The History of Bitcoin: How We Got Here
summary
Panelists trace concrete turning points: people buy bitcoin by sending cash in the mail, miners trade OTC and mine on parents’ power, early exchanges implode (MtGox) while BitInstant and hacks expose operational risk, segwit and P2SH arrive as soft fork engineering workarounds, the long-running block size wars force politics into protocol choices, ASIC preorders and Ponzi-like sales reveal hardware risks, privacy coins suffer inflation bugs, Blockstream launches satellites, and remittance and custody markets slowly industrialize.
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chapters (28)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Peter Thiel
- 3:37How I got into Bitcoin
- 6:05Money laundering
- 7:25Mining gold
- 8:27Early otc deals
- 9:06Merchas group
- 12:00Soft forks
- 12:58Development
- 14:51Politics
- 16:31Block Size Wars
- 18:49Why Bitcoin is Different
- 20:31Bitcoin Quora
- 21:56Bitcoin Inflation Bug
- 24:34Hard Fork
- 25:55Satoshis Theory
- 27:50Softforks
- 35:52Bitcoin Scams
- 38:55Silk Road
- 39:54Scams
- 40:48Scammers
- 41:30Raising Money
- 42:44Early Exchanges
- 46:59BitInstant
- 48:03Canada
- 49:51Global Marketplace
- 51:44Bitcoin Narratives
- 54:17Bitcoin Remittance
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