##### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R107YWu5XzU ---- ##### Andreas M. Antonopoulos is an early pioneer, adopter & educator in the Bitcoin/Crypto space if you have not heard of him. ##### He routinely puts out some of the best information going. He speaks plainly and simply with some humour! ---- https://yt3.ggpht.com/-s86SkznDE7c/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/6zlL7FAAQS8/s88-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg -- Andreas' Logo he uses for his branding, he is fun. That is the top of his head, looking down. LOL. ---- He travels the world preaching the Bitcoin, Liberty, Crypto and Blockchain gospel and is one of the most well respected lecturers and teachers in the crypto world! ---- ### I always include a library of AA's videos in these posts, just like he does in every one of his YT channel videos. These are things for you to use, save, watch, share, and learn from if you have time now or come back to later if you wish. It's here to help you, with extra resources. -- This resource showed up in my email inbox recently, have a watch, share it with those who are learning. ---- #### Follow Andreas & Barry on Twitter: -- #### https://twitter.com/aantonop #### https://twitter.com/BarryDutton ---- Published on 6/8/2017 > Irreversible transactions and consumer protection. Why would people want irreversible transactions? Will that slow down adoption? > The difference between a system of hard promises which can be softened and a system of soft promises which can't be hardened. We're used to operating in a system of soft promises, where your bank can reverse your transactions whether you ask it to or not. These blockchain system involve hard promises, but Bitcoin and Ethereum do not guarantee that a payment will happen irreversibly -- it guarantees that the contract within the transaction will be executed irreversibly. If that contract says "Without second thought, send this money to here and never look back," that is the contract which is going to be executed irreversibly. But that's not the only contract you can put in there. > Options: 30-day refund payments, third-party escrows, reintroducing counter-party risk. The difference is that the owner of the money is the only one who can reintroduce those constraints. It is an irreversible guarantee that the wishes you expressed as a consumer within your transaction script will get executed, simulating all of the softness that you want. Right now it's too difficult to do those scripts, but that's an engineering problem just a few rounds of incremental innovation away. We can offer more robust, more predictable guarantees for consumer protection than any system of soft promises. > There will be bugs, but you iterate through the bugs. ---- ### Andreas with a great quote here! -- ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfJGtXVYWXfWGPaBMFzGY3toUDZoDcnu9GLwrawL8ESki/image.png) ---- ### RELATED VIDEOS: ---- Hardware, Software, Trustware - https://youtu.be/Etyjc1JdmFU ---- #### Hot vs. cold wallets - https://youtu.be/Aji_E9sw0AE ---- #### Ethereum, ICOs, and Rocket Science - https://youtu.be/OWI5-AVndgk ---- #### Investing in Education instead of Speculation - https://youtu.be/6uXAbJQoZlE ---- #### ICOs and financial regulation - https://youtu.be/Plu_WX3Gs8E ---- #### Initial coin offerings (ICOs) - https://youtu.be/Q5R8KuxV4A0 ---- #### The token ICO explosion - https://youtu.be/vdaW8NtJXuQ ---- #### Altcoins and the scaling debate - https://youtu.be/slbpdW-H3yk ---- #### Irreversibility and consumer protection - https://youtu.be/R107YWu5XzU ---- #### How much bitcoin do you have? - https://youtu.be/DJtM9mR7cOU ---- #### TheDao: Why failure is necessary for learning - https://youtu.be/2KZTx8IYc9s ---- #### Steemit, Yours Network, and future social platforms - https://youtu.be/ntoJNuzlTSA ---- ### Even More: ---- ##### The Lightning Network - https://youtu.be/vPnO9ExJ50A ---- ##### Lightning, full nodes, and miners - https://youtu.be/dlJG4OHdJzs ---- ##### Bitcoin & Blockchain in Norway - https://youtu.be/5ODDCx6VL2Y ---- ##### What happens to transaction fees when the block reward is zero? - https://youtu.be/FffX32ENGKc ---- ##### Rules vs. Rulers - https://youtu.be/9EEluhC9SxE ---- ##### Governance and the transaction fee market - https://youtu.be/gdknUUVOdHU ---- ##### Scaling is a moving target - https://youtu.be/pT9kJq_Ogrk ---- ##### Why we should worry about optimization, not scaling - https://youtu.be/J3sEcuCc9fg ---- ##### Altcoins and the scaling debate - https://youtu.be/slbpdW-H3yk ---- ##### The Scaling Rites of Passage - https://youtu.be/rZi86_ovB3Y ---- ##### Is Bitcoin development centralised? - https://youtu.be/7hm4Ro4wdTk ---- ### QUESTION & ANSWER: ---- The separation of money and state - https://youtu.be/jGmtRA9S7_Y ---- ##### The end of vampire-squid financing - https://youtu.be/yyXOQG5iNWo ---- ### RELATED: Why we should worry about optimisation, not scaling - https://youtu.be/J3sEcuCc9fg The Lightning Network - https://youtu.be/vPnO9ExJ50A Lightning, full nodes, and miners - https://youtu.be/dlJG4OHdJzs Bitcoin, Lightning, and Streaming Money - https://youtu.be/gF_ZQ_eijPs Rules vs. Rulers - https://youtu.be/9EEluhC9SxE The Scaling Rites of Passage - https://youtu.be/rZi86_ovB3Y Altcoins and the scaling debate - https://youtu.be/slbpdW-H3yk Unlimited vs. Cypherpunks - https://youtu.be/5adgo4-32HU ---- ### QUESTION & ANSWER: Scaling is a moving target - https://youtu.be/pT9kJq_Ogrk ICOs and financial regulation - https://youtu.be/Plu_WX3Gs8E ---- ### RELATED: What happens to our bitcoins during a hard fork? - https://youtu.be/sNR76fWd7-0 The dangers of hard forks in protocol evolution - https://youtu.be/vxEHRvhJKvA Hard forks and the cultural mulligan - https://youtu.be/KT-7APasANI Open source as cross-pollination & consensus through collaboration - https://youtu.be/JTHV6PA-Dw8 The Lion and the Shark: Divergent Evolution in Cryptocurrency - https://youtu.be/d0x6CtD8iq4 Bitcoin: A new species of money - an evolutionary perspective on currency - https://youtu.be/G-25w7Zh8zk Evolving layered technologies in cryptocurrecy - https://youtu.be/13Iff4d3p3k The Scaling Rites of Passage - https://youtu.be/rZi86_ovB3Y Ethereum: Consensus vs. Immutability - https://youtu.be/OGGW9ozE-ys LTB Live: TheDAO, ETH, Soft-Fork, DoS and what's next - https://youtu.be/epWjD6mlBVs Unlimited vs. Cypherpunks - https://youtu.be/5adgo4-32HU ---- ##### Andreas M. 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Crypto 101 | VIDEO: Andreas Antonopoulous: Bitcoin Q&A: Irreversibility and consumer protection (4 mins) - Super practical resource here today!! (Other videos inside post also)

I always include a library of AA's videos in these posts, just like he does in every one of his YT channel videos. These are things for you to use, save, watch, share, and learn from if you have time now or come back to later if you wish. It's here to help you, with extra resources.

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