{"id":972,"date":"2017-04-24T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2017-04-24T02:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:52:06","slug":"blockchain-vs-bullshit-thoughts-on-the-future-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/blockchain-vs-bullshit-thoughts-on-the-future-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great talk by Andreas Antonopoulos. Some key points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a lot of BS going around. BAU disguised as innovation<\/li>\n<li>Blockchain is bitcoin with a haircut and a suit that you parade in front of your board<\/li>\n<li>Define blockchain in such a way that you can&#8217;t replace it with database and still make the sentence work<\/li>\n<li>Open, borderless, transnational, no 3rd parties, neutral, decentralised<\/li>\n<li>Consortium = Cartel<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t about banking the unbanked. It&#8217;s about debanking all of us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin &amp; Open Blockchain  Talk]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMEOKDVXlUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great talk by Andreas Antonopoulos. Some key points. There<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/blockchainbs.jpg",300,167,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}