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#57 Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Bitcoin and the Blockchain; The Prosociality of Digital Currencies

39 min • 23 april 2019

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is a teaching fellow at the University of Nicosia, and serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He’s also the author of three books, including Mastering Bitcoin, The Internet of Money, and The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media) will be available in the fall of 2018.

In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin and the Blockchain; the philosophy and politics of the Bitcoin and digital currencies; and the prosocial aspects of Bitcoin.

Time Links:

00:45 What is bitcoin?

04:30 The blockchain

06:00 The philosophy behind Bitcoin

07:54 Regulation

09:49 Does Bitcoin promote monopolies?

15:32 Fighting crime

21:09 Can Bitcoin replace common currencies?

25:49 Can Bitcoin help fighting poverty?

30:34 Charity through digital currency

31:33 Is Bitcoin accessible to common people?

36:12 Follow Mr. Antonopoulos’ work

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Faculty page: https://www.unine.ch/biologie/home/collaborateurs/laboratoire-deco-ethologie/redouan-bshary.html

Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HdqFjgMAAAAJ&hl=en

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