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<h1 class="highlighted">What is money?</h1>
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<section>
<h1>How could we make<br><em>digital</em> currency?</h1>
<div class="notes">Digital items can be duplicated; how can I send you something the way I do in the physical world? The Yapanese people had the right idea: use a ledger.</div>
<div class="notes">Digital items can be duplicated; how can I send you something the way I do in the physical world? The people on the island of Yap had the right idea: use a ledger.</div>
</section>
<section>
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<div class="notes">Sorry, wrong Ledger.</div>
</section>
<section>
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<section>
<h1>Applications</h1>
<div class="notes">So what can we use this technology for? It's a tamper-proof ledger, with timestamps and encryption and a giant network of computers running it.</div>
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<h1 class="highlighted">Implications</h1>
<div class="notes">So what can we use this technology for? It's a tamper-proof ledger, with timestamps and encryption and a giant network of computers keeping it secure.
The key is that blockchains are a <u>decentralized authority</u>, rendering trusted third parties obsolete.</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Money</h1>
<h1 style="text-shadow: 0 0 2em black">Trusted Third Parties</h1>
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</section>
<section>
<h1>Central banks &amp;<br>payment services</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc BTC"></i>
<i class="cc DASH"></i>
<i class="cc XMR"></i>
<i class="cc LTC"></i>
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<div class="notes">Blockchains are pretty great as money. Bitcoin specifically is only anonymous, not fully private, but there are ways to improve that. Blockchains' value as money is at the heart of their incentives. Private blockchains that don't try to be money face serious challenges.</div>
<div class="notes">Blockchains' value as money is at the heart of their incentives. Private blockchains that don't try to be money face serious challenges. The ability to transfer value globally without using or trusting a third party can save money and time, especially for traditionally burdensome cases like international remittance.</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Verifiable Data</h1>
<h1>Register of deeds,<br>copyright office</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc BTC"></i>
<i class="cc FCT"></i>
<i class="cc SIA"></i>
<i class="cc MAID"></i>
<i class="cc SJCX"></i>
<i class="cc NXT"></i>
<i class="cc EMC"></i>
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<div class="notes">Embedding a hash in the blockchain demonstrates an item's existence at point in the past.
(Bitcoin, Factoids, Sia, Maidsafe, Storj, NXT)
</div>
(Bitcoin, Factoids, Emercoin)</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Identity</h1>
<h1>Cloud storage providers</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc NMC"></i>
</div>
<div class="notes">DNS
(Namecoin)
</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Digital Assets</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc BTC"></i>
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<i class="cc MAID"></i>
<i class="cc SJCX"></i>
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<div class="notes">Instead of monetary value, we can treat blockchain tokens as deeds, and use the blockchain as a decentralized register of ownership.
<div class="notes">(Maidsafe, Storjcoin, SIAcoin, NXT)</div>
</section>
(Bitcoin, LBRY, NXT)
<section>
<h1>DNS providers</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc NMC"></i>
<i class="cc EMC"></i>
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<div class="notes">(Namecoin, Emercoin)</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Social networks</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc STEEM"></i>
<i class="cc SYN"></i>
</div>
<div class="notes">(Steem, Synereo)</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Media rights &amp;<br>compensation</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc ETC"></i>
</div>
<div class="notes">Ethereum classic</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Identity providers</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc BTC"></i>
<i class="cc NMC"></i>
<i class="cc DASH"></i>
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</section>
<section>
<h1>Smart Contracts</h1>
<h1>SSL certificate authorities</h1>
<div class="coins">
<i class="cc NMC"></i>
<i class="cc ETH"></i>
<i class="cc XCP"></i>
</div>
<div class="notes">We can attach scripts to blockchain tokens, and the network will execute the script to find out who the money belongs to. This enables the creation of self-executing contracts and complicated financial arrangements.
(Ethereum, Counterparty)
<i class="cc EMC"></i>
</div>
</section>
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<ul style="font-size: 0.6em">
<li><a href="http://money.visualcapitalist.com/infographic-the-properties-of-money/">Infographic: The Properties of Money</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNcSSleedtfyDuhBvOQzFzQ/feed">Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/">Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes - Nick Szabo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/">Nick Szabo's blog</a></li>
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