##### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxt-FLzZPhg&feature=em-uploademail ---- ##### 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! -- 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 today, 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 Jun 20, 2017 > "High" transaction fees and the future feasibility of micro-transactions. Transaction costs represent inherent real-life constraints on scalability and resource availability in the network. It costs money to host fully validating nodes. There is no such thing as a free lunch. > Bitcoin was able to achieve zero-fee transactions because the cost was subsidized by the mining reward and bitcoin's value increasing at a faster rate than resources were being consumed. It is not because of the block size limit; as you scale up, the amount of competition for space will also grow. We will see increases in the block size eventually, and add second-layer systems like Lightning Network. > Bitcoin is a dynamic and evolving system and the rate of innovation has exploded over the last few years. Appointing third parties to determine which transactions are "spam" opens up opportunities for censorship. Sufficient fee is a market-based mechanism. Even if your transaction doesn't have sufficient fee at the time, it could still be confirmed later when there is less demand for the network. Transaction malleability. > Segregated Witness is the best scaling that exists right now. For many miners, it represents a potential loss of profit but only if they're not willing to evolve their software and participate in payment channels. If we choose not to expand the scale of the network, that doesn't mean Bitcoin stops working; it means that Bitcoin will specialize in high-value, global, secure transactions. Nobody gets to decide what Bitcoin and we don't know what it will become. The recipe has been replicated in other cryptocurrencies, and that's how a market should work -- allowing the full forces of evolution and specialisation to operate. This is part of a talk which took place at the JW Marriott Sahar (International Airport) on March 26th 2017 in Mumbai, India: https://www.townscript.com/e/bitcoin-... ---- Watch the full talk here: https://youtu.be/ONvg9SbauMg ---- ### RELATED: ---- 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: Just Released: Andreas Antonopoulous: Bitcoin Q&A: Fee markets, SegWit, and Scaling (8 mins) - Super practical resource here today!! (Other videos inside post also)

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