At the Speed of Money: How Cryptocurrency Will Transform Everything | David Morris | TEDxTampaBay

At TEDxTampaBay, David explores how Bitcoin and related technologies will radically change just about everything. Passionate about the intersection of technology and culture, Dr. David Z. Morris is a researcher with a PhD in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Iowa. As a writer and strategist, David has written about Bitcoin and other technology for Fortune, The Atlantic, Aeon, and Pacific Standard. His academic work has appeared in journals including Technology and Culture and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and he has received research awards from the National Communication Association and the Modern Language Association. He is a former research fellow with both the Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Science and the University of South Florida’s Provost’s Fellows program. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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1. 1Miq594r4XSaAb8T87bELU4huzeDssGiXL
   This is my Bitcoin address I will be evicted from my place. tomorrow and I have no one to look upto but to look for my little brother. Please help us any amount would mean a world to us .
2. IMHO both Bitcoin and ETH/ETC are doomed to fail in the long run as they
   suffer from following fatal design flaws that stem from Blockchain
   technology itself:
   
   The blockchain distributed ledger pioneered by Bitcoin is effective at preventing double-spending, but inherently attracts (1) user cartels in the form of mining monopolies and (2) incompressible delays, as a result of linear verification and a winner-takes-all incentive lottery.
   
   Now we propose to forgo the “blocks” and “chain” entirely, and build a truly distributed ledger system based on a lean graph of cross-verifying transactions, which now become the main and only objects in the system.
   Our new cryptocurrency codenamed “Substar” under active development will be the world’s first unchained (Blockchain-free) decentralized cryptocurrency capable of hyperfast validation (< 1sec) and built-in resistance to 51% and 33% attack vectors that plague all contemporary decentralized cryptocurrencies e.g. Bitcoin and Ethereum. Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, Substar will not be constrained by hardwired extremely slow validation of transactions.
   
   You may view our story here: https://medium.com/@sebrebel2070/humanitys-post-catastrophic-backup-system-a-blockchain-free-decentralized-cryptocurrency-and-a-35817be116dd
   
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3. ONCOIN is the answer , because it has more coin than any other out there. I think Blockchain technology is the best innovation of this century .
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7. John McAfee,  MGT, is all over the security of the blockchain.
8. Bullshit, just a better way for 1% to fake what money actually is.
9. bitcoin. just like the tech stocks in the 90s, just like real estate in the 2000's. nothing backing it except hope n faith it will be sold tomorrow to a bigger sucker for a higher price. physical gold and silver will emerge from obscurity and be proven to be the ultimate money! bitconners be like tech investors in 99, this time is different!
10. CRYPTO CURRENCYS ARE THE NEW SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.. JUST LIKE THOSE LITTLE CARDS HE IS THROWING IN THE AIR... JUST POLLUTION ... THAT WILL
    CAUSE THE NEED FOR A LOT OF CLEAN-UP....
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12. Really loved your presentation. People so need to become educated about this industry!! Thanks for this.
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14. The best new crytocurrency to buy  is XP.
    
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1590538.0/
    
     Source              Pair                    Price   
    1   CoinExchange   XP/BTC      $0.000007      
    2   Novaexchange   XP/LTC      $7.8e-08   
    3   Trade Satoshi   XP/BTC      $0.000007
15. when I can go buy something like a gallon of milk at walmart...then I know its for real.
16. What David Morris is presenting here is a dangerous merger of money, technology and spying : Bitcoin / Blockchain. It's promoted as the solution to the failing financial system we live in today. But Bitcoin / Blockchain is not a solution to the collapsing financial system and the failed institutions (banks, corporations, etc.), because this IS the new world financial order created by the elites, the bankers and the corporations in their attempt to create one world currency. MR ROBOT (financed by USA Network, owned by NBC Universal, owned by COMCAST) promotes it covertly, the WARBURG family promotes it overtly and very aggressively (Bettina Warburg, see Ted Talks) as well as GOLDMAN SACHS (See blockchain video on GoldmanSachs youtube channel). Why? Because if you couple it with the disappearing of physical money + bail-ins + capital controls + "snooper charter"-like laws, you have full spectrum financial dominance over 7 billion people.
    
    Bitcoin also bears the classic tells of a psyop where they always try to play it off as some grassroots or underground movement in order to make everyone want it and bring in their trojan horse. They are doing the same thing with human chipping. It's exactly what they did with Trump. It's like toying with children for them some times. "DON'T VOTE TRUMP" ! The globalists loudly proclaimed. "He's our sworn enemy". What do the masses do ? Even the people who are allegedly in the truth movement ? Give them exactly what they want.
    
    This Blockchain he is talking about is the perfect trackable technology, it's the beginning of the microchipped population (not in their wrist yet, but in their wallet). They underline the fact that Bitcoin is decentralized. We don't care about that... that's not important. What's important is that ALL YOUR TRANSACTIONS (intimate s**t, things you are not proud of buying, pharmaceutical prescriptions, ALL ALL ALL of them) being tracked, stored and made accessible to your insurance company, to the big brother state, the police, the FBI, CIA etc. Are we really out of our minds??
    
    There are so few people that are able to see this dark reality of mass control by use of virtual money ...Just watch the movie IN TIME (2011) and look how the currency (i.e. time, crypto-currency, electronic digits, etc.) was tracked in that movie... amazing...
    
    The problem with bitcoin, eCoin any virtual coin and all crypto-currencies or virtual digits in the bank is that all transactions are virtual, public and ultimately traceable. Orwellianly so : "backdoor, side door" etc. We need currency that is impossible to trace, real (not virtual) and non-dependent on electricity or internet, in order to maintain some privacy and control.
17. Cryptocurrency coming between people faster and faster. Cryptocurrencies using more advanced technologies to come closer to users. What is one problem with cryptocurrency? You can't spend it worldwide. But from april 2017 everything change.
    You will be able to pay in 10.8 million shops with your cryptocurrency everywhere where Visa and Mastercard is accepted. Woooow MainStream coming. First time in history of human kind. Want to know more informations? Send me message on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Naceur Farid
18. Cryptocurrency coming between people faster and faster. Cryptocurrencies using more advanced technologies to come closer to users. What is one problem with cryptocurrency? You can't spend it worldwide. But from april 2017 everything change.
    You will be able to pay in 10.8 million shops with your cryptocurrency everywhere where Visa and Mastercard is accepted. Woooow MainStream coming. First time in history of human kind. Want to know more informations? Send me message on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dany888
19. cool!
20. Bitcoin are good but I want to see it become fast enough, both 'payment and clearing' first, otherwise it 'can't become a 'mainstream currency'. Other worries are it's mining costs, will they be passed onto us directly or indirectly and the real implication of halving the block and or increasing the size? Lastly,Is there some plan to have an accesible record those companies who accept bitcoin in the different countries?