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Hardly a day goes by without a news story about Bitcoin, the best-known & strongest cryptocurrency technology. The recent collapse of the FTX exchange has made investors nervous. Is cryptocurrency mainly a monetary vehicle for criminal activity or does it empower individuals disenfranchised by traditional financial systems. One of the most important legacies of cryptocurrency technologies is the introduction of the Blockchain ecosystem.
Cryptocurrency can be very puzzling to those who are unfamiliar with it. What is it? Why was it created? What are the pros & cons of this unique new currency? Is it a flash in the pan? A speculate bubble or something that will endure?
Join Bebo White for a very brief introduction to the concepts & vocabulary of cryptocurrency & blockchain technologies. He will largely focus on how the original concepts & applications of the technology, how it has evolved & whether it remains consistent with the original spirit of its creation. Finally, he will also speculate on the status of the cryptocurrency & Blockchain eco-systems & what directions they may take in the future.
Bebo White is a Department Associate (retired) from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the U.S. national laboratory for high-energy physics & basic energy science at Stanford University. Working as a computational physicist, he first became involved with emerging Web technology while on sabbatical at CERN in 1989. Ever since, many of his academic research interests have evolved in parallel with Web & Internet technology, including cryptocurrency, blockchain, the Internet of Things, & artificial intelligence/machine learning.
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