This video concludes the course by talking about the revolutionary implications of blockchain technology reshaping societal institutions towards a more decentralized model.
The Importance and Challenges of Token Economics
In this panel at the Malta A.I. & Blockchain Summit, token economics is discussed. The panelists are: Sebastian Markowsky – GP Bullhound; Godwin Schembri – KnowMeNow; Wei Zhou – Binance; Sarah Olsen – Gemini; moderated by Olga Finkel – WH Partners;
Olsen discusses the importance of a stable coin and the challenge of regulation.
Schembri talks about security tokens.
Markowsky talks about what type of tokenization is attractive to investors and getting the incentives right. He advocates an interlinked multi-token model for the purpose of utility and security/investment.
Zhou talks about the “Binance Effect,” which he describes as contributing to the perception that a token is premium, since Binance only lists 3% of the tokens that apply. He emphasizes the need for clarity in regulation.
This discussion was part of the Tokenomics & Crypto Conference.
Blockchain 15: Blockchain & Society
Peer-to-peer networked forms of social organization have always been there from the earliest days, however, previously they have remained the domain of the local and the personal as they do not scale well without supporting communications technology.
Throughout the modern era, formal hierarchical social structures came to replace informal communities as the dominant organizational paradigm. It is only in the past decades that we have seen the emergence of a new form of social structure that reverses this process, the social network. With the advent of blockchain technologies, these forms of distributed organization are presented with an opportunity to sustain more and more areas of social life, establishing themselves as a core pillar of a world where peer-to-peer is the way forward.
Blockchain 14: Blockchain and Environment
The application of blockchain to the environment is rarely talked about, but we will try to illustrate in this video how this could turn out to be one of its most important potentials of this technology.
Blockchain 13: Technology and the Internet of Things
As we move from the technology paradigm of the industrial age characterized by machines and stand-alone mechanical systems, a new class of technology is emerging. Namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), which promises to revolutionize human life at unprecedented levels.
The Internet of Things is a journey we are just beginning. Over the course of the next decade billions of devices will come online. The amount of data the internet has to deal with will grow massively as vast networks of machines continuously communicate with each other, to coordinate production processes, for transport and logistics, for construction, climate control etc.
Coupled with blockchain, IoT could find a bright future in enabling mashes of smart devices to safely navigate the sea of data we produce while achieving a varied of tasks.
The Blockchain/Crypto Path Ahead
Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK/Cardano, speaks about the path ahead for the crypto and decentralized industry on March 14, 2019 as well as the decline of global financial markets.
Hoskinson believes that we can solve the world’s financial problems with open source technology.
He outlines parallel futures whereby we can have truly private, decentralized, financial transactions vs hierarchial, centralized control, such as we are accustomed.
Blockchain 12: Blockchain Economy
As with other areas, the blockchain has the capacity to decentralize economic organization creating distributed peer-to-peer networks for exchange. In so doing, greatly expand the scope and extent of economic markets and finance. And using the blockchain as an infrastructure to expand the opportunities of the global market economy to all is critical to enabling social sustainability through inclusion.
Blockchain 11: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
This video explains the idea of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and talks about the current context surrounding the term.
A decentralized autonomous organization is an organization that is run by rules that are created by their members through a consensus process and then written into a set of contracts that are run via computer code, thus enabling the automated management of a distributed organization.
Blockchain 10: Token Economies
A new set of web technologies are enabling a more distributed economic model based upon the blockchain and token markets. These token markets greatly reduce our dependency on centralized organizations and expand markets as systems of distributed organization. In this video we explain the workings of the blockchain, tokens, distributed markets and token investments.
The Quantum Theory that Connects the Entire Universe
Quantum mechanics is weird and seems a bit…complicated. But understanding it can help us to understand the universe.
It’s the physics of the super-tiny and it’s built around the idea that energy isn’t a smooth spectrum – it can only come in set amounts.
A lot of quantum mechanics makes no sense to the larger world.
Physicists have observed that reality is kind of blurred.
This video goes over Pilot Wave Theory, Copenhagen Interpretation and superposition.
The history of physics is of people coming up with weird and impossible things that are sometimes right and other times wrong.