In this talk, Andreas questions whether our ways of measuring success in Bitcoin and open blockchains (such as price, market capitalisation, or being able to buy coffee at Starbucks) make sense, what these metrics reveal about our individual goals, and why we should instead focus on fostering communities founded on principles we want to see flourish in the world.

This talk is featured in The Internet of Money volume 3, which can be purchased in multiple languages in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://aantonop.io/tiomv3ebooks/

Chapters
0:00 How would you measure success in this space?
2:59 Why are you still interested in this technology?
5:08 Why bitcoin is important to me
6:55 The measure of success is not mainstream adoption
17:54 What is the measure of success for the internet?
23:46 Do you think that big corporations/governments are going to start their own cryptocurrencies?
28:10 Who needs bitcoin?
29:29 Measure of success to me is keeping the principles
31:27 Market capitalisation
32:56 What do the banks have that we don't?
35:00 The measure of success is liberty

This talk took place on May 23rd 2018 as part of 'The Internet of Money Tour' at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland: https://antonopoulos.com/event/dublin...

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