The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a book that consists of transcriptions of 10 of Andreas's talks. The focus of this book is on the "why" of bitcoin and the implications it has for privacy, sovereignty, innovation and financial inclusion in the developing world. If you are looking for the technical details and the "how" of Bitcoin I suggest you have a look at Andreas' other book Mastering Bitcoin which is available as a free download.
I've collected the videos that are transcribed in The Internet of Money below. While the transcribed text is cleaned up and edited for readability the content is essentially the same as the talks in the videos below. The videos also include extensive question and answer sections at the end which I often find more interesting than the talks themselves.
What is bitcoin?
In this short, "TED style" talk, Andreas delivers an introduction to bitcoin for a general non-technical audience.
Delivered in Athens in November of 2013, this is one of the most shared bitcoin videos, an easy way to explain bitcoin to anyone.
Peer-to-peer money
Money is an ancient technology. In this presentation, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines the historical context of money as a technology and analyses the inflection points that lead to the most recent innovation of peer-to-peer money.
Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money
A talk about privacy, identity, surveillance, hierarchies and the future of network-centric private and secure money.
Innovators, Disruptors, Misfits and bitcoin
A historical perspective on innovation and the "whitewashing" of the challenges, ridicule and resistance innovators face, from the perspective of bitcoin. Presented at Detroit Maker Faire 2014 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Bitcoin: Dumb Networks, Innovation and the Festival of the Commons
A talk about bitcoin, network architecture, decentralization, innovation, and the economics of open systems.
Bitcoin and the coming "Infrastructure Inversion"
A talk by Andreas M. Antonopoulos about how new technologies are initially built on old infrastructures until an "infrastructure inversion" happens and they replace the old infrastructure. Comparisons to the automobile, electricity and internet explain the concept and predict a similar future for bitcoin and financial infrastructure.
Currency as a Language
Bitcoin Design Principles
In this talk, Andreas looks at the design principles, metaphors and words used in bitcoin and how they relate to the user experience.
Money as a Content Type and the Grand Arc of Technology
Presented in New Zealand, at BitcoinSouth 2015. In this talk, Andreas discusses the evolution of technology along a "grand arc", from grandiosity, to... grandparents. He also looks at how bitcoin expresses money as a content type, changing the nature of payments into a form of generic communication.
Elements of Trust: Unleashing Creativity
In this talk in Berlin, Andreas looks at the inner structure of bitcoin and how high-level financial and trust applications are composed from smaller elements. Using analogies from Lego blocks to a chef creating new recipes, this talk highlights the connection between creativity and the flexibility offered by fine-grained components.
Scaling Bitcoin
In this talk, Andreas looks at scaling as an ongoing process. Using the example of the Internet which has "failed to scale, gracefully for 25 years", Andreas discusses the scaling debate and looks at how bitcoin will scale over the next several years.
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