Bitcoin Special Lecture - Politics and Bitcoin

Agenda: 18:30-19:00 - Gathering and refreshments 19:00-20:15 - Politics and Bitcoin (Peter Todd) 20:15-22:00 - Free discussion Most cryptography is guaranteed by extremely strong math, so strong that we can confidently make statements like "all the world's supercomputers could not break a modern encryption algorithm". Bitcoin on the other hand is made secure by something not unlike majority rule, enforced by economic incentives. This is a much weaker guarantee and introduces politics into the pr…