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Bitcoin as Programmable Money - Nov 2014

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Channel: aantonop · 2016 · Science & Technology

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A talk in Sydney Australia on the programmability of bitcoin.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:39 Credit card chargebacks
7:20 A system that is broken by design
10:10 Bitcoin transaction features
22:48 The power of programmable money
29:13 A billion-dollar industry 
32:45 Q&A starts
33:24 Is there any risk that an alternate currency could overtake the market cap of bitcoin?
38:05 Would you consider speaking to the Australian senate?
41:10 Multi-sig escrow
44:02 What is the end game of bitcoin?
47:04 How will we overcome the centralization of bitcoin mining?
50:09 Is Apple Pay bitcoin's friend or foe?
52:45 2015 - the year of a coordinated statist attack on bitcoin sending it underground before it reemerges after a financial attack - possible or probable?
58:19 When do you think the big banks and Australia will adopt bitcoin?
1:04:07 I'm a developer with tons of free time, should I work on bitcoin specific software?
1:09:20 Where do you see bitcoin 3 years from now?
1:10:40 How do you secure your bitcoin?
1:16:34 What do you think are the challenges in scaling bitcoin?
1:22:48 How do you think bitcoin will change from a core development perspective? Are there any improvements, changes, or features being worked on right now that you are excited about?
1:30:17 Barriers to entry into bitcoin

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