Listen "Taking Care of Bitcoin with Merritt Baer"
Episode Synopsis
Bitcoin is for Cybersecurity Experts! Today we talk with AWS Principal Security Architect Merritt Baer about...Early associations of Bitcoin with criminal activityUtility of tools for both good and bad actorsWhat differentiates Bitcoin from other blockchainsBitcoin design optimization for securityVolatility of the Bitcoin exchange rateProgrammatic supply shock of Bitcoin miningKnown monetary policy of Bitcoin vs fiat systemsHope Bitcoin provides for a neutral apolitical monetary networkEnvironmental impact of Bitcoin miningDemonstrated need for Bitcoin in various global economiesAnd more!Link to Bitcoin article published by Merritt in 2015:Those Things You Have Heard About Bitcoin: Distinguishing Signal From Noisehttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3323877X: @TCBcoin https://x.com/TCBcoinInstagram: @TCBcoin https://www.instagram.com/tcbcoin/www.takingcareofbitcoin.comhttps://www.takingcareofbitcoin.com/
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