In this talk, Andreas looks at the design principles, metaphors and words used in bitcoin and how they relate to the user experience.
Chapters
0:00 What is Bitcoin?
1:38 Forms and history of money
12:25 Design metaphors
21:11 Radical departure from the past
26:34 Bitcoin is unstoppable because there is a great need for this technology
29:38 The interesting applications in Bitcoin are what I call interstitial innovation, innovation in the gaps, the places where today's systems cannot go
33:40 Coast Coefficient
34:58 Personhood
35:59 Let's consider radically disruptive technologies and combine them
37:28 Digital autonomous charity
38:27 Let's look at how the Bitcoin community is addressing this incredible potential in their design choices
48:52 We don't need a hard sell for Bitcoin to win against the banks
51:31 Bitcoin desperately needs designers
52:34 We made the technology easier to understand and much more polished
56:21 I have met kids who create their own altcoins
This talk was delivered on June 4th 2015 for the IDEO Bits + Blocks Lab in Boston, Massachusetts.
I was also a guest on this podcast following the event: https://radiopublic.com/ideo-futures-G7NdxE/ep/s1!e1913
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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.
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Russian, 'Интернет денег' (v1) - https://www.olbuss.ru/catalog/ekonomika-i-biznes/korporativnye-finansy-bankovskoe-delo/internet-deneg
Vietnamese, 'Internet Của Tiền Tệ' (v1) - https://alphabooks.vn/khi-tien-len-mang
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