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third parties bring their own problems
Bitcoin provides an answer
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WHY IS IT DIFFERENT?
DIGITISED MONEY (BANKS)
1 JUST DIGITS/NUMBERS
2 CENTRAL AUTHORITY/BANK
3 BANKS HOLD ELECTRONIC $/£
4 ‘NUMBERS’ CANNOT BE STOLEN
5 PAPER MONEY USED AS CASH
6 PHYSICAL PAPER MONEY
7 COUNTERFEIT NOTES & COINS
8 QUANTITATIVE EASING / INFLATE
9 ALL TRANSACTIONS RECORDED
10 NOTE PRINTING - INFLATIONARY
11 GOVERNMENT CONTROLS CURRENCY & LEGAL
TENDER
12 PRIVATE DATA COMPROMISED?
13 TRANSACTION FEES / FOREX
DIGITAL MONEY (BITCOIN)
1 CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOL
2 P2P NETWORK ISSUES BITCOINS
3 CONSUMERS HOLD BTC IN THEIR OWN WALLETS
4 BITCOINS CAN BE REMOVED / STOLEN
5 BITCOINS ARE (ELECTRONIC) CASH
6 NO PHYSICAL BITCOINS
7 BITCOINS CANNOT BE COUNTERFEITED
8 BITCOIN - FIXED SUPPLY - DEFLATIONARY
9 ANONYMOUS RECORDING IN BLOCKCHAIN
10 NO NOTE PRINTING - DEFLATIONARY
11 NO ONE CONTROLS BTC. TOTAL CAPPED AT 21
MILLION
12 NO PRIVATE DATA GIVEN TO MERCHANTS
13 NONE OR 0.00005 MINER’S FEE
Courtesy of Michael Parsons
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BTC is the first practical way to do
business over the internet with no prior
relationship, no central administrator,
and no trust required.
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time for the $64,000 dollar* question…
how does it work?
* approx. 110.2
BTC
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How to get bitcoins
Mining
ATM
Exchange goods/services
Swap fiat on an
exchange
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a wallet generates a bitcoin address
each address creates a cryptographic key
pair
a public key and a private key
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Private key:
c4bcbb1fbec99d65bf59d85c8cb62ee2db963f0fe107f483d9afa73bd4e39a8a
Public key:
0478d430274f8c5ec1321338151e9f27f4c532a008bdf8638d07c0b6be9ab35c7
1a1518063243acd4dfe93b66e3f2ec8013c8e072cd09b3834a19f81f659cc3455
Address:
1JwSSuhprg6iPtRjtyqhUYYH7bZg3Lfy1T
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to transfer BTC’s, you sign a transaction with
the private key
provides mathematical proof to the network
that you own the BTC’s
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cryptography proves digital ownership
but still needs to prevent ‘double-spend’
network agrees every 10 minutes on what
transactions have taken place
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a miner
a peer in the network who works to collect
transactions and organise them into blocks
racing to win the right to update the ledger
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Mining (competitive
bookkeeping)
Race to solve a mathematical puzzle
Miners bundle new transactions into a ‘block’
Hash information & hope for correct answer
Difficulty adjusts, solved every 10 minutes
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Easy for network to check answer (Proof of Work)
is correct - without redoing the work
Network agrees and new block added to chain
Winner receives 25 BTC’s (+ transaction fees)
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Want to cheat the network?
You still need to carry out that intensive work
Every ten minutes
And control 51% of network to control agreement
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Current cost of carrying out a 51% attack:
$1,112,153,015
(source: http://www.coinometrics.com/bitcoin/rix)
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so now you can see
if this invention can work for money, it can
work for other digital assets also
the block chain isn’t just about money...
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“This is the distributed trust network that the
Internet always needed and never had”
Marc Andreessen
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Physical property whose ownership transfers
with a bitcoin transaction
anything that can be associated with a digital
entity can be stored in bitcoin’s digital asset
register
(stocks, shares, cars, houses, legal documents)
Smart Property
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Programmable Money
Endless possibilities
Money only available in certain GPS coordinates
Release money by calendar dates
Or according to specific events
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Multi-signature Transactions
Require a certain number of signatures in an
organisation
Mathematically guaranteed that money cannot
be spent without those signatures
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Transparency
Audit governments, companies, charities
Inspect their accounts
Ensure that money is being spent properly
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The Future
like layers of an onion
decentralise currency
then you need to decentralise markets
then you need to decentralise identity….
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More consumers pay
with Bitcoin
More merchants
accept Bitcoin
More miners validate
transactions & secure the
network
More entrepreneurs
build products to meet
the demand
the network
is starting to
strengthen