Bitcoin, Blockchain
& Big Implications
From blockchain beginner and tech neophyte to savvy savant,
your fluency in emergent tech starts here.
Choose your own adventure.
The topics below are the entry points to various explorations.
If you are new, start with 101 and Core Concepts. There is no wrong answer here, and
there is plenty of cross-pollination and correlation so start anywhere,
just start exploring.
A perfect place to get the real building blocks (pardon the pun) of decentralized technology — what makes it different? How, in very broad terms, does it work? This is your starting block for basics and fundamentals.
Decentralization, Transparency, Immutability
What makes blockchain technology unique? Why is it being called the “second digital age”? This channel explores the technology’s most important aspects.
From finance to fashion, supply chain to voting, this section goes into detail on the changes we are likely to see in specific industries, and what startups are already taking on the dominant systems.
So what does this all mean? Where are we headed? What are the optimistic outcomes and what are the prospective threats? Many areas stand to be strengthened and improved by blockchain technology, but it will be massively disruptive and is not without hazard.
With close to 2,000 different tokens and innumerable startups in the blockchain industry, what should we focus on? Who has a fighting chance of success? Most importantly, who should we listen to and who is nothing more than a fraudster?
What will decentralized technology do for humanity? How will it impact developing economies? Here, we will explore what it means to “bank the unbanked,” the ways “peer-to-peer” can help our global neighbors, and how “bottom-up” technologies stand to benefit us all.
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Core Concepts
Shannon breaks down the concepts of transparency, immutability, and decentralization.
Understanding Blockchain in Two Minutes
Over the past decade, an alternative digital paradigm has slowly been taking shape at the edges of the internet. This new paradigm is the blockchain.
What Is Blockchain?
By using math and cryptography, Blockchain is challenging the status quo in a radical way. Will governments and financial institutions embrace it?
Blockchain in 5 Levels of Difficulty
WIRED challenged political scientist and blockchain researcher Bettina Warburg to explain blockchain technology to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.
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