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Bitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn
Mike Hearn's talk at the 2012 London Bitcoin Conference on the future of Bitcoin, new applications and rebuilding the banking system. He covers lesser-known protocol features such as contracts, escrow and scripting.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a great overview of what Bitcoin's protocol can do beyond simple payments, particularly contracts and smart property.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Independent POV
- Topic
- bitcoin contracts
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Indeed. Mike Hearn's talk at Bitcoin 2012 is a great overview of all that: [VIDEO] All these goodies just waiting in there to come out and play.
tjaerv on Hacker News · 2013-04
In Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?Yes, this is the most exciting part of Bitcoin, IMHO. It's quite amazing what sort of problems you can solve. I highly recommend watching this talk by Mike Hearn, as well as reading the links in NhanH's comment: [VIDEO]
tlrobinson on Hacker News · 2013-11
In Bitcoin – The Internet of MoneyMike Hearn has talked some on how you could use existing functionality in the bitcoin protocol to issue loans. Around 25:50 he talks about ripple + bitcoin which is a practical autonomous lending system. A little bit simpler than the smart property way which is …
mesm on Hacker News · 2013-04
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