In this podcast episode common misconceptions and FUD about Bitcoin like high volatility, energy consumption, inequalities in the distribution of wealth and the risk of possible failure are addressed by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas is one of the most influential and well-respected voices in the Bitcoin and Blockchain space. With four books, over 300 videos on YouTube and almost half a million followers on Twitter he is educating millions about this groundbreaking technology. I was lucky to get him for a second interview after this about privacy, human rights and the future of Bitcoin in 2018.

In this episode we discuss:

“Most of the emphasis has so far been on scaling and I think that more important emphasis needs to be placed on privacy and fungibility on the base layer.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“When Bitcoin succeeded in the first ten years it did so in the face of incredible censorship, incredible disbelief, incredible cyncism and yet the power of the technology itself proved it’s worth no matter what people said.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“Blockchain is one component, in fact its not even the most interesting component of Bitcoin.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“Bitcoin merged as synthesis, all of its parts existed before. Original was the particular synthesis of all of this parts into this receipe that created Bitcoin.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“Ultimately Bitcoin is a game-theoretical security system. The magic is the decentralization of consensus.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“Bitcoin stimulates the development of alternative energy in a way that no other system does.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“Our current system of money finances war on a massive scale and that is the most environmentally destructive human activity we have. Inflation is a hidden tax and it’s very destructive.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“I don’t want to give people the idea that this should be treated as an investment. Can you participate in this economy and make it part of your life, can you learn from the education. Do something sensible with it.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

“A niche Bitcoin isn’t failure. More dangerous is the possibility of creating a niche culture and that culture being radical or toxic towards the rest of mainstream.” – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Richard Myers is the product engineer for txTenna, a project that extends the range for sending and receiving bitcoin transactions over the Blockstream bitcoin satellites and a mesh network. This basically enables using Bitcoin without internet connection. He presented the project together with Adam Back at the Magical Crypto Conference in May 2019. In the podcast interview we go deeper into the ideas and philosophy behind his interest in Bitcoin and how the mesh network allows for more privacy in financial transactions with Bitcoin.

“Having privacy in your financial transactions is a human right and Bitcoin gives you the ability to enforce that right in a peaceful way.” – Richard Myers

“They deputized the banking system as a law enforcement organisation.” – Richard Myers

“Everything the cypherpunks worried about has come to pass.” – Richard Myers

“Not you keys, not your coins, but its also not your privacy either.” – Richard Myers

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Thomas Voegtlin was a researcher in computer science, specialized on machine learning and neural networks before he discovered Bitcoin at the end of 2010. He created the first versions of the Electrum wallet while experimenting with Bitcoin, because there were no secure and easy to use wallets in 2011. Electrum is one of the most popular bitcoin wallets today. Thomas Voegtlin announced and presented the implementation of Lightning payments into the wallet at the Lightning Hackdays in Munich in June 2019.

“Having a money system that is independent of credit, would stabilize the economy.” – Thomas Voegtlin

“It’s morally wrong to create a wallet software, that is not open source.” – Thomas Voegtlin

“I didn’t want to be famous, I just wanted to write a better wallet.” – Thomas Voegtlin

We discuss…

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Been in Bitcoin since 2012 and a blockchain evangelist since 2014, Caitlin is the Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and gubernatorial appointee. She served on Morgan Stanley’s internal blockchain working group and has 22 years of corporate finance experience on Wall Street. Caitlin is a writer on Forbes and a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government and the University of Wyoming.

“The traditional finance system is not solvent”, Caitlin Long

We talk about

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Leah Wald is a development economist, financial analyst and Partner & Executive Vice President at Lucid Investment Strategies. Together with Tyler Jenks she is the host of their Hyperwave Channel on YouTube. Leah began her career at 19 working at the World Bank in the Africa Region and has applied social entrepreneurship to help goat herders in Mongolia, local entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. as well as to first-time businesswomen in India.

In this Bitcoin & Co. episode we discuss these topics:

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Adam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a method to prevent spam emails, that was used with minor changes as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. He is a seasoned cryptographer with a PhD in computer science and distributed systems. As co-founder and CEO of Blockstream he is building the infrastructure for the internet of the future.

The topics of our interview:

“Anybody who is interested in the properties of bitcoins should to be able to get access to it. So we do need some technologies with more global reach and the satellite coverage is almost global.” – Adam Back

“Somebody with a satellite dish, a generator, a solar panel and a Raspberry Pi could operate a whole business in the desert with no infrastructure.” – Adam Back

“It’s very interesting, different people find bitcoin interesting for different reasons.” – Adam Back

“The government does not own the individual, the individuals employ the governments.” – Adam Back

“With this kind of technology individuals can directly take more control of their lives and have more self-determination.” – Adam Back

“Bitcoins fungibility is not perfect, but it’s improving slowly.” – Adam Back

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Demelza Hays is a crypto researcher, asset manager, entrepreneur and is teaching at the University of Liechtenstein courses on blockchain technology. She installed the first Bitcoin ATM in Liechtenstein and is currently conducting a research on the correlation between hashrate and the price of Bitcoin. She is the Co-Author of the quarterly Cryptoresearch Report and asset manager at Incrementum AG.

We had a fascinating discussion about a variety of topics around money, wealth, digital assets and cryptocurrencies. And by the way: she thinks that the next Bitcoin bull market as begun.

“As a money we want stability.” – Demelza Hays

“I want to see competition in money. I think that is how we are going to produce the highest-quality money that humans have ever seen.” – Demelza Hays

“I am not interested in a money that has a single point of failure.” – Demelza Hays

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Shermin Voshmgir is the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and the founder of BlockchainHub in Berlin. She is also a regular speaker at conferences and is consulting on the topic of blockchains – especially in the context of sustainability and social impact of future technologies.

In spring 2017 I attended The Gamechanger Festival in Vienna and listened to Shermins talk about Blockchains & Smart Contracts. There I realized how disruptive this technology beyond Bitcoin will be. Shermin states, that it is more than an rapidly evolving technology, it will shift the economy completely and it needs 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.

Shermins book “Token Economy” will be published in spring/summer 2019.

Our Topics are:

“It is very important that universities and institutions run public infrastructure nodes.” – Shermin Voshmgir

“Bitcoin was the beginning of an amazing governance revolution.” – Shermin Voshmgir

“I think Tokens and Smart Contracts are the killer application of blockchains. Whether that’s a good or bad thing, I am not sure yet.” – Shermin Voshmgir

“Facebook has to start adopting these new technologies otherwise they will be gone.” – Shermin Voshmgir

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Robby Schwertner, aka CryptoRobby is an advisor, speaker and analyst in the blockchain space. His mission can be summarized with the hashtag #ReturnOnSociety. He is supporting blockchain use cases with an added value to society for instance in green energy, real estate and mobility solutions. As Robby has lived and worked in Asia, we also discuss the differences between the european and asian cryptospace.

“Lambos were necessary to reach the 99% of people.”

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