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<img src="styles/bitcoin.svg" style="height: 50vmin; width: 50vmin; margin: auto;" alt="">
<div class="notes">Bitcoin was started on October 31, 2008. Open-sourced Jan 3, 2009. Creator pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Technically not first cryptocurrency, DigiCash came in 1990.
<div class="notes">Bitcoin was started in late 2008. Open-sourced January 2009.
Creator pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
First <em>decentralized</em> virtual currency.</div>
</section>
<section>
<img src="styles/cat-money.jpg" alt="" class="cover">
<div class="cover" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)">
<h1>What is money?</h1>
<h1 style="background-color: #0A0;" class="highlighted">What is money?</h1>
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<ul janus-timeline janus-future="down">Divisible</ul>
<ul janus-timeline janus-future="down">Scarce</ul>
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<th><div>Durable</div></th>
<th><div>Portable</div></th>
<th><div>Divisible</div></th>
<th><div>Fungible</div></th>
<th><div>Scarce</div></th>
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<th>Medium of<br>Exchange</th><td class="yes"></td><td class="yes"></td><td></td><td class="yes"></td><td></td>
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<th>Unit of<br>Account</th><td></td><td></td><td class="yes"></td><td class="yes"></td><td></td>
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<div class="notes">
Medium of exchange: portable, durable, fungible
Unit of account: divisible, fungible
Store of value: durable, scarce, fungible
One more property: acceptable
Next: things we've used as money</div>
</section>
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<th>Scarce</th><td class="no"></td>
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<th>Acceptable</th><td class="maybe"></td>
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<div class="notes">Shells
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<th>Scarce</th><td class="yes"></td>
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<th>Acceptable</th><td class="no"></td>
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<th>Scarce</th><td class="yes"></td>
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<th>Acceptable</th><td class="maybe"></td>
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<div class="notes">
Gold (and silver).
Precious metals, gold and silver.
Pretty popular.
Still used today.</div>
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<th>Scarce</th><td class="no"></td>
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<th>Acceptable</th><td class="yes"></td>
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<div class="notes">US dollars
Used to represent gold and silver, after World War 1 pretty much everybody decided to switch to unbacked "floating money" so they could fuel government expenses with inflation.</div>
<div class="notes">Cash
Used to represent gold and silver, after World War 2 pretty much everybody decided to switch to unbacked "floating money" so they could fuel government expenses with inflation.</div>
</section>
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<td><div janus-timeline janus-future="right" style="color: #F00;">&nbsp;- 15</div></td>
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<th>Jack</th>
<td>12</td>
<td><div janus-timeline janus-future="right" style="color: #090;">&nbsp;+ 15</div></td>
<th>Tim</th>
<td>57</td>
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<th>Dave</th>
<td>9</td>
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<th>Jack</th>
<td>12</td>
<td><div janus-timeline janus-future="right" style="color: #090;">&nbsp;+ 15</div></td>
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<th>George</th>
<td>40</td>
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<td>9.7</td>
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<td>57.0</td>
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<td>1.1</td>
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</section>
<section>
<img src="styles/headstone.svg" style="height: 60vh; margin: 0.5em auto 0" alt="">
<img src="styles/grass-back.svg" style="position: absolute; z-index: -1; width: 100%; top: 60vh">
<img src="styles/grass-front.svg" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; top: 66vh">
<div class="notes">There's a company that actually did this, called DigiCash. they maintained a ledger with cryptographically controlled balances. Consumers weren't concerned enough about security or privacy and they ran out of money.</div>
<div class="cover" style="overflow: hidden;">
<img src="styles/headstone.svg" style="height: 60vh; margin: 0.5em auto 0" alt="">
<img src="styles/grass-back.svg" style="position: absolute; z-index: -1; width: 100%; top: 60vh">
<img src="styles/grass-front.svg" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; top: 66vh">
</div>
<div class="notes">There's a company that actually did this, called DigiCash. they maintained a ledger with cryptographically controlled balances. Consumers weren't concerned enough about security or privacy and they ran out of money.
Money that depends on a centralized provider can be fragile since there's a single point of failure.</div>
</section>
<section>
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<div class="notes">Real world, double spending is easy.
Two checks
First deposit "wins"
All about timing
All about timing</div>
</section>
How do you fix this?</div>
<section style="text-shadow: 0 0 2em black;">
<img src="styles/byzantine-fresca.jpg" alt="" class="cover">
<h2>the</h2>
<h1><em>Byzantine Generals&rsquo;</em></h1>
<h2>problem</h2>
<div class="notes">The Byzantine army is divided into groups, each group led by a general. But some of the generals are traitors. How can the loyal generals share one plan of attack, even in the presence of a small group of traitors?
This kind of "antifragile" consensus they are looking for is called "Byzantine consensus".</div>
</section>
<section>
<img class="cover" src="styles/hashbrowns.jpg" alt="hashbrowns">
<h1 style="color: black">Hashes</h1>
<div class="notes">Hashing is a <strong>one-way</strong> transformation of some arbitrary data into some random-seeming but bounded output.
We can get Byzantine consensus with creative use of hashes.</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Proof of Work</h1>
<img src="styles/envelopes.jpg" alt="" class="cover">
<h1 style="padding-top: 3em; text-shadow: 0 0 2em black">Proof of Work</h1>
<div class="notes">In 1997 this guy Adam Back came up with <em>HashCash</em>. The idea is that an email client would brute-force a certain amount of zeros as the output to a cryptographic hashing algorithm.</div>
</section>
<section class="hashpointers">
<img janus-timeline janus-future="big" src="styles/hashpointers-linked-list.svg" alt="" class="contain" style="object-position: 70% 50%">
<img src="styles/hashpointers-linked-list.svg" alt="" class="contain" style="object-position: 70% 50%">
<img janus-timeline janus-future="big" src="styles/hashpointers-hashes.svg" alt="" class="contain" style="object-position: 70% 50%">
<h1 janus-timeline janus-future="left">Hash Pointers</h1>
<img janus-timeline janus-future="left" src="styles/hashpointers-new-entry.svg" alt="" class="contain" style="object-position: 70% 50%">
<h1>Hash Pointers</h1>
<div class="notes">Good data structure for a log is a linked list. Blocks with lists of transactions, and each one points to the previous block. But we want this log to be tamper-proof.
Hash pointers can make it so that changes earlier in the chain affect every item after that.</div>
</section>
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<section>
<h1>Currency</h1>
<h1>Money</h1>
<table class="yesnomaybe" style="margin: 0.5em auto 0; border: none">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Durable</th><td class="yes"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Portable</th><td class="yes"></td>
</tr>
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<th>Divisible</th><td class="yes"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Fungible</th><td class="maybe"></td>
</tr>
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<th>Scarce</th><td class="yes"></td>
</tr>
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<th>Acceptable</th><td class="maybe"></td>
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</tbody>
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<div class="notes"></div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Identity</h1>
<div class="notes">
payment information
usernames
DNS
</div>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Proof of Existence</h1>
<div class="notes">
embedding a hash in the blockchain demonstrates an item's existence at point in the past
</div>
</section>
<section>
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</section>
<section>
<div class="notes">
payment information
usernames
DNS
</div>
<h1>Identity</h1>
</section>
<section>
<div class="notes">
embedding a hash in the blockchain demonstrates an item's existence at point in the past
</div>
<h1>Proof of Existence</h1>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Payment Infrastructure</h1>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Smart Contracts</h1>
<div class="notes">
DAO
Ethereum/RootStock
</div>
<h1>Smart Contracts</h1>
</section>
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