The most compelling Bitcoin presentation I've ever seen: Andreas M. Antonopoulos

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Quote from: Kouye on January 16, 2014, 03:39:37 PM

More questions, sorry...

I also still need an answer for the "billets" (episode 8, 3:46)
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone < Huh

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Episode 5, 2:46
Bitcoin also, for the first time, converts money, or asset ownership, into a < Huh

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Content-type?

Episode 3, 1:25
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves, they ferment them with an enzyme and then they feed them to < Huh

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By the way, Andreas, this looks wrong.
Leafcutter ants actually practise agriculture (of some sort of fungus), not cattle-breeding.
They don't eat insects, but the fungus that they grow (which is still amazing).

Also, There are actually hierarchical systems in nature, dominance, subordinance, and hierarchy can be observed in a lot of species, where one leader takes decisions for the other, and even some kind of "elections" which are usually fights for power (but how is that so different? Grin

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You might want to adapt your (great) speach a little.

I agree, Andreas is amazing but the ant analogy needs some work, lots of examples of hierarchical system in nature, gorillas, chimps, lions, wolves all have a alpha male at the top, seems like hierarchical to me.

Being a bit nit picky but keep up the great work Andreas.

Grin

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I'm glad everyone is getting so much value from this video series. Hopefully, it will be just the first of many. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJnKNq1ro2l5oxB-bAeaOhQ).

Thanks so much for doing the translations for different languages. That's beyond my wildest exceptions! The more people that get the message the better ;-)

re: the Q&A at the end… Originally, we were having some technical difficulties so that part of the presentation never got uploaded. I'll look into it again. Enjoy!

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Thanks for sharing this amazing video. I agree with you. It is, indeed, the most compelling presentation I’ve seen so for. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a really good speaker, and has a very convincing attitude.

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Quote from: (A)social on February 04, 2014, 11:19:35 AM

English to italian translator available here Grin

Excellent, we're about to release a first english/french subtitled version, polishing the french one now, which takes a bit of time, but... Soon. Grin

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I listened to the entire 3 hour podcast he had with Joe Rogan. Excellent stuff. Just really interesting to listen to.

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Quote from: Kouye on January 18, 2014, 07:25:12 AM

Quote from: giszmo on January 18, 2014, 02:41:47 AM

Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right.

I should be able to post the videos subbed in english soon (as well as the subtitles files).
Since already synchronised, it'll be quite easy to translate, then.
But expect french from us, I don't speak spanish at all, apart from the survival stuff (like "una pinta, por favor", which might not even be correct but usually works).
Hopefully, there will be more translations from other people, though.

English to italian translator available here Grin

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He's a very good speaker, I'd like to see more people being half as educated about this network as he is.

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Thank you valerian253. I found the video on the sidebar of the youtube page (When Hitler Finds Out About the Butterfly Labs Monarch).

Mr. Antonopoulos is displaying the perfect amount of restrained contempt in regards to the fees associated with getting money to the people who need it the most.
If you have ever tried to do something so "simple" as getting a well to a community who needs fresh water in a developing country...you would get a small taste of the frustration.

It isn't often spoke of (the "siphoning" of funds when sending aid) and maybe until now that was best, because you didn't want to discourage people who were willing to give and push them to the point of apathy.

This issue should be exposed, it's been a long standing problem, now with bitcoin there is a possible solution.

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Quote from: befuddled on January 21, 2014, 01:03:56 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTPQKyAq-DM
This one includes the Q&A session, which is not to be missed.

Thanks, watching it now. For those who wants to jump directly to Q&A...
Starts at 42m20s and lasts for another hour

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Quote from: befuddled on January 21, 2014, 01:03:56 AM

I didn't notice anyone post link to the whole presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTPQKyAq-DM

This one includes the Q&A session, which is not to be missed.

Nice, watching that now. The Q&A part starts about half way through the vid if people don't want to re-watch the whole thing again (I've watched it three times already, heh).

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I didn't notice anyone post link to the whole presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTPQKyAq-DM

This one includes the Q&A session, which is not to be missed.

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Andreas,

just a great presentation!

Cryptocurrencies truly are a revolution toward achieving a greater-good / balanced world.

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Quote from: aantonop on January 13, 2014, 02:38:51 PM

Thank you for recording this and for the kind words and support.

I hope to do many more of these presentations at local bitcoin communities, where I get the most value and best questions from the audience!

Just looking at your eyes I could tell the passion. Very good job. Next step would be to target regions of the US were you would not expect anyone to know about bitcoin; regions hit by every level of "crisis", not just preaching to the bitcoin community. I understand this is a long and hard journey though.

Thank you again.

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Quote from: aantonop on January 14, 2014, 02:04:19 AM

I couldn't agree more: I try to tailor the tone and content to the audience, as much as possible. See for example, my appearance on Bloomberg and even Max Keiser, where I am facing a general audience and I offer a perspective focused on technology innovation, security innovation and growth opportunity for a new industry.

In the Vegas case however, I had 500 people in the audience who had spent 2 days listening to the entrepreneurs talk money. Which is fine and necessary, but I felt that a different PoV should also be voiced, on the last day, on the last panel. So I tailored my content and tone to my audience: the 500 people who came with passion for bitcoin, not my four (very gracious and patient) co-panelists. Not my best work, or my proudest moment as a panelist.

I do dozens of interviews per week and appear before a variety of audiences several times a week too. Some of those come out well, but not all. Sometimes I miss the mark on my audience. Not everyone cares for what I have to say, but I speak from the heart and I'm always open to changing my mind and my tone as I learn.

Thank you for the honest feedback.

Great presentation Andreas!!

I think you are one of the best voices Bitcoin has.

I like pretty much all the presentations and interviews I have seen you make.

Keep up the good work!

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Quote from: giszmo on January 18, 2014, 02:41:47 AM

Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right.

I should be able to post the videos subbed in english soon (as well as the subtitles files).
Since already synchronised, it'll be quite easy to translate, then.
But expect french from us, I don't speak spanish at all, apart from the survival stuff (like "una pinta, por favor", which might not even be correct but usually works).
Hopefully, there will be more translations from other people, though.

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Great presentation!

Bitcoin, although practically impossible, could go down but the idea of a bitcoin won't.

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Quote from: Kouye on January 15, 2014, 03:24:37 PM

I'll make the transcript available to everyone - so that blockgenesis' team can translate it easily - once it's done, as well as a french translation (and maybe a french subbed version of the 8 episodes, if my friend accepts my 0.25BTC offer to sub the videos in french Grin

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Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right.

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I particularly like the parts about the inherent problems with hierarchical systems and possible implementations for voting and governance. Time to decentralise the way we run our countries in the same way that Bitcoin has decentralised money.

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Quote from: shawshankinmate37927 on January 17, 2014, 07:46:22 AM

Quote from: Kouye on January 16, 2014, 03:39:37 PM

I also still need an answer for the "billets" (episode 8, 3:46)
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone < Huh

>

"minutes"

Quote from: Kouye on January 16, 2014, 03:39:37 PM

Episode 5, 2:46
Bitcoin also, for the first time, converts money, or asset ownership, into a < Huh

>
Content-type?

Yes, "content type"

Quote from: Kouye on January 16, 2014, 03:39:37 PM

Episode 3, 1:25
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves, they ferment them with an enzyme and then they feed them to < Huh

> and then they eat the < Huh

>.

"aphids" and "aphid larvae"

Many thanks shawshankinmate37927!

EDIT : Full english transcription available!

http://pastebin.com/8rQikEv6

Credits goes to a friend of mine who did most of the work.

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