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<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Join us for a two part discussion on Bitcoin by Andrew Sheppard.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="padding-left: 30px;"><EM>Bitcoin is a new form of electronic cash growing in popularity. As a<SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">system it is a protocol, a P2P network, and a bunch of cryptographic</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">algorithms. Oh, and add a new form of global currency to that list. In</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">short, Bitcoin is a bundle of technology and economic concepts all</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">rolled into one.</SPAN></EM></P>
<P STYLE="padding-left: 30px;"><EM>Bitcoin is also like the tooth fairy: most have heard about it, but few<SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">have actually encountered it for real. And even those who have actually</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">encountered Bitcoin don't really know what it is at a basic (read</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">fundamental) level; in particular, too emphasis is placed on the</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">technology and not enough on the economics of Bitcoin, though both</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;">are highly novel. This talk remedies that.</SPAN></EM></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Andrew Sheppard ("Shep") is a consultant on Wall Street who works in the areas of Big Data and Big Compute. He is also a part-time professor teaching on the Masters in Financial Engineering (MFE) program at Baruch College.</SPAN></P>
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