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This is a fantastic opportunity for Americans to learn some German; the first word they should look up is 'Schadenfreude,' as their hopes and dreams of "draining the swamp" are crushed by a completely sold-out establishment politician. I've spent the last six months telling people all around the world that Trump was going to win and no one would believe me. Was this a failure of politics or economics? The U.S. political system failed because the economy failed. Bitcoin is providing an honest market solution; the reason it's being used as an exit is because it offers the real market value for your currency exchange when the other markets have been artificially shut off.

Keywords/phrases: The hype around "blockchain" is out of sync with the actual implementations. There is one exception: Bitcoin (maybe two, Ethereum). The hype stems from the general economic conditions of free money, stimulus, and low-interest rates. We have a lot of money chasing very little yield where people chase investment exuberances. The blockchains worth the hype are the ones setting the stage for real-world applications. Open, transnational, borderless, open access, permissionless blockchains. There is a lot of hype but there is also a seven-year experiment that refuses to die.

Using metaphors from biological evolution, Andreas examines the currency ecosystem and its development. Presented in Milan in March 2016 to the Milan Bitcoin Meetup community: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinmilano/​

What is Bitcoin's total network uptime? What caused the short downtime events in 2010 and 2013? How are emergency situations handled?

Will tech titans join open-source? Will they adapt or break up? Statism and centralization often operate on the same assumptions about human nature. Are centralized architectures necessarily bad? How should we use the power of voice versus exit?

In this talk, Andreas speaks about the ongoing clash between hardware and software development (instead of "East vs. West") within the emerging culture of trustware.

What is the difference between reachable (listening) vs. non-reachable (non-listening) nodes? Will there be incentive schemes to run nodes? Are nodes that use older versions of the Bitcoin Core software backwards-compatible? What are the differences between Bitcoin and Lightning nodes and wallets?

What are the risks of opening a Lightning channel with a person or business you don't know? In this Q&A clip, Andreas walks through the risks and worst case scenario if your channel partner disappears or stops cooperating.

If passed how will the EARN IT Act affect end-to-end encryption? How could this affect Bitcoin? And how might it impact businesses using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies?

What are "bitcoin days destroyed," how is it calculated, and what is the significance of this maturity figure?

There are a number of Lightning wallets that can run on a mobile phone, but what do those wallets do for you? Do they provide you with your own keys? Where is the routing done? How many payment channels does it provide you with?

In this talk, presented at the Fintech2016 conference to an audience of Swiss bank executives, journalists and financial professionals, Andreas examines the future of non-national money, network-centric money and the impact on financial privacy and empowerment.

This talk took place at the 3rd Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (30th of September - 2nd of October) in Prague, celebrating the age of digital freedom and decentralisation. #HCPP16​

This interview with Brian Phan (Cantech TV) was held during June 20 - 21st, 2016 for the Blockchain Training Conference hosted by C4 (CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium) in Toronto, Canada: http://blog.cryptoconsortium.org/the-...​

This week on Speaking of Bitcoin, we’re digging into a good question you’ll often hear from new users.    In this wide ranging discussion, hosts Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine discuss concepts like price anchoring, the milibit question, why a thousand Dogecoin isn’t better, finding financial comfort zones and more.

In this talk, Andreas addresses the speculation about what will be the "next Bitcoin" or the "next Ethereum." Echoing previous talks like 'Invest in Education Instead of Speculation,' he argues that the focus on searching for the best investment or time to buy amid a sea of pump-and-dump schemes is a worse way to spend your time than gathering knowledge about how these systems work. He also tells the story about how he bought bitcoin for the first time, why it is not the get-rich-quick scheme you may think it is, and the ways they could fail.

What do you think about the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioning two bitcoin addresses? What does this mean for Bitcoin's censorship resistance?

What will Bitcoin Core 1.0 look like? Is this project still considered experimental within a long time horizon? What would happen if Bitcoin developers and maintainers were coerced / disappeared / died etc.? Do cruise ships suck? What other client implementations are there?

Are Lightning nodes money transmitter businesses? Will they be subject to Anti Money Laundering laws? Will operators be subject to legal action as mixing service operators have?

Is ether considered an initial coin offering and/or security token, considering its initial pre-sale and the popular use cases of the ether token on the platform? Does one necessarily imply the other? How strong is the case that it is a utility token? How do you evaluate these projects? What is the short-term versus long-term trend for tokenisation for investment, loyalty points, and product / service accessibility?

On today's episode of Speaking of Bitcoin, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for a new take on an old conversation: Is this the AOL moment (where Bitcoin goes "mainstream" and begins to succeed in popular culture while at the same time losing most of it's early principles) we've been talking about for the last 8 years?

How is the public / private key pair stored in a wallet? What is the difference between a mobile and web wallet? What is the relationship between wallets and IP addresses? Why are developers of Samourai and Wasabi wallet arguing? Custodial surveillance wallets a bigger problem to avoid.

What is a private key? How are they generated and formatted? Are private keys transmitted when you make a transaction? What are the chances of collision? Will quantum computing making it easy to guess private keys? Does implementing quantum-proof algorithms require an overhaul of the code?

Did the Byzantine Generals Problem really exist in the historical record, or is it just a thought experiment for fault tolerance? Is the Bitcoin network a middleman in the BGP? Is mining like a brute force attack?

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.