This talk took place on September 7th 2016 at CTRL Collective for the L.A. Bitcoin Meetup in Los Angeles, California: https://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Bi...

Centralized payments are a powerful force for centralization of the web, creating platforms for content and services that are centralized around a payment processor/aggregator. What happens when payments themselves become decentralized? The nexus of centralization dissolves and the content platforms can become decentralized too. In this talk presented at the Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup, Andreas examines the impact of payments and the re-decentralization of the web.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Back in the day, the web is very decentralized
2:26 Centralization of the web
6:59 Intermediaries
12:26 Peer to peer payment systems
15:16 Bitcoin is the seed that allows us to re-decentralize the web
16:58 Q&A starts
17:14 The software that brings people together, is it not the beginning steps towards a more decentralized marketplace?
19:12 Would it be in their interest that Uber and Airbnb to enable bitcoin payments?
22:20 What will be the incentive or driver for innovation and what will be the monetization of business models for people who would design those services and products?
24:46 How do we get away from being the product and be the solution?
25:47 How can you get decentralized payments with bitcoin when you have this other problem of identity?
28:11 Do you think the government should be out of the equation?
29:44 Centralization and mining in China
37:10 Hark forks
39:20 You've been around the world, what city most impressed you in terms of the bitcoin community?
41:36 Is Satoshi dice good or bad?

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