http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ClNCOSS4nGs
David comes in about 15mins into the program. David starts by reviewing what Bitcoin and Ripple systems do. Then the discussion moves to the central importance on trust in markets and how an ecology of competing distributed systems like these P2P-type sytems could replace (or complement) top down Central Bank imposed financial and economic systems. The resulting ecology could be more robust than centralised entities facilitating exchange.
Christmas thoughts about counting the dead in zones of armed conflict.
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In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken
of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while
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