What are the scaling trade-offs in the so-called “block size debate”? Moore’s Law, increasing capacity through additional layers, and the two engineering strategies: make the pipe bigger vs. make the content smaller (compression). Are we in a “honeymoon” period in terms of innovation potential without patents? Does Ethereum face more scaling challenges than Bitcoin? Will open blockchains compete or cooperate with banks, such as… offering fractional reserve services?

This question is from a talk which took place on May 18th 2018 for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress at Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/speakers/

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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

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MASTERING BITCOIN: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042

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23 COMMENTS

  1. The funny part is that you're so much better at delivering speeches in public than you are at talking in front of a camera explaining stuff. There's an energy that you have which gets lost when you're doing educational vlogs.

  2. Canada states they are looking at blòckchain to monitor cannabis transactions as they become legal in Canada in September. This is hugh as to acknowledgement and adoption of decentralized applications as opposed to current systems for monitoring these types of transactions

  3. A big thumbs up… Fractional Reserve Banking is massively unknown to the people, the effect of QE (next load likely in 2019) is also not understood. Shrinking time lines caused by the network effect of knowledge sharing will coincide with the network effect of adoption. Those two shrinking timelines will be interesting. The truth is unstoppable.

  4. For Bitcoin (or other Cryptocurrencies) to function as money in an economy without the need for a central bank, we need an elastic money supply controlled by Bitcoin's protocol. Any suggestions on how to do that?

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