Wonder how blockchains stay secure? Blockchains use a variety of incentive mechanisms, including tokens, in order to make sure that the blockchain is sustainable. To understand a system like Bitcoin as a whole you need to consider not just computer science, but monetary theory, economics, and game theory. Developers, miners, exchanges, wallets/users, and merchants all have different motivations. Check out how the Bitcoin network provides incentives for each group in order to limit malicious actors! Check back for more videos of Hannah as she guides you through your Bitcoin learning journey! Interact with us on social media and stop by our website: * Website: https://blockchain.wtf * https://twitter.com/blockchainwtf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-20sLqp3M

While everyone in the tech space has at least heard about blockchain technology at this point, many almost exclusively focus on the bitcoin and cryptocurrency aspect of it. However, blockchain is more than just cryptocurrency. Companies are using this technology today for contract enforcement, information validation, and property tracking. This panel discussion features our very own Taylor Gerring with Robert K. Elder. Both of them are professionals in the blockchain space, and they are here to teach about the various applications of blockchain tech beyond cryptocurrency. Taylor is the former Director of Technology at Ethereum and was a member of the original Ethereum founding team. Since then he has founded Blockchain WTF, a website dedicated to providing information about blockchain technology. Robert is the President and Publisher at Blockchain News, a publication focusing on the most urgent blockchain industry developments of the day, delivering everything from granular tech pieces to expansive culture profiles that are important to industry leaders, investors and data analysts. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yzNtutsCWs

Industry Impacts is a series examining the disruptive potential that blockchain can have on several professional fields. Do you know where your food comes from? Or if it is actually organic? Most around the world don't. The agriculture sector is looking for a way to track products in a transparent manner. That's where blockchain can come in. Blockchain's main application in the sector will be reducing food waste, especially when a foodborne illness breaks out. Currently stores throw away more items than necessary to stop contaminated products from spreading because identifying affected items is currently very difficult. Pinpointing contamination is difficult without the records provided by a blockchain, so to be safe they often throw away all the food from that shipment. Interact with us on social media and stop by our website: * Website: https://blockchain.wtf * https://twitter.com/blockchainwtf * https://facebook.com/blockchainwtf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqIHJpWps4

Industry Impacts is a series examining the disruptive potential that blockchain can have on several professional fields. Melissa examines how finance can be impacted by blockchain technology! The inner workings of the financial sector is are a major reason that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies came to exist. Bitcoin, and the release of its white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto, came about in 2008 as a reaction to the global financial crisis. Bitcoin was an Austrian economic solution to the Keynesian economics that have governed our country since The Great Depression in the 1920’s. The solution? Create competition to the government issued fiat by creating a money supply that cannot be controlled, seized, taxed, or devalued through inflation. That’s why Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have a set number that will ever exist; they are deflationary. Bitcoin’s roots are important to know when looking at blockchain based projects in the financial sector. Some projects aim to be compliant with the government and use blockchain technology to help add transparency to the current financial system. Some have no intention of working together with the banks but aim to put them out of business. Some aim to be a bridge between the two mindsets. Interact with us on social media and stop by our website: * Website: https://blockchain.wtf * https://twitter.com/blockchainwtf * https://facebook.com/blockchainwtf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1WsdrKHGs