Governance and the market share of Bitcoin. It drops in a cyclical way when people become temporarily disillusioned and overwhelm other altcoins with exuberant attention they weren’t really prepared for. When the spotlight shifts onto you, that’s when you can’t stumble. The adversarial attitude between cryptocurrencies. They all benefit from specialising to niches of trade-offs and design decisions in the ecosystem. Even failed experiments help evolution and teach us something. Being resistant to change is a differential feature, because it makes it robust against takeover. Even Bitcoin’s own developers and miners can’t force change from the inside. Bitcoin was designed to say ‘unless everyone agrees, we’re not changing a thing.’ Political propaganda, economic, electrical, network-based attacks are always coming when it becomes this important to the world. “Unstoppable code” is for something that someone is trying to stop. “The only things worth printing are what somebody is trying to suppress; everything else is advertising / public relations.” Silk Road, black market. PR disaster to Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, who will start saying “the technology behind Ethereum: smart contracts!” just as they did with Bitcoin. Trial by fire. Bitcoin is surviving because it can’t be changed, because it is the unstoppable code.

This is part of a talk which took place at the Silicon Valley Bitcoin meetup on April 11th 2017 at the Plug and Play Tech Center (@PlugandPlayTC) in Sunnyvale, California: https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Bitcoin-Users/events/233760417/

Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/i_wOEL6dprg

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34 COMMENTS

  1. What's great is Andreas has very little BTC, in comparison. He does these talks because of Bitcoin and what it stands for, not so for much for bitcoin the currency. His belief is stronger than most, that's why he can sell the concept.

  2. This guy is cool until He continues to rant and tarnish Ethereum.

    Ethereum has more money put together in its market then this poor son of a bitch will ever see .

    Ethereum is a Alliance

    Bitcoin will also Prosper.

  3. This video convinced me to sell my ETH and go all in on BTC
    Mind you I bought ETH at the top-$392 and had lost some capital
    I see now why BTC is safer & more valuable
    unless you want to try trading in & out of various cryptos

  4. AA ist in seiner Art es zu erklären, genau so einzigartig wie der BitCoin selbst…bitte alle genau hinhören und aufsaugen, was er uns mitteilt…es ist die vielleicht größte Chance der Menschheit sich zu befreien…auf dem friedvollen Pfad…

  5. Another thing to mention would be that for every line of code you write, the more complexity you add to that layer of software you are implementing on. Therefore it's not just unstoppable its unmanageable. In addition to complexity you are also increasing the likelihood of creating new bugs and that would in essence be the killer in my opinion. All it takes is one person with sub-standard software engineer skills and or ill-intent that would ruin it.

  6. I wonder what kind of brain chemistry it takes to vote this down. You really have to be a fcking elitist piece of shit.
    What this man is doing for freedom is unmeasurable.

  7. We don't see the trolls and their negative "Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme" comments on videos with Antonopoulos speaking because even the idiots know they sound like idiots next to this guy.

  8. Ethereum 2.0 'Now, with Stopable code'™ is ETH (Ethereum Fork), isn't it? 😉 The unstopable code smart contract platform is ETC (i.e. Ethereum)

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