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Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Internet of Value Veronika Kütt Frankfurt School Blockchain Center E-Mail: veronika.kuett@fs-blockchain.de Internet: www.fs-blockchain.de

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Blockchain & The Internet of Value

Thought “ Blockchain will do to the financial system what the Internet did to media ” 6

What is it the internet did to media?

Which problem does blockchain actually solve?

Double-spend problem How can we ensure digital value is not being spent twice? 9

Solution today: Trusted intermediaries 10

Bitcoin

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System The birth of a libertarian-thought-driven cash system 14

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System The building blocks of Bitcoin Game theory Strategic interaction between rational decision-makers 15

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System The building blocks of Bitcoin Game theory Strategic interaction between rational decision-makers Decentralization Data is written down by everyone 16

Global distribution of Bitcoin nodes Source: https://bitnodes.earn.com/ 17

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System The building blocks of Bitcoin Game theory Consensus mechanism Strategic interaction between How do we make sure rational decision-makers everyone is writing down the same data? Decentralization Data is written down by everyone 18

A public ledger – the Bitcoin blockchain 19

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System The building blocks of Bitcoin Game theory Consensus mechanism Strategic interaction between How do we make sure rational decision-makers everyone is writing down the same data? Decentralization Economic incentives Data is written down by Reward for securing the everyone network 20

the result financial sovereignty

Future. The Internet of Value Value will be transferred as quickly and seamlessly as information 22

The information superhighway (1994) Source: Youtube (2018)

(r)evolution ahead

Research Fellow Veronika Kütt veronikakuett Mathematician +49 151 416 415 48 Blockchain Center Veronika.kuett@fs-blockchain.de Frankfurt School of Finance & Management www.fs-blockchain.de