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Are ICOs disruptive, democratic venture capital? Or bubbles fueling greed? Obviously, both. We're re-defining entrepreneurial capitalism, corporations, securities, fundraising, stock markets - everything financial and the regulatory system around it. There is a certain contingent that is looking at ICOs and revealing their very statist, traditional ideas. The SEC, securities law, and restrictions on initial public offerings came out of an initial environment that was a crazy bubble, but that kind of regulation is the old way of dealing with things. This ICO bubble will have negative consequences and people will malinvest. It's still created an opportunity to do something never done before: bridge the big gap between early-stage organic financing and stock market public offerings, for companies to fundraise from a completely globalised audience. What can we do with programmable money that's decentralised, re-imagines funding and escrow structures, with protections driven by crowdsourcing? If the crowd is funding, the crowd should be vetting. Banking is not the primary incumbent being disrupted, it is regulators and the institutional, centralised regulatory environment as well. In the meantime, I will not be investing in 99.999% of these ICOs because I don't invest in minimally viable whitepapers.

Get kids on bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos cool ideas

SHA- 256 Broken? - Andreas M. Antonopoulos cryptocurrency expert

Why use a crypto payment processor? Payment processors such as BTCPay Server do quite a lot of things for you, but do you need it if you're only doing a few bitcoin transactions a year? What might be a simpler setup? And how would you manage things like exchange rates and order tracking?

Bitcoin, ethereum, and otheropen blockchainers are using their imaginations to create all sorts of new things - things that have never existed before. Watch this talk to see what legos, cooking, bitcoin, and open blockhains have in common. You might even become inspired to try building something yourself!

Could you explain what Bitcoin is in a non-technical way that my mother / father / grandparents could understand? Explaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be tricky. In 2018 one of Andreas' patrons, OutlierCanada, asked him to record a video to explain bitcoin to their mom. This video is the result. The video quality isn't great but the ideas are. Watch it and learn how to explain bitcoin more clearly to your loved ones!

How much bitcoin do you have? What percentage of our wealth should be in bitcoins? A percentage that reflects your understanding of how the technology works and your ability to absorb the risk that it entails. However it also depends on what country you're in, because the volatility and risk in bitcoin may be better than your national currency. This is not a recommendation to invest; I have dedicated to career and my passion, I could lose all of it and still have everything else. Invest in education instead of speculation.

Making Bitcoin Mainstream - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Is it secure to use a password manager to backup a wallet seed? Well it very much depends if its a cold wallet or a hot wallet. In this video Andreas walks through hot wallet and cold wallet backups from a relative risk perspective.

Andreas' first ever public talk about bitcoin, delivered in his widely recognized and unique style: with no slides and lots of passion. Only in this video, you can see him speaking to an almost empty room. As a last-minute addition to the conference (after Andreas begged!), he was assigned a slot at the same time as the most popular keynote. Only about 10 people watched this talk live.

Should more people run nodes? What is a pruned node? What are the costs? Why would a satellite connection be valuable to the network in terms reliability and censorship resistance? You should run a node on hardware you control in order to independently validate and broadcast transactions (especially your own).

Presented in Sao Paulo, this talk by Andreas focuses on the opportunity that bitcoin brings to emerging economies like Brazil. cool

What happens when wallets (personal or at an exchange) are hacked? What is "sweeping" with regards to private keys? After a hack, is it possible to track the stolen bitcoin and identify the hacker? How do you keep bitcoin safe in a group / corporate environment? Is it possible to create a multi-signature setup with Trezor and Electrum? Could passphrases be brute-forced? What is happening with browser extension deprecation?

0:49​ - What are better ways to spread knowledge about Bitcoin and blockchain technology to young people (15-25 years old), especially in Nordic countries? 4:09​ - What would you say to technicians and programmers who say "this will never scale"? Will the propose solutions work? 8:16​ - The interest and marketing hype in "blockchain technology" has exploded. What are your thoughts on Hyper Ledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance? Is this disruptive innovation? 14:21​ - Ethereum is planning to switch over from proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm. Is PoS secure, at scale? 18:49​ - What is your opinion about the role and risks of patents, patent strategies, and patent trolling in the blockchain ecosystem? 23:22​ - Should there be a separation between money and state? What role will blockchains play in a "perfect" economical / social order? What are the issues for democracy when government operations are decoupled from tax revenue? 27:23​ - Should countries create national cryptocurrencies? 31:44​ - What can the general population do to secure themselves in the event of an economic collapse? Is Bitcoin an exit / safe haven? Should investors diversify their investment portfolio? 36:44​ - Which centralised services in the financial sector should be decentralised? What will the impact be? 40:20​ - What is the role of drama and adversarial debate in the global, decentralised community?

The biggest technical hurdle to Bitcoin adoption. User interfaces, generational change, understanding how money and specifically network-based currency works. Some people will never be comfortable with this form of money, but for many people under 30 who belong to an online connected society, doing money on the internet seems obvious. In some places, Bitcoin is being adopted quite rapidly, protecting their savings against crises.

The future of money is going to be purely digital. By the time your children grow up they will see cash in museums and it will be banned everywhere. Cash as a mechanism will be gradually withdrawn until the only people who use be it are the same people who go to a cafe here and say do you accept gold?

The ICO craze, the tokenization of crowdfunding, and the globalisation of access to venture capital - as well as the scams, panic, and lawsuits coming in the first wave. cool

Bitcoin Lightning Network, 3rd Layers and future possibilities - Andreas Antonopoulos

What is the price of privacy? - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Keywords/phrases: In the cryptocurrency economy, why bitcoin? How Bitcoin has changed since the beginning. What remains the same is the brand and the fundamental properties. 21 million hard cap. From Bitcoin to Ethereum rather than fleeing the cryptocurrency economy. Engaged in Ethereum since the beginning. Ethereum's governance problems too will come.

ETHEREUM FAQ - What is the difference between COINS, TOKENS and ALTCOINS? In this video, Bitcoin Expert Andreas Antonopoulos answers these following questions:- What are meta-coins vs. coloured coins? Can anyone create their own ‘coins’ using Ethereum? What is the difference between ‘coins,’ ‘tokens,’ and ‘altcoins'? What is the difference between smart contracts on Ethereum and on Bitcoin?

What is BIP-70 and why is it controversial? Why doesn't BitPay implement the more universal BIP-21?

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Centralized payments are a powerful force for centralization of the web, creating platforms for content and services that are centralized around a payment processor/aggregator. What happens when payments themselves become decentralized? The nexus of centralization dissolves and the content platforms can become decentralized too. In this talk presented at the Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup, Andreas examines the impact of payments and the re-decentralization of the web.

Keywords/phrases: Bitcoin seems like another leap in decentralising architectures of control, after PayPal etc. But why do people still tend to reproduce the same systems? Humans are prone to tribalism and other cognitive biases that are self-destructive as a species. In each period of disruption in history we've had a "halvening" of power that keeps accelerating. We're halving the cycle time in which we can apply a new tool of disruption, power is diffusing more and more. The vast majority of people living today have more freedom, more access to resources, more access to information, and higher standard of living, than ever before. I'm not really looking at the current incarnation of Bitcoin, I'm looking at the trend of decentralisation; when/ if Bitcoin stops fulfilling those needs we'll try something else.