This new episode of Value Investing FM is going to be something different, since we are going to deal with an unconventional type of investment, quite well known, but little understood by the community. Our goal is to teach the basics of investing in Bitcoin. For this, we are pleased to have Pablo Martínez Bernal, passionate about this new technology.
Pablo will explain:
- Que es el Bitcoin
- How blockchain technology works
- The history of Bitcoin: From its origins to the present
- How it differs from other cryptocurrencies
- Some curiosities about its possible creator
- The main criticisms of Bitcoin
- Tips on how to invest in Bitcoin
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- Charlie Munger con Pablo Martínez Bernal
- Nassim Taleb with Luis Torras, Juan Such and Pablo Martínez Bernal
Topics covered in the program program
- Que es bitcoin:
- Definition in three levels
- Currency and payment system
- Review of the most important concepts: mining, hasrate, blockchain, pee-to-peer, digital signatures, forks, ...
- Ventajas del bitcoin: 4 capas of network effect (Balaji)
- Brief history of money:
- Evolutionary origin of money: Menger,
- Properties of good money: share of bitcoin against gold and fiat
- Why Bitcoin is so revolutionary
- Brief history of Bitcoin:
- Launch: Secret Message from Satoshi Nakamoto
- Price evolution
- First (and only) scare in the protocol
- Silk Road
- Bankruptcy of Mt. Gox
- Country locks
- Bitcoin Futures
- 400M transactions in May 2019, volume of $ 15bn / 24hrs
- Main criticisms of bitcoin
- Pyramid Scam / Scam / Fraud - Media ExamplesBitcoin Wikipedia
- Mining and halving data
Recommended books on Bitcoin and its future
- "The bitcoin pattern: the decentralized alternative to Central Banks" by Saifedeam Ammous
- “The Internet of money: Volume 1” de Andreas Antonopoulos
- “The Internet of money: Volume 2” de Andreas Antonopoulos
- “Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money” de Nathaniel Popper
- Bitcoin: The future of money? de Dominic Frisby
- The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
Videos and talks recommended to understand the blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- How the blockchain works
- Blockchains: how can they be used
- Proof-of-Stake (vs. proof of work)
- What is blockchain
- Que es a hard fork
- Blockchain 101: A visual demo
- Vijay Boyapati on Venture Stories Podcast
- Vijay Boyapati on What Bitcoin Did Podcast
- Koen Swinkles y Vijay Boyapati in Philosophy of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin: Beyond the bubble
- Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution
- Evolution of Bitcoin
- The future of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin vocabulary
- How Bitcoin works under the hood
- Banking on Bitcoin
Recommended Twitter Accounts to Learn About Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin
- Vijay Boyapati
- Naval
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Murad Mahmudov
- Misir Mahmudov
- Balaji srinivasan
- Gavin Andresen
- Anthony Pomp
- Cameron Winklevoss
- Tyler Winklevoss
- Erik Voorhees
- Tuur Demeester
- Saifedean Ammous
- Jameson Lopp
- Brian armstrong
- Felix Moreno de la Cueva
- Jerry Brito