Belgium Basic Income Tech Meetup April 2016 {Events}

(Play associated slideshow ) BelgiumBasicIncomeTechMeetupApril2016 Wednesday April 6 at 6pm

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Attended activities

1. Introduction by @jeborsel
2. Current state of Bitcoin and views on cryptocurrencies by myself
3. How bitcoin integrates (or doesn't) with real-world economies by Max
4. Introduction to the idea of Basic Income with cryptocurrencies by @jeborsel

Introduction by @jeborsel

• what is the point of BI

Current state of Bitcoin and views on cryptocurrencies by myself

• assess the audience : have you ever...
  • {owned some, owned more than one, mined some, being paid with, programmed with} Bitcoin
  • {owned some, participated to a smart contract using, programmed a smart contract based on} Ethereum
  • {programmed on, used, considered creating} another blockchain
  • {set up recurrent, set up variable} transaction with your own bank
• history of cryptocurrencies, from shells to a maze of Turing-compatible distributed partly-compatible cryptobased networks
  • key moments ( note that the absolute value threshold can be changed)
    • Medici and accounting
      • Wikipedia:Double-entry bookkeeping system
    • first million in valuation Wikipedia:Money supply
    • first million transactions in a day
    • Internet first machines
    • Internet millions of machines
    • Internet millions of users http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/
    • first million of packets routed in a day
    • Bitcoin first block with predictive supply https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
    • Bitcoin first million valuation http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/
    • Bitcoin first million of users
    • first million Bitcoin transaction exchanged in a day
    • Ethereum or other equivalent millstones?
      • DAPPs listing
        • as webpage http://dapps.ethercasts.com with code https://github.com/EtherCasts/state-of-the-dapps
        • as spreadhseat https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VdRMFENPzjL2V-vZhcc_aa5-ysf243t5vXlxC2b054g/edit#gid=0
  • my own peek in that big history
    • via Bitcoin including realitykeys.com
  • the own peek of institutions at that history
    • how private institutions are changing their position
      • e.g. http://letstalkpayments.com/an-overview-of-blockchain-technology/
    • how public institutions are changing their position
      • 2013 Banque de France https://www.banque-france.fr/publications/documents-economiques/focus.html
      • 2014 FED http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2014/files/2014104pap.pdf
    • positions in Wikipedia:Technology adoption life cycle
  • what does this perspective gives us
    • lessons learned on trust
  • what can be done today
    • e.g. programming, with its risk and perils (what makes a blockchain and its ecosystem trustable), on the blockchain of
      • Bitcoin
      • a Bitcoin sidechain
        • e.g. http://www.rootstock.io 2-way peg
        • but not http://counterparty.io/docs/faq/#what-about-sidechains
      • Ethereum
      • a brand new one
      • ... not a blockchain?!
• still to integrate
  • Bitcoin
  • Q&A via Facebook
  • poll via #bitcoin cf ~/bitcoinlog.txt
  • discussion cf ~/roman.txt
  • comment & PM via Meetup
  • previously read papers
  • http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/graphicalComparison with -2 largest
  • images Path:/pub/BelgiumBasicIncomeTechMeetupApril2016/
  • http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3114217
  • visualization based on architecture choice, ideally with indicators e.g. market cap, volume of transactions, smart contract possibilities
    • Bitcoin-based
      • Bitcoin blockchain-based Bitcoin
        • Bitcoin
        • CounterParty
      • Bitcoin sidechain-based Bitcoin
        • Rootstock
    • non Bitcoin-based
      • Etheureum
    • alternatives
      • http://startupmanagement.org/2015/01/13/the-crypto-tech-platforms-landscape-via-a-network-effects-lens/
  • evaluation criteria for the platform
    • sweet spot of
      • trust (slowing understanding the code vs delegating and going faster)
      • cost (not too expensive to build but not too cheap to be overtaken)
      • usage (practical vs perfection)
    • https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-are-the-most-important-criteria-to-select-a-smart-contracts-platform
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/smartcontracts/comments/4db8vg/what_are_the_most_important_criteria_to_select_a/
• legality map http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-legal-map/
  • detailed listing Wikipedia:Legality of bitcoin by country
• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History but only up to 2013
  • see instead https://bitcoinhelp.net/know/more/price-chart-history
• BIPs timeline
  • https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/README.mediawiki
• to explore
  • http://tendermint.com
  • https://erisindustries.com
  • http://orisi.org
  • http://etherparty.io
  • https://codius.org
  • https://live.ether.camp/contracts
  • http://blockapps.net/
  • E http://erights.org and Monte cf discussion on freenode #erights
• limits
  • Hobbes' Leviathan
  • Graeber's The utopia of rules

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How bitcoin integrates (or doesn't) with real-world economies by Max

• clarifications on what money is, money supply, M2, risk on non Bitcoin based platforms, deflation, inflation
• Q&A revolving around reframing taxing

Introduction to the idea of Basic Income with cryptocurrencies by @jeborsel

• listing existing solutions in particular Circles, uCoin, etc

Overall remarks and conclusions

• meet him
• could be improved by doing that
• see also that other event

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Other reviews or coverage

• here

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