Chaos Communication Congress

cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc.: revolutionary tech? (34x116)

Air date: Dec 29, 2017

Speaker: Zooko Bitcoin arrived eight years ago, and has now spawned a dazzling array of follow-on technologies, including smart contracts, censorship-resistant computation, trustless databases (“blockchains”) and more. This talk attempts to highlight a few of the most significant developments in both technology and in society's response to it, including some nation-state governments banning cryptocurrencies and/or launching their own cryptocurrencies.