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Andreas Antonopoulos

Teaching Fellow, University of Nicosia · 1 appearance on the record.

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He is an early Bitcoin advocate and educator known for writing foundational textbooks including Mastering Bitcoin, Mastering Ethereum, and The Internet of Money series. He also hosted the podcast Speaking of Bitcoin and served as Chief Security Officer at Blockchain.info.

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3 predictions · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andreas argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Antonopoulos: Over 90% of ICOs will fail
“More than 90% of these ICOs will fail. That's what I foresee. I mean, it's really obvious.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 4:49 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

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Everything Andreas Antonopoulos said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Antonopoulos: State agencies and corporate banks fund most global terrorism
“The truth is that the vast majority of terrorism is funded by state agencies, intelligence agencies, and large corporate banking consortia.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 15:09 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Antonopoulos: Open money protocols will lift billions of people out of poverty
“The flow of money around the world will be detected, dictated by protocols and mathematical structures and the internet, and we will have free flow of money around the world. Now, the impact of that is that it's going to empower billions of people and pull the…”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 13:34 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Prediction Held up
Antonopoulos: Over 90% of ICOs will fail
“More than 90% of these ICOs will fail. That's what I foresee. I mean, it's really obvious.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 4:49 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Insight
Antonopoulos: Most wars start as economic embargoes rather than economic liberalization
“Economic liberalization has been the primary way of reducing conflict and violence around the world, not economic restrictions. In fact, most wars start as economic embargoes and push push populations into extremism.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 14:24 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Opinion
Antonopoulos: Crypto is a 'get free quick' scheme, not get-rich-quick
“It's, as someone said, it's a get free quick scheme kind of disguised as a get rich quick scheme. And it's not a get rich quick scheme. It can burn you badly because of volatility.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 9:53 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Insight
Antonopoulos: Crypto behaves like penny stocks; most should strictly limit exposure
“It behaves very much like a penny stock at the moment, and most people are not equipped to handle volatile investments like that should probably limit it to a very small part of their portfolio.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 20:25 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Disclosure
Antonopoulos charges a 20% premium for fiat payments over Bitcoin
“It's X thousand dollars in Bitcoin, and it's 20% more if you want to pay me by wire transfer, because I'll have to talk to a bank to figure out what went wrong, because almost always it goes wrong. So I get paid very quickly in cryptocurrencies, so I charge a …”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 21:44 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Insight
Antonopoulos: Custodial Crypto Funds Replicate Vulnerabilities of Traditional Banking
“So what are these crypto funds doing? They're basically holding crypto for thousands of investors on their behalf as custodians. That's business as usual. That's traditional banking only now with a new currency. The problem with that Is that if they hold the c…”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 25:28 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Disclosure
Antonopoulos: Not involved in ICOs and advises against investing in them
“I'm not involved in any of the ICOs. I've spoken against investing in the ICOs, and in fact, I'm not really interested in cryptocurrencies as an investment vehicle.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 6:13 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Antonopoulos predicts crypto crowdfunding will become a major global funding model
“Maybe in 10 years, once that space becomes mature, it's going to be a very significant new form of funding that is global in nature, that is open to everyone, that is borderless and transnational”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 6:47 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Disclosure
Antonopoulos earns most of his income in crypto and avoids buying it
“I earn the majority of my income directly in cryptocurrencies and have done so for three years. So I don't buy them. I don't invest in them.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 21:21 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Antonopoulos: Cryptocurrencies protected his mother's retirement during the Greek banking crisis
“Due to the crisis in Greece when my mother's retirement was at risk in the Greek banks you know, cryptos, actually cryptocurrencies saved the day for her because they allowed her to protect her retirement, which was cash-based, from failing Greek banks and cur…”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 10:24 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty

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Appearances (1)

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796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty Sep 28, 2017 17m
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