The Greatest Crypto Explanation Ever? Understand Bitcoin and Crypto Like Never Before (from 2017)

In this talk, Andreas explains why Bitcoin and open public blockchains are going to transform not only the world of finance, but the internet itself. Even though it has been termed "the internet of money," people are beginning to realise that this is something more than just money, and certainly more than what they're being told. This talk has been called the Greatest Crypto Explanation of ALL time.
This talk is featured in The Internet of Money volume 3, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: aantonop.com/shop
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Bitcoin
2:21 What is money?
5:08 Money as a content-type
6:01 Borderless money
7:02 The children born today will not know a world in which banks exist
7:55 The bitcoin protocol
11:32 More than a thousand other cryptocurrencies have been created
12:24 Large corporations and crypto
13:25 Distributed consensus
14:19 The unbanked and centralized systems
16:59 Permissionless
This talk took place at the Internet Days ("Internetdagarna") conference during November 20-21st 2017 at the Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden: antonopoulos.com/event/the-in...
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[@briojaxen]

The hardest working man in Bitcoin today. A man talking passionately, and with a deep knowledge about a subject he loves. A must for all Bitcoin users old and new. Always good to watch if you ever lose the faith.

[@thecryptopoet]

PLEASE, do more of these talks and post them :) They were a key driver to understand this space and stay here for the last 7 years.

[@dustx]

Also in a quest for learning things. This is a nice journey though. Andreas is excellent

[@80amnesia]

Hands down Andreas is the real Crypto/Bitcoin evangelist

[@aimes2]

Andreas in the zone here 🔥🔥🔥 peak performance 💪

[@ZacheryGlass]

This is Ted talk quality

[@scryptog7853]

I traveled across the border to see Andreas in 2018. When returning the border guard asked about my travels & was suspicious why I would drive 4 hours to see a "tech talk" when we had Ted talks locally. One of the most important & life changing events I've ever attended.

[@JesseGyger]

You say everything I wish I could say to my friends that now ask me about Bitcoin. I have to admit that I try and steal some of your lines. You have an amazing ability to structure sentences in a way that sounds very epic. You provide a great service to the crypto community and hope you someday come to Michigan.

[@friendlywanderer6692]

I freaking love this man.

[@MatsuYoda]

*Educate the masses about BITCOIN* *BUY BITCOIN* *HODL BITCOIN*

[@ntggl20]

Wrong !!!! Buy Bitcoin and USE Bitcoin !!!!

[@ILordSpawnI]

Can't use Bitcoin or you will bleed in fees

[@ntggl20]

ILordSpawnI then wait for micropayments.....

[@SnoopyDoofie]

Greed, greed, greed, greed....

[@Gurucervecero]

Step 1 buy bitcoin Step2 ???? Step 3 Profit :P

[@camraid9]

Bless you Andreas for helping everyone appreciate the gravity of bitcoin.

[@hodlersweekly9374]

What a beautiful speech.

[@AlmostEntertaining]

Thanks Andreas, I consider this your most powerful speech so far. Excellent.

[@THEFORGOTTENGRACE]

The best speech ever. Love from Monaco.

[@SIfaz]

Andreas you are a legend

[@gunnerfreemen1000]

I would give my life for this man.

[@chris15325]

We should give this guy some more BTC. He is the voice of bitcoin and fights the big fight

[@ederrocha1458]

Watching at 1:57 am in Brazil, just fantastic. Thank you Andreas!

[@billyzig]

Thank you Andreas. You are an awesome presenter.

[@1min_bitcoin]

진짜 지려버리는 강의

[@thefuture420]

aantonop never ceases to amaze

[@bveld]

Amazing presentation, thank you Andreas!

[@grog8164]

What a pleasure to listen adreas's talk, take care !

[@hlqa7938]

Andreas M. Antonopoulos totally rocks!!!

[@ivanefremov1479]

Andreas simply great! Thank you for your keen work!

[@Sailainn]

This video needs to be trending!

[@KylanHurt]

Talk about a well-polished speech. Love it!

[@DanielDerDenis]

This is a great video Andreas! And I far as I understand, you and me have a different opinion about which implementation will lead on the way to this future but you left this out of this talk entirely and I appreciate that a lot. This talk is a pure vision of the worlds future - neutral, innovative and goal oriented based on our shared believes - Thank you!

[@Tackleqb]

WOWOWOW this is amazing!!!!!

[@filipgrad3560]

Andreas, as usual, delivers it. He just keeps kicking ass. I love it.

[@604RPM]

Great video! I'll be sharing this with several close friends. A request: Can you do a talk, going into moderate depth about side/drive chains? There's been a lot of buzz/fear about them recently! Thanks for everything you do!

[@skyblue9991]

So excited to see what the future has in store!!!

[@yianniskteniadakis223]

Andreas great video again !!! Take care...Regards from Crete

[@FernandoVillalpandojr]

I wish I watched this three years ago. Great deep talk!

[@wliu003]

Thank you.

[@mywaycarpet]

I can’t stop watching and learning!! Andreas, you are brilliant. Thank you for what you do for us! Thanks again, Sam The Carpet Man®

[@philipdru4782]

looking good andreas, very fit. thank you for all your work

[@staycontent]

excellent stuff.

[@SarahVision]

Lovvvvvveeee this stuff! ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ Thank you for the video's Andreas! Mind-bending, and super ridiculously exciting!! You make this stuff easier to understand than a lot of people I've come across so far.... THANK YOU! 🙏🏼

[@gsheverything_2716]

Love listening to this guy man

[@donnymat007]

Andreas will always be remembered among the legends of the Crypto birth..Total respect to him, articulated in a way even the basic minded people (like me ..ofcourse I have to be put first in the basic intelligence homosapien class) can understand ...Hats off to you sir ..keep these messages coming

[@kokatesatish]

Andreas is a Bitcoin Man. I always love to listen to him.

[@MaximCoppensdEeckenbrugge]

One of your best!

[@lineoflight1111]

That was awesome. Thank-you for the education in 2024 🎉

[@elmachico37]

Thank you so much for this amazing talk. Just wished to had know about it before. You are great!

[@abhi3700orig]

awwwesome!!!!...😇😇❤ed the talk... u r great.. always!..

[@gaoglai7127]

beautiful as always

[@ElLunax]

Muchas gracias por tus puntos de vista, me hicieron explotar la mente, veo un mundo de posibilidades nuevas. Exito en tu dia y tu contenido esta increible. Nota: un gigante gracias por darse el trabajo de traducirlo al español

[@gantsuk]

very informative and food for thoughts!

[@tebogotalane1542]

Brilliant! Andreas... I applaud you. This still doesn't give you the right or authority to call any crypto a scam, since in my limited experience, Bitcoin was also once called a scam. Let the markets be, please don't practice "double speak or double think"... We are with you on this one. Awesome presentation.

[@gratefulwookie618]

8 years later, and still for most people, this concept still has not sunk in

[@gavinbrinck]

Best talk yet..again

[@elbywest5977]

AWESOME!!

[@theghadghad2520]

DOPE! IM LOVIN IT!

[@davidchau1854]

excellent

[@AndrewRobinson-ee7um]

Love him ! ❤

[@alyssaalmanza8245]

Such an amazing video 👏👏👏

[@jayaz9113]

Andreas raised the bars and standards for anything money, business, education related

[@CongNguyen-rn5vn]

well said

[@velezmusic4350]

Protect this man!!!!!

[@tinohartung5572]

Great speach!

[@PamirTea]

Great talk.

[@salmanullahbaig7713]

Make me optimist. Thank you

[@cryptolegion4235]

Thank you for your work you inspire me and give me hope for civilization Hail decentralization

[@AeroPR]

Amazing Video

[@billtanno8960]

This is INTENSE!

[@themuse11]

You. Are. Amazing.

[@Lucky_Red_Fish]

sir you are amazing

[@AllWeatherLife]

This is Fire 🔥

[@tihkal]

incredible

[@jairunet]

Excellent, and his example was right on point this month Africa, specifically Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya (he used it as an example) made that a reality, they made bitcoin a legal tender, and also strike app is allowing remittance across the bitcoin rails and levering the transactions using the lightning network 🤗

[@unknown8088928]

This fellow is so incredibility... correct.

[@ugovaccalluzzo5231]

Grande Andrea!

[@theghadghad2520]

And so it is!

[@alan_ruby86]

Fantastic talk!

[@aantonop]

Thank you kindly!

[@ShaymenRameka]

If your reading this you might be glad to be here right now✌️❤️

[@IsabelleCardinal]

The thumb down is probably a banker. ;-)

[@alan_ruby86]

indeed lol

[@rynula6140]

@@alan_ruby86 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@FlyingFlaneur]

Andreas, I'm a huge fan but I'd really wish you'd expound a little deeper on this: AA: "Imagine a corporation with no directors, no shareholders, no employees, running entirely based on... a few heuristic rules." ME: Yes, I can imagine it and its scary as hell. It at least deserves a good deal of critical thought AA: "What if it's an intelligent charity?" ME: What if it is a stupid charity? For paperclips? wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer I'm not saying this will be the end of us but how long before a 'benevolent' DAO makes us fight each other for quatloos?

[@JKVTrucking007]

❤❤❤

[@SanVB]

Could someone please enlighten me? I bought BTC. Now, to do this I had to proove my identity and show my 3 last payment receipts. I bought them through Bitex which is an exchange platform (I guess) for BTC in Argentina. They set a minimum purchase. So the thing is im confused about the "everyone can access it". I mean at least definitely not in my country... Is this a matter of time? Please share your knowledge with me. Amazing talk btw! Thanks.

[@demon39063]

And so many of these wonderful possibilities are impossible without something like ChainLink. What a time to be alive.

[@beek-art]

hell.. yes! :)

[@Cruelcoil]

antonopoulos in sweden!! :)

[@phoenixeyes7160]

가즈아!!!!!!!!!

[@fahdyazin82]

Would be interesting to know how this will be affected by the change in net neutrality now

It's not that I like it. It's that I LOVE it.

[@jeremiebeaulieu8495]

10:06 Really had to replay this part to make sure my computer did not in fact download something by itself.

[@phoenixeyes7160]

He is genius..its definitely..

[@ShiftSavior]

I hear nothing but facts!

[@silvermediastudio]

Good explanation. But that intro bombed.

[@marquisshepherd_]

I love your logo

[@Brooksielad]

GOAT

[@Sean-Patrick]

Amazing shit!

[@danrayson]

It's no longer uncensorable. Canadian Truckers, anyone? Monero is what people think Bitcoin is.

[@yoshortyb]

Andreas truly is a visionary, but I highly HIGHLY doubt traditional/commercial banking is going anywhere soon. BTC is the force that is able to disrupt banking, but it is going to take longer than he thinks imo.

[@ablemathew3929]

Banks are now talking with congress to change the rules against them be able to custody BTC and crypto thats a big move by the banks

[@HollywoodJoeTussing]

This is one of my favorite talks that you have given. Do you think the US can stop bitcoin like they stopped electric cars in the early 1900's ? How do you feel about Net Neutrality on the 14th?

[@ablemathew3929]

Blackrock and the others would not have an ETF for BTC if that was even close to being done but it is a way of keeping BTC from the average person when they are buying 12x the amount mined

[@wonjaehwang7670]

Frank Yang Sent me here

[@depnox]

In Sweeden, First You Educate the Masses, Then You're Given the Nobel Peace Prize. Give this man a Nomination.

[@weslee511]

Bitcoin and internet seem to have borders....the closest and maybe most important is your ISP

[@howyoutubesmells]

no borders yet

[@noodletitan9086]

BRO IM WATCHING THIS VIDEO HIGH AND WHEN HE SAID WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD I LITERALLY JUST WOKE THE FUCK UP LMAO

[@knpstrr]

why do I need to download the bitcoin client?