ANDREAS ANTONOPOULOS - THE DEATH OF MONEY

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Business, Technology

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2017

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Andreas Antonopoulos is a Greek California-based information security expert, tech-entrepreneur and author. He is a host on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the master in science Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia.

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Chapters:

00:00 Trailer.

02:28 Brian's thoughts on the episode.

06:37 Brian's Introduction.

07:14 Unprecedented worldwide crisis in Central Banking system.

16:47 Andreas explains Bitcoin and why people find it advantageous to use.

22:07 Why companies and banks choose whether or not to use Bitcoin.

24:34 How Bitcoin can be a currency of choice for an internet generation.

29:08 Is my Mom ever going to use Bitcoin?

31:30 A fragile edifice, full of corruption, threatening global economy.

35:16 Is Donald Trump going to "drain the swamp"?

41:29 Bitcoin is not slow jazz: its punk rock. Deal with it.

46:57 Bitcoin scaling up block size.

48:49 Who is Satoshi Nakamoto and does it even matter?

50:23 Other cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin.

52:39 What happened to Etherium.

54:50 Black markets and why the media associates Bitcoin with them.

1:00:46 Concern around people's privacy, security and surveillance.

1:06:45 Terrorists and criminals not impeded from transferring large amounts of cash.

1:09:34 Most people do not assume they need privacy.

1:11:31 How to make people aware of the need to keep state and money separate.

1:14:38 Cryptocurrency technology as money is about human rights.

1:16:54 What Andreas has learned from frequent travel around the world.

1:20:37 Discovering Bitcoin blew Andreas' mind.

1:22:19 Mission to explain Bitcoin to the world.

1:26:26 Personal safety necessitates maintaining his privacy and security.

1:28:54 What people should do who want to explore more about Bitcoin.

1:35:40 Andreas' biggest challenge for the coming year.

1:37:05 How Andreas made the decision to not have a home base.

1;40;29 Success secrets.

1:40:49 People across the world struggling with situations they cannot control.

1:43:59 Phone call to the 20 year old Andreas.

1:46:49 Best advice ever received.

1:49:10 Advice to 20 year old watching.

1:51:55 Brian's summing up.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The biggest criminals in the world have biking licenses of their own.
0:05.0	They don't need to money launder. They own H.S. B.C. and that money londers for them. Keep in mind, this isn't a matter of evil people doing evil things.
0:19.5	This is a matter of systemic corruption. And know your government. Guess what? They're funding the war
0:26.6	criminals. They're funding the terrorists. They're paying the arms dealers. And they're
0:31.3	doing it using the banking system that they're supposedly
0:34.3	doing oversight on. There will always be criminal activity that's part of
0:38.8	society. Changing the way money works only ends up punishing the innocent.
0:43.0	If the government can watch everything you do,
0:51.0	they can watch every time you spend money.
0:54.4	Their ability to control your behavior is enormous, and it will put people at the mercy of
1:00.0	a system in which at a flick of a binary switch you can become a non-person.
1:05.4	Went to the wrong website, attended the wrong protest, associated with the wrong
1:10.8	political party, expressed support for the wrong idea
1:14.4	all you no longer exist
1:18.4	that scenario a
1:19.9	scenario b is a world in which we have a fully connected economy using a four Scen requiring no qualification to enter or access the system and not under the control of any government
1:35.6	or bank.
1:36.6	That's what Bitcoin offers. And the So, This week on the show we have Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the most well respected
2:18.6	figures in the world when it comes to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
2:23.0	He spends 365 days a year,
2:26.0	traveling the world talking about this technology.
2:29.5	He's been on the Joe Rogan experience
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