Bitcoin’s cultural implications inform the engineering opportunities and constraints. Andreas Antonopoulos is a bitcoin researcher, journalist, and evangelist. Questions What are the taboo topics within the bitcoin community? What do you think of when people say “we know bitcoin is the first real cryptocurrency, but the big question is whether it will be the last”?

Ripple is a real-time settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network by Ripple Labs. Greg Kidd is an advisor to Ripple Labs and Chief Risk Officer at Shift Payments. Questions What is a distributed payments protocol? How does Ripple’s consensus work? How does Ripple process transactions asynchronously? How does Ripple maintain correctness, agreement, and utility?

Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. More broadly, a blockchain is a mechanism for updating truth states in distributed network computing, producing consensus trust and serving as a new form of general computational substrate. Melanie Swan is a science and technology innovator and philosopher at the MS Futures Group. She

Mobile phones, underserved markets, and Bitcoin have created a wealth of new financial technology businesses.   Faisal Khan is a banking, payments, and fintech consultant with a background in electrical engineering. Questions How does Bitcoin change the business of payments? How is Starbucks iconic of the rapid change? How does Bitcoin compare to Ripple? How

Bitcoin is the first application to be built on the blockchain, a breakthrough software concept. Michael Miller is the author of “The Ultimate Guide To Bitcoin” and 150 other books. Michael is an expert in explaining complex topics in ways which are comprehensible to the layperson. Questions What is Bitcoin? What is a blockchain? What is a fiat