On the 22nd of February, I introduced ~600 young entrepreneurs to blockchains at SINC Antwerp's Future Entrepreneurship event.
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2. I explain to people why Bitcoin &
Blockchain matter, how they work
and what you can do with them
Sam Wouters
@SDWOUTERS
3. ‣ 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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9. @SDWOUTERS
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
11. @SDWOUTERS
Media that predicted The Death of Bitcoin
Deaths by publication:
DailyPaulCNNCity A.M.ChronBroken Librarian BTC Feed Business Insider
BloombergAbout.com Acton BizNews.comArduino TronicapenwarrAOL
Financial TimesFester’s DenDavid Seaman FortuneForbesFool.com Fusion
Gizmodo Australia IEX International Business Times Javamazon Moneygeek
MyBroadBandMother Jones News.com.au NewStatesman NY Mag OUI Share
The New York TimesThe KernelThe Calculating InvestorStreet Insider
Sputnik NewsPYMNTS.com Reuters Robert Nielsen Salon Seeking Alpha
The Underground EconomistThe Telegraph The Washington Post The Weekly Standard
USA Today Valley News VICE News Wired YahooWall Street Daily
17. @SDWOUTERS
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
23. @SDWOUTERS
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
31. If Bitcoin is so great,
why isn’t everyone using it?
@SDWOUTERS
32. @SDWOUTERS
‣ 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