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

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT 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  -- Follow Mr. Antonopoulos’ work: 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 -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g