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Technological difficulties in connecting to the network, coupled with high prices and a control policy that attempts to censor sites where it disagrees with the government, create an atmosphere that hinders Cubans' relationship with the Internet.
Young people manage to overcome obstacles by creating alternative networks and looking for a type of VPN or anonymous proxy, but the authorities do not stop generating prohibitions arguing the need to guarantee computer security.
A strong social demand has been generated to improve connectivity and expand the spaces to visit. In the complicated situation of Cuba that suffers from the trade restrictions imposed by the United States and where the government applies an internal blockade, the solutions mix political audacity, technological innovation and economic entrepreneurship.
Reposted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcvl5piGlYg
A talk about privacy, identity, surveillance, hierarchies and the future of network-centric private and secure money.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:15 I want to talk about the concepts of neutrality, decentralization, and privacy; what makes Bitcoin so special
4:32 There is no more absolute power than the power of money
5:14 Bitcoin is one of the things that will greatly disrupt centralization of power
11:09 The internet's power comes from net neutrality
12:35 What is a spam transaction?
14:02 Starting in the 1970s, we have seen the world adopt digital currencies.
16:53 We have been creating a system of global, totalitarian financial surveillance throughout the world
19:45 On January 3rd 2009, the dream of nation-states to create a totalitarian financial system died with the invention of Bitcoin
31:05 In which direction will bitcoin evolve?
32:39 Attacks cause the system to evolve resistance
35:22 Bitcoin is much more than currency
36:50 Bringing knowledge to as many people as possible
41:18 Do you have any thoughts about made safe and the safe network?
43:49 How do you foresee that we are going to pass go through that mining centralization power?
52:01 Will mass adoption of bitcoin happen soon?
53:45 What do you have to say about other coins?
59:27 I just wanted to ask you a question about your metaphor.
1:07:45 Would like to ask you about the scalability of bitcoin. What options has bitcoin right now? And what are the advantage and disadvantage of its each of the audience that are and what's your opinion that? Which of those options should be should the community adopt?
1:10:48 I would like to know if you forecast a moment when there will be a passage between fiat currency and crypto currency in the world. That it's so fast that there will be blood and revolution, or will be smooth passages between the two different systems.
1:14:08 Opinion on centralized systems and revealing personal data
This talk was delivered on March 24th 2016 at the Fab Lab in Barcelona, Spain:
https://bitcoinbarcelona.cat/es/2016/02/29/andreas-m-antonopoulos-thoughts-on-the-future-of-money/
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.
Follow on Twitter: @aantonop https://twitter.com/aantonop
Website: https://antonopoulos.com/
He is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters.
Reposted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_teCQSDTqA
A Global currency cannot fluctuate like bitcoin. When you sell libra and cash out you don't get the reserve. You get the local currency, whatever you decide to buy with that.
The Regulatory pushback put in writing that Libra can challenge the US dollar. Think about how vulnerable the US dollar is!
https://aibcsummit.com
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Throughout history and around the world people have been 1) intent on controlling others; 2) content to be controlled; and 3) determined to be free of control by others. The latter group is constantly seeking and preparing contingencies for their own eventual and necessary escape to freedom. This can be aided by contemplating the paths taken by more than 240 million others in recent years with varying degrees of success. And surely the numbers would be much greater except for the multitude and measure of the obstacles.
Some paths to freedom are crude and unsophisticated, but nonetheless imaginative and brazen. The most apparent and direct way to avoid the clutches of tyranny is to physically move to places of relatively less tyranny. The movement of great numbers of people around the planet evokes passions of both courage and fear with all the consequent conflict and trauma for leavers & remainers as well as for inviters & excluders.
Ironically, much of the desperation of people in poor countries is aggravated by some, perhaps well-intentioned but calamitous, behavior by governments in prosperous countries: i.e. trade manipulations, drug wars, and assistance to foreign rulers. This assistance to rulers includes the closing of escape routes. Likewise, well-intentioned domestic government assistance and a multitude of labor and commercial laws have forcefully aggravated the adjustment and tolerance of migration into relatively prosperous and free countries.
Of many models possible as a solution to these dilemmas of migration, Hong Kong provides useful historical lessons that are practical, humanitarian, and ethical from a libertarian perspective.
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The talk covers architecture design choices, the different layers involved, the p2p messaging layer and discusses scalability. The second part demos a trade of an implementation implementing the OpenDEX protocol, an atomic swap between Bitcoin and DAI, a USD stablecoin via the Lightning and Raiden Network. The last part discusses the transition to a community-driven, open & token free protocol and gives a glimpse into implications for society.