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
Duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the question why you would need to build such a thing. Answering the question will take us from fighting surveillance to libertarian theories of economics and the pursuit of human mortality and all of thes agendas fed into the creation of bit coin and the cryptocurrency a block chain currency today. Its not just the story of building a new payment platform but a deliberate attempt to engineer a future society through the mechanism of money a utopian project i like to call the speculative currency projects
And this is one how and several competing wise. How do you go about getting the digital equivalent for currency for cash and coining it is a significant technical challenge and you need to create a Digital Object that is difficult to forge and duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the question why you would need to build such a thing. Answering the question will take us from fighting surveillance to libertarian theories of economics and the pursuit of human mortality and all of thes agendas fed into the creation of bit coin and the cryptocurre
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