Money is an ancient technology. In this presentation, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines the historical context of money as a technology and analyses the inflection points that lead to the most recent innovation of peer-to-peer money. This talk is featured in The Internet of Money, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://aantonop.io/tiomv1ebooks/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:16 How old is the technology of money? 4:16 I think the important insight is that money is a form of communication 5:41 How many different forms of money have we had? 9:33 Now we have Bitcoin, a pretty radical transformation; as radical as the change from precious metals to paper 11:51 Something happened with the invention of the internet 12:56 Bitcoin is the first network-centric, protocol-based form of money 14:35 It should be shocking that, in almost all countries, money is not part of the educational curriculum 15:50 Client-server and master-slave architecture 19:00 In Bitcoin, you don’t owe anyone anything and no one owes you anything 21:37 Aristotle said that the intrinsic value of gold was scarcity. Do you believe that the same thing goes for bitcoin? 25:36 The Banks are now getting into Blockchain. You have nine banks creating a consortium and they’re competing with blockchain ETC. What are your thoughts on this? 28:54 What in your opinion are the biggest threats or problems at the moment in the Bitcoin Ecosystem? 30:39 Talking about public and private, I think that the internet is considered as a common good.
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