Adam Back: Two Bitcoin interviews (back-to-back)

Feb 22, 2020

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Bitcoin Has No Integrative Value

Bitcoin and the Stock Supply Ratio

Is Bitcoin a New Digital Commodity?

Is Bitcoin a Better Investment Than Gold?

How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?

Is Bitcoin a Hedge for Geopolitical Uncertainty?

Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Pizpin Network

Bitcoin Redundancy

Bitcoin and Proof of Work

Is the Cryptocurrency System Hard to Understand?

Decentralization and Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Mining Centralization and Survivability

Cryptography and the Immutability of Records

The Collision Resistance of Hash Functions

Is There a Hash Collision?

Is Bitcoin Hard to Steer?

01:01:20 • 5min

Can You Change Hash Function Agility?

01:06:02 • 3min

Is It Possible to Soft-Fork a New Proof of Work?

01:09:26 • 3min

Quantum Computing

01:12:28 • 6min

Post-Quantum Signature Algorithms - Why Not?

01:18:08 • 3min

01:21:30 • 4min

The Problem of Language Complexity in Distributed Systems

01:25:18 • 2min

Bitcoin Application Firewall

01:27:44 • 3min

Is There a Future Direction for Bitcoin?

01:30:33 • 4min

Is Consensus Critical?

01:34:11 • 5min

Is There a Way to Combine Signatures?

01:38:52 • 3min

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - What's Next?

01:41:48 • 3min

Privacy vs Monetary Sovereignty in Bitcoin?

01:44:19 • 4min

Bitcoin Privacy

01:48:17 • 2min

Bitcoin and the Digital Goal Document

01:50:35 • 5min

Cryptocurrency - The Thin End of the Wedge

01:55:48 • 3min

01:58:20 • 5min

Bitcoin Conference - 15 Minutes

02:03:44 • 2min

Bitcoin - A Native Money for the Internet

02:05:28 • 2min

Bitcoin and the Satellite Project

02:07:27 • 2min

The Cost Structure of Bitcoin

02:09:12 • 5min

Is Bitcoin for Everyday Payments?

02:14:02 • 2min

Is Bitcoin a Good Investment?

02:16:16 • 3min

Bitcoin Mining - Is There a Conflict?

02:19:27 • 2min