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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Etherium and blockchain - the future?

 https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/ethereum-will-replace-visa-in-a-couple-of-years-says-founder/

Vitalik Buterin - the dude who created Etherium 3 years ago at the age of 19, talks with Naval Ravikant -  Founder and CEO of Angellist..... 

The bottom line - Blockchain will be creating a disruption in the financial industries - and I can see why banks are nervous . 

Naval likens crypto currencies to a brain virus - once you know how they work that's all you think about! 

Buterin segments the world into those that who’s already heard of bitcoin and those who haven't 

So - What is a Crypto currency?

 "A peer to peer digital currency - a Platform for distributed applications in a trusted decentralised way . "

"It's a system to record how much money has been spent and by whom ...How much money a person has the right to spend at any given time "

"A central database to store how much money everyone in the blockchain has" - but the genius is how to create this in a decentralised way - where there is no "central server" 

"A decentralised system that contains some type of shared memory"

Etherium is a bunch of decentralised applications that can be created to account for transactions

Vitalik likened the base of a crypto to a vending machine - A vending machine encoded a set of rules -you  put $2 in machine - water comes out - you don't and water comes out - that's Bad - you do and water comes out - that's good . 

Can replace money Wall Street , protocols , visa - within 5-10 years 

Etherium is about Blockchain that understands a general purpose programming language - Buterin likens it to a platform - similar to an IOS or Android - where applications can be created on the platform 

Blockchain currently processes 3 transactions per second - will max out at 4

Etherium processes 5 will max out at 6

Current transactions - visa , IOT - is 100 of thousands per second - long way for crypto to replace - but it will!



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