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1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

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  • Presented by Gary Gensler, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at MIT

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Gary Gensler introduces the fundamentals of blockchain technology, the history of failed digital currencies, and its potential impact on the financial sector.

MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018 Instructor: Prof. Gary Gensler View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/15-S12F18 YouTube Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63UUkfL0onkxF6MYgVa04Fn This lecture provides an introduction to the course and to blockchain technology. Chapters Title slates Welcome; course introduction Readings for class A history lesson to give context Cryptography is communication in the presence of adversaries List of digital currencies that failed between 1989 and 1999 What blockchain is Pizza for bitcoins Blockchain technology Role of money and finance Financial sector problems and blockchain potential opportunities Financial sector issues with blockchain technology and what the financial sector favors Public policy framework The duck test Incumbents eyeing crypto finance Financial sector potential use cases Larry Lessig's book "code and other laws of cyberspace" Outline of all classes Study questions Readings and video Conclusions Questions Credits License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at ocw.mit.edu

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…ek and find that there are really cool things that can be done, maybe cooler a year or 15 in the future when ETH finally gets its fees under control. As a programmer, you'd probably be interested to see the ethereum virtual machine's "assembly" language 2, I'm pretty impressed with how little code underlies all these ERC20 tokens. 0 link 1 link to this video 2 link…
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…w talk about it because enough wealthy people also lost big chunks of their investment in these last few months. BTW, despite whatever implied connections to FTX Gary Gensler has, his series of talks at MIT on blockchain0 technologies leads me to believe that there are few people better equipped to navigate this from a political perspective. 0 link to this video…
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On “Central Bank Digital Currency – US Senate Testimony of Dr. Neha Narula [pdf]”

…r eliminating fees, as these were some of the reasons listed when the US unbanked were asked why they don’t have bank accounts. So, instant payments are coming in the next 18 months 3 (it is actively in testing currently with a handful of participants), and free accounts for everyone is a stroke of legislative pen. What's blockchain solving? 1 link to this video (MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money…
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On “Alameda, FTX Executives Are Said to Have Known FTX Was Using Customer Funds”

Yes and before becoming Chair at the SEC, Professor Gary Gensler taught a course at MIT called "Blockchain And Money."12 Given that both SBF's parents are Professors at Stanford, this couple were very much ivory tower children. It would really be something if Gary Gensler was part of the SEC probe looking into the FTX collapse.3 It's practically a Hollywood screenplay that almost writes itself. 1. link 2. link to this video 3. link
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