The most compelling Bitcoin presentation I've ever seen: Andreas M. Antonopoulos

[Sitarow]

My only advice would be to not use derogatory terms for describing the FED, WU etc. Objectively explaining improvements over the established system is enough. Sure you can throw a joke at them but don't call them crooks, imo.

I disagree.  There's no reason to sugarcoat anything.  We need more people who aren't afraid to "call a spade a spade".

Conveying thoughts with even a twinge of irritation in your voice will result in them completely discounting you as a source of reliable information.  It sucks, but this is the truth.

This is the card many in society have to play in order to get taken seriously by those who are higher up in the hierarchical ladder

Bitcoin has a tendency of leveling the playing field. Soon you will see people playing with cards facing up. Blockchain anyone?

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[aantonop]

I couldn't agree more: I try to tailor the tone and content to the audience, as much as possible. See for example, my appearance on Bloomberg and even Max Keiser, where I am facing a general audience and I offer a perspective focused on technology innovation, security innovation and growth opportunity for a new industry.

In the Vegas case however, I had 500 people in the audience who had spent 2 days listening to the entrepreneurs talk money. Which is fine and necessary, but I felt that a different PoV should also be voiced, on the last day, on the last panel. So I tailored my content and tone to my audience: the 500 people who came with passion for bitcoin, not my four (very gracious and patient) co-panelists. Not my best work, or my proudest moment as a panelist.

I do dozens of interviews per week and appear before a variety of audiences several times a week too. Some of those come out well, but not all. Sometimes I miss the mark on my audience. Not everyone cares for what I have to say, but I speak from the heart and I'm always open to changing my mind and my tone as I learn.

Thank you for the honest feedback.

[hyphymikey]

Well done Andreas!

I just sent those videos to about 50 people who I've talked to about bitcoin but just don't grasp it completely. This will help them a ton.

[medUSA]

Just halfway through the series. This guy is good! Knows what he is talking about, good flow, has humour...
The series consists of 8 bite-size 5mins videos, highly recommended:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSdnuFOLV4nMiQG9gvPBX_VQUf6E4COM

[Bugpowder]

I prefer the longer form.  Cause the bite size chunks don't have the Q&A session. 

[zeetubes]

Taking in all of the above comments, a slightly toned down version of this presentation would be a great intro for potential investors or other interested parties. The comment about replacing the Fed with 100 lines of code is priceless. The dissing of western union, although absolutely correct, could be replaced by a more humorous comment to tone it down without softening the message. Facts and figures can never be taken the wrong way by any audience. Great work!

[Kouye]

I'm currently making a transcript of those 8 episodes, and not being a native speaker, I have a few (as he talks very clearly) words I'm having difficulties with.

Episode 1, 4:05
And so I spent the last 6 months obsessively consuming and writing and coding and reading everything I could about bitcoin, until I lost so much weight that my family <> intervention

Episode 8, 3:46
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone <>

Can anyone help, please?

[LiteCoinGuy]

nice talks. i saw every

[medUSA]

Episode 1, 4:05
And so I spent the last 6 months obsessively consuming and writing and coding and reading everything I could about bitcoin, until I lost so much weight that my family <> intervention

....so much weight that my family staged me an intervention

Can't catch the one in episode 8, sounded like "billets", may be others can help

[Kouye]

Episode 1, 4:05
And so I spent the last 6 months obsessively consuming and writing and coding and reading everything I could about bitcoin, until I lost so much weight that my family <> intervention

....so much weight that my family staged me an intervention

Can't catch the one in episode 8, sounded like "billets", may be others can help

Thank you!
I'll make the transcript available to everyone - so that blockgenesis' team can translate it easily - once it's done, as well as a french translation (and maybe a french subbed version of the 8 episodes, if my friend accepts my 0.25BTC offer to sub the videos in french  )

I'm doing this because this is by far the best introduction to bitcoin I have ever heard.

[Kouye]

More questions, sorry...

I also still need an answer for the "billets" (episode 8, 3:46)
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone <>

Episode 5, 2:46
Bitcoin also, for the first time, converts money, or asset ownership, into a <>
Content-type?

Episode 3, 1:25
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves, they ferment them with an enzyme and then they feed them to <> and then they eat the <>.



By the way, Andreas, this looks wrong.
Leafcutter ants actually practise agriculture (of some sort of fungus), not cattle-breeding.
They don't eat insects, but the fungus that they grow (which is still amazing).

Also, There are actually hierarchical systems in nature, dominance, subordinance, and hierarchy can be observed in a lot of species, where one leader takes decisions for the other, and even some kind of "elections" which are usually fights for power (but how is that so different?  )

You might want to adapt your (great) speach a little.  

[shawshankinmate37927]

I also still need an answer for the "billets" (episode 8, 3:46)
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone <>

"minutes"

Episode 5, 2:46
Bitcoin also, for the first time, converts money, or asset ownership, into a <>
Content-type?

Yes, "content type"

Episode 3, 1:25
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves, they ferment them with an enzyme and then they feed them to <> and then they eat the <>.

"aphids" and "aphid larvae"

[Kouye]

I also still need an answer for the "billets" (episode 8, 3:46)
They can use M-Pesa, global payment network based on cellphone <>

"minutes"

Episode 5, 2:46
Bitcoin also, for the first time, converts money, or asset ownership, into a <>
Content-type?

Yes, "content type"

Episode 3, 1:25
Leafcutter ants don't eat the leaves, they ferment them with an enzyme and then they feed them to <> and then they eat the <>.

"aphids" and "aphid larvae"

Many thanks shawshankinmate37927!

EDIT : Full english transcription available!

http://pastebin.com/8rQikEv6

Credits goes to a friend of mine who did most of the work.

[DooMAD]

I particularly like the parts about the inherent problems with hierarchical systems and possible implementations for voting and governance.  Time to decentralise the way we run our countries in the same way that Bitcoin has decentralised money.

[giszmo]

I'll make the transcript available to everyone - so that blockgenesis' team can translate it easily - once it's done, as well as a french translation (and maybe a french subbed version of the 8 episodes, if my friend accepts my 0.25BTC offer to sub the videos in french  )

Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right.

[lumierre]

Great presentation!

Bitcoin, although practically impossible, could go down but the idea of a bitcoin won't.

[Kouye]

Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right.

I should be able to post the videos subbed in english soon (as well as the subtitles files).
Since already synchronised, it'll be quite easy to translate, then.
But expect french from us, I don't speak spanish at all, apart from the survival stuff (like "una pinta, por favor", which might not even be correct but usually works).
Hopefully, there will be more translations from other people, though.

[ethought]

I couldn't agree more: I try to tailor the tone and content to the audience, as much as possible. See for example, my appearance on Bloomberg and even Max Keiser, where I am facing a general audience and I offer a perspective focused on technology innovation, security innovation and growth opportunity for a new industry.

In the Vegas case however, I had 500 people in the audience who had spent 2 days listening to the entrepreneurs talk money. Which is fine and necessary, but I felt that a different PoV should also be voiced, on the last day, on the last panel. So I tailored my content and tone to my audience: the 500 people who came with passion for bitcoin, not my four (very gracious and patient) co-panelists. Not my best work, or my proudest moment as a panelist.

I do dozens of interviews per week and appear before a variety of audiences several times a week too. Some of those come out well, but not all. Sometimes I miss the mark on my audience. Not everyone cares for what I have to say, but I speak from the heart and I'm always open to changing my mind and my tone as I learn.

Thank you for the honest feedback.

Great presentation Andreas!!

I think you are one of the best voices Bitcoin has.

I like pretty much all the presentations and interviews I have seen you make.

Keep up the good work!

[Wilikon]

Thank you for recording this and for the kind words and support.

I hope to do many more of these presentations at local bitcoin communities, where I get the most value and best questions from the audience!

Just looking at your eyes I could tell the passion. Very good job. Next step would be to target regions of the US were you would not expect anyone to know about bitcoin; regions hit by every level of "crisis", not just preaching to the bitcoin community. I understand this is a long and hard journey though.

Thank you again.

[JohnsonRobinson]

Andreas,

just a great presentation!  

Cryptocurrencies truly are a revolution toward achieving a greater-good / balanced world.