Readers. Thank you, everyone. Its such a pleasure to be here and ive really enjoyed this opopportunity to talk to you about the by far the most peculiar book ive ever written in a longshot. I hope to share that with you today as well as frame some of the questions and issues that it raises. This is a book of one how and several competing whys. The how is, h would you go about creating a digital equivalent for currency, cash and coin . This is a significant technical challenge. You need to create an object trivial to transact, impossible to forge. It must be easy to verify to prove it is what it claims to be under conditions and con saints for all kinds of people and it must be able to carry the information about what it is and what its worth without generating information about how its used for by whom. And it has to do this on platforms, networks a and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction laws and records in their very functioning. In other words, figuring
Restrictions here in the bay area are still very much in place, and discussions about changing that are just that, discussions. But santa cruz did give us an early look how people might react when some of those restrictions are lifted. It was a cold day and a weekday but that didnt stop some people from the bay area from heading to santa cruz after hearing beaches were no longer offlimits. Whoohoo. So excited. I just cant wait to get in the ocean. Really loving it. That excitement is something Bay Area Public Health officials will watch carefully, before considering whether to open similar waterfront s ocean beach in san francisco, pillar point har bar in san mant county or Jack London Square in london. Im told Bay Area Public Health officers are gathering input from numerous sources and want any decision to be consistent from one county to the next. Reopening beaches in part cautiously. If we see large gatherings of crowds we may need to close some or all of the parks and beaches agai
Treat those with coronavirus. We are going to reroute our medical Health Experts and people, our nurses, and other Health Support to help manage and maintain and support the people who have tested positive. Reporter for weeks, supervisors have been pushing the mayor to move the homeless into the largely vacant hotel rooms. They say the outbreak was tragically predictable. Nobody should be living in those environments, and so, what i am saying is, move these people now, and we should have moved them a month ago, and the people that you could not move, for whatever reason, should have been sleeping 6 feet apart, should have had temperature checks, should have had masks and gloves. They did not do that, and so now we have an outbreak. Reporter that can house up to 340 people at a time, the supervisor says many of the residents inside the shelter are waiting on the results of coronavirus tests for themselves. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As we get further out,
Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0
Trivial to transact but impossible to forge and duplicate. And to verify they must be able to carry this information about any information so it has to do some platforms and networks and machines to generate effectively those transaction laws and records so to figure out how to make cash digital is a tall order which raises the question of why you would need to build such a thing in answering that question is surveillance to build parallel covert societies to libertarian economics and money to the pursuit of mortality all of these agendas fed into the creation of that coin and cryptocurrency. This isnt a story of just payment platform but a test to engineer a future society. A technological project i call the speculative fiction these currencies were platforms with the aid they are imagining. And then to inspire fear or hope and not just in relation to the future but one of the things i came to enjoy as i was working on the book is the currency world prick on one of the many terms of p