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See this RT clip at the 4 minute mark
http://youtu.be/6PPBVIktY28?t=4s (http://youtu.be/6PPBVIktY28?t=4s)

Informative news channel.

Mainstream news going to become obsolete to youtube news sooner than most people think.

I don't really understand how this is supposed to work, I'd like a concrete example

This is actually a very shitty interview. Discussion is waaaaaaay too abstract. The guy should have tangible examples that normal, everyday people can relate to.
He's on television, talking to a wide audience. He isn't giving a presentation at a developer forum

i agree contracts can be powerful tools. yet the way EVERYONE explains it seems very wishy-washy,

In fairness, most people won't have a tremendous amount of use for smart contracts until crypto becomes more prevalent.  If it sounds like he's giving a presentation, it's probably deliberate to get attention from big business and venture capitalists rather than the general public.  I get the impression he knows what he's doing and putting the free advertising to good use.

Solid segment but RT is really difficult to take seriously.

Isn't this a scaled down version of Open Transactions that can't do microtransactions or ensure the safety of deposits with voting pools?

This would be better described as a scaled up version of Open transactions (for financial traders/investors/speculators/natural risk producers and consumers) that can not only do microtransactions, but ensures safety of deposits through a pure bitcoin smart contract solution through the bitcoin blockchain (no off chain transactions, no sidechains, not alternative blockchains - all bitcoin).

It also - as I understand - allows users to trade over 75,000 tickers of securities in ALL major asset classes and vehicles in ALL major exchanges throughout the world

They've done more to cover stories than the usual corporate-owned news outlets, that's for sure.
USA news is a joke, honestly.

Vice? Pbs? NY Times? Your argument is invalid.

Vice - Started in toronto, is global - not a USA owned news outlet (ref: http://www.vice.com/shane-smith )
PBS - Oh look, they're funded by corporations and "government agencies" - I'm sure they never get that phone call to pull a show, lol (ref: http://www.pbs.org/producing/funding/)
NY Times - Well, besides stonewalling on the NSA story - hey, we can't have REAL coverage in a US Publication (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times "Ethics Incidents" section) The Ochs-Sulzberger family trust controls roughly 88 percent of the company's class B shares, with good 'ol "Carlos Slim" pumping in the rest.

Nice one, you have an old monied family and a Mexican billionaire calling the shots - not to mention their checkered history with owners influencing stories. Not really good examples.

Your UC wallet is stored on your computer, yes? So it can be hacked. Not so with OT.

OT can do real-time instantaneous microtransactions for something like 1/1,000,000 of a penny, for almost nothing, drawing from bitcoins stored on servers that cannot steal your funds. How can you do this? You say "pure bitcoin" as if that's a selling point, but as I understand it there's nothing insecure about off-chain transactions within OT. It's all secure crypto.

decent watch, thx for the link op

Excellent points. Anyone who thinks pbs or the nytimes is not a government authoritarian mouthpiece hasn't been paying attention.