Taking Care of Bitcoin with Merritt Baer
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Bitcoin is for Cybersecurity Experts!
Today we talk with AWS Principal Security Architect Merritt Baer about...
- Early associations of Bitcoin with criminal activity
- Utility of tools for both good and bad actors
- What differentiates Bitcoin from other blockchains
- Bitcoin design optimization for security
- Volatility of the Bitcoin exchange rate
- Programmatic supply shock of Bitcoin mining
- Known monetary policy of Bitcoin vs fiat systems
- Hope Bitcoin provides for a neutral apolitical monetary network
- Environmental impact of Bitcoin mining
- Demonstrated need for Bitcoin in various global economies
And more!
Link to Bitcoin article published by Merritt in 2015:
Those Things You Have Heard About Bitcoin: Distinguishing Signal From Noise
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3323877
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