよう解説しました。ぜひお楽しみください。 ▽トーク概要 リスナーからコメント「運動を習慣化するにはどうすれば良いのか？」 アップルウォッチのリング機能は、行動経済学や心理学を理解したアプローチ 毎日の運動をデータで蓄積して、評価することで継続できる 習慣化におすすめの書籍「ジェームズ・クリアー式 複利で伸びる1つの習慣」 自分のことを客観視し、継続できる環境作りをすることが習慣化への第一歩 今週のホットニュース「イーサリアムの大型アップデートの凄さ」 「最新いまさら聞けないビットコインとブロックチェーン」より基礎知識を紹介 取引の改ざんを防ぐための「ハッシュ関数、ハッシュ値」とは ブロックチェーンのマイニングとは、電力消費量がかかる問題 創業当初から7年がかりで実装した新しいモデル「Proof of Stake」とは イーサリアムを考案した天才「ヴィタリック・ブテリン」の凄さ おすすめコンテンツ「Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System」 ▽キーワード 分散型台帳（＝ブロックチェーン） 各参加者がネットワーク上で同じ台帳を管理、共有することができる技術。この技術の特徴として、取引の透明性があげらる。各参加者によって誰が、いつ、どんな情報を台帳に書き込んだか確認することができるため、偽装や改ざんを行うことが非常に困難となる。 ノード（node） 暗号資産の話題に出てくるノードとは、取引情報の監視や管理、取引承認などを行う端末(通信機器)のことを指す。ノードには、節や接点、交点という意味があり、IT用語ではネットワークへの接続ポイントを意味する言葉としても知られる。 ナンス（Number used once） ナンスとは、「一度だけ使われる数」という意味の言葉。主に暗号通信などで用いられ、使い捨ての32ビットの値のことを指す。ビットコインなどの新規発行時に「マイニング」と呼ばれるコンピューターを使った膨大な量の計算が行われるが、その計算を行う際にナンスが使用される。 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ Level 5 by Palo Alto Insight Opinion Box 放送の感想やご質問は、こちらの意見箱へお寄せください キャリア、就職・転職、留学相談などのプライペートな内容から、 「このニュースをどのように見ている？世界で見られている？」 「これって、一体どうなってるの？」 「〇〇〇について、よく分からないので解説して欲しい！」 など、 匿名でのご連絡大歓迎です。ぜひ気軽にご連絡ください。 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ 【出演者】 石角友愛 / 長谷川貴久 / 山崎壯 【今週のホットニュース】 The Ethereum Merge Is Complete. What Investors Should Know About How It Will Influence the Price 【今週のおすすめコンテンツ】 Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System（日本語版） 【無料ニュースレター登録はこちら】 アメリカの最新AI＆DXにまつわる最新のニュース情報や、AI人材を目指すヒントになる情報をお届け！毎週水曜日配信中 【過去の放送回はこちら】 石角友愛のTwitter：@tomoechama DM解放中！リプライやDMまで気軽にご連絡ください。 パロアルトインサイトHP：www.paloaltoinsight.com 楽曲提供： Atsu (beatmaker and rapper from Zenarchy) https://twitter.com/atsu_izm 「Transform」Level5テーマソング https://m.soundcloud.com/atsuizm/transform --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/level5/message

Dominik und Jochen unterhalten sich diesmal mit Simon über ein Thema, das oft eher kontrovers diskutiert wird: Cryptocurrencies, BitCoin, BlockChain, Smart Contracts und so weiter. Auf der Kontra-Seite kommen da üblicherweise moralische Einwände, während von der Pro-Seite oft eher unmoralische Angebote kommen

Criptomoedas. NFT's. Blockchain. O mundo digital também está a revolucionar a nossa vida ao nível das transações. E a melhor chave para abrir e compreender esta porta é a tão falada Blockchain. O Hugo van der Ding quis saber e por isso fez as perguntas à Joana Pais que lhe vão permitir perceber por que razão se criou a Blockchain, quais as transações que facilita, a sua ligação íntima com as criptomoedas.Pelo caminho, conhecerá também como o mundo da arte se somou ao universo digital e saberá que, através dela, também os contratos se tornaram mais inteligentes. REFERÊNCIAS E LINKS ÚTEIS:Cowen, T. e Tabarrok, A. (2022). Cryptoeconomics. https://a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cryptoeconomics-chapter-in-modern-principles-of-economics_tylercowen-alextabarrok.pdfSatoshi Nakamoto (2008). Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System:https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf[Two-sided markets] Jean Tirole (2017). Economics for the Common Good. Princeton UniversityPress. Capítulo 14.BIOSJOANA PAISJoana Pais é professora de Economia no ISEG da Universidade de Lisboa. Obteve o seu Ph.D. em Economia na Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona em 2005. Atualmente é coordenadora do programa de Mestrado em Economia e do programa de Doutoramento em Economia, ambos do ISEG, e membro da direção da unidade de investigação REM - Research in Economics and Mathematics. É ainda coordenadora do XLAB – Behavioural Research Lab, um laboratório que explora a tomada de decisão e o comportamento económico, político e social, suportado pelo consórcio PASSDA (Production and Archive of Social Science Data). Os seus interesses de investigação incluem áreas como a teoria de jogos, em particular, a teoria da afetação (matching theory), o desenho de mercados, a economia comportamental e a economia experimental.HUGO VAN DER DING Hugo van der Ding nasceu nos finais dos anos 70 ao largo do Golfo da Biscaia, durante uma viagem entre Amesterdão e Lisboa, e cresceu numa comunidade hippie nos arredores de Montpellier. Estudou História das Artes Decorativas Orientais, especializando-se em gansos de origami. Em 2012, desistiu da carreira académica para fazer desenhos nas redes sociais. Depois do sucesso de A Criada Malcriada deixou de precisar de trabalhar. Ainda assim, escreve regularmente em revistas e jornais, é autor de alguns livros e podcasts, faz ocasionalmente teatro e televisão, e continua a fazer desenhos nas redes sociais. Desde 2019 é um dos apresentadores do programa Manhãs da 3, na Antena 3.

The advent of digital assets has taken an interesting path. These days, DeFi (decentralized finance), NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) are the concepts and acronyms that are en vogue. Indeed, it now seems passe to speak of the genesis of it all in 2009, when someone named "Satoshi Nakamoto" released a paper entitled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".The release of the paper and the so-called innovations it has spawned are now being touted - even beyond the financial sector - to solve everything from environmental degradation, to the crisis of unaffordable housing in developed societies and even as a means to reduce hospital errors and fatalities.Yet, to the average person on the street, past all the jargon, acronyms, and seemingly inaccessible, high-falutin discourse, what does all this techno-babble mean?Ultimately, it's a means to get rich or more precisely, others are getting wealthy using this new technology and therefore, people feel compelled to jump on the bandwagon so as to not be left behind economically.It begs the question: can the implicit promise and deepest aspirational goal of Satoshi's paper of fairer terms of transactional exchange - and consequently, a more just world through the use of Blockchain technology - ever truly be reached? Will the impact of such technology ever go beyond just creating e-currencies and payment systems whereby their effects will mainly be felt in financial and economic realms, or will they impact other aspects of the human condition?

Tuesday August 23, 2022 - Cryptocurrency has been all the rage since Satoshi Nakamoto's famous Whitepaper "Bitcoin - a Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System." Turns out, that famous whitepaper was really about the Blockchain. Now, I'm not discounting Cryptocurrency - it has already changed the world - with much promise remaining. But, it sure looks like Blockchain Technolgy is leaving Crypto behind. Blockchain is changing the Web (Facebook and Twitter will soon be obsolete thanks to blockchain technology), Insurance (Blockchain in Insurance: How Will it Change the Industry?), transportation (How blockchain can fix the transportation menace", and Banking (Wall Street Bankers Tap Blockchain Use Beyond Crypto) - and those are just today's stories. Attorney Steven A. Leahy takes a look at how Blockchain is chang9ng how we do busiess in every sector. https://cointelegraph.com/news/facebook-and-twitter-will-soon-be-obsolete-thanks-to-blockchain-technology https://readwrite.com/blockchain-in-insurance-how-will-it-change-the-industry/ https://www.financialexpress.com/digital-currency/how-blockchain-can-fix-the-transportation-menace/2640456/ https://www.pymnts.com/blockchain/2022/wall-street-bankers-tap-blockchain-use-beyond-crypto/ https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/tracker-crypto-and-fintech-developments-in-the-biden-administration/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/steven-leahy1/message

欢迎各位收听 Traders' Talk 第 13 期。这一期我请来的是刘昌用老师，他将元宇宙分为了四个层次，由浅入深、层层递进地拆解了这个大词背后的含义和层次。总体而言，这期音频的内容是昌用老师结合区块链发展史和发起 Freecash 自由现金的切身心得体会，进而对元宇宙概念进行的层次拆解。区别于上一期，这期关注的是历史的发展脉络，而非底层的、具体的技术实现和原理探究，因此也比较适合对区块链历史感兴趣的朋友收听。【嘉宾介绍】刘昌用，北京大学经济学博士重庆工商大学区块链经济研究中心主任密码共识理论的创始人、密码经济的倡导者Freecash (FCH) 自由现金发起人【章节层次】一、总00:04:15 总括四个层次二、分00:08:30 层次一：影视技术推动的元宇宙00:16:46 层次二：去中心化金融推动的元宇宙01:14:00 层次三：构建信息社会新秩序的元宇宙02:07:50 层次四：信息视角重构人类历史的元宇宙三、总02:24:30 四个层次之间的关系加一个昌用老师对层次结构的补充：「这个讨论结构有个最大的问题，就是从逻辑上看，应该从层次三讲起——从物质经济到信息经济转型开始，从这里开始才能理解核心和主线，有了这个基础，最后才能解释各种误区。但我们选择从社会热度角度出发，安排了现在的结构，这会导致前两层次的理解缺乏逻辑支撑。讲前两部分的时候我也提到这个问题。」【Timeline】层次一：影视技术推动的元宇宙主要技术：VR、AR、运算、带宽、存储等应用场景：游戏、会议、电商（体验式远程购物）、社交、数字孪生（把原来工业生产和设计的场景搬到元宇宙）热点区域：Facebook (Meta)、国内互联网、工业 4.000:08:42 层次一是大众认知层面对元宇宙的理解，但容易误导层次二：去中心化金融带动的元宇宙00:19:21 比特币发明以来经过的三个阶段，基本每一个阶段都对应着一次大牛市：密码货币阶段（2009 年 - 2016 年）密码证券阶段（2017 年 - 2019 年）密码金融阶段（2020 年至今）00:27:35 对投机产生的泡沫的看法——是任何一次技术、制度创新必然产生的现象00:33:51 每次牛市泡沫都是由真正的创新所推动，但发展到后面都伴随着巨大的泡沫00:37:20 DEX 和 Crypto 金融衍生品这些金融领域的创新增强了投机性和价格波动性00:44:31 比特币扩容之争始末00:53:19 扩容之争暴露了比特币的治理问题00:53:51 自由现金 Freecash 的提出旨在解决比特币的治理问题00:59:11 密码共识（区块链）的核心：非对称密码和分布式共识01:12:05 比特币不是一个重大的技术进步，而是重大的制度创新层次三：构建信息社会新秩序的元宇宙01:15:30 思考到第三个层次的契机01:18:13 使用公钥 / 密码身份 (CID) 作为去中心化身份01:22:11 解决了身份问题后，该如何解决信用问题？使用币天（UTXO 模型）01:25:18 去中心化社交：在链上记录自己的好友信息01:26:38 Freecash 是一个 DAO 吗？它的目标是什么呢？01:29:11 近几年互联网的问题——信息的安全和信息的垄断01:35:54 去中心化的社会组织可以重构互联网的经济模型01:36:27 对层次三的总结01:40:46 信息经济的几个阶段01:43:08 密码经济的核心是用非对称密码和分布式共识来构建信息社会的秩序01:49:16 哈耶克的社会演进理论01:51:51 为什么说这个层次可以称为真正的元宇宙？01:53:07 Freecash 的盈利和分配模式02:04:22 如果希望共同 build 这件事，该如何参与呢？层次四：信息视角重构人类史观的元宇宙02:08:46 信息史观的货币史02:13:18 信息史观的社会身份系统演进02:16:55 信息史观与教育科学系统02:22:39 层次四的总结总结02:24:29 四个层次之间的关系02:35:36 回归理性，我们对待元宇宙的态度应该是怎样的？【名词解释】（一）人物1. 中本聪 (Satoshi Nakamoto)：比特币创始人，真实身份至今未知。他于2008年发表了一篇名为《比特币：一种点对点式的电子现金系统》（Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System）的论文，描述了一种被他称为“比特币”的电子货币及其算法。2. Vitalik Buterin：以太坊创始人（大家一般叫他 V 神）。3. Gavin Andresen：中本聪自 2010 年 12 月份退出之后将比特币开发的相关权限交给了他信赖的 Gavin，Gavin 接手后就将代码开发管理权赋予另外 4 个核心开发者。4. Bitcoin Core：以 Gavin 隐退时的 GitHub 代码管理者为核心的主要开发者群体，也是比特币全节点程序的主要版本名称。5. 吴忌寒：比特大陆创始人6. 江卓尔：莱比特矿池创始人7. 杨海坡：Coinex 交易所与 Viabtc 矿池创始人（二）事件1. Facebook 改名 Meta：美东时间 2021 年 10 月 28 日，美国社交媒体巨头 Facebook 公司创始人马克·扎克伯格在 Facebook Connect 大会上宣布，该公司将正式更名为 Meta。2. 扩容之争、纽约共识：详见《比特币扩容之争始末》by 刘昌用（三）概念1. VR 与 AR：VR (Virtual Reality)：虚拟现实技术AR (Augmented Reality)：增强现实技术2. 数字孪生：详见 https://baike.baidu.com/item/数字孪生/221975453. Libra：Facebook 推出的虚拟加密货币。4. DEX 与 CEX：DEX (Decentralized exchange)：去中心化交易所，是一个基于区块链的交易所，它不将用户资金和个人数据存储在服务器上，而只是作为一种基础设施来匹配希望买卖数字资产的买家和卖家。在匹配引擎的帮助下，这种交易直接发生在参与者(点对点)之间。CEX (Centralized exchange)：中心化交易所，是集传统交易所、券商和投资银行的功能为一体的平台。5. ICO (Initial Coin Offering) ：源自股票市场的首次公开发行（IPO）概念，指的是区块链项目首次发行代币、募集资金的行为。6. ERC-20 与 ERC-721：ERC-20：一项以太坊代币标准，是从 EIP-20 提案经过以太坊社区不断讨论验证后通过而来的，是由 Vitalik Buterin 于2015年提出，是以太坊的第20号代币标准。ERC-721：针对 NFT 的智能合约标准接口。7. Token 与 NFT：Token：即代币，也可以交 “通证”，即 “可流通的凭证”，具有可拆分、同质化的特点。NFT (Non-Fungible Token)：非同质化代币，具有不可分割、不可替代、独一无二等特点。8. 互联网泡沫 (Dotcom Bubble)，指自 1995 年至 2001 年间的投机泡沫，在欧美及亚洲多个国家的股票市场中，与科技及新兴的互联网相关企业股价高速上升的事件。9. DeFi (Decentralized Finance)：本意是去中心化金融，广义上应该包含去中心化货币和密码证券，我们一般在狭义上使用它，特指2020年兴起的去中心化交易、借贷等。10. BCH (Bitcoin Cash) ：即比特币现金，是在 2017 年 8 月 1 日由比特币硬分叉而来的分叉币。11. 隔离见证 (SegWit)：详见隔离见证（SegWit）那些事。12. 灵魂绑定 (Soulbound Token)：由以太坊创始人 Vitalik Buterin 提出的，一种用于用于打造 Web3 的用户身份系统的不可转让 Token。13. 密码共识：构建去中心化的信息社会基础设施的基础方案，是脱离物质制度，构建独立的信息社会的基石。密码共识由非对称密码和分布式共识构成，前者主要用于建立开放信息身份，后者主要用于建立开放信息社会秩序，两者相互依赖。14. 公钥与私钥：详见《理解公钥与私钥》15. UTXO 模型：Unspent Transaction Output，即“未花费的交易输出”。详见《UTXO模型的介绍》。感谢一袄同学对本期 shownotes 的贡献，感谢六木、崇旭、文浩、贝贝提前试听后给的反馈。剪辑：Tina Gao & SarahBGM：This is Hope (https://elements.envato.com/this-is-hope-WFPYHLY)

Will cryptocurrencies save the world or create a new can of worms? Antoinette Schoar joins Vasant Dhar in episode 42 of Brave New World to take us on a dispassionate tour through the world of Bitcoin, blockchains and DeFi. Useful resources: 1. Antoinette Schoar At MIT Sloan School of Management and Google Scholar. 2. Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) -- Igor Makarov and Antoinette Schoar 3. David Yermack on The Crypto Revolution -- Episode 30 of Brave New World. 4. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System -- Satoshi Nakamoto. 5. Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador -- Fernando Alvarez, David Argente and Diana Van Patten. 6. Incomplete Contracts and Control -- Oliver Hart's Nobel Prize Lecture.

The blockchain. It's destined to change the fundamental systems we have come to know, and rely upon. On this episode of Crypto House, we explore the history of this foundational technology and what it means to the crypto economy and the impact it will have on the rest of the world. What is it? Is it safe? And most importantly - how will it affect you? Host: Shawn Allen @MatrixMortgage https://matrixmortgageglobal.ca/  Guest:  Russell Korus @russellkorus  Co-founder and CEO, EZ365 CEO, Wee-Cig International Corporation (OTC markets:WCIG)  Resources: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System written by Satoshi Nakamoto - https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf 

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Cryptocurrency is a simple peer-to-peer electronic cash system that focuses on becoming sound global money with micro fees, fast payments, privacy, and high transaction capacity (big blocks). Continue reading on procommun.com

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@rbenzaquen Un profesor de la facu me dice «¿no te gustaría entrar a una trabajar en una empresa de Sistemas? El CTO es mi amigo». La primera entrevista fue en Sadesa, una curtiembre, con Marcelo Galperin, el primo de Marcos. Estando ya en Sadesa me mandaron seis meses a un pueblito en Tailandia para interconectar los sistemas con la casa central en Argentina. Fue una experiencia que me cambió bastante la cabeza. Al poco tiempo Marcelo me invita a trabajar en una empresa nueva con su primo Marcos: Mercado Libre. Pasamos todos a trabajar en la famosa cochera de Sadesa, que hoy es un museo. Estando en Estados Unidos conocí a Wences Casares. Un día viene, me dice «me gustaría que me des una mano para revisar esto» y me da un paper que se llama «Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System», de un tal Satoshi Nakamoto..." Me copaba mucho el tema de armar equipos y minar. Monté equipos en el altillo de casa viviendo en Silicon Valley. Mi esposa me preguntaba qué era eso que hacía tanto ruido y si podíamos apagarlos. Cuando le conté de qué se trataba los cuidaba, los limpiaba. En MELI podría haberme quedado toda la vida, estoy muy agradecido a esa empresa, pero quería hacer mi propio startup, así que renuncié. Era 2014. Mientras pensaba una idea me invitaron de @KaszekVenturesa dar una mano. Estuve menos de un año en Kaszek. Finalmente terminé armando una empresa de cloud computing con algunas personas que también habían trabajado en MELI. Después de dos años le terminamos vendiendo el 51% de NubeliU a @Logicalis. Para hacer un startup tenés que hacer lo que te gusta y lo que sabés. Además encontré un equipo que me gusta y que está conformado por buena gente. Ahí armamos @SenseiNode. @rbenzaquen dándole un consejo al Rodri de hace diez años atrás: "Mi corazón, mi instinto me decía de hacer algo con cripto. Creo que tendría que haber escuchado menos a los inversores y seguir mi corazón. Me hubiese encantado hacer un SenseiNode en 2014. https://twitter.com/patriciomolina/status/1492983011041857537?s=20&t=i4nAWL4nVQDP_ART96qigw

"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto – October 31, 2008

Introduction to The Bitcoin White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto.   What is The White Paper?  A short document explaining how Bitcoin works and why is is needed.   The actual title of the paper is Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.   Full version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52486337   Link to original White Paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf   Narrated by Ethan Steimel   Become a patron: www.patreon.com/artisticfinance   www.artisticfinance.com    

Blockstream's Rusty Russell joins the Compass Podcast to talk about Lightning network growth, technicals and how Bitcoin miners should understand Lightning! The Lightning Network has become the leading second layer scaling solution for Bitcoin. With instant transactions and ultra low fees it is making the dream of a “Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” a reality.

In Part 1 of a series, Jordi and G3 discuss Web 3.0, which is a decentralized internet that is home to crypto, NFTs, DeFi, and other permissionless applications. As someone who claims not to be a technologist but rather someone on a journey of curiosity, Jordi talks about Web 3.0 in a simple and straightforward way.For context, Jordi sets the table by defining Web 1.0 as getting the internet onto everyone's PC and Web 2.0 as bringing mobility and interactivity into the fold. The origins of Web 3.0 began on Halloween of 2008, right after the Lehman debacle, when Satoshi Nakamoto released their famed Bitcoin whitepaper. Fast forward to today, and a key aspect of the whitepaper, decentralization, is now at the center of Web 3.0. This is important considering that the birth of Bitcoin led people to begin thinking about the centralization of banking, corporations, and the government, and how this is adversely impacting their lives. Growing inequality has amplified this to an even greater extent.One of the more exciting aspects of the conversation is a discussion of whether Amazon and Web 3.0 will get along. Jeff Bezos of Amazon famously said, “your margin is my opportunity.” However, Web 3.0 is essentially doing it in reverse and the users are saying, “your margin is our anger.” Finally, on the topic of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, G3 and Jordi discuss how property rights are a necessity to make a democracy a democracy, and how artists stand to benefit most from this movement. From an investor's point of view, when you are determining when you should start paying attention to something, you must determine how fast the movement is, and this movement is fast.Please listen and subscribe to In Search of Green Marbles wherever you get your podcasts.Resources:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto2020: The Year of Speed Chess and the Birth of Bitcoin as an Asset Class by Jordi Visser“Your margin is my opportunity.” - Jeff BezosChris Dixon and Naval Ravikant discuss Web 3.0, crypto and NFTsDisclosures: This podcast and associated content (collectively, the “Post”) are provided to you by Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers LLC (“Weiss”). The views expressed in the Post are for informational purposes only and are subject to change without notice. Information in this Post has been developed internally and is based on market conditions as of the date of the recording from sources believed to be reliable. Nothing in this Post should be construed as investment, legal, tax, or other advice and should not be viewed as a recommendation to purchase or sell any security or adopt any investment strategy. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. You should consult your own advisers regarding business, legal, tax, or other matters concerning investments. Weiss has no control over information at any external site hyperlinked in this Post. Weiss makes no representation concerning and is not responsible for the quality, content, nature, or reliability of any hyperlinked site and has included hyperlinks only as a convenience. The inclusion of any external hyperlink does not imply any endorsement, investigation, verification, or ongoing monitoring by Weiss of any information in any hyperlinked site. In no event shall Weiss be responsible for your use of a hyperlinked site. This is not intended to be an offer or solicitation of any security. Please visit www.gweiss.com to review related disclosures and learn more about Weiss.

You've heard of Bitcoin, but how does it work, and why are so many people talking about it? Let's talk about blockchain--the tech behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency--in plain English, including hashing, a key part of blockchain technology. We'll also talk about why people invest in cryptocurrency. Resources for this episodeDevelopment of blockchain:"A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamotohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoinRising Bitcoin value:https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-surge-means-laszlo-hanyecz-paid-316-million-two-pizzas-2021-3The fascinating original forum conversation about the pizza buy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-forgotten-currency-norway-oslo-homehttps://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-nakamoto-s-bitcoin-white-paper-is-now-a-13-year-old-teenagerBitcoin accepted as currency:https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-president-bitcoin-law-will-be-approved-tonighthttps://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/who-accepts-bitcoin/Losing the key:https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-losing-dollar30000-in-bitcoin/https://www.wired.com/story/wired-lost-bitcoin/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/uk-man-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-recover-lost-bitcoin-hard-drive.htmlhttps://medium.com/luno/where-do-lost-bitcoins-go-7e8dd24abd0fHow blockchain works:https://www.guru99.com/blockchain-tutorial.htmlhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.aspSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/howhackshappen)

Im Bitcoin Whitepaper ist direkt in der Überschrift zu lesen, dass es sich um ein “Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” handeln soll. Viele kritisieren aber, dass es nie eine globale Währung sein wird. Hier erhältst du eine neue Perspektive zum Thema.   ▶ KRYPTO-RABATTE: https://kevinsoell.com/rabatte ❤️ ▶ DISCLAIMER: https://kevinsoell.com/impressum ⚠️

This week on Bitcoin Bottom Line, co-hosts “Bitcoin Ambassador” C.J. Wilson and “Chart Master” Steven McClurg discuss the exciting, active times in the Bitcoin space. Wilson shares a behind-the-curtain peek into his recent meetings with Senator Ted Cruz and other key political figures about Bitcoin legislation. Wilson shares, “There are a lot of things that are happening between the Texas Blockchain Association and the values of independence found in Texan Bitcoiners.” In his meeting with Senator Cruz's office, Wilson heard about their efforts to push bitcoin as a currency to be used during small cash transactions, which parallels the original impetus for bitcoin to be used in everyday expenses. They have ideas to implement this through a program on vending machines called “Accept”. “As more people are dollar-cost-averaging into bitcoin, it proves to be a better and better asset for everybody involved”, Wilson shares. Steven McClurg shares his tendencies to HODL bitcoin, while also seeking out ways to spend it in order to promote the ecosystem. He goes on to say that “bitcoin is useful if people are actually using it for transactions”, drawing the idea from the Satoshi Whitepaper, entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. Wilson continues to share his experience in DC, expressing his predictions that states are going to start taking advantage of building their own legislation to become a “Pro-Bitcoin state”. Bringing it back to a few years ago, McClurg explains how “Wyoming was square one for states creating their own legislation and building an ecosystem, and Senator Lomis was at the forefront of that all along.” “We have about 6 or 7 critical years of these election cycles to make sure we don't have an uneducated senator or committee making rules that hamper American prosperity”, Wilson states. In the midst of lacking financial literacy education, Wilson also expresses that “Bitcoin is an anti-default technology since it's such a good form of capital, and one can sell if they need to, generally for more than they bought it for if they've held on to it for long enough. This could bail someone out of a fiscal problem.” Follow BBL on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoin_pod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXrv5Y360OaarCiUA5xSAA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinbottomline/ Follow our hosts: Steven McClurg: https://twitter.com/stevenmcclurg C.J. Wilson: https://twitter.com/str8edgeracer DISCLOSURE: The opinions presented herein are solely of the individual and not necessarily representative of Valkyrie Investments Inc. and their affiliates. There is no guarantee that any specific outcome will be achieved. Investments may be speculative, illiquid, and there is a risk of total loss of your investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

We compare the U.S. dollar with Bitcoin on their key attributes to determine which is better for transactions and preserving wealth, which is most absurd and which has serious flaws.Topics covered include:How are new U.S. Dollars and Bitcoin createdHow much has the supply of each currency grownHow both the dollar and Bitcoin have had rule changesWhy Bitcoin transactions are faster than U.S. dollar transactionsWhy both the dollar and Bitcoin require add-on layers to facilitate transactionsHow tax treatment of a currency can encourage or discourage its use for paymentsWhy divisibility is a critical attribute of any currencyWhy Bitcoin has been as volatile as the Russian rubleWhy Bitcoin is energy inefficient while having built-in incentives to use renewable energyWhat will determine the long-term viability of Bitcoin and the U.S. dollarFor more information on this episode click here.SponsorsMasterworks - the premier platform for investing in blue chip artPolicygeniusShow NotesFederal Reserve Statistical Release: H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks, August 19, 2021Check Processing—Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkGold Reserve Act of 1934—Federal Reserve HistoryCreation of the Bretton Woods System—Federal Reserve HistoryFinancial Accounting Manual for Federal Reserve Banks, July 2021: Chapter 5. Federal Reserve Notes—Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemFinancial Statements: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; As of and for the Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 and Independent Auditors' ReportA Complete Guide to Understanding and Protecting Against Inflation—Money For the Rest of UsBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto—BitcoinWhat is a fork?—CoinbaseMapping the Major Bitcoin Forks by Ashley Viens—Visual CapitalistTotal Circulating Bitcoin Chart—BlockchainThere's Enough Bitcoin For Everyone by Paul Opoku—NasdaqLightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain TransactionsCrypto Crime Summarized: Scams and Darknet Markets Dominated 2020 by Revenue, But Ransomware Is the Bigger Story—ChainalysisAmericans' Spending on Illicit Drugs Nears $150 Billion Annually; Appears to Rival What Is Spent on Alcohol by Beau Kilmer—RAND Corporation39% of PoW mining is powered by renewables – Cambridge University Cryptoasset study by Gareth Jenkinson—The Daily ChainBitcoin Energy Consumption Index—DigiconomistThe Bitcoin vs Visa Electricity Consumption Fallacy by Carlos Domingo—Hacker NoonEl Salvador Readies Bitcoin Rollout With 200 ATMs for Conversion by Michael D McDonald—BloombergRelated Episodes316: Paper, Rocks, or Digits—What Makes the Best Money335: Are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Good Investments?339: How To Make Money with BlockFi, Dai and the Evolving DeFi EcosystemSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The greatest innovation since the printing press is here. The trouble is, it's a threat to the old Westphalian order: digital ledger technologies (DLTs), like bitcoin: aka “crypto.” The supplicants of the old order have a lot at stake in the status quo, so a war is coming. Michael and Max spend this episode talking about the idea of crypto as money, going back through a little bit of history, then rocketing back to the future to discuss the implications for humanity. To what extent can we disintermediate using crypto? To what extent will humanity be able to create cloud governance that challenges the old order? Nobody knows, but it's important to speculate. Indeed, we must set out a vision of possibilities for crypto, because there is so much promise in this evolving ecosystem.  Cryptocurrency Distributed Ledger Technology Bitcoin Ethereum Blockchain Distributed Application (DApp) Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)by Timothy May A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993) by Eric Hughes David Chaum Nick Szabo Wei Dai Hal Finney Cypherpunk Freedom of Association Common Law Code of Justinian DigiCash, ECash, BitGold  Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto Fiat Money Reserve Currency Central Bank Neolithic Revolution Moneychangers James C. Scott Temple / Palace Economy Usury  Medieval Antisemitism  Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Middleman or Intermediary Interest Investment Banking Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 Occupy Wall Street Money Subjective Theory of Value Price Mechanism Goldbuggery Bitcoin Maximalism Cryptography Miracle of Wörgl Velocity of Money John Maynard Keynes Time Banking, Local Exchange Trading System, Mutual Credit Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein Bancor Ludwig von Mises Friederich Hayek Bretton Woods Conference and System Peter Zeihan Virtual currencies Deficit spending Standing army Inflation Inflation hedge The Big Short by Michael Lewis Cooperative Network effect Metcalfe's Law Hyperinflation FOMO VisiCalc Technology adoption lifecycle Institutional investor Coinbase Regulatory capture Cartelization Securities and Exchange Commission How we Become the Social Safety Net by Max Borders Mutual societies Welfare state Trustless system Art Brock and Holochain  Open access network Consensus mechanism Tezos On-chain governance Butterfly effect Real estate Rivalry in Economics Plutocracy Oligopoly Hobbesian trap Bureaucracy Democracy Feedback loop Crypto anarchism The Vanguard Group Credit Union Polyarchy Panarchy Polycentric law

As crypto-currency meets meme-culture, sensationalist headlines and bold claims by bitcoin-bros drive mainstream perception of the space. But there is much more to the blockchain than market speculation and bitcoin billionaires. In reality, most legitimate coins exist to accomplish specific objectives. Many have huge aspirations for improving societal access to resources. The Stellar Lumen is such a coin. In this podcast, we'll talk to Stellar co-founder and Chief Scientist, David Mazierez to learn about Stellar. Additionally, we'll discuss Bitcoin's blockchain, see how Stellar is different, and understand Stellars' vision for a world where sending money is as easy as sending an email. Mazieres et. al. “Fast and Secured Global Payments with Stellar” Nakamoto, Satoshi. “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Stellar.org is an excellent resource for understanding more about Stellar, what it is, and how it works.

Not many innovations have the power to shape the world on a massive scale like the internet. However, after the great financial crisis of 2007/08, one exactly such innovation came along. The blockchain. In 2008 a whitepaper named "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was mailed out to a cryptographic mailing list and only shortly after the bitcoin network went live. Today twelve years after the first block the technology is widely known. Yet, barely anyone actually understands it. Not so Uli Gallersdoerfer. He is a researcher at the Technical University Munich, who finished his Masterthesis in 2016 about Blockchains and continued his research as a PhD student. He now stands as one of the most regarded Blockchain researchers, regularly holding lectures about bitcoin, why it is so safe and answering questions about the energy dilemma revolving around bitcoin itself. However, before we answer those questions we need to know what a Blockchain actually is.Timestamps:00:52 How does the bitcoin blockchain work06:18 Main issue in decentralized networks08:32 What is a miner's job in a blockchain11:59 What happens if two blocks occur at the same time14:46 What is proof of stake18:03 Evaluating the climate impact of proof of work algorithms25:45 What are smart contracts30:30 The usability problem35:37 Pursuing a PhD vs. joining industry40:07 Finding a use case for blockchain-technology43:55 Bitcoin's lightning network and design decisions51:36 How to explore research questionsLinks mentioned:Ulis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uli-gallersdoerfer/Ulis Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7J1AmygAAAAJ&hl=deLecture Notes: https://github.com/sebischair/bbseIf you enjoyed this episode, why not recommend it to a friend?Homepage: https://www.deeptechstories.ioMusic by Nathaniel Drew x Tom Fox:https://www.nathanieldrew.com/https://tfbeats.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Blockchain technology offers the promise of a new era of secure, decentralized transfer of value on the internet—a future less reliant on trusted intermediaries and gatekeepers. Some have described blockchain as Web 3.0, unlocking the true vision of what the internet was meant to be, where users of applications are also the owners. Despite their recent—and signature—volatility, digital assets have grown into a $2 trillion market that extends well beyond Bitcoin and is attracting entrepreneurs, investors and corporate support at an accelerating rate. There is clearly a lot of innovation both in digital assets—or cryptocurrencies—as well as with the underlying blockchain technology. But how much is legitimate excitement about this revolutionary technology, and how much is inflated exuberance? To explore the potential, and examine some of the questions hanging over the industry, Brown Advisory's Sid Ahl sat down with three crypto experts: Joe Lallouz, Founder and CEO of Bison Trails (acquired by Coinbase); Ash Egan, Partner, Accomplice; and Ria Bhutoria, Principal, Castle Island Ventures. Be sure to stay tuned for the Brown Advisory investment team's perspectives, when Erika Pagel, CIO of Sustainable Investing, and Ken Coe, Financial Services Equity Analyst, join Sid (at 51:00) to share their takeaways. Guests:Mrinalini "Ria" Bhutoria, Principal, Castle Island Ventures@riasearchAsh Egan, Partner, Accomplice @AshAEganJoe Lallouz, CEO, Bison Trails; Partner, Ambush Capital @JoeLallouzHost:Sid Ahl, CFA, CIO for Private Client, Endowments and Foundations, Brown Advisory  Investment Commentary: Ken Coe, CFA, Equity Research Analyst, Brown AdvisoryErika Pagel, CIO of Sustainable Investing, Brown Advisory Recommended reading: Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters, Andreessen Horowitz, June 15, 2021 The Brutal Truth About Bitcoin, The New York Times, June 14, 2021 Crypto Memes and Dreams--Why It's Different This Time, Medium, June 1, 2021 How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? Harvard Business Review, May 5, 2021 Understanding the Different Types of Cryptocurrency, SoFi, January 15, 2021 What is "Proof of Work" And "Proof of Stake"? Coinbase Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [White paper], Satoshi Nakamoto, October 31, 2008 Recommended listening:  Tom Schmidt Explains What You Need to Know about DeFi, Odd Lots, June 28, 2021 The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Invest Like the Best, April 13, 2021 Crypto, An Oral Essay, The 16z Podcast, April 17, 2021 Thank you for joining us on our podcast journey. To stay in touch about future podcasts, please sign up here. Visit our website to learn more: www.brownadvisory.com/now. We want to hear from you! Send a note to NOW@brownadvisory.com to get in touch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Brown Advisory. These views are not intended to be and should not be relied upon as investment advice and are not intended to be a forecast of future events or a guarantee of future results. The information provided in this podcast is not intended to be and should not be considered a recommendation or suggestion to engage in or refrain from a particular course of action or to make or hold a particular investment or pursue a particular investment strategy, including whether or not to buy, sell, or hold any of the securities mentioned. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities have been or will be profitable. There is a risk that some or all of the capital invested in any such securities may be lost. This piece is intended solely for our clients and prospective clients, is for informational purposes only, and is not individually tailored for or directed to any particular client or prospective client.

IS CRYPTOCURRENCY LEGAL IN INDIA : CRYPTO NEWS IN INDIA WHY CRYPTOCURRENCY IS SO POPULAR? Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency is a topic that has sparked our curiosity. In this podcast, I'll talk about several features of Bitcoin. Indeed, today many people want to invest in cryptocurrency Bitcoin and with the rise of home-based stock trading via different mobile apps, many will be unable to resist the seduction of various cryptocurrencies. We heard many elite communities in India have already invested in Bitcoin in order to expand their investment. RISK IN CRYPTO – RISK IN BITCOIN - CRYPTO SCAM COINS - CRYPTO NEWS TODAY - CRYPTO NEWS IN INDIA To buy bitcoin in India, you can use a variety of mobile applications available online. We just learned that one guy in one part of West Bengal was cheated up to Rs. 60,000 while using those programmes to purchase Bitcoin. In this scenario, because there is no legal recourse, I recommend that you proceed by viewing, learning, and knowing before investing in Bitcoin or any other currencies. Recently we heard Crypto scam to the tune of nearly Rs. 2800 cr. In the forming evasion of tax where some Chinese people are involved. Even today we heard that one person has been arrested for using bitcoin in purchasing drugs. The price of a bitcoin peaked around Rs. 42 lakhs in early May 2021, but dropped below Rs. 25 lakhs, a few days later after the publishing of news on the worldwide market. Now the question is, since Bitcoin is a digital currency or asset that does not follow the centralized currency system, so there is no government agency to oversee the fluctuations and mobility of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies and its outcome. INNOVATION OF BITCOIN – SATOSHI NAKAMOTO WHITE PAPER – SATOSHI NAKAMOTO IDENTITY If we go back a little bit, we can see that there was an economic recession all over the world from 2007 to 2009, and about the same time in 2009, a white-paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" was released on the bitcoin.org website. In the front page of nine-page white paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto, he says Bitcoin is “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”. Although this nine-page white paper is quite complex, Satoshi Nakamoto describes on the second page, “We define an electronic coin as a chain digital signature.” In the eighth page under heading “Conclusion”, he wrote “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust”. WHAT ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES? If you have any questions regarding cryptocurrency in India or invest in cryptocurrency after listening to my podcast, please leave them in the comments section of this episode's YouTube video. I'll do my best to respond. Protect yourself and your friends by sharing my several podcasts with them, and stay up to date by subscribing. .......IS IT LEGAL TO INVEST IN BITCOIN OR CRYPTOCURRENCY IN INDIA? - SHOULD YOU INVEST IN CRYPTOCURRENCY?......... https://www.cyberchatterjee.com/ https://twitter.com/cyberchatterjee/ https://www.youtube.com/c/BivasChatterjee/ https://www.instagram.com/bivaschatterjee/ https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/lets-bivas-fan https://in.pinterest.com/bivaschatterjee/_saved/

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin doge coin, and Ethereum are a part of the mainstream conversation and in the news but should it be a part of your investment plan?  We're going to decode the terminology and explore the tech so you can weigh whether or not it's the right option for you! Should We Invest in Cryptocurrency? We're talking about a topic that's been popping up all over - cryptocurrency.  Just this year alone, BitCoin, Etherum, and others are on a roller coaster ride. Coinbase went public just this April.  There's a lot of excitement and questions about the crypto space.  I've gotten questions first about exactly how these currencies work and second, if it's something to invest in. In some cases, one of you is all excited to jump in this new opportunity while the other is skeptical or against it.  Like any major decision, it's important for your marriage and money to discuss your options and see if it fits in with your goals and financial plan.  In this episode, we'll get into:  the essentials about the tech and terms used with cryptocurrencies what to consider and discuss so you two can decide whether or not it's the right option for you We got plenty to cover so let's get started! Resources to Learn More About Cryptocurrencies and  Keep Tabs on Your Money Best Budget and Money Apps: Personal Capital, Tiller, Mint Jumpstart Your Marriage and Your Money Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto Ethereum.org Ethereum Whitepaper by Vitalik Buterin DogeCoin NFTs, Explained Blockchain and Money – MIT Open Courseware Like it or not, you should probably start paying attention to bitcoin The blockchain catalyst for change How blockchain can solve the payments riddle Bitcoin Losers Thank You to Our Sponsor Coastal! Support for this podcast comes from Coastal Credit Union! If you're living in the Raleigh Durham area and looking to bank better, come check out Coastal today.   We've been Coastal members for a few years have been happy with their services. They have wonderful services and accounts to make saving easier including their competitive money market accounts! Slash Your Phone Bill with Republic Wireless! I'm so happy to announce our new sponsor Republic Wireless. If you're looking to hit your family's financial goals faster, optimizing your expenses is the way to go. Chances are you're paying too much for your smartphone and not getting the value you deserve.   Same thing happened to me years ago. Wanting to become debt free faster, I switched to Republic Wireless and saved big time.  Nationwide coverage, fantastic phone options like the Samsung Galaxy and Moto g, plus seriously affordable prices (plans start at $15/month!) make it a smart choice for families looking to save without sacrificing value.  Support the Podcast! Thank you so much for listening to the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and found it helpful, here are some ways to support it. Spread the word! If you enjoyed this episode and think it can help a buddy get on the path to dumping debt and become financially free, please share. Leave a review. Honest feedback and reviews make a big difference and gets the word out about the podcast. Leave your rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Grab a copy of Jumpstart Your Marriage and Your Money. My book is designed for a busy couple to set up their finances in 4 weeks. Get tips and tools that have worked for other couples on their journey of building their marriage and wealth together! Music Credit Our theme song is from Staircases. Additional music by various artists from Audiio. Key Takeaways on Crypto Before we wrap up, I want to share a few key takeaways I got from preparing this episode. Invest in educating yourself about the tech behind cryptocurrency. Crypto, blockchain – these aren't going away.  Make sure that crypto is aligned with your goals and risk tolerance before jumpin in.  Focus on investing, not speculation. There's a lot of hype and volatility to sort through so  If you want to discuss this more – ask questions, swap ideas, and maybe discover your strategy– don't forget to join us in the Thriving Families group on Facebook. We're all about helping one another out with our family and financial goals.  Hope to see you there! See all they have to offer at Republic Wireless! 

Cryptocurrency is part of the mainstream conversation and in the news, but should it be a part of your investment plan? We decode the terminology and go over the difference between speculation and investments.  Should We Invest in Cryptocurrency? We're talking about a topic that's been popping up all over – cryptocurrency.  Just this year alone, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others are on a roller coaster ride. Coinbase went public just this April.  I've gotten questions first about exactly how these currencies work and second, if it's something to invest in. In some cases, one of you is all excited to jump in this new opportunity while the other is skeptical or against it.  Like any major decision, it's important for your marriage and money to discuss your options and see if it fits in with your goals and financial plan.  In this episode, we get into:  the essentials about blockchain technology, NFTs, and some of the biggest currency Why you should  what to consider as you two discuss whether crypto currency is right for you We got plenty to cover so let's get started! Resources to Learn More About Cryptocurrencies and Keep Tabs on Your Money Best Budget and Money Apps: Personal Capital, Tiller, Mint Jumpstart Your Marriage and Your Money Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto Ethereum.org Ethereum Whitepaper by Vitalik Buterin DogeCoin NFTs, Explained Blockchain and Money – MIT Open Courseware Like it or not, you should probably start paying attention to bitcoin The blockchain catalyst for change How blockchain can solve the payments riddle Bitcoin Losers Thank You to Our Sponsor Coastal! Support for this podcast comes from Coastal Credit Union! If you're living in the Raleigh Durham area and looking to bank better, come check out Coastal today.   We've been Coastal members for a few years have been happy with their services. They have wonderful services and accounts to make saving easier including their competitive money market accounts! Slash Your Phone Bill with Republic Wireless! I'm so happy to announce our new sponsor Republic Wireless. If you're looking to hit your family's financial goals faster, optimizing your expenses is the way to go. Chances are you're paying too much for your smartphone and not getting the value you deserve.   Same thing happened to me years ago. Wanting to become debt free faster, I switched to Republic Wireless and saved big time.  Nationwide coverage, fantastic phone options like the Samsung Galaxy and Moto g, plus seriously affordable prices (plans start at $15/month!) make it a smart choice for families looking to save without sacrificing value.  See all they have to offer at Republic Wireless!  Get Your Free Love & Money Guide Learn the ice breakers and conversation starters to make talking about money easier!   Join our community to get the free toolkit and newsletter! Get Instant Access We never share your information with third parties and will protect it in accordance with our Privacy Policy Support the Podcast! Thank you so much for listening to the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and found it helpful, here are some ways to support it. Spread the word! If you enjoyed this episode and think it can help a buddy get on the path to dumping debt and become financially free, please share. Leave a review. Honest feedback and reviews make a big difference and gets the word out about the podcast. Leave your rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Grab a copy of Jumpstart Your Marriage and Your Money. My book is designed for a busy couple to set up their finances in 4 weeks. Get tips and tools that have worked for other couples on their journey of building their marriage and wealth together! Music Credit Our theme song is from Staircases. Additional music by various artists from Audiio. Key Takeaways on Crypto Before we wrap up, I want to share a few key takeaways I got from preparing this episode. Invest in educating yourself about the tech behind cryptocurrency. Crypto, blockchain – these aren't going away.  Make sure that crypto is aligned with your goals and risk tolerance before jumpin in.  Focus on investing, not speculation. There's a lot of hype and volatility to sort through so  If you want to discuss this more – ask questions, swap ideas, and maybe discover your strategy– don't forget to join us in the Thriving Families group on Facebook. We're all about helping one another out with our family and financial goals.  Hope to see you there!

Zahajujeme náš dlouho slibovaný seriál o kryptoměnách.Začneme povídáním o blockchainu, což je převratná technologie, na které staví většina současných kryptoměn. Projdeme si základní mechanismy jejího fungování a budeme se snažit nezabíhat do technických detailů.V následujících týdnech budeme v tomto seriálu pokračovat a dostaneme se daleko za rámec kryptoměn - k digitálnímu umění, decentralizovaným autonomním organizacím, korporacím řízeným umělými inteligencemi, nebo k samoudržitelným lesům. Související odkazy:- Satoshi Nakamoto - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ——Podcast pro Vás připravují publicistka a autorka kniho o informační válce Alexandra Alvarová (@alexalvarova) a expert na algoritmy sociálních sítí Josef Holý (@holyj). Hudba a sound engineering: Psyek a deafmutedrecords.comNajdete nás na www.kanarci.online !

En el Episodio de hoy discutimos el papel de Bitcoin como el nuevo oro digital o reserva de valor moderna frente a otros activos como el oro. Al mismo tiempo hacemos una pequeña introducción al mundo de las criptomonedas y a la tecnología Blockchain. A continuación os dejamos los recursos mencionados a lo largo del episodio: - Modelo Stock to Flow: https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/stock-to-flow-model/ - White Paper de Bitcoin: "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy of the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.Global Policy Watch #1: A Bit About BitcoinBringing an Indian perspective to burning global issues— RSJWhat should we make of bitcoin? Should we think of it as the best performing asset class in the last decade? After all, it was priced at $1 in April 2011 and its current price is about $45,000. But was it designed to be an asset? Surely, no. Satoshi Nakamoto, who invented bitcoin, was driven more by angst than greed while writing the 31,000 lines of code that he put out to the world on Jan 3, 2009. Satoshi (a pseudonym) wrote a 500-word essay - Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System - to explain the working of the system he had created. The logic was simple - a software system that would spew out some 21 million bitcoins over two decades with people interested in the coins ‘mining’ for them using their computing prowess. Satoshi was clear about his aim. He had seen the global financial crisis and he could no longer trust the conventional currency (also called fiat currency) issued by the governments. All he could see around him was central bankers printing money mindlessly to prop up a system where the ordinary individual had no say. And the banks were willing to design more creative and more toxic products that only benefitted them. As he wrote:“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.”So he decided to take the governments and the banks out of the equation by his design of bitcoin. People could now transact with a currency that was purely digital, encrypted and anonymous with a distributed public ledger that kept track of the movement of the coin to ensure it isn’t used twice by the same owner to dupe someone. It was quite neat. More importantly, there was no bank or intermediary to get in the way of the transaction nor was there any central banker that could decide arbitrarily how many coins should be in circulation. This was a libertarian utopia. The last bastion of the state could fall now. Fiat currency, an imagined and a coercive construct of the state could now be challenged.As the last decade has shown, bitcoin hasn’t exactly replaced fiat currency as a medium of exchange in any meaningful way. But that doesn’t mean it has slunk away into anonymity. It has seen a remarkable rise in the last six months with some of the smartest people in the world betting big on it. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency has never been a more mainstream part of discourse ever. There are multiple ways of looking at cryptocurrency and make sense of what’s happening here. I will take the most traditional one for this edition. And, maybe, over the next few months go a bit deeper into this area. Today, I will take the economic theory lens to evaluate cryptocurrency and its most valuable manifestation, bitcoin.Let’s understand fiat currency a bit better. Why do all of us believe a Rs. 500 note has any value? Well, Econ 101 class would tell you that’s because the sovereign has decided it is a legal tender that’s worth Rs. 500. There’s a promise right there on the currency note signed by the RBI governor. That’s very reassuring. But does that explain why we don’t use any other commonly agreed medium of exchange? Back in the days when I stayed at a hostel, we used cigarettes or Old Monk as a medium of exchange. There were always more cigarettes and Old Monks in the hostels than currency notes (this was the pre-ATM era) and these had a stable range within which its value moved. If someone needed my help with an assignment, 2-3 cigarettes did the trick. Now the question is what if this was replicated at a larger scale? The demand for Rupee notes would fall and its value would fall notwithstanding the Governor‘s promise. So, why does this not happen more often? The answer is that old reason for most things in our society. Network effect. Since most people use Rupee as a medium of exchange, it is easier for the next person getting into a transaction to use it as well. Network effects create an exit barrier for people to adopt any other new medium of exchange and an entry barrier for that new medium wanting to usurp the position of the Rupee. You will need a lot of initial momentum going if you were to establish yourself as an alternative. And how will you generate that momentum? I mean why will people use you as an alternative? It isn’t like the Rupee is failing to meet your expectations as a medium of exchange.But is that enough? Is Rupee valuable because we all collectively believe in the myth it is valuable? That sounds more Harari than real economics. So, let’s go back to the question of why do we think a Rs 500 note has a value. Some of the more original thinking in this area was done by the formidable Austrian school economist Ludwig Von Mises at the beginning of the last century. His view was that we use something as a medium of exchange today because at some point in the past it actually had a real intrinsic value. In his time most currencies traced their origin to a precious metal and overtime were backed by that real asset however nominally. That’s fine but what explains the value of Rs. 500 today. There is no real asset backing this except some vague notion of trust. Also, there’s no real reason why should we all believe that this myth of the Rupee having value will continue forever. What if we continue printing money endlessly leading to spiralling hyperinflation sometime in future? What if there’s a worse global pandemic in future that cripples the global economy? What if we know a meteor is on course to collide with Earth in the next 12 months? What happens then? Will we accept a medium of exchange that has no real value if we know our future is uncertain or doomed? Think of that last person willing to accept a fiat currency as a medium of exchange. Why would he take that risk? Doesn’t make any sense for him because there's no future person to whom he can give this currency for its value. We believe in fiat currency because someone in future believes in it too. No future means no such belief. Now work backwards. Why would the last but one person accept it if he knows the last person won’t? If you follow this backward induction logic to its end and if we all know the future is uncertain and (somewhat) doomed, you will conclude the value of fiat money will be zero in future and therefore it should be zero today. If you think about it this way, fiat money and this whole business of printing money to get over a crisis is a giant Ponzi scheme. Fiat money should have no value today. Whatever value it has now is a bubble. So why do people call bitcoin a bubble and not fiat money? Well, turns out there is one big use case of fiat money  - paying tax liabilities owed to the state. If you remember this was an argument used to explain modern monetary theory (MMT) too. If the only way to pay taxes to the government is through fiat money, then there is a periodic demand for it by the citizens. This goes up as the economy grows or as the government taxes more. Now we can avoid the backward induction logic problem that we discussed earlier. The fiat money has a value that’s non-monetary; it pays your taxes. This won’t allow its value to go to zero in future. Therefore it will have value today too.On such arbitrary plank of state coercion the edifice of human progress rests.So, what about bitcoin then? Like I said earlier it is as much a bubble as any fiat currency of today. There are three problems it has to solve. One, its unique architecture is both a feature and a bug. That there can only be that many bitcoins prevents anyone from flooding the market with them. This keeps its downside protected and makes it a stable store of value. But on the other hand, a limited stock of coins means the value of bitcoin will continue to rise to preclude its use as a medium of exchange. I mean why will you use bitcoin when you know it will be more valuable in future. You will store it. The ‘good money’ will go out of circulation. The old Gresham’s law will apply. Two, if people don’t use it as a medium of exchange, it won’t create network effects. Lack of network effects will mean it won’t create enough momentum to replace fiat currency. This is a chicken and egg problem. Three, there will be transactions where people will seek anonymity or privacy that will be good use cases for cryptocurrency. But will illicit goods and services on the dark web or those sought for by fringe libertarians be a market large enough to justify the crazy valuation that bitcoin has currently? Through a conventional economic prism, the whole bitcoin or cryptocurrency opportunity looks like an asset bubble. There’s a small probability that many Silicon Valley founders and mavericks will ‘bootstrap’ the network effect for a cryptocurrency by making their goods and services available only in that currency. This will bestow intrinsic value to them beyond being a medium of exchange. That’s the only chance it has. Unless the sovereign decides to start its own cryptocurrency that can be used to pay its tax liabilities. But that is for another edition.Global Policy Watch #2: Disagreement in the Information AgeBringing an Indian perspective to burning global issues— Pranay KotasthaneA democracy is as good as the discourse it fosters. And it needs no convincing that discourse has plunged many levels in many democracies across the world. Redeeming our discourse requires two necessary but insufficient components: education in critical thinking, and praxis in disagreeing well. Critical thinking is where we desperately need philosophers. Philosophy’s focus on argument as a topic of study has a lot to offer. Only when we have a methodological understanding of arguments can we train ourselves to reason well. Only when we reason well will we be able to reflect and reach independent conclusions. If I were asked what is one course that should be added to high-school curricula, it would definitely be critical reasoning. The other component, learning to disagree well, is a skill that needs a massive upgrade in the information age. We are not good at handling disagreements. We have a tendency to equate an attack on our opinion as an attack on us. This verb ‘attack’ itself illustrates how strongly we perceive disagreements. All this was known yet manageable until we didn’t have social media. People disagreed but within their social circles, with people they shared some similarities they could always go back to when confrontations got ugly. But social media changed things dramatically. For one, it put us in contact with the opinions of people we otherwise know very little about. And two, it put our online selves in an endless status competition. The result: outrage without real disagreement, confrontation without camaraderie. None of this is going away. And this is precisely why diagreeing well is a core skill in the information age. We are still only beginning to scratch the surface of what it means at an interpersonal level or a social media platform design level. Nevertheless, Ian Leslie’s Guardian Long Read article makes a good start.His answer is two-fold. One, narrow the status gap. Leslie writes:“People skilled in the art of disagreement don’t just think about their own face; they’re highly attuned to the other’s face. One of the most powerful social skills is the ability to give face; to confirm the public image that the other person wishes to project. In any conversation, when the other person feels their desired face is being accepted and confirmed, they’re going to be a lot easier to deal with, and more likely to listen to what you have to say.”..“When a debate becomes volatile and dysfunctional, it’s often because someone in the conversation feels they are not getting the face they deserve. This helps to explain the pervasiveness of bad temper on social media, which can sometimes feel like a status competition in which the currency is attention. On Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, anyone can get likes, retweets or new followers – in theory. But although there are exceptions, it is actually very hard for people who are not already celebrities to build a following. Gulled by the promise of high status, users then get angry when status is denied. Social media appears to give everyone an equal chance of being heard. In reality, it is geared to reward a tiny minority with massive amounts of attention, while the majority has very little. The system is rigged.”Two, lower the identity stakes. Leslie writes:“..what drags participants into destructive conflict is usually a struggle over who they are… That our opinions come tangled up with our sense of ourselves is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is something we need to be aware of when trying to get someone to do something they do not want to do, whether that’s stop smoking, adapt to a new working practice, or vote for our candidate. Our goal should be to prise the disputed opinion or action away from the person’s sense of self – to lower the identity stakes. The skilful disagreer finds a way of helping their adversary conclude that they can say or do something different, and still be themselves.”More concretely, he identifies having a disagreement without an audience is one way of lowering the identity stakes. People feel more comfortable changing opinions beyond the performative glare. But this approach is suboptimal because it relies on reducing diversity of thought. The other approach is to “just be nice” at a personal level, to make an adversary feel that they can revise their opinion without losing face. All this sounds quite difficult, of course. But the key takeaway for me was to think about disagreement as a necessary skill for the information age. I strongly recommend the entire article. It is an important theme of our times. and we need to pay a lot more attention to this line of inquiry.PS: Two book recommendations for learning critical reasoning. Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation by Douglas Walton, and Critical Thinking Skills by Stella Cottrell. To get things started, there’s a good podcast by Oxford University as well. PolicyWTF: Compulsory Philanthropy — I Told You SoThis section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen?— Pranay KotasthaneIn #108, we subjected the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Law to an “anticipating the unintended” treatment. Turns out there’s evidence to back all those claims too! Gautam John, one of the most steadfast supporters of this newsletter, sent us a paper that analysed the impact of government intervention on CSR funding since the mandatory CSR law came into effect in FY 2013-14. The authors Rajgopal & Tantri conclude:Overall, there is a marginal increase in the average CSR spending since the law came into effect in 2013-14. But ...“High CSR” firms — companies that used to spend 4% to 5% of their profits on CSR before the law came into effect — reduced their spending to the mandated 2% level. “Low CSR” firms — companies that used to spend less than 1% of their profits on CSR before the law came into effect — increased their spending to the mandated 2% level.CSR contributions became highly sensitive to negative shocks to profits. This meant that companies reduced their CSR spending during bad times but did not increase CSR spending by the same amount during good times. In sum, “mandatory CSR crowded out voluntary spending”. It became a checkbox to be ticked, a tax to be complied with. The effect is similar to what you see while booking flight tickets in India today due to COVID-19 price caps in force. Earlier, the ticket prices were distributed according to scarcity — the prices rose as the journey day got nearer and different airlines had different prices. That’s no longer the case. All airlines charge nearly the same amount, the one that just meets the price cap, regardless of how early you book the ticket.Azim Premji has consistently highlighted the futility of mandatory CSR. Premji alone donated in excess of Rs 7000 crores last year in comparison to the ~Rs 18000 crores total CSR spending by ALL companies in FY 2018-19. On Feb 21, he spoke on this issue again:"I do not think we should have a legal mandate for companies to do CSR. Philanthropy or charity or contribution to society must come from within, and it cannot be mandated from outside. But that's my personal view. As of now, this is the law and all companies must follow it.”So, my conclusion remains unchanged. CSR is a tax but only worse.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Paper] Events described historic at the time when they occur are rarely so in reality whereas the events that will be viewed as historic many years later attract little attention at the time. A really important finding that also explains why progress is so underrated. [Podcast] RSJ was on The Seen and The Unseen, [Article] Barun Mitra’s take on the way ahead for agricultural reforms is educational.[Article] Sarthak and Pranay have an article out on the latest attempt at making state finance commissions work.[Article] Devesh Kapur highlights the low-level equilibrium that our federalism has settled at with respect to agriculture. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

Die Idee von Bitcoin ist mit dem 2008 veröffentlichten White Paper von Satoshi Nakamoto in die Welt gekommen. Der Titel des Papiers lautet «Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System». Die ursprüngliche Idee war es also Bitcoin als digitales Zahlungsmittel zu etablieren, welches erlaubt Wertüberträge vorzunehmen, die von Person zu Person, dezentral und ohne Intermediär ablaufen. Gut zwölf Jahre später stellt sich die Frage, ob Bitcoin diesen Ansprüchen tatsächlich gerecht wird. In der heutigen 5-min Friday Episode widmet sich Alexander Bechtel daher der Frage, ob Bitcoin tatsächlich, wie ursprünglich erdacht, ein Zahlungsmittel ist. Immerhin plant Paypal Bitcoin in den kommenden Monaten in den USA als Zahlungsmittel einzuführen. Tesla hat darüber hinaus angekündigt, dass es Bitcoin als Zahlungsmittel beim Autokauf akzeptieren möchte. Nichtsdestoweniger argumentiert Alexander, dass Bitcoin kein Zahlungsmittel ist. Sein Hauptargument dafür ist nicht wie so oft ein technisches (die Bitcoin Blockchain schafft nur sieben Transaktionen in der Sekunde), sondern ein ökonomisches. Wenn ihr wissen wollt, was genau die Butter bei Aldi und Lidl damit zu tun hat, dann hört gerne in die heutige Episode des 5-min Fridays.

Science journalist and author James Nestor explains how you can breathe better. Then, learn about the secret identity of Bitcoin creator “Satoshi Nakamoto” and whether farming really was a step up for our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Additional resources for James Nestor: Pick up "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qoXzaL James Nestor's website: https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/ James Nestor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrJamesNestor No One Knows the Identity of Bitcoin's Creator by Cody Gough Patron, T. (2014, December). Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? – Diginomics Corporation. Diginomics.com. https://diginomics.com/2014/11/09/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto/  Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin (Published 2015). (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-birth-of-bitcoin.html?_r=0 ‌ Business Insider UK. (2016, June 14). The mysterious creator of bitcoin is sitting on a $700 million fortune - Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/satoshi-nakamoto-owns-one-million-bitcoin-700-price-2016-6  ‌Satoshi Nakamoto. (2019, November 20). Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Manubot. https://git.dhimmel.com/bitcoin-whitepaper/  ‌Wallace, B. (2011, November 23). The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf-bitcoin/  ‌Leah McGrath Goodman. (2014, March 6). The Face Behind Bitcoin. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-247957.html  ‌Nour Al Ali, & Kingdon, C. (2017, November 28). Musk: I Am Not Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto. Bloomberg.com; Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/elon-musk-tweets-to-debunk-speculation-that-he-s-behind-bitcoin  Was farming really a step up for our hunter-gatherer ancestors? by Cameron Duke Bocquet-Appel, J.-P. (2011). When the World’s Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Science, 333(6042), 560–561. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1208880  Dyble, M., Thorley, J., Page, A. E., Smith, D., & Migliano, A. B. (2019). Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8), 792–796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0614-6  Gallagher, S. (2019, April 21). What Can Hunter-Gatherers Teach Us about Staying Healthy? Duke Global Health Institute. https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/what-can-hunter-gatherers-teach-us-about-staying-healthy  O’Grady, C. (2019, May 24). Hunter-gathering seems to have been easier than farming. Ars Technica; Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/adopting-agriculture-means-less-leisure-time-for-women/  Sahlins, M. (2006). The politics of egalitarianism : theory and practice (J. S. Solway, Ed.; pp. 79–98). Berghahn Books. http://www.vizkult.org/propositions/alineinnature/pdfs/Sahlin-OriginalAffluentSociety-abridged.pdf  Yuval Noah Harari. (2019). Sapiens. Random House Uk. Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community. Originally written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s original white paper titled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' was released over 12 years ago. Considered the most seminal piece of work in the cryptocurrency movement, the Bitcoin White Paper outlines blockchain technology and the entire decentralized revolution. The content of this 9-page document incited what can only be described as a revolution in the world of fintech. More relevantly, Bitcoin’s white paper laid out an inspiring new definition of money at a time when faith in the traditional financial system was still being salvaged. Satoshi launched the first Bitcoin client in early 2009 and then handed the project off to the community in 2010, where it has since thrived as the open-source of study, work, and fascination for millions across the globe. Today we bring this infamous memo to The Founders' List so you have a chance to listen to his original outline of such a world-changing idea. Examining the white paper origins is a great exercise in understanding why Bitcoin has the influence it has in today's world. Satoshi Nakamoto’s blueprint is the official “birth certificate” of Bitcoin. Read the white paper here - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Den vollständigen Standpunkte-Text (inkl ggf. Quellenhinweisen und Links) findet ihr hier: https://kenfm.de/schoene-neue-bitcoin-welt-von-ruediger-rauls/ Ein Standpunkt von Rüdiger Rauls. Der Bitcoin eilt von einem Hoch zum andern. Erdacht als demokratisches Zahlungsmittel, ist er zum Spielball einer Elite von Spekulanten geworden. Kinderjahre Als Folge der Finanzkrise, die im Jahre 2007 begonnen hatte, erblickte der Bitcoin Ende 2008 das Licht der Welt, von Sathoshi Nakamoto aus der Taufe gehoben. Unter der Bezeichnung „Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System“ sollte er eine demokratische Alternative zum bestehenden Geldsystem sein. Am Anfang stand eine Idee. Um es biblisch auszudrücken: „Am Anfang war das Wort.“ Tieferes Verständnis über Kapitalismus und das Geldsystem wurde ersetzt durch Idealismus. Man sah, dass „Banken und gar ganze Staaten durch ein falsch gestricktes Geld- und Finanzsystem wankten“(1). Sie waren nicht die einzigen, die sich diese Verwerfungen mit dem Augenscheinlichen erklärten, dem Geldsystem. Dieser Glaube wurde verstärkt durch die Geldschwemme, mit der die Märkte geflutet wurden zur Rettung der Banken. Doch trotz dieser Bedrohung, die vom Geldsystem auszugehen schien, atmete die Menschheit nicht auf, als ihr im Bitcoin eine Alternative angeboten wurde. Der Idealismus der Wenigen kam in der Realität der Vielen nicht an. Im März 2010 gab es eine erste Notierung des Bitcoins. Sein Wert in Dollar betrug damals nur 0,003 Cent (2). Es gab also wenig Bereitschaft, den Dollar, auch wenn er auf noch so tönernen Füßen stand, gegen eine Währung zu tauschen, die sich als Alternative zum kapitalistischen Geldsystem verstand. Im Februar 2011 wurde dann erstmals ein Dollar für den Bitcoin bezahlt und in 2013 waren es bereits einhundert Dollar. Der Bitcoin fand zunehmend Interesse. Aber er war keine Alltagswährung wie Dollar oder Euro. Dafür waren die Kursschwankungen zu hoch und die Zahlungsabwicklung zu umständlich. Nicht alltagstauglich Denn für den Alltagsgebrauch der meisten Menschen waren Dollar, Euro und all die herkömmlichen Währungen nicht durch den Bitcoin zu ersetzen…weiterlesen hier: https://kenfm.de/schoene-neue-bitcoin-welt-von-ruediger-rauls/ Jetzt KenFM unterstützen: https://www.patreon.com/KenFMde https://de.tipeee.com/kenfm https://flattr.com/@KenFM Dir gefällt unser Programm? Informationen zu weiteren Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten hier: https://kenfm.de/support/kenfm-unterstuetzen/ Du kannst uns auch mit Bitcoins unterstützen. BitCoin-Adresse: 18FpEnH1Dh83GXXGpRNqSoW5TL1z1PZgZK Abonniere jetzt den KenFM-Newsletter: https://kenfm.de/newsletter/ KenFM jetzt auch als kostenlose App für Android- und iOS-Geräte verfügbar! Über unsere Homepage kommt Ihr zu den Stores von Apple und Google. Hier der Link: https://kenfm.de/kenfm-app/ Website und Social Media: https://www.kenfm.de https://www.twitter.com/TeamKenFM https://www.instagram.com/kenfm.de/ https://soundcloud.com/ken-fm See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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12 years ago, an anonymous person using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. This week, Scott and Karl discuss this revolutionary concept of how Bitcoin set out to change the way the world views currencies.  At just ten pages long, Nakamoto’s original paper is still recommended reading for anyone studying how Bitcoin works. Nakamoto’s vision for the project is this: digital currency that anyone can use without needing to go through a bank or any other centralized organization. Bitcoin provides a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. According to Nakamoto, "The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work.” Although the paper spares no technical detail in explaining how the Bitcoin network operates, both Scott and Karl agree— there is elegance and unrealized potential of Nakamoto’s idea. Karl says, “It’s a very clever solution to get at the core of money: it’s non-repeatability, it’s finiteness, but made of digits and not gold, silver, or copper." Scott adds, "We can operate this currency using a certain kind of citizenship, a certain way of running referendum, a certain way of self-governing, and none of those ways can be changed by a court ruling or a tyrant."  Tune in to learn more about the future of cryptocurrency.   

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My guest today is Chad Cascarilla, the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, which describes itself as a financial technology company “mobilizing assets at the speed of the internet.“ Thanks to more than 20 years of investing and financial services experience, Chad has a unique perspective on integrating blockchain technology with traditional systems. He also has one of my favorite bitcoin origin stories, which we explore. Before Paxos, Charles co-founded institutional asset management complex Cedar Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and its blockchain-focused venture capital subsidiary, Liberty City Ventures (LCV). Our conversation is less about cryptocurrencies and more about the history, current state, and potential future states of our financial system. Please enjoy. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Show Notes 1:32 - (First Question) – His work in the finance world before crypto’s 5:12 – Experience navigating the subprime mortgage trend and what it taught him about blockchain 9:59 – The levers that matter in the financial services industry today vs when he first started 14:07 – Open vs closed money in financial services 19:16 – How slowdowns are different in the modern era 23:06 – What would lead to a major winding down of global debt 27:09 – What would be his focus as a traditional investor 29:21 – How he first got involved with bitcoin             29:47 – Elliott Wave Newsletter 31:53 – His measured view of Bitcoin and living through the volatility of it             32:03 – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System 35:57 – Allocation of a portfolio which includes crypto 36:54 – His involvement and feelings on gold 37:56 – The formation of Paxos and the problem it exists to solve 41:34 – How Paxos is impacting the space 44:12 – Advantages of a private blockchain 43:59 – What is Pax Gold and how does it work 48:53 – Bad ways and situations to own gold 52:12 – Using a stable coin 56:00 – Biggest problem they are working on now 57:23 – What should people be paying attention to in the crypto currency space             59:23 – Coindesk Research Archive 59:39 – Has the influx of interest in crypto helped in other spaces 1:02:11 – Other lessons people should learn from his career 1:04:53 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Chad   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

Você vai aprender o que é Bitcoin, quem o inventou e onde encontrar fontes de confiança para aprender mais sobre o assunto. Visite nosso site https://direitodigitalcast.com, envia-nos um email para contato@direitodigitalcast.com e nos siga em https://instagram.com/direitodigitalcast Referências “Bitcoin – a moeda na era digital”. [s.d.]. Mises Brasil. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://www.mises.org.br/Ebook.aspx?id=99. “Bitcoin – Dinheiro P2P de código aberto”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://bitcoin.org/pt_BR/. “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper. “Busca — Receita Federal”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://receita.economia.gov.br/@@busca?SearchableText=criptoativos. “CVM permite fundos de investimento investirem em criptomoedas”. [s.d.]. ADVFN News. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://br.advfn.com/jornal/2018/09/cvm-permite-fundos-de-investimento-investirem-em-criptomoedas/. “Livecoins – Notícias sobre Bitcoin, criptomoedas e Blockchain”. [s.d.]. Livecoins. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://livecoins.com.br/. “Orientações para administradores de fundos de investimento”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. http://www.cvm.gov.br/noticias/arquivos/2018/20180112-1.html. “Origem e evolução do dinheiro”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://www.bcb.gov.br/htms/origevol.asp?frame=1. “Perguntas frequentes”. [s.d.]. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://www.bcb.gov.br/pre/bc_atende/port/moedasvirtuais.asp?idpai=FAQCIDADAO&frame=1. “Raphael Souza, Autor em Livecoins”. [s.d.]. Livecoins. Acessado 8 de agosto de 2019. https://livecoins.com.br/author/raphael/.

Eight pages that changed the world:: Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper in a cryptography mailing list on November 1, 2008, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." It is the origin of Bitcoin and the blockchain technology of today. But what is it about? Why is it still so brillant?

Show support appreciated: 35iDYDYqRdN2x6KGcpdV2W1Hy3AjGje9oL Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. Stuart Haber & Dr. Scott Stornetta, authors of the seminal cryptographic 1991 paper “How to time-stamp a digital document,” a key part of the technological inspiration for Bitcoin, and as a result they share 3 of the 8 references in Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” white paper. We discuss their early days in cryptography, their background, and what led them to author their important time-stamping idea, and why trust and document provenance must be distributed. We spend some time discussing their latest thinking on what makes an immutable ledger, the lingering dangers in cryptography, and how distributed consensus in many ways is a completely separate field from public key cryptography. We also discuss the importance of privacy, in light of recent mainstream, large corporate hacks of personal data, the latest victim being Capital One and its clients. Listen on to learn more. Links for more info: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-to-time-stamp-a-digital-document-Haber-Stornetta/06b055b0b53d39aa969afc2ba2c1d87985587db7 https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper https://www.hs91.net/ http://www.surety.com/about-us/corporate-management/dr-stuart-haber https://www.yugenpartners.com/team https://breakermag.com/money-was-the-sizzle-blockchain-pioneer-w-scott-stornetta-assesses-satoshis-work/ https://twitter.com/StuartHaber https://twitter.com/strangethingitl Show Sponsor: cryptovoices.com/tradesmithoffer Hosts: Matthew Mežinskis, Fernando Ulrich Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Site: cryptovoices.com/ Podcast & Information Cryptoeconomics & Liberty Thanks for listening! Show content is not investment advice in any way.

Micah Winkelspecht joins us today to analyze the forces that are shaping the volatile cryptocurrency markets and the evolution of the decentralized ecosystem. Micah offers insights into the many pain points that are confronting the industry and what it’s going to take for digital assets to cross the chasm into mainstream adoption. Chitra spoke to Micah in early October, just two weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of the Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”   In this in-depth interview, Micah describes how his casual interest in cryptocurrency as a software engineer in 2010 turned into crypto evangelism after reading the Satoshi whitepaper in 2013. He fell down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole from which he hasn’t yet emerged (and likely never will). Having been through four crypto down-cycles, Micah offers tales from the front to help us put the current market volatility in perspective and looks ahead to how the decentralized ecosystem will evolve over the next decade.  

Oct. 31, 2018 - It was 10 years ago today, on October 31, that marked the publication of a white paper describing a new "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” based on blockchain technology known as Bitcoin. On today's broadcast, economist Jerry Robinson discusses both the past and the future of blockchain technology. Special guest interview: Paul Snow (CEO of Factom cryptocurrency)

Oct. 31, 2018 - It was 10 years ago today, on October 31, that marked the publication of a white paper describing a new "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” based on blockchain technology known as Bitcoin. On today's broadcast, economist Jerry Robinson discusses both the past and the future of blockchain technology. Special guest interview: Paul Snow (CEO of Factom cryptocurrency)

E como prometido, a segunda parte do episódio de blockchain e criptomoedas, com mais informações sobre o sistema de pagamento sem mediação, e recursos virtuais. Participantes:Letícia Fainé, Caio Gomes (@caiocgomes), Elton Carvalho e Julián Catino (@jcatino). Edição de Alexandre Mello. Aconselhamos o uso de fones de ouvido para escutar os programas.   Rock 1 - Easy Money- King Crimson. Rock 2- Ain't No Rest For The Wicked- Cage The Elephant. Rock 3- Money (That's What I Want)- Led Zeppelin . Referências : Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https:coinmarketcap.com/ 3Blue1Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 http://bitcointalk.org//   Ah, você não gosta das músicas? É uma pena, mas não tem problema! Agora você pode ouvir a versão sem músicas! Esse é o nosso Lado B! Assine o Lado B para sempre ter acesso ao episódio editado sem as músicas! Gostou do episódio? Não gostou do episódio? Encontrou alguma falha gritante (ou pequena que seja)? Envie seu comentário! Pode ser aqui mesmo no site ou pelo email rock@rockcomciencia.com.br. Ou ainda pelo Twitter ou Facebook!

Já pensou como seria pagar por suas compras sem precisar do seu banco? Com a utilização de criptomoedas é possível obter um sistema de pagamento sem mediadores, entenda mais sobre esse tema na discussão dessa semana! Participantes:Letícia Fainé, Caio Gomes (@caiocgomes), Elton Carvalho e Julián Catino (@jcatino). Edição de Alexandre Mello. Aconselhamos o uso de fones de ouvido para escutar os programas.   Rock 1 - Easy Money- King Crimson. Rock 2- Ain't No Rest For The Wicked- Cage The Elephant. Rock 3- Money (That's What I Want)- Led Zeppelin . Referências : Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https:coinmarketcap.com/ 3Blue1Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 http://bitcointalk.org//   Ah, você não gosta das músicas? É uma pena, mas não tem problema! Agora você pode ouvir a versão sem músicas! Esse é o nosso Lado B! Assine o Lado B para sempre ter acesso ao episódio editado sem as músicas! Gostou do episódio? Não gostou do episódio? Encontrou alguma falha gritante (ou pequena que seja)? Envie seu comentário! Pode ser aqui mesmo no site ou pelo email rock@rockcomciencia.com.br. Ou ainda pelo Twitter ou Facebook!

In Episode 56 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Hedera Hashgraph President Tom Trowbridge about the latest news from the company that made its splash on the Hidden Forces podcast less than one year ago. In the Fall of 2008, equity markets were in free fall. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite were all on their way towards making lows not seen since the mid-1990’s. Stock valuations would collapse by more than fifty percent, prominent investment banks filed for bankruptcy while others fled into the rapacious arms of their competitors or under the safe umbrella of Congress and the Federal Reserve. At the same time as Schumpeter’s ghost was rattling his chains on Wall Street, Satoshi’s white paper was making the rounds on a cryptography mailing list in some obscure corner of the Internet. “I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” he wrote, directing the several hundred recipients to his paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” “Merchants must be wary of their customers,” he writes, “a certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party.” This last bit was only partly true. It was Satoshi’s paper, after all, that made it untrue. Though few realized it at the time, the Bitcoin whitepaper marked the beginning of the Internet’s second act. In the ten years since its publication, we have seen an explosion of interest, development, and investment in protocols built from Satoshi’s underlying blockchain technology, designed to execute commands across a distributed, trustless network of computers. Ethereum led the way with its pioneering Virtual Machine, able to execute smart contracts across a permissionless network, and since, several competing ledgers have cropped up, each claiming some advancement over prior versions. But what if, in their bid to create a faster horse, developers and investors alike have missed a crucial turning point in the evolution of the Internet. Satoshi’s white paper, brilliant as it was, never claimed to be the blueprint for a world computer. As the bitcoin network has grown, so too have the costs of its transactions, and this is because adding blocks takes time. Deciding what chain to build on requires the network to agree on which chain is the longest, and when chains are growing too fast, it’s hard to tell the difference. In the last several years we’ve seen an explosion of brainpower devoted towards creating workarounds to the scalability problem, but we’ve also seen a quiet, committed effort at building alternatives that aren’t saddled with blockchain’s limitations. Perhaps the most interesting of these alternatives is hashgraph, built as a directed acyclic graph, it’s fundamental innovation is not in its architecture, but in its consensus. Even to those who see promise in hashgraph, the technology can often seem like magic. One might describe its consensus protocol as nothing more than a compression algorithm for the casting of votes. What would have once taken an impossible amount of time, can now be accomplished in a matter of seconds. A voting algorithm for a global network. It was Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, who stated it most clearly: “The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another.” In its first iteration, the Internet solved the problem of communication across a network without the need for a trusted third party, but making definitive statements about that communication has always required an intermediary. In order to harness the full power of the Internet, we need to do for data processing, computation, and storage what the existing suite of Internet protocols have already done for communication. A revolution for a new generation. The Internet’s second act. Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod

Adam Draper made a crazy bet on cryptocurrency when he launched Boost VC, a bitcoin startup accelerator in 2012. Learn about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain from the founder of one of bitcoin and blockchain's earliest and most active incubators. Guest Biography Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC. The first fund to focus on Bitcoin related startups. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also has a very large comic book collection. In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Amplitude. Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams and to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper's dream to create an Iron Man suit. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/031 In this episode, you will learn: What is Bitcoin and why you should care? Why Adam is betting that digital currency will be the future of finance. Risks of investing in the early stages of bitcoin and other crytopcurrencies Find more from our guest: Twitter Medium LinkedIn Boost VC: Boost VC website Twitter Medium Facebook Instagram Mentioned in this episode: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto coinbase.com Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

In dieser Episode gibt’s einen schnellen Rückblick über die Entwicklung von Bitcoin & Co. Wir beginnen im Jahr 2007 mit Satoshi Nakamotos Whitepaper und schließen mit der verrückten Rally Ende 2017 ab. Hier kannst Du die Episode direkt abspielen. Interessante Links 2008: Bitcoin Whitepaper von Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System 2009: Genesis...

Brief History of Bitcoin Bitcoin came about from a whitepaper released in 2008: Bitcoin, A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. It was just nine pages and outlined a process for passing digital funds from one user to another using blockchain encryption to protect the system from the creation of 'extra' money. The first Bitcoin mined in January 2009, and the first transaction was conducted soon after when the founders exchanged some funds directly. Later that year the New Liberty Standard established the value of Bitcoin at 1309.03 bitcoins for 1 dollar. The first real-world transaction followed in May 2010, when a Florida programmer sent 10,000BTC to a volunteer in England, who then spent about $25 to order him a pizza from Papa John’s. Today that pizza is valued at almost 2 million pounds and the transaction regarded as a significant milestone in Bitcoin history. By 2015 things had settled down and Bitcoin had finally achieved mainstream acceptance. That was confirmed when the New York Stock Exchange made a substantial investment in the Coinbase IPO. By 2016 it was estimated that worldwide over 180,000 businesses were accepting Bitcoin payments and over Bitcoin 770 ATMs were available. And in March 2017, the price of a Bitcoin crossed the cost of an ounce of gold for the first time.   How Bitcoin Works  Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer system for making online payments using a digital currency. The idea of a digital currency had been around for some time, but it wasn't until the problem of 'double spending' addressed that it became a reality. Since anything digital can be copied over and over again, the challenge was creating a digital payment system that makes sure that nobody spends the same money more than once. Offline it's handled by the fact paper money is physically transferred from buyer to seller. Online it's been handled by a central authority... i.e. a bank... recording and verifying all transactions... removing the payment from the buyer's account and adding it to the seller's account. What makes Bitcoin unique, is that it uses a massive peer-to-peer network to verify every single transaction. When you send a Bitcoin to another person, they don't get to use it until 'the network' confirms it is valid. Once verified though, your payments are non-reversible, your accounts cannot be frozen, and transaction fees are much lower... especially on significant transactions. You Can Use Bitcoin to book flights and accommodation with BTC trip is a flight and hotel booking service that accepts Bitcoin. Expedia is already a well-known travel booking service, and it now joined the Bitcoin travel sphere. CheapAir established in 1989 and based out of Calabasas CA; it is the first online travel agency to accept Bitcoin. Travel Booking, reviews and advice on hotels, resorts, flights, vacation rentals, travel packages com taking advantage of the fact that Airbnb has left the field wide open, 9flats is taking Bitcoin travel into the sharing economy. Currently, about 20% of the places advertised on 9flats take Bitcoin. CoinMap is a resource map for finding Bitcoin travel and tourism merchants around the world. Just input where you will be travelling to see what’s available for your trip and where you can spend your Bitcoins.   Travel web platform links https://btctrip.com https://www.expedia.com https://www.cheapair.com https://Bitcoin.travel https://9flats.com https://coinatmradar.com   Super Helpful Tip to Optimise Bitcoin while Traveling With Bitcoin Gift Cards At times it’s impossible to buy plane tickets for Bitcoin directly due to the company policy over Bitcoin. Here is a travel hack by using gift cards from major airlines, which you can buy with bitcoins and then spend to buy tickets. Here are some gift card reseller platforms where you can shop with bitcoins: com/gift-cards/ryan-air com/bitcoin Exchange bitcoin to local currencies very quickly using Bitcoin ATM radar https://coinatmradar.com

Welcome to the first episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies with leaders in the field like Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, & Ari Paul. Hash Power is meant to be an introduction, but really, it is an invitation to explore this emerging world on your own.  In the coming weeks, we will cover the technology, the power of decentralization, bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs, cryptography and hashing. We will spend time with the leading active hedge fund managers in the field, and with outside investors who are both optimistic and skeptical. Episode one covers the big picture, and answers the question: what is blockchain and why might it significantly affect our world? If you enjoy what follows, you’ll still be very early in understanding this field. Most don’t. So help me spread it like wildfire, because the more people that understand blockchain, the better its impact might become. Please enjoy episode one, and stay tuned next week for episode 2, which explores investing in cryptocurrencies. Hash Power is presented by Fidelity Investments   For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/hashpower For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast. To get involved with Project Frontier, head to InvestorFieldGuide.com/frontier. Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag   Books Referenced The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age Nostalgia for the Absolute   Links Referenced Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Reddit User jav_rddt SHA-256 Calculator The BitCoin Model for Crowdfunding Fat Protocols #cryptotwitter   Show Notes 0:05 – Introduction    CHAPTER 1 – Understanding the Concept of Blockchain (3:25) 4:30 – Jeremiah Lowin explains how blockchain is like a database             5:14 – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System 5:46 – Owning a digital asset 7:14 – Naval Ravikant, CEO of Angelist on how blockchains can help to create personal networks and organize humans 11:01 – How blockchains represent a way to coordinate global activity through tokens 13:33 – New coins popping up around data storage and utility needs like solar panels 14:57 – Permission vs permissionless networks 16:37 – Protocols and the introduction of scarcity 18:13 – Keeping track of scarcity and the introduction of tokens 18:49 – Societal structures and how blockchains will change them again             18:51 – The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age 21:55 – The role of blockchains in the informational age and the rise of more individual sovereignty 23:29 - Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, on the increasing shift to digital worlds led by incentive structures   CHAPTER 2 – Blockchain Technology (27:48)             29:09 - Reddit User jav_rddt             30:43 - SHA-256 Calculator 31:53 - Charlie Noyes, Pantera Capital, explains how SHA-256 was developed and what make its so special 35:48 – How miners create new blocks and the incentives to do so 40:22 – The nonce field 43:48 – The incentives that exist for miners and the arms race to build more powerful systems to mine 45:20 – The development of mining pools 46:54 – Ethereum, the “spiritual successor” to bitcoin 48:36 – How the Ether network is an ecosystem in which other tokens can sit 50:51 - Naval Ravikant on alternative coins or tokens             50:50 - The BitCoin Model for Crowdfunding 51:37 – How the protocol creators are the ones getting wealthy             52:35 – Fat Protocols 53:22 – Blockchain as an experiment in distributed government 54:47 – How cryptocurrency is more than just technology, it’s a movement             54:50 – Nostalgia for the Absolute             57:27 - #cryptotwitter 1:00:58 - Peter Jubber, of Fidelity, on how huge institutions, like theirs, are getting into the cryptocurrency game 1:4:01 –The notion of cooperation in an open source project or protocol 1:05:21- Olaf Carlson-Wee, first employee at Coinbase and the founder of Polychain, on the early excitement for cryptocurrency 1:06:56– Closing thoughts from Patrick             Looking to work in this space - hashpowerdeveloper@gmail.com   Learn More For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.  Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag

У меня в гостях Дмитрий Стародубцев, основатель киберфонда и блокчейн евангелист. В этом выпуске мы с Димой говорим о том, как появилась эта технология, о её первой реализации «BitCoin», какие были, в первую очередь, экономические условия для того, чтобы цифровая валюта смогла войти в нашу жизнь и занять там свое место. Дима рассказал про то, как устроена цепочка блоков, и какая информация в них может храниться. Рассказал и про умные контракты, что это такое и каков принцип их работы, какие условия и вообще среда необходима для их функционирования. Не обошли мы стороной и вопросы безопасности. Так же мы обсудили новые проекты, которые появились в последнее время, и которые так же базируются на технологии blockchain. Самый известный из таких — это проект Виталия Бутерина «Эфириум» (**Ethereum (https://www.ethereum.org/))**, который представляет из себя платформу для построения приложений. Вообще в процессе разговора Дима приводил очень много различных примеров проектов, использующих технологию блокчейн, это и социальные сети, и реестр собственности на землю, ставки на спорт и всевозможные проекты по работе с цифровым контентом и распределенные вычисления и многое другое. Блог Дмитрия на Steem'е: https://steemit.com/@hipster bitcoin. Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System: https://bitcoin.org/ Ethereum Project. Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform: https://www.ethereum.org/ cyber.Fund. Where the World Discovers Blockchain Systems: https://cyber.fund/ Factom. Платформа для хранения информации и фактов: http://factom.org/ Steem. Blockchain-based Social Media Platform where anyone can earn rewards: https://steem.io/ Storj. Blockchain-based, end-to-end encrypted, distributed object storage, where only you have access to your data: https://storj.io/ Emercoin. Blockchain Services: SSL, DNS, PKI and more: http://emercoin.com/ The 21 bitcoin computer: https://21.co/buy/ Augur. Combines the magic of prediction markets with the power of a decentralized network to create a stunningly accurate forecasting tool: https://www.augur.net/ IOTA is a revolutionary new transactional settlement and data transfer layer for the Internet of Things: https://iotatoken.com/ IPFS is the Distributed Web. A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open: https://ipfs.io/ Crypto property evaluation paper: https://www.academia.edu/22691395/cyber_Rating_Crypto_Property_Evaluation BigchainDB. The scalable blockchain database: https://www.bigchaindb.com/ Graphene. Blockchain Platform: http://docs.bitshares.org/index.html

Um im digitalen Umfeld elektronischen Handel zu betreiben, benötigt man einen gesicherten Datenaustausch für Angebote, Verhandlungen und Verträge, aber letztlich auch eine Form von elektronischem Geld auf dem der Handel basiert. Ganz zentral ist dabei die moderne Kryptographie und insbesondere die Public Key-Verfahren, die durch mathematische Verfahren das ganze ermöglichen, soweit die Verfahren sicher, korrekt implementiert und richtig benutzt werden, und es nicht zu einem Fiasko wie dem Heartbleed-Bug kommt. Im Gespräch mit Gudrun Thäter erläutert Sebastian Ritterbusch die Mathematik hinter digitalem Geld und der Kryptowährung Bitcoin. Dazu geht es zunächst in die Zahlentheorie der Restklassenkörper und spezielle Restklassenringe . Mit dem kleinen Satz von Fermat versehen wir eine Einwegfunktion mit einer Falltür und kommen auf Hash-Funktionen und das RSA-Verfahren. Damit kann man auch digital Unterschreiben (sogar bei Bedarf blind signieren), wir diskutieren, wie Verträge durch einen Kollisionsangriff und dem Geburtstagsparadoxon gefälscht werden können, und wie damit erfolgreich ein Root-Zertifikat fingiert wurde. Für das zentral organisierte und anonyme digitale Geld benötigt man dann nur noch das Prinzip des geteilten Geheimnis. Leider kommt das Verfahren gegenüber weniger anonymen Verfahren heute kaum zum Einsatz, im Gegensatz zum Bitcoin-Verfahren, das sich wachsender Beliebtheit erfreut. Hier ersetzt ein Peer-to-Peer-Netzwerk und eine Hash-Kette die zentrale Instanz, und verhindert so das doppelte Ausgeben durch die gemeinsame Vergangenheit von Transaktionen, die über einen Merkle-Baum in die Block-Chain platzsparend integriert werden. Literatur und Zusatzinformationen D.Chaum, A.Fiat, M.Naor: Untraceable electronic cash, Proceedings on Advances in Cryptology, S. Goldwasser, Ed. Springer-Verlag New York, New York, NY, 319-327, 1990. S.Nakamoto: Bitcoin, A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Whitepaper, The Cryptography Mailing List, 2008. A.Sotirov, M.Stevens, J.Appelbaum, A.Lenstra, D.Molnar, D.A.Osvik, B.Weger: MD5 considered harmful today, Creating a rogue CA certificate, Crypto 2009 Proceedings, 2009. Z.Durumeric, E.Wustrow, J.A.Halderman: ZMap - der IPv4-Scan J.A.Haldermann: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and its Security Applications, Vortrag 30C3, 2013. Heise.de, bbe: Virenscanner warnt vor Bitcoin-Blockchain, 17.5.2014. Heise.de, axk: Bitcoin: Erstmals gefährliche Konzentration der Mining-Leistung, 16.6.2014. Podcast: T.Pritlove und A.Bogk: CRE182, Elektronisches Geld Podcast: M.Richter und A.Bogk: Die Wahrheit 005, Bitcoins Podcast: F.Blue, X.Initrc, M.Malik: Death of a traveling salesman Podcast: D.Jäckel und A.Schildbach: Bitstaub, Ein Bitcoin Podcast Podcast: Bitcoin Austria: Bitcoin Update Podcast: M.Völter, G.Andresen: Omega Tau 59, Bitcoin

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Special Episode Today all about Cryptoassets, blockchain, cryptocurrency and we’ll dive into a few like Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that was released in 2009 and has become the first currency of its kind in the modern age that does not need a central bank to function. It’s created a lot of buzz in the market and is a topic where there is loads of noise and if you don’t focus you can lose track of what you’re talking about. We’ve got a cryptospecial over the next two weeks with today being the introduction to everything and then we’ll dive into our interviews with a guest that has a lot of knowledge on the topic. We split the podcast their interview up into 3 parts because there was just too much information for one episode. Welcome Chainers to another edition of Chain of Wealth, as I mentioned before today isn’t an actual interview but rather a discussion between Katie and myself where we can explore the topic a bit, I’m a lot more technical on the topic and have done quite a bit of reading on it, and Katie has heard me muttering about this crypto, that crypto and so we decided to break down the topic so it’s super easy to understand. [3:32] Timing of cryptocurrencies ·      seems all of a sudden ·      Bitcoin was almost at $20,000 in December 2017 and now it’s under $8,000. [5:4] What is a cryptocurrency and where did they come from? ·      2009 Satoshi Nakamoto which is actually an alias for the inventor of Bitcoin ·      The actual maker is unknown. ·      Whitepaper in October 2008 entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. [9:32] What is mining? ·      The process of mining is solving mathematical problems to create the blockchain. ·      It becomes substantially harder to mine as time goes on. ·      People setup PCs to do this. Over time people discovered that graphic cards were better than CPUs to do this which even caused the share prices of AMD and Nvidea to go up. ·      Requires a substantial amount of power to mine a coin these days [15:2] Is bitcoin a currency or what is it? ·      It is a new type of currency ·      Used world wide ·      Own a portion of a coin- you don’t have to own the whole thing Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/chain-of-wealth-debt-investing-entrepreneurship-wealth-and-more/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.