Ural Libertarian Lecture Hall
This Saturday (27.02.21), two lecturers will visit Yekaterinburg. The event begins at 13:00. Address: 12 Rosa Luxemburg St.. Entrance is free. Advance registration on TimePad is required. Come and bring your friends, it will be interesting! Our guests:
● Alexander Kotov, Perm. Author of the blog Crypto-Libertarian, dedicated to libertarianism, crypto-anarchism, and methods of collective decision-making.
● Alexei Nefyodov, Novosibirsk. Cryptocurrency popularizer, bitcoin maximalist. He is not a programmer, therefore he examines this issue from economic and socio-political perspectives.
Lecture Hall Program:
- Bitcoin and the Theory of Money (Nefyodov). There is nothing more practical than a good theory. Do you need bitcoin, and if so, for what exactly? To answer these questions, it is important to understand why it is designed this way, what money actually is, what types of money exist, and what they are for.
- Bitcoin, First Practical Steps (Nefyodov). You will master the simplest tools for acquiring, transferring, and storing bitcoin, and understand where to dig further. If you have a few rubles on your card, you will have your own bitcoins after the session.
- Technological Solutions to Social Problems (Kotov). Digital telecommunications and social networks determine what our society will be. Government regulation and centralization in the hands of corporations provide immense power over minds, allowing for censorship and the control of financial operations. Standard legal defense mechanisms against this are ceasing to work. Technological solutions can come to the rescue. The lecture will discuss the prospects of such an approach and what hinders its implementation. The theory will be accompanied by examples from the world of cryptocurrencies. In practice, the use of a Trezor hardware wallet will be demonstrated.
