Governance and the market share of Bitcoin. It drops in a cyclical way when people become temporarily disillusioned and overwhelm other altcoins with exuberant attention they weren't really prepared for. When the spotlight shifts onto you, that's when you can't stumble. The adversarial attitude between cryptocurrencies. They all benefit from specialising to niches of trade-offs and design decisions in the ecosystem. Even failed experiments help evolution and teach us something. Being resistant to change is a differential feature, because it makes it robust against takeover. Even Bitcoin's own developers and miners can't force change from the inside. Bitcoin was designed to say 'unless everyone agrees, we're not changing a thing.' Political propaganda, economic, electrical, network-based attacks are always coming when it becomes this important to the world. "Unstoppable code" is for something that someone is trying to stop. "The only things worth printing are what somebody is trying to suppress; everything else is advertising / public relations." Silk Road, black market. PR disaster to Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, who will start saying "the technology behind Ethereum: smart contracts!" just as they did with Bitcoin. Trial by fire. Bitcoin is surviving because it can't be changed, because it is the unstoppable code. This is part of a talk which took place at the Silicon Valley Bitcoin meetup on April 11th 2017 at the Plug and Play Tech Center (@PlugandPlayTC) in Sunnyvale, California: https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Bitcoin-Users/events/233760417/ Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/i_wOEL6dprg RELATED: Programmable Money, Smart Contracts and DAOs - https://youtu.be/_0jxX84mzts The Lion and the Shark: Divergent Evolution in Cryptocurrency - https://youtu.be/d0x6CtD8iq4 Ethereum, ICOs, and Rocket Science - https://youtu.be/OWI5-AVndgk The token ICO explosion - https://youtu.be/vdaW8NtJXuQ ICOs and financial regulation - https://youtu.be/Plu_WX3Gs8E The Killer App: Engineering the Properties of Money - https://youtu.be/MxIrc1rxhyI Hardware, Software, Trustware - https://youtu.be/Etyjc1JdmFU Can cryptocurrencies support terrorism? - https://youtu.be/Ryz-pXbsojU Governance trade-offs in decentralised systems - https://youtu.be/dtwaW79Fj7c Is Bitcoin development centralised? - https://youtu.be/7hm4Ro4wdTk TheDAO - Why failure is a necessity for learning - https://youtu.be/2KZTx8IYc9s LTB: TheDAO, TheFork, TheFallout - https://youtu.be/Swdb-Z_4JmI The dangers of hard forks in protocol evolution - https://youtu.be/vxEHRvhJKvA Are chain splits a governance failure? - https://youtu.be/2pJEEVEmEVw What is the biggest threat? - https://youtu.be/1-XUbH1F0Os Initial coin offerings (ICOs) - https://youtu.be/Q5R8KuxV4A0 Cultural differences between B ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQx3E3F8Kz4

In this talk, part of "The Future of Programmable Money" series, Andreas discusses digital gentrification and corporatisation, how this relates to the "blockchain not Bitcoin" phenomenon, and why we should maintain interesting communities both offline and online. This talk took place at the Sheraton Warsaw for the Polish Bitcoin Congress (Polski Kongres Bitcoin) on May 12th 2018 in Warsaw, Poland: http://kongresbitcoin.pl/ RELATED: Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money - https://youtu.be/SMEOKDVXlUo Money as a System-of-Control - https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8 The Stories We Tell About Money - https://youtu.be/ONvg9SbauMg Bitcoin: Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money - https://youtu.be/Vcvl5piGlYg ADISummit: Self-Sovereign Identity Panel - https://youtu.be/DZbyiJqKT8c My response to Jamie Dimon - https://youtu.be/1dEcdGc0tIo Aadhaar and blockchain identities - https://youtu.be/GylSvJf53zI How is fungibility tied to privacy? - https://youtu.be/VuI-8EwqIS8 Fungibility, privacy, anonymity - https://youtu.be/y3s8c7YDtXU Why KYC is dangerous - Microviolations of Privacy as Payment - https://youtu.be/rwF7nMWUjBs Could governments take over exchanges? - https://youtu.be/9PrJQeKl9w4 Separation of money and state - https://youtu.be/jGmtRA9S7_Y Borderless money - https://youtu.be/EZh1-ZqffOw 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. THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Internet-Money-collection-Andreas-Antonopoulos/dp/1537000454/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 [NEW] THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v2: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/194791006X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 MASTERING BITCOIN: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042 [NEW] MASTERING BITCOIN, 2nd Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388 Subscribe to the channel to learn more about Bitcoin & open blockchains! If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in a monthly LIVE Q&A with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop Music: "Unbounded" by Orfan (https://www.facebook.com/Orfan/) Outro Graphics: Phneep (http://www.phneep.com/) Outro Art: Rock Barcellos (http://www.rockincomics.com.br/) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MG1aR71uFg