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Why is that important for those 5 billion people? Because if you are one of the 5 billion people that lives on cash--there is a little over a billion people who have credit cards and debit cards, right?
And most of the world does not have that. And so they see that this revolution[? They cannot benefit in any way. And they have to rely on cash. Cash is expensive to keep at home. It's expensive to transport. All payments need that you move there physically, usually by public transportation that is slow, increasing the risks of its being stolen.
And it's very expensive to live on cash. And then, when there are problems with a currency like I saw growing up in Argentina, that poor get the worst end of that trade whereas the rich can move their assets somewhere but the poor can't.
So Bitcoin changes all of that. So, now, anybody with need of cash, all you need is a cellphone; anybody with a cellphone can get some bitcoin and participate in the digital economy. And have an alternative to the local currency, if they don't trust it.
So both of those things are incredible. If you ask an average person in Africa, a farmer in Africa or a person in Asia, who does not have access to a bank account, 'What do you prefer: Perfect access to information or perfect access to money? It's nice to be able to look up, say, how far Jupiter is from the earth. But that's not so crucial if you are a subsistence farmer or a small businessperson in Uganda. That assumes that you have your basic shelter, food, education covered.
Then it's great to see how far Jupiter is, right? But if we don't have those covered, I prefer to cover those first. And there's lots of people in that group. So, let's talk a little bit about the technical side. We've talked about this before on EconTalk. It remains somewhat mysterious to me; I think we've made some progress when we talked to Nathaniel Popper; and Wences is one of the stars of that book.
That's how I found about I found about you, was in Nathaniel's book. He has a lot of intriguing people in his book. You were one of them. The technical side is hard for a nontechnical person to understand.
The way I understand stand, and correct me and steer me. So, I'm going to send you bitcoin. How does that happen, in terms of what has to take place? What is actually taking place when I do that? I have to--tell me. I was going to actually try and decided I'm going to let you try. So, all of the bitcoins in existence are like a snail[? All the snail in the shell. All of bitcoin is living in a bitcoin address[? I cannot show you a bitcoin that is not attached to a bitcoin address.
So, if you have some bitcoin, by definition they live in some bitcoin address. And what makes that bitcoin address yours is that you have a key that gives you the right to unlock those bitcoins. And the only people who, the only person who can use those bitcoins is the one who has the key to that particular address. So you have a bitcoin address that has 2 bitcoins, and you want to send one of those bitcoins to [?
So what you do is you put together a transaction from this address, I want to send--from this address that has two bitcoins, I want to send one of those bitcoins to this other address. And to do that, you sign that transaction--imagine like you are stamping it with a private key-- Russ: Which is my okay--to give Alice access to my one bitcoin.
And whenever someone--and that transaction gets broadcasted to all of the Bitcoin system. And anybody that [? So you might have a stamp where people get to see the stamp of another, how do you call the thing that you use stamps with-- Russ: I don't know, but it's a good question. It's like a fingerprint, though-- Guest: It's like a fingerprint, but not the finger. And with that, they can see, okay, this person really has the private key.
Without needing to see the private key itself. And then the transaction--there are many other transactions like that. And every 10 minutes, all of those transactions get grouped in a block; and a block of transactions that have been verified gets added to the blockchain.
Which is the record of all transactions that have ever taken place from the beginning. So, how does that get verified? Let's go to that step. So, there are lots of people around the world, lots of servers around the world, that are grabbing all of those transactions; group them neatly in a block, and writing all the processes to verify that that address really has the 2 bitcoin that you say it had, that that signature is really the right signature that was generated with a proper private key.
And running a number of verifications--basically these are the people who are the bitcoin muscle, is to really to make sure that those bitcoin haven't been spent before, etc. And if one of those people will get to put the next block, the block added every 10 minutes, the block containing all of the transactions of the last minutes, whoever gets to validate and insert that block gets a reward for doing that.
That's how they mine the next set of bitcoin. That reward right now is 25 bitcoin, 25 bitcoin every 10 minutes. That's a lot of money right now. That's a lot of money. So, how hard is it to do? So, a lot of people thought what you just thought and they want to do it. So the way that is--who gets to add the next block and therefore who gets the 25 bitcoins, is decided by a lottery. So, you want to buy tickets to the lottery.
And the only way to buy--the tickets to the lottery are issued against processing power. You have 1 processing power, you get 1 ticket. You have 2 processing power, you get 2 tickets. You have 5, you get 5 tickets. So, the more processing power, the higher my chances of winning the Which was why [? So, when you say 'processing power,' how should I think about that?
So, here's my Mac Air that's sitting here on the table between us. It doesn't have much processing power, I assume. If you get all the Mac Airs in the world and all of the laptops in the world and all of the desktops in the world, all of the computers in the world, and you put them to mine bitcoins, they will not mine as much--they won't have as much processing power--as the current bitcoin mine. That's how much [? So, what does that mean, then, to say they have a lot of processing power?
Is it the speed at which they can verify? It's basically--the most important thing that it means is that it's trustless. If it was just one computer doing it, you and I could put two computers and take over the system. Right now, if someone wants to take over the system, they need to put a lot of processing power. Maybe a government can do that but it's very hard for a person or a company to do it. That's why it's trustless, because there's way too much processing power. But when you say processing power, what's the metric?
So, what is a hash? It's how quickly you can sort of do a mathematical function. How many times can you-- Russ: So it's processing power. The ability to do a complex calculation at high speed, where high speed can't even really be talked about.
The amazing way to think about it is there is a lot going on every 10 minutes, and people come by tickets, the lottery, and a lot of people are buying tickets; and you give processing power, you get a ticket. So, you said that was a brilliant idea by the mythical but real Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the software that makes this happen.
It's brilliant because--it gives people an incentive to put processing power into the system? And because it's also very competitive. Is that the way--? There are many, many other things that Satoshi did that are brilliant. And this is brilliant, this one thing that he did is brilliant in many ways. But one way in which is brilliant, is the mechanism by which you almost warranty that there will be processing power serving Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not served by Google or by Amazon or by a government.
It is not even one server somewhere-- Russ: How do we know that there will be enough people doing that when that incentive proved to be [? Another part which is brilliant, is: If you and I came up with Russcoin and we are going to launch it on Monday, one of the first decisions we are going to have to make is: How many Russcoins are there going to be on Day 1, outstanding? So, how many there are out there is quite important. The next thing we have to answer is: The day we start. So we say we have a million and a half for Russ and a million and a half for Wences.
And people don't buy that. So we have to allocate it over time with some process. But then what happens is most people say, 'I'm going to buy that once it has been allocated, distributed. And this mining process was a brilliant process to allocate it over time.
So, that was very, very powerful. Yeah, that's extraordinarily clever. Extraordinarily clever, and people don't realize how hard it is to replicate. It's like, can't someone come up with a better Bitcoin? What I mean by life is, Bitcoin is something that has zero intrinsic value. You say it's 'zero. No intrinsic value at all. But now we have collectively determined that it has some value that is non-zero. The value of Bitcoin is not technology, not financial, not regulatory.
Just people deciding that something has value. And it's completely arbitrary and completely subjective. So, you have lots of different currencies and experiments in which everything is very nice but they haven't got a value. They haven't gotten to a point that there is a social consensus that they are worth something. Imagine the earth for billions of years didn't have life. And there is a period of--imagine 3 seconds in which, second 1, the earth without life; second 2, something happens; and second 3 is earth with life.
We're still trying to figure out how--and there are many theories. There was earth without life and then there was earth with life. So, there was Bitcoin without life from January to late Bitcoin was one more experiment without life. It was theoretical paper--it was an idea.
It had--no, but it was issued in Russ: It existed, it was around; but it was like Monopoly money. And then at some point at the end of , some magic happened and it had value and it had life. That is incredibly hard, one of the hardest things about a real currency, which bitcoin has and other currencies don't have, [? It crossed that boundary, you are saying, which might not have happened; but it did. And once it did, it suddenly--people are investing millions of dollars into [?
And you cannot--it's not like--just like we don't know how to create life from scratch. It's not something that we can recreate technically or financially. It's magic that has to happen. As we say in economics, it's emergent. We just recently have been talking about the fact that it's hard to create a prairie. We know what a prairie has in it. But that's not enough.
We know what a successful currency is. You trust it, it's affordable, it's lightweight. So, it should be easy. Because there is a certain set of, as you say, magic--a sequence of things that have to happen and we don't fully understand the process so we can't fully create it from scratch.
That's a beautiful idea. Any form of currency performs two functions--two very different functions. Currencies are used for saving and currencies are used for paying. Store of value and transactions. I was trying to say it in a less academic way, but that's the term-- Russ: But I have a handful of over-educated listeners, and for them I want to--in case they don't understand everyday language.
So, if you look at all currencies that have ever existed and you compare the capacity to save, to store value, nothing beats gold. And nothing beats gold not by a little, but by orders of magnitude.
And the second thing, second best thing at storing value after gold is land. And it's really a very, very far second because land has carrying costs and taxes and various-- Russ: And if you have to leave the country, you can't take it with you. And the value of it changes dramatically with political changes.
And if you compare gold versus any currency that has ever existed, it's a brutal comparison. Gold has been much better at storing value. And the only reason why that's the case is because gold is more scarce than any other.
And you compare bitcoin to gold in terms of scarcity and it's hard to say how much gold there is above ground; it's even harder to predict how much will be mined over the next 10 years. But in the case of bitcoin you can count on there will never be more than 21 million bitcoin. So as a store of value, bitcoin will be much, much superior, orders of magnitude superior than gold. I know that today it's very volatile; but just in theory it's the only thing-- Russ: Gold is also volatile.
But it has its own challenges. But if you have a little bit of gold, every year you have a smaller percentage of the total because there is more and more gold being mined. You have a little bit of dollars, every day you have a little bit less of it, because more and more of it is being printed.
And if you have a peso, every hour. If you have a peso, every hour. With bitcoin, whatever percentage of 21 million you have today will be the same percentage years from now. We cannot say that of anything else that I know. And that's why it has historical value, bitcoin, with the mass[? And in terms of payment, the best form of payment that we've seen to this day, the most universal, is the dollar bill--there's billions of people around the world who have no problem accepting a dollar bill.
But the problem is that I have to have a dollar bill and give it to them physically. If I don't have that--there's billions of people who will accept that. But there's only 30 million Americans who will accept credit cards, and there's even less people who will accept PayPal. And even fewer who have those. So, we have never seen something like Bitcoin before where we have billions of people, anybody with a cellphone, who can accept it; and we can move it easily.
And you put those two together, and it's by far the best form of money we've ever seen. Now, there's some problems with it. We're going to get to those in a little bit. But I wanted to ask you something about the store of value--which is--I want to come back to your magic point. People say, 'Well, Bitcoin--it doesn't have any intrinsic value.
It's not like gold. Yes, you can use it for your--in dentistry. It's nice for jewelry. But it's really a social convention that gold is something that we decided. Which of course 'we' didn't--there is no 'we' and there's no 'decide' and there's no group that sat around and said, 'Wouldn't it be great if one of the really scarce metals that's hard to get out of the ground would use--'.
It became, it could have been silver, it could, gold's[? A little bit better I guess; I'm not quite sure why. A little bit harder to get out of the ground, scarcer. It could have been--it's like when somebody says, 'It's not like diamonds. Their main use is--get engaged to my wife-to-be that way.
But why do we decide on the diamond? Once that happens, once that magic becomes in place it's very powerful. And so, Bitcoin has crossed, perhaps, the boundary into historic value. Versus, can it maintain that if it's not used in transactions? It's purely a sterile value. It's a total social convention. And in the case of bitcoin, it's so liquid that it will impossible to contain it to just historic value.
Now because there are suddenly 13 million people out of 7 billion who own it. Thirteen million out of 7 billion have some bitcoin. It's a pretty big number, actually. It's a very small number, but it's kind of a big number. If you asked me to guess, I wouldn't have said it was 13 million.
There's more people playing[? So, there are million people paying cash [? And while the number is small, it makes a lot more sense as historical value than it does as a payment [? Once we get to million people, only in bitcoin, which would be more people owning bitcoin than have paper accounts, then there would be no way you can prevent those people to use it as a payment mechanism, because it is mostly good instrument-- Russ: So, Bitcoin--I see a lot in America, especially I think Europe, central Europe, too focused on Bitcoin as a payment mechanism because they don't understand or care for the store of value.
Because we have a good one already. You have a good one already. But Bitcoin is developing the other way around. It's first a good [? Eventually it will be a great [? And as you point out, if you are in a place in the world where your currency has been debased repeatedly, and cannot be trusted--you can't count on the fact that it won't happen again--then you are not going to be very attracted to it. And yet, many of those places are the places that have the least capacity to enjoy it.
They have the least Internet access. No, but that's changing really fast. And they are all going to have access to the Internet; and once they have that, they all they need to get a bitcoin. So, let's talk about some of the problems. And that will be our segue into Xapo and what you are working on to try to solve some of those problems.
And again we'll also try to highlight some of the technology. So, my key , to my address, is an actual string of letters and numbers that's generated, I assume, randomly by--how? I don't use Xapo. Which I used yesterday--I signed up for a wallet; we'll talk about that when we get to Xapo, your company. I'm just a technology guy; I'm not interested in a Xapo thing. I'm out there right now listening to this; I want to have some bitcoin.
What do I do? You can create using an algorithm; you can create using a pair, a bitcoin address plus its private key, without asking anybody's permission.
How do you do that? There is an algorithm that you have to use to make it compatible with bitcoin. How do I find out about that? It's in the founding documents of Bitcoin? It's somewhat technical but all the information is online for you to be able to use. So, I do that. I now have my digit key-- Guest: You mentioned digitally go and buy the book by Nathaniel Popper. I think that of all the things I've read, that book is the best job of explaining Bitcoin-- Russ: And in the Appendix he has a great explanation of these more technical issues that sometimes confound people but that they shouldn't [?
So, I've got my digit key. And I go out and I paint your house, and you say I did a great job; we agree that it's bitcoin, and I'm sending to you--I'm going to send them to you.
And I take them in return for the painting; and I now have bitcoin in my account. To be clear, for you to receive the bitcoin you need to use, to do anything or to use the private key.
The sender, it's up to you. But you have to just know my shell. I tell you that; and you send it to me. It's all in the blockchain. Nah--it's all--it's all in the blockchain and you can very safely broadcast to everybody you want, the public bitcoin address--there's no harm in that. But nobody knows--if I--let me ask a clarifying question about anonymity first.
Nobody knows my address unless I tell them. Nobody can read the blockchain and know where Wences Casares's house is. I would say it's selvonymous[? Because anonymous would be that you don't know anything. Actually, someone will go to a blockchain and will see that one address that belongs to me; but they don't know that--they will see that one address gave another address bitcoin.
That's all they'll see. They don't know that one address is one--[? Anonymous would be that they can't see any of this. But here there are hundreds of identifiers for both of them. And it's not written there in the blockchain who is each one of them. But when I ask you for , from now on you know my--you know Russ Roberts's address. Now, I could have--I could have painted your house wearing a mask. And you literally wouldn't know who I was.
We could have transacted for something over the Internet and we would be literally anonymous. But we are not anonymous, in this story that I'm telling exactly, because now you know Russ Roberts's address. So you send him bitcoin. And now I decide I want to use it. I want to give it to somebody else, or I need to use my private key.
And I forget it. I can't remember it. I can't get that back. So, there's some bitcoin--so we we're actually going to end up with less than 21 million bitcoin? Because some will be dissipated through--God forbid, I'm run over by a car or--then there's no estate to be--it's gone. So, I need a backup.
So what do I do? At the very least. So, right now I can write it down on a little piece of paper. That means that if somebody breaks into my house and gets my little piece of paper, they can steal all my bitcoin.
It would be the equivalent of you keeping all of your savings at home. Some people may be wired to do that, but most people they would be ill-advised[? Because no matter when you keep them, they are at risk. And you say, I'm going to keep them underground; in a safe-- Russ: Safe deposit box, in a vault-- Guest: Most people rather let a third party do that for them.
So, unless you really know what you are doing, safekeeping private keys is tricky, because people can break into them, because you can lose them, because they can be stolen, because you can lose them. So, let's talk about stealing for a minute. What a lot of people do with their passwords--if you are my father--he's you write it down on a piece of paper.
Which is not ideal. Maybe it's better though than what other people do, which is what he also does: If you put it in your computer, you make it hackable. It's like finding a cash wallet in the street. It's like finding cash. And this is a concept that is hard to understand.
But it is cash. Before, since there was no digital cash, there was just something pointing to cash that was somewhere else. Like looking at a mirror: And you are pointing at, the cash was in some bank or in paper or in credit card; but it was never the real cash. This is the real cash. So there is a lot of incentives for people, for bad people, to go and get those golds because they can run away with the cash.
So you have to really protect them. And the way I protect--the way I protect my passwords is I have codes on my computer that remind me of the things. So, for example, if my password was 'Wences', I wouldn't put 'Wences'. I would put 'the guy on Woodside'--we're on Woodside Rd. I might try your last name first; I might have to poke around a little bit. But eventually I would remember it. When I have the digit number, I can't really create that kind--you could.
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You could be an earner on purse. What's the cheapest way to send the money to coinbase to link a bank account from the UK? As a person who is interested in investing I would like to ask you if the BTC is connected to the wallet?
If I install desktop wallet eg. Does it also work cross-platform eg. Yes you can send coins between wallets. In order to use electrum on two different devices you would need to have your private key on each device I believe.
BTC is only associated with a private key BIP32 seed which can be used to migrate coins between wallets. I did some more reading and I guess I figured, that I will have to send money between specific wallets i. Hey, I had a transaction sent from blockchain. I know how to double spend but am unsure how to do this with an online wallet. Anyone have any idea how I get this transaction confirmed?
A pays C through B 3. A pays D through B. No the channels can remain open. Once GUI is developed and there are several hundred nodes end user will never need to open a channel, it should be just like using a lite wallet. What about if 1. A has no BTC 2. My understanding is that once there are enough channels the average user would never need to open or close a channel and could make payments through lightning indefinitely. Taking coins out to the main chain would be a rarity and most likely only for large value transfers.
I admit though I only have a cursory knowledge of the system at this point and am looking forward to learning more as it rolls out and improves. Try this for more info. Newcomer here, how do people expect other to use bitcoin when I just purchased bitcoin the other day to make an online purchase. How do we intend to fix such fluctuating prices which drive away newcomers such as myself who just bought bitcoin that are now worth less than when I purchased them.
Again this wasn't a purchase to be used as an investment, but to make an online purchase as there is a discount for using bitcoin with this merchant, but the discount doesn't matter if my bitcoin are no longer worth enough to make the purchase which I want to make. Lightning network is in the process of rolling out which will move low value transactions to layer 2 and make them cheap and instant. But my post doesn't show up on the feed? I deleted the post because I thought I made a mistake and tried again.
I am using Reddit App, any advice from experienced redditers out there? If I use a hardware or software wallet, can I fuck it up and end up losing access to my coins? What if the hardware or laptop I'm using to store them breaks? A hardware wallet is the best option Trezor or Ledger after that software wallets like electrum.
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The halving countdown can be found here. Open source - Bitcoin code is fully auditable. You can read the source code yourself here. Accountable - The public ledger is transparent, all transactions are seen by everyone. Decentralized - Bitcoin is globally distributed across thousands of nodes with no single point of failure and as such can't be shut down similar to how Bittorrent works.
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