1. Blockchain's Coming Impact on Community, Science, and Society (Cryptocurrency is only the beginning)
Mark R. Waser
D161T4L W15D0M/Digital Wisdom Institute

2. Latinum Latinum cannot be replicated
Latinum is a rare silver liquid used as currency by many worlds,
most notably the Ferengi Alliance.
Latinum cannot be replicated
and the reasons for its rarity are unknown.

3. Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a currency
without a government
Nassim Taleb

4. Alternatives Barter Government “Fiat” “In-game” Currency
Lack of fungibility leads to inefficiency
Government “Fiat”
While the US$ isn’t really fiat, US monetary policy does strongly influences it value
“Printing money” devalues it – but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
“In-game” Currency

5. Volatility (Predictability)
US Dollar 1/2001-present
Bitcoin
Argentinian Peso 1/2001-present
STEEM

6. The Top 10 by Market Capitalization

7. #1 Bitcoin
First creation of virtual/digital items that cannot be duplicated (2009)
Proof-of-work blockchain
Limited contracts using “oracles”
No provision for updates (“forks”)

8. Blockchain
Not just for currency

9. #4 Litecoin A “better” bitcoin (2011)
Different proof-of-work algorithm
Faster transaction times
Requires more memory

10. Altcoins The core Bitcoin “grammar” works just fine, mostly…
Block interval & security algorithm
Transaction structure & transfer
One-size-fits all security

11. #3 Ripple Transaction network plus its own currency (2012)
Iterative consensus trust graph
Faster transaction times
Codius “smart” contract oracles
Off-chain  faster, cheaper

12. Side-chains
Blockstream (2014) – “2-way pegging”, Liquid ensures fast large transactions

13. #6 Monero, #7 Dash & #40 ZCash Anonymity via blockchain obfuscation
Xcoin/DarkCoin/Dash (2014) – active mixing
Monero(2014) – passive mixing
Coins are now truly indistinguishable

14. Accountability Absolutely no accountability!!!
Upside: Blockchain obfuscation is ideal for secure online voting
Downside – allows for proof for vote-buying

15. #2/#5 Ethereum Different proof-of-work(2014) Solidity smart contracts
15 second block time, more memory, no advantage to pooling
variable costs
Solidity smart contracts
“Unlimited” Scalability Roadmap

16. Governance Nomic - https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
The DAO
“Mars Constitutions”

17. Blockchain 2016
Blockchain is now at the stage that the Internet was at in with the call to Web 2.0

18. #10 Coins for specific purposes/communities
Waves - crowdfunding w/ your own coin (also has extensive reputation system)
MaidSafe - decentralized private data, websites & public data (February 2016)

19. #9 Steem
Steemit - Reddit-like social media system where up-votes = money
Proof-of-stake blockchain – faster, cheaper, allows micro-transactions

20. Innovative Economics
Highly inflationary coins can “print money” for goals like Basic Income
Vesting promotes pro-social behavior

21. #8 Augur
An Ethereum-based prediction market giving REP for accurate predictions
OR the greatest gambling platform ever!
Gnosis::Augur  coinless Ripple::Bitcoin

22. Citizen Scientists “Old” Slide for August EFTF Steemit presentation
While the largest payouts are grabbed by “social” posts, good data science posts reliably receive steady payouts Can you imagine? A scientific portal for your field run as a Steemit community Good tools will also reliably receive steady payouts and, we believe, have the potential to go viral & hit the jackpot And Steemit communities are the ultimate test-bed for the economic & social experiments we so desperately need

23. Citizen Scientists
Now imagine crowdfunding science with Waves and/or funding based upon Augur prediction markets

24. Crowd-sourcing Safe/Ethical AI
Safely Crowd-Sourcing Critical Mass for a
Self-Improving Human-Level Learner/“Seed AI”
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

25. We believe that humanity's best hope
the development of ethics and artificial intelligence
and equal co-existence with ethical machines is
humanity's best hope