Bitcoin Q&A: The obsoletion of legacy systems

How will the traditional financial system adapt to cryptocurrencies? Legacy systems (banks, like horse-and-carriage) are delaying the inevitable. Some people will see the future earlier than others and leave banks. How do we ensure that Bitcoin remains an open and decentralised system in the face of enterprise encroachment? What is at stake? How the internet killed the phone industry. Bitcoin's killer app is about changing how money works. Etheruem is about reinventing the modern corporation.

These questions are from the Polish Bitcoin Congress (Polski Kongres Bitcoin) Warsaw, Poland, the HoshoCon event, and the October Patreon Q&A session, which took place on May 12th, October 11th and October 27th 2018, respectively. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop

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