Startup investor and technology entrepreneur Bill Barhydt breaks down the evolution of Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized digital currency. Its creation is completely crowdsourced, and transactions are both anonymous and transparent. Could this cryptocurrency provide the stability paper money cannot? Bill shares the possibilities he foresees.
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Filmed at TED University 2012.
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