Bitcoin Q&A: We all started as critics

I was a HUGE critic of BTC (and crypto in general) even up to a few weeks ago. Been binging #aantonop on YouTube and I am beginning to see the light. I'm not going all in on BTC or anything but starting to buy and "play with it" a little.

I wasn't misinformed, I was uninformed.

Blockchain Jesus

Andreas is far and away the best representative of this space, but he's a bit too soft on Bitcoin lately. Id actually like to hear more criticisms about the space, especially governance failures or breakdowns, rather than the platitudes to the effect of "it will scale because the internet wasn't supposed to scale but it did" or how "it will all sort itself out".

Why is he out of focus and the girls in the background in focus? Need a better cameraman =) Anyway, great speak as always!

It's an exponential awakening … nope, a little bit maybe, a little bit more … whoosh OH YEAH!

Excellent response. I am still partially in the critic phase, but I am learning more every day. 8-9 years ago I was shown Bitcoin and a blockchain that had to synchronise before it was useful and I dismissed saying "it'll never scale enough to be useful." I think I was partly right, but what I didn't expect was the level of interest and the level at which people are trying to change the core technology to be more broadly useful, and to be useful to non tech geeks.

So I am now in a position where I am hopeful. Still not convinced that the final digital currency solution will be what we have now, but convinced enough that people are working on it and as long as the technology breathes and evolves, we will be in a great place in a few years.

Love every vid

Protect This Guy…….! Great Andreas…!

More for us to digest from this genius, caring, good, articulate orator of a man….. Thank you for feeding my brain once AGAIN!

This is Bitcoin Moses

My question is if Bitcoin and Ethereum is becoming obsolete. Or will they adjust to keep up with the altcoins that are solving the problems of the original? I believe this to be a problem because these are open source and you can have a champion that carries the ball through the rough times and then another group that piggybacks of them and benifits .

I think all this looks like new religion, I suspect that a lot of the stuff Andreas claims can't hold in real rational debate
This is how reality looks at the moment from my perspective:
1. I can't buy bitcoin in my country, which is member of EU, except from some shady guys and weird websites, this gives me a feeling like I'm buying cocaine or weed, you never know what you gonna get and why.
And these exchange websites ?!?!? kind of check you need to go over, I had to present Passport, Id card, head-shot from camera and residency proof, some even require Skype interview before you get approved account (for example Bitpanda). Is this related to all those anonymity benefits?
2. What about all sorts of fees?
3. I can't buy anything with bitcoin anywhere except in a couple of places in America.
4. I regularly run bitcoin core and speed of that network is basically simulation of dial-up era network.
5. Currently bitcoin network is being heavily centralized (example Chinese miners)
6. I don't understand how lightning network doesn't end up as classical banking system (this will eventually need hubs, cause nodes you need to propagate have to have enough funds).
All this doesn't look as something that will give us better sustainable future full of equal opportunities.
Biggest players in this space are financial speculators, scam masters, scum and criminals who are actually biggest problem of the human civilization lately.

Yes me too – woke up 2013.

as usual, Andreas on point, spitting facts, efficiently, no nonsense literally ever word he says is valuable lol

@Andre – SO MUCH for "only idiots would short bitcoin!"

Bitcoin will continuously be shorted and then dumped wales to make sure they win their bets

This will cause the average investor to abandon bitcoin after taking losses

Bitcoins overall price will keep falling

The technology of bitcoin wont improve

Btc will be dead in 12months

He has been standing there for months now

Why would anyone death threat Andreas? Wtf?

Thanks for all you do Andreas!!

Andreas just gets better and better

Love the Q&A session it helps clear doubts & enhance understanding of why decentralized currency is required in this world

It's rare to get someone with such insight into new technology. But Andreas has this as well as the knowledge of the social and economical impacts technology will have. Its rare for someone to have the knowledge of these areas and be able to present them so well. Great speaker, makes things easy to comprehend with great metaphors and comparisons. A truly humble man. Thanks Andreas

How you doing Andrea? Hope all is well. Looking forward to seeing / hearing your current views, in general.

I truly find Andreas gifted in speaking and getting his thoughts across to others. I do find it interesting when he speaks of satoshi nakamori in the first person. As if it is 1 person and he knew a man of this name and he did develop bitcoin. Interesting.

I religiously wait for ur video….thanks for uploading

May the forth be with you.

Haha, class ending!

thank you again messiah

Interesting. I like to think of myself as a critic, but I'm afraid I rarely phrase my critiques well.