In this fireside chat, Andreas talks about growing up in Greece, dealing with monetary crises and how that influenced his interest in Bitcoin, as well as his early involvement in various technical communities and his decision to become an educator.
This interview was delivered at the Latin American Bitcoin and Blockchain Conference (laBITconf) at Centro Cultural CorpArtes in Santiago, Chile on December 6th, 2018: https://www.labitconf.com/
0:30 – Obsessions with dismantling and understanding technology
2:35 – First computer as a kid
4:00 – Bitcoin as the sixth epiphany; deciding to become an educator
5:50 – Growing up in Greece with dictatorship and monetary crises
11:42 – Early days of the internet and fascination with cryptography; university studies in distributed systems, meeting the “giants” of computer science and the cypherpunk movement
16:18 – Decision to get off the sidelines and do something meaningful
16:38 – What it feels like to have fans; don’t expect your heroes to be perfect
18:14 – Early career in information security and being self-employed; discovering Bitcoin via Slashdot, binge reading code and research
22:05 – Realising how Bitcoin consensus worked
23:22 – Firing clients to focus on Bitcoin; first public speaking appearance at a Bitcoin conference in 2013; meeting the best programmers in the world and choosing speciality
27:41 – Experience in educating people about open blockchains; translating to foreign languages; importance of Spanish language content
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.
Follow on Twitter: @aantonop https://twitter.com/aantonop
Website: https://antonopoulos.com/
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.
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MASTERING BITCOIN, 2nd Edition: https://amzn.to/2xcdsY9
Translations of MASTERING BITCOIN: https://bitcoinbook.info/translations-of-mastering-bitcoin/
THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://amzn.to/2ykmXFs
THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v2: https://amzn.to/2IIG5BJ
Translations of THE INTERNET OF MONEY:
Spanish, ‘Internet del Dinero’ (v1) – https://amzn.to/2yoaTTq
French, ‘L’internet de l’argent’ (v1) – https://www.amazon.fr/Linternet-largent-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/2856083390
Russian, ‘Интернет денег’ (v1) – https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg
Vietnamese, ‘Internet Của Tiền Tệ’ (v1) – https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang
MASTERING ETHEREUM (Q4): https://amzn.to/2xdxmlK
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Thank you Andreas ，you are a great man
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22:52 The feeling when Andreas bought into the bottom
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i enjoy every single bit of information about andreas, happy that he shares that with us, his background explains the passion behind his videos very well
the fascists are not gone! they are just a bit nicer and call themselves GOVERNMENTS! Bitcoin and crypto will smash them!!!!!!!!
Fascinating Talk! Thank you for sharing.
SIMPLY AWESOME…. WE LOVE YOU ANDREAS!!!!! BLESSINGS
Awesome fucking video, love you man!
geniuses are high sensitive off course ? Nice talk ?
Prophet Andreas
Holy shit, take off your earrings, lady!
Thank you Andreas
You are my hero. Learned soooo much from you. Thanks
6 central bankers dislike this
Uploads like this has 5-10 thousand views while absolute bullshit has millions of views.
If you want to fell sad, just look at Andreas subscribers…it just ruins my day..
Andreas doesn't allow ads! always the best education channel!
Andreas, do you have a Ravencoin full node? I would love to give you one of the first dividend paying tokens on the Ravencoin network.
EXCELLENT
He is the real Bitcoin Jesus not Roger FAKE Ver.
I am not gay, nor am I a homophobe — not at all. But I LOVE this man. He opened my eyes, and as corny as this may sound, my heart — he made Bitcoin 'lovable' too! He made it evident to those of us less technically inclined, that Bitcoin was something to believe in and to fight for. And as great as Bitcoin is, Andreas is just as great.
''knowledge goodness is the source of truth, and so makes the forms intelligible and allows the mind to know.'' Plato, the Republic
He's crystal clear about his life and his own personality and his preoccupations. What a great interview!
<3 amazing as always, very touching and beautiful to see you get emotional, I have too.
I have a similar experience in terms of realizing the potential, as an isolated being on the internet from an early age I had been well-versed in the absolute insanity that was society (banking / Legal and other inefficient, artificially scarce and slow-to-progress parts of the system).. whilst recognizing why it had unfolded this way, but the infrastructure was simply outdated for our technology/understanding.
22:40 ?? ?
27:03 FACT!
In a couple of years, you'll be an icon of personal branding. For the good reasons! Thank you!
Fantastic interview ?????
really? you just HAD to ruin the video by promoting your meth book at the end
Thanks Andreas, you are the best! I am a big fan of your work. Your books and videos are inspiring.
I highly recommend the course that you give at the University of Nicosia. I completed the MOOC 10 last year and it was very educational.
I also believe that education is the best way to contribute to the industry and that is why I have created a free course in Spanish "Fundamentos de Bitcoin y Blockchain" that you can check in my channel.
Muchos éxitos y saludos desde Londres.
I feel sorry for all this early Bitcoin adopters preaching that BTC is Censorship resistance and the same time they are blocking you on tweeter by expressing different opinion!
By acquisition more power(followers) Human becomes a predator and Leader becomes Dictator.
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Fantastic video!
Great work man!
Great interview.
Andreas is amazing.
South America biggest market ? I was thinking about Africa
How can this guy be so inspiring ?!!
Absolutely love it. Gettin' me all fired up andreas!!
I understand his emotions completely. My life changed too when discovering BTC. BTC really can make this world better. Blockchain so much more than a currency. It's peace, justice, equality, etc. And the fact that Andreas is making it his life goal to teach about BTC, is really, really admirable … My respect for A. is huge! I'm buying his book(s) and will ask everyone to read them… That's my part of spreading BTC … Thanks Andreas!
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At 15:00 you talked about the chance to break cryptography in trillions and trillions of years. But isn't most of modern cryptography based on the fact that we just haven't found a way to solve the discrete logarithm? Crytopgraphy behind Bitcoin could be broken much quicker than trillion of years. Other than that I can totally relate to what you said about getting pulled into bitcoin and changing your employment situation. The completely same happened with me when I was discovering the Lightning Network at some point in time I could not stop anymore but doing it every day. Similar to you I also consider myself not to be the strongest programmer in comparison to the other core devs and that is also a reason why I am trying to educate people about the Lightning Network.
You are an inspiration, Andreas. Thank you for everything!
Thank you Andreas for everything you've done for this community. You could be working for a Fortune 500 Company and have comfortable salary and stock options as a CTO. But you have chosen to take the red pill and follow your heart. You are one brave person for giving all that up, and hope I can do the same. Good luck in your future endeavors!
The revolution will not be CENTRALISED.
Your conviction, determination, passion and emotional authenticity is remarkable. Keep up the great work and invaluable contributions. One day the vision will become real.
Andres…the REAL deal ☺
Thank you for all of your hard work and Bitcoin/crypto efforts Andreas. ? Being emotional over code is awesome lol. Bitcoin ain’t no ordinary code. Emerging properties are also interesting.
Cheers! ??????
You're the rock Andres! <3
Code is speech!