Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. Shermin states, that Bitcoin and Blockchains are more than an rapidly evolving technology, they will shift the economy completely and need research and application of new governance models. She sees Bitcoin as the beginning of an amazing governance revolution and envisions Tokens and Smart Contracts as the killer application of Blockchains.

We discuss the importance of public infrastructure nodes, why Bitcoin is the beginning of a governance revolution, her thoughts on the energy consumption of Bitcoin, about Blockchain and Sustainability. Further she defines the terms "Token" and "Cryptocurrency" and why Facebook has to adopt Blockchain technology.

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