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##### <center> Andreas M. Antonopoulos is an early pioneer and adopter in the Bitcoin/Crypto space if you have not heard of him. He routinely puts out some of the best information going. He speaks plainly and simply with some humour!
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He travels the world preaching the Bitcoin, Liberty, Crypto and Blockchain gospel and is one of the most well respected lecturers and teachers in the crypto world!

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Published on Jun 8, 2017


> Irreversible transactions and consumer protection. Why would people want irreversible transactions? Will that slow down adoption? The difference between a system of hard promises which can be softened and a system of soft promises which can't be hardened. We're used to operating in a system of soft promises, where your bank can reverse your transactions whether you ask it to or not. 

> These blockchain system involve hard promises, but Bitcoin and Ethereum do not guarantee that a payment will happen irreversibly -- it guarantees that the contract within the transaction will be executed irreversibly. If that contract says "Without second thought, send this money to here and never look back," that is the contract which is going to be executed irreversibly. But that's not the only contract you can put in there. Options: 30-day refund payments, third-party escrows, reintroducing counter-party risk. The difference is that the owner of the money is the only one who can reintroduce those constraints.

 > It is an irreversible guarantee that the wishes you expressed as a consumer within your transaction script will get executed, simulating all of the softness that you want. Right now it's too difficult to do those scripts, but that's an engineering problem just a few rounds of incremental innovation away. We can offer more robust, more predictable guarantees for consumer protection than any system of soft promises. There will be bugs, but you iterate through the bugs.

This is part of a talk which took place on September 18th 2016 at the Silicon Valley Ethereum meetup in Mountain View, California: https://www.meetup.com/EthereumSilico...


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##### <center> Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin.
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Follow on Twitter: @aantonop https://twitter.com/aantonop

Website: https://antonopoulos.com/

He is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters.

THE INTERNET OF MONEY, v1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Internet-Mon...

MASTERING BITCOIN: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bi...

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