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.
Weekend read – The trouble with words
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from Peter Radford Words are not ideas. They are our means to capture
ideas and make them tangible. The problem is that words are a porous net
that inevi...