entrepreneurship & blockchains

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I explain to people why Bitcoin & Blockchain matter, how they work

and what you can do with them

Sam Wouters

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‣ We are a digital consulting company.

‣ Founded in 2009.

‣ We work for large European clients.

‣ We have a strong vision on the impact of digital and act accordingly.

‣ We are advisors, writers, coaches and entrepreneurs.

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One of many DISRUPTORS

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“bitcoin is digital money”

Who has heard of Bitcoin before today?

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The first thing bought with 10.000 Bitcoins in 2010

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Is worth over €10 Million today at €1000 per BTC

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Invented in 2008

bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

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Peer-to-peer transfers before Bitcoin

Give a digital copy, not the original

Doesn’t work for money

We needed middlemen to do transactions

Now we can do them directly

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“bitcoin is digital money”

Who has heard of Bitcoin before today?

Positive image? Negative image?

Who fundamentally

understands Bitcoin?

No idea?

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Media that predicted The Death of Bitcoin

Deaths by publication:

DailyPaulCNNCity A.M.ChronBroken Librarian BTC Feed Business InsiderBloombergAbout.com Acton BizNews.comArduino TronicapenwarrAOL

Financial TimesFester’s DenDavid Seaman FortuneForbesFool.com FusionGizmodo Australia IEX International Business Times Javamazon Moneygeek

MyBroadBandMother Jones News.com.au NewStatesman NY Mag OUI Share

The New York TimesThe KernelThe Calculating InvestorStreet InsiderSputnik NewsPYMNTS.com Reuters Robert Nielsen Salon Seeking Alpha

The Underground EconomistThe Telegraph The Washington Post The Weekly StandardUSA Today Valley News VICE News Wired YahooWall Street Daily

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Bitcoin’s best days must be over!

Bitcoin is dead!

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Banks: Bitcoin can’t work, it’s all about the Blockchain

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Bitcoin transfer digital ownership

without a middleman

The blockchain a database that records

ownership throughout time

What’s the difference?

1/4 components

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Corporations want to use blockchains to work together a bit more efficiently

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Corporations want to use blockchains to work together a bit more efficiently

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A blockchain by itself is BORING

Block 1 Block 2 Block 3

Fingerprint of block 0

Fingerprint of block 1

Fingerprint of block 2

Transactions Transactions TransactionsTransactions

Fingerprint of block 2

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But what if it is open to everyone?

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and you can earn money for protecting it?

Digital Gold

We are here 16/21M BTC

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and only you own your money?

You get a network 47.000x stronger than the top 500 supercomputers in the world

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A global, censorship resistant financial network

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8+ years of non-stop growth

193M 451K $260M $132B

Transactions Blocks in the blockchain

in transactions per day currently

Transferred over the blockchain

484M 16M $16B 160K

bitcoins transferred over the blockchain

Amount of Bitcoins that currently exist

Value of all bitcoins

companies (indirectly) accept bitcoins

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Driven by the same force as the Internet: Open innovation

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Creates huge value for consumers, economic growth, jobs

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Innovation drops the cost of almost everything

$0

$25.000

$50.000

$75.000

$100.000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Drones 3D Printer Sensors

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Except transactions…

0,0%

2,5%

5,0%

7,5%

10,0%

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Global avg cost to send $200

remittanceprices.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/rpw_report_december_2016.pdf

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Yet we can do THIS?

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Bitcoin brings a 3-100x cost reduction

0,0%

2,5%

5,0%

7,5%

10,0%

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Global avg cost to send $200 Bitcoin Bitcoin + currency conversion

remittanceprices.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/rpw_report_december_2016.pdf

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The next step:

Livestreaming Money

If Bitcoin is so great, why isn’t everyone using it?

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‣ Bitcoin is only 8 years old, it still needs a lot of development.

‣ We have never tried THIS before and it is about MONEY, not info.

‣ It’s like the Internet in the 90s:

‣ People don't get it. ‣ It looks ugly. ‣ We have few use cases. ‣ People don’t see how it will

change the world. ‣ Those who are disrupted by it

will do everything to stop it. ‣ Mainstream 10 years later ‣ Mass adoption 20 years later

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Logical Evolution

INTERNET Transfer information

BLOCKCHAIN Transfer ownership

TEXT PROGRAMS VIDEOS

MONEY CONTRACTS PATENTS ASSETS

IMAGES

Money is the tip of the iceberg

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What other opportunities are out there?

Finance

Internet of Things?

Energy?

Supply chain?

Identity? Property?

Legal?

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Private blockchains may have “use cases” like intranets do

Intranets“Private” Blockchains

The InternetThe Blockchain

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The open Blockchain will create the most value

The InternetThe Blockchain

>Intranets

“Private” Blockchains

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What are you waiting for?

Thanks! Want to learn more?

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