Mark Mason
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Keep Cryptocurrencies Weird, says Andreas Antonopoulos
In his latest “The Future of Programmable Money” speech, Andreas Antonopoulos discusses the overarching theme of how unique and weird people define communities, but eventually get replaced as new people move in.
He related to cryptocurrencies with how mainstream corporations initially requested that his speeches only discuss “blockchain” and not “Bitcoin” and cryptocurrencies because “Bitcoin is weird and blockchain is the future”. He would reply to those speaking requests with “No,… Bitcoin is the future and blockchain is bullshit”. He went on to discuss how he is not going to “sell you something nicely packaged just to avoid offending”. He said that the reason Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are interesting and the future is “because it’s not controlled, because it can’t be censored, because it’s open, because a lot of the people involved are very, very weird: weird computer geeks, weird cryptographers who have weird ideas about privacy and freedom.” He goes on to say all of that is okay and is what defines cryptocurrencies. When you remove all that, all you are left with “is a sterile, unexpressive, uninventive environment; a corporate plaything that has been sanitized of everything interesting and left as an empty shell. It’s basically a very slow database.”
Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/keep-cryptocurrencies-weird-says-andreas-antonopoulos/
In his latest “The Future of Programmable Money” speech, Andreas Antonopoulos discusses the overarching theme of how unique and weird people define communities, but eventually get replaced as new people move in.
He related to cryptocurrencies with how mainstream corporations initially requested that his speeches only discuss “blockchain” and not “Bitcoin” and cryptocurrencies because “Bitcoin is weird and blockchain is the future”. He would reply to those speaking requests with “No,… Bitcoin is the future and blockchain is bullshit”. He went on to discuss how he is not going to “sell you something nicely packaged just to avoid offending”. He said that the reason Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are interesting and the future is “because it’s not controlled, because it can’t be censored, because it’s open, because a lot of the people involved are very, very weird: weird computer geeks, weird cryptographers who have weird ideas about privacy and freedom.” He goes on to say all of that is okay and is what defines cryptocurrencies. When you remove all that, all you are left with “is a sterile, unexpressive, uninventive environment; a corporate plaything that has been sanitized of everything interesting and left as an empty shell. It’s basically a very slow database.”
Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/keep-cryptocurrencies-weird-says-andreas-antonopoulos/