Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Bitcoin 101 - What is Bitcoin? - A Beginning Video for Bitcoin New Comers

The bitcoin logo
The bitcoin logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



Having trouble understanding Bitcoin as a beginner? Well, even Bitcoin's anonymous developer, Satoshi Nakamoto, commented on how difficult it is to explain Bitcoin to a beginner.

But we've been teaching Bitcoin for over a year now and we're starting to figure it out. This video is the result of a talk we did at Harvard University in April 2014 for Bitcoin beginners. Many of them mentioned that this talk helped them to finally understood the basic idea and we hope it works for you too. Even better, it is a story, covering the failures and difficulties of creating a digital currency, so for non-techies it is more accessible as well.


Our Notes:
A new video but an old story for people on this site.  The news of Bitcoin continues to grow and more people are becoming very interested in all of the potentials behind this digital currency, and all for good reason, so we take those new to the trend back to the very beginning.
 
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Profile of Adam Smith
Profile of Adam Smith (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith from Chuck Thompson

One of the world's first economists explains his findings on the creation of wealth that has long since been abandoned.  To bad for us all.  In this book, one quickly learns that the joining of forces through men, more is accomplished than if one were to complete a task on their own.  The force of the factory is greater than the sum of it's parts.  To look at it another way, by dividing labor into specialized units, more was accomplished much faster and with superior results than each man could ever hope to accomplish on one's own.

  Adam Smith shows us what capitalism really is and we learn that the term capitalism as used today, does not fit the original model by any means.  Or, the meaning of capitalism has been so corrupted today, to not even come close to what it originally meant.  Capitalism was once a revered term.  Today it is almost despised.  This is what happens when you attempt to change history.  Free downloads are available from our Slideshare site.
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