Written by Alexandra Moxin
“[Often] the truth [itself] is a revolutionary act” George Orwell, 1984
If you’re involved in Bitcoin or open blockchain projects in any way our next guest needs no introduction. In this episode we spend some time with best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost Bitcoin and open blockchain experts Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas speaks about his academic and programming background and inspiration through cypherpunk philosophy, applications of cryptography and how he got into Bitcoin.
We cover a wide swath of all the things which make Bitcoin interesting including its principles and the revolutionary technology behind it. We delve into some of Andreas’ talks, what makes Bitcoin a fascinating open source project and where Bitcoin may be going. We discuss his latest book Mastering Ethereum and the process behind writing his latest of two O’Reilly books.
Andreas has spoken in front of audiences at every major Bitcoin conference and senate and finance committees around the world; expect to see him delivering his message at more mainstream developer conferences in 2019. Andreas’ goal for 2019 is delivering hiqh quality, neutral education to as many people as possible in as many languages as possible.
Andreas has two closing thoughts for listeners: recognize the enormous opportunity in front of you and take this opportunity to develop your skills in this space and, instead of buying cryptocurrency, think about earning it. Andreas has a keen eye for world changing technology, sit back and hope you enjoy our conversation!
A big thank you to Seattle Technical College and SeaGL for lending us space for this interview!
Show Links
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos List of Published Books
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos List of Videos
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos Translation / Subtitle Project
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos Channel on YouTube
- Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- The Internet of Money Volumes 1 and 2 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Cypherpunk Philosophy
- Cryptography
- 5 stages of grief
- Highlights: The Internet of Money - Vol 2, Andreas Antonopoulos
- Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money (Blockchain Africa talk)
- Bitcoin Whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto via lopp.net
- University of Nicosia, Master of Science in Digital Currency Program
- University of Nicosia, Syllabus for DFIN-511, MOOC 10 Introduction to Digital Currencies
- University of Nicosia, Free Introduction to Digital Currencies MOOC
- Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
- Keeping Digital Communities Weird
- Bitcoin Security: Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Linux Repository
- Linux.org
- Monoculture
- Honey Pots
- Two Factor Authentication - 2FA, Auth0
- Two Factor Auth (2FA) List
- ZeroMQ
- Mimblewimble
- Mimblewimble Whitepaper, via Scaling Bitcoin
- The Solvay Conference, via Rare Historical Photos
- Bitcoin Taproot for Anonymous Smart Contracts via bitcoinnews.com
- [bitcoin-dev] Graftroot: Private and efficient surrogate scripts under the taproot assumption by Gregory Maxwell
- Lightning Network
- SeaGL
- Seattle Technical College
