Could you explain what Bitcoin is in a non-technical way that my mother / father / grandparents could understand?
This question is from the (rescheduled) April Patreon Q&A session, which took place on May 5th 2018. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop
Note: No offense intended to the all the Bitcoin mums around the world who need no explanation for how this technology works or why it matters.
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Awesome Andreas! you are my HERO! ha 🙂 thank u
Hey @aantonop! PewDiePie is advertising a streaming service with strong crypto-component to his 93 mil subs. Can you please explain, how Lino blockchain is utilizing open sources projects Tendermint and Cosmos. The consensus algorithm is called "PBFT based PoS". There will be a lot of people on this, and this is, most likely, will be their first actual experience with crypto. Should we be worried, or is this legit good old open decentralized not in any way premined coin?
My mom said mom give me money you got from the sky LoL
Its crazy how long i knew of bitcoin but never knew about the vision of it.
Thanks for always producing great content!
What the hell we were thinking with these plastic cards. And they will not understand what we are talking about.
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I will offer someone 1BTC for the music unbounded background track.
hi aantonop. anyway question you focus alot on the 2 billion people whom dont have bank accounts. so question is how do they buy this bitcoin without a normal bank. are you counting on the bitcoin cash machines that are popping up around the world. alot off the 2 billion must be in africa and there are very few machines there so how are these 2 billion going to join us?
everyone make this go viral……….
Great !
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I fully agree with your forecasts! I read your books!
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That closing statement was gold……..as in BITCOIN……which is the real gold!
He didn't explain anything. He just said "it's digital currency". I'm sure people know it's a digital currency. What they want to know is: what gives it value? is it stable and why? security?
Literally said nothing important in those 6 minutes.
Great introduction to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Thanks!
Good, but next challenge: Explain how Bitcoin actually WORKS, to my mother.
(In the above, Andreas only explains the uses and advantages of Bitcoin over other currency systems, which is the relatively easy part)
Can Bitcoin become entire world’s currency with 8 decimal places only? Can decimals be increased if needed?
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"Bitcoin is a currency with all the benefits of being digital and decentralized, and it's purchasing power cannot be stolen by banks, through inflation."
Where's my prize?
Now my mother knows what is bitcoin..and start collecting since last year..bravo btc..from malaysia
you are the best !
First off, I like this. The following is meant to be constructive. I actually have my own experience with my mother trying to explain blockchain currencies. She looked at me with a glazed look in her eyes and just said "yes". The next week she came to our house and said that a man on the radio (he was obviously smarter than I am) was talking about bitcoin and he explained that it is simply a "Public Ledger". She says she understands that. I said yes, that's part of what I said. However, I have to admit, I never used the word "ledger". So… my 2 cents is… if you are going to have a video of explaining this subject to mothers (or older people in general) you HAVE to use the word "ledger" at least once. My apologies if I missed you saying that but I don't think I heard it in your video. Again, I like your work. This is just a suggestion. Thanks.
Nicely put!
Great info – Thanks