This is the second part of the answer to the question: “What are the rules within Bitcoin?” How does robust consensus and decentralized decision-making affect the predictability of the system? How does this compare to certainty and predictability within traditional financial institutions, such as interest rate changes? I can’t predict what the U.S. interest rates will be next year, but I can predict what the rate of distribution (block reward) of bitcoin will be in 100 years.

Minutes from Federal Reserve meeting: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcminutes20170614.pdf

Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/VnQu4uylfOs

This is part of a talk which took place on July 7th 2017 at a Bloktex event hosted by the Wisma BeeOn Group in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: https://antonopoulos.com/event/the-future-of-money-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/

Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/HaJ1hvon0E0

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  1. some people wonder why bitcoin has certain rules, and not other ones. they have come up by convention and educated guesses on these rules. the much overlooked aspect of it is that we have rules that we can rely on, not which rules they are. this and the fact bitcoin was the first to set up an almost arbitrary set of rules that anyone can rely on not ever being changed, is invaluable and one of the main reasons for bitcoin's value. many don't understand this. and many in the legacy system waste energy on discussing what rules are the right ones. all global judicial systems are basically relying on people fighting over changeable rules. this is super inefficient.

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