{"id":14249,"date":"2019-08-04T18:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2019-08-04T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:15:28","slug":"greece-blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn-videos-are-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/08\/04\/greece-blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn-videos-are-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: &#8220;Blockchain: Utopia or U-Turn?&#8221; videos are up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The videos from the Onassis Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/02\/19\/buttcoin-classic-greece-txt-an-anarcho-capitalist-meets-greek-anarchists\/\">Blockchain: Utopia or U-Turn?<\/a> conference in Athens in February are finally up \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BbbI8zYO9b0\">including mine!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BbbI8zYO9b0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They asked if I wanted to do a talk, or be interviewed about <em><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/book\/\">Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.<\/a><\/em> I went for the interview, meaning I didn&#8217;t have to do any work. So journalist Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou asked me all sorts of questions about the book.<\/p>\n<p>There was a question session afterwards, but it didn&#8217;t make it to the video.<\/p>\n<p>I was approximately as tired as I looked here. Hey, I&#8217;d just done the Acropolis! (You <em>really must<\/em> do the Acropolis. It lives up to two thousand years&#8217; hype.)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this is an audience recording with an echo on the sound, which only resolves around 11:30 &#8230; it&#8217;s a little difficult to make out some of the sentences up to then.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some photos (courtesy a colleague):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/08\/04\/greece-blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn-videos-are-up\/david-greece-conference-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14250\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/08\/04\/greece-blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn-videos-are-up\/david-greece-conference-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14251\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2019\/08\/04\/greece-blockchain-utopia-or-u-turn-videos-are-up\/david-greece-conference-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14252\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/david-greece-conference-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3gkYaOY6EX0\">Jemima Kelly&#8217;s talk<\/a> was after mine. It&#8217;s all about why the cryptocurrency and blockchain hype does not in fact work in banking and finance. Again, there&#8217;s an echo that makes the audio incomprehensible, but it clears up around 1:10:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gkYaOY6EX0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayapapaya.net\/\">Jaya Klara Brekke<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWj6UMR6kv4\">&#8220;Authority, autonomy and trust \u2014 a political history of blockchain&#8221;<\/a> was the first talk of the evening. It&#8217;s all about why the word &#8220;decentralised&#8221; is a deceptive phantom. It has only slight echo:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BWj6UMR6kv4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLq7qHS4BDtYPy59MQ5mZHqC-2qEuozyDW\">YouTube playlist<\/a> with half the videos missing \u2014 I&#8217;ve asked if there&#8217;s a better one. But that&#8217;s a good start.<\/p>\n<p>And in conclusion, Greece is awesome and you should always say &#8220;yes&#8221; if an offer of Greece comes up.<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in conclusion, Greece is awesome and you should always say \u201cyes\u201d if an offer of Greece comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1125,1395,804],"class_list":["post-14249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-greece","tag-jaya-klara-brekke","tag-jemima-kelly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14249"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14264,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions\/14264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}