Bitcoin, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bitcoin comes up
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 1:42 Alex Rampell The, the Lucy, to use a, uh, anthropology term for you of this space was Bitcoin, but Bitcoin was the face that launched a thousand ships.
- ▶ 4:33 Alex Rampell So to give you a sense of how this works for Bitcoin, again, I remember I mentioned that a ledger is a consensus on facts.
- ▶ 6:32 Alex Rampell Is the two largest blockchain efforts of Bitcoin and Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:24 Alex Rampell He owns about a million Bitcoin, uh, at a trading price of about 6700 dollars today is worth about 6.7 billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Alex Rampell But the really interesting thing about Bitcoin is that it is, it's rules without rulers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:38 Alex Rampell Bitcoin itself was meant to be an effort that would be a new currency.
- ▶ 11:41 Alex Rampell And again, if you think that Bitcoin is silly, I would turn your attention to gold being a little bit more silly.
- ▶ 12:21 Alex Rampell They weigh you when you go in and go out to make sure you're not stealing anything, and somehow people believe that this has value, and I would posit that Bitcoin is no less absurd, and more and more people keep believing that Bitcoin has… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Alex Rampell But the real innovation of Bitcoin, in our opinion, is actually not Bitcoin. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Alex Rampell Bitcoin was the first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Alex Rampell Think of Bitcoin as having a limited vocabulary. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:12 Alex Rampell The takeaways that I'd love to leave you with, because there's a lot here, and, you know, Bitcoin often gets grouped in with everything else that's crypto, and then is that store of value, is that money? 2 times in the scene
Giovanni Vigna
- ▶ 6:08 Giovanni Vigna Of an algorithm, the performance, you want to be able to do some Bitcoin analysis fast enough, or you want to be able to cover a program and extract the behavior, the semantics, you want to be reliable, ah, you want to be usable, but these…
Dan Boneh
- ▶ 0:24 Dan Boneh I'll talk a little bit about Bitcoin and some other work we've been doing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57 Dan Boneh So my billions of dollar slides is gonna be on the Bitcoin capitalization. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:53 Dan Boneh Bitcoin is among the first to really, really take off. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:27 Dan Boneh Of course, you may have heard there's a certain, ah, Bitcoin exchange that asks people to give them their Bitcoins, and it just forgot to give the Bitcoins back. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 Dan Boneh So the idea is that a Bitcoin exchange would kind of run this every day, publish this proof, you know, delete all the old proofs, but every day, 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Dan Boneh No, no, no, no, no, because remember, in the set of Bitcoin addresses that it, that it used, it's gonna have all of its addresses in that set. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 38:19 Chris Dixon Um, we're, we're very interested in Bitcoin, which is a sort of a more radical take on new next generation finance. 3 times in the scene