Yesterday afternoon Patrick and Jinyoung went to the US Federal Trade Commission to give them a Bitcoin tutorial and answer any questions they had. A lot of FTC staff turned up, probably between 60 and 70. I dialed in via conference line and gave a presentation on consumer protection techniques, specifically I talked about:
- Hardware wallets
- Dispute mediated transactions
- The payment protocol
- Micropayments
It seemed to go down OK and the questions were all pretty reasonable.