In this talk, Andreas makes a connection between medical pseudoscience and modern financial totalitarian surveillance, as practiced by banks and state intelligence agencies. He explores the hidden externalities and moral hazards inherent in KYC/AML policies, disconnecting whole countries and even continents from the world economy. Why is it common sense that money laundering is the fundamental business of fully-licensed, regulated banks? Who runs the real “dark net”? He urges that before people try to fix things they should first be sure they’re not making it worse.
NOTE: At 15:58, I quote Martin Luther King Jr. The full quote is: “Peace is not merely the absence of some negative force — war, tension, confusion, but it is the presence of some positive force —justice, goodwill, the power of the kingdom of God.” Context: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/when-peace-becomes-obnoxious-sermon-delivered-18-march-1956-dexter-avenue
This talk took place at the Riga Art Space for the Baltic Honeybadger conference on November 25th 2017 in Riga, Latvia: https://antonopoulos.com/event/baltic-honeybadger-2017/
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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and respected figures in bitcoin.
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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
[NEW] THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v2: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/194791006X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
MASTERING BITCOIN: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cryptocurrencies/dp/1449374042
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Music: “Unbounded” by Orfan (https://www.facebook.com/Orfan/)
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Just wait until there's anonymous, decentralized web and communications. Then, we will be able to finally poke our heads out and live with pure peer to peer internet interaction. I just can't believe we have to wait. I guess that's what human nature breeds: greed. The 5 stages of grief will come quickly for institutions and governments
Reality is a bitch and the useless will argue his points just to maintain their corrupt ways safe and intact. I like this dude. I wish more Crypto Exchange, especially DEX running today would realize the huge mistakes they are making with adapting KYC/AML corrupt legislation and enabling the freezing of your assets in your own local wallets (Gateways block transactions) even if you're the only one holding the private keys. This is criminal, to say the least.
This guy is a genius!!! Holy crap!
Whatever reason given, it was probably an empirical observation that led to blood letting. The underlying mechanism that leads to improved health is probably reduction of iron content in the body. Sometimes mainstream reasoning of ancient practices is wrong. Just sayin'
The irony is that the drug smuggling CIA and FBI do MOST of the laundering!
Bloodletting is effective if done properly and is still used in some situations. When the body produces new blood, it also produces new white blood sells which revitalizes the immune system. It's been misused a lot, and the humours theory may have been problematic, but it is not just superstition.
Don’t like that much the correlation on the beggining. Specially because its really dofficult for us on the west to understand the way medicine and eastern cultures see the world. Some indian and chinese cultures still see and treat diseases in a really different way than us. BUT: the surveillance discourse is really really good. You opened my eyes for even more importance of btc and crypto on a social level. Thank you. Hope we can get to clarity and light after this huge period of darkness as a society.
He is like the White Nerdy Malcom x!
OMG He Said MotherFuckers!!!!!
Thank you!
Only 2.3K views as of July 2018… this is not enough
DAPSCoin, the solution.
A Saint!
Andreas, you earned our respect with this speech. Yes, it is the US GOVERNMENT that funds and organizes Islamic terrorism, trafficking, and more. And it turns out that the "bad" people who shouldnt have access to money are mostly: Arabs, Muslims, Blacks, Latinos, Iranians, Russians….and anybody else who is not in agreement with the Zionist owned world banking system… Iraq and Libya wanted to sell their oil for somethng other than dollars, and they were murdered…a Black man has $5000 in his car…it will be stolen by the government "asset forfeiture" hoax….you try to open a bank account abroad…the banks are terrified of running afoul of the US Treasury Department, and decline to open accounts for 9 million Americans abroad…I could go on and on…we need to break their monopoly on money…
POWERFUL!
medical blochain? where it is?
spectacular talk as always
masterpiece
Hold verge xvg
Just, wow. Thank you.
God bless this man
This is so true
Amazing speech!!! Huge Greek balls!!!!
Samsonite is not a bad brand by the way. it just happened that it's a brand they used.
"the darknet' is the government's competition selling weapons, drugs and other services so naturally, they want it gone.
His words invoke deep feelings. What a brilliant human being who has dedicated his life to this noble movement.
This is powerfull stuff!