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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of Mastering Bitcoin (O'Reilly). We discuss the separation of state and money, how bitcoin is the worlds first trust protocol, how mining works, looking at bitcoin from a global perspective, what happens to bitcoin once we have quantum computing, and much more.

01:30 -- ‘Mastering Bitcoin’, ‘The Internet of Money’, and ‘Mastering Ethereum’
03:40 -- Bitcoin’s unique trust protocol
06:15 -- The politics of currency and the Wikileaks payment embargo
12:55 -- How Bitcoin decentralizes power and control
18:12 -- Global opportunities and challenges for expanded Bitcoin use
28:00 -- Why Andreas spends Bitcoin almost every day
29:38 -- How reduced volatility will help Bitcoin achieve mass adoption
32:38 -- Bitcoin’s potential market capitalization
35:35 -- Bitcoin versus Visa for consumer transactions
41:10 -- Scaling with protocol stacks (SPDY, TCP and WebRTC) and smart contracts
44:30 -- Transitioning to ‘micro-streaming’ payments
46:53 -- Reversing centralization and skeuomorphism on the web
51:08 -- Why Andreas advocates earning Bitcoins instead of buying them
53:42 -- Andreas’s favorite wallets: Jaxx, Copay, Mycelium, Bread, Airbitz and Samurai
55:00 -- How to locate a Bitcoin ATM
56:32 -- Bitcoin matching service for local transactions
57:16 -- Do we need a decentralized exchange? Tether
59:10 -- The future of Ethereum and other digital currencies: Ethereum White Paper
1:06:10 -- The most compelling application areas Andreas is tracking
1:08:00 -- Privacy currencies: Zcash and Monero
1:08:22 -- Zero-traceability (zk-SNARK) and the upcoming Ethereum Metropolis
1:11:13 -- Resource utilization and decentralized storage: YouTube video ban
1:17:09 -- Leveraging the blockchain for charity: BitGive
1:20:40 -- Quantum computing and the challenge of unequal computing power
1:22:54 -- The future of cryptography: ECDSA and SHA-256
1:26:43 -- Andreas’s book ‘The Internet of Money’ on Audible

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