WTF is Bitcoin?! The Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Guide for Dinner Parties

Trained as an economist, Maxim Beatty approaches the subject from an aggregate demand Keynesian perspective. He's also a battle-hardened entrepreneur and investor, having founded then managed a successful video marketing agency in Shanghai, China for almost a decade, and been COO for a large ecommerce conglomerate in South East Asia. His real world experiences have fuelled many of his laissez-faire ideas in economics regarding international trade, labour markets and regulation.

Maxim first encountered blockchain technology in 2013, and stared writing on the subject for business publications. He was one of the organisers of the Shanghai Bitcoin Meetup and an early member of the Manila cryptocurrency community in the Philippines in the dark days of 2015. He also runs cryptocurrency educational workshops in Melbourne, and is currently focussed on developing next generation blockchain-based evidence verification software.

First and foremost, he is inspired by the potential of blockchain technology, and believes the never-before attempted economic experiment will fundamentally transform the world irreversibly. He is well aware of its imperfections and insists on an even-handed educational approach that doesn't ignore the technology's flaws.

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What does the near and long term future hold for cryptocurrency and blockchain? Have we opened a Pandora's Box from which there is no return? Or is the future brighter in the absence of the government control that facilitates their monopoly on violence?

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Okay, you now know all the theory and the history of cryptocurrency. How do you go about acquiring it? What should you NOT do? Here are all the nuts and bolts about buying, selling, exchanges and storage.. everything else you'll need to become the cryptocurrency expert.

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Although it may result in a Utopia for some gun-toting libertarians, it is important for everyone to recognise the challenges for society and law enforcement that cryptocurrencies and blockchains pose by facilitating unregulated gambling, prediction markets, bribery, illicit finance, and unregulatable social media. We are entering a Brave New World.

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How can blockchains be used in data management? Credential verification, intellectual property management, decentralised data storage and many other areas could all be impacted by the adoption of blockchain data structures.

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How can businesses use blockchains? Pharmaceuticals, supply chain management, stockmarkets, and real world asset tokenisation are just some of the areas that could benefit from the use of blockchains. Countless projects are already under development or in use.

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How can blockchain technology improve governments? Blockchains can be leveraged to improve the functioning of governmental organisations by increasing transparency and accountability, and decreasing corruption. Adoption of the technology may also lead to revolutionary changes in identity verification, decentralised voting, carbon credit trading and land registry.

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What was Silk Road? What happened to Mt. Gox? Why did the FBI shut down the BTC-E exchange? Was BitConnect a Ponzi scheme? There has been no shortage of controversies associated with cryptocurrency in its short history, however they have also spurred improvements and played a part in promoting the evolutionary success and popularity that the technology experiences today.

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What are stablecoins? How do stablecoins work? What is their purpose? Combining the instant, global portability of cryptocurrencies with the relative predictability of fiat currencies, this innovative technology is so popular, it's utilised by several of the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap.

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What is blockchain securitisation? Beyond purely digital assets, blockchains can also be used to represent real world assets like securities. However, while these new tokenisation innovations will create new highly liquid markets for real estate, stocks and startups, they have also uncovered a legal minefield and practical concerns that need to be addressed when bridging the real world to digital world divide. Government regulation also has to be determined as the world floods with some legitimate and many illegitimate ICO projects that will drive the future online economy.

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