These are the slides from my presentation at Rotary Club in Casale Monferrato

1. source: thenextweb.com (2017)
BITCOIN,
CRIPTOVALUTE,
BLOCKCHAIN, ICO,
E MOLTO ALTRO
ANCORA 😜
Alessandro Lanteri
Rotary Club Casale M.to
Marzo 2018

2. Founded (2009), advised business incubators
TEDx speaker (2017)
Advisor, Consultant, Coach
PhD Philosophy & Economics, Erasmus (NL)
MA Economics, Bocconi (IT)
Exec.Ed. Said Oxford (UK), MIT (USA)
Academics
Abu Dhabi University (UAE)
Hult International Business School (UK)
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Ran a marathon | Lived in 15+ global cities
Other Stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfLCTRuh7U
Alessandro Lanteri

3. Bitcoin: come funziona
Altre valute
Initial Coin Offerings
Content
Bitcoin: come si usa
Bitcoin: cos’è
Come investire?

4. Howabitcointransactionworks

5. A blockchain transaction
source: Nakamoto. (2008)
Public
Transaction
Nodes
collect
Transactions
Nodes
compete to
generate
Hash
Winner
Node to
receive new
BTC
New block
MINING

6. How bitcoins are mined
Life inside a
secret bitcoin
mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I

7. Where are the miners?
USA EUROPE
source: www.blockchain.info (2015)

8. A blockchain transaction
source: Nakamoto. (2008)
A blockchain is a distributed public ledger of
all bitcoin transactions that have ever been
executed. It is constantly growing as 'completed'
blocks are added to it with a new set of recordings.
The blocks are added to the blockchain in a linear,
chronological order. //
//

9. The supply of bitcoin
source: Bank of America -­‐ Merril Lynch Global Research

10. A (very) brief history of money
source: ECB (2012); Ali et al. (2014)
legal tender issued by a central (trusted)
authority.
e.g., USD, GBP…
Fiat money
goods with intrinsic value.
e.g., cows, pottery, shells, grains, diamonds…
Commodities
items representing underlying commodities with
intrinsic value.
e.g., gold certificates…
Commodity-backed
network-based, validated by a public ledger.
e.g., cryptocurrencies…
P2P money

11. Other cryptocurrencies
first copycat to accelerate and scale
transactions
Litecoin
Designed to fulfil smart contract
Ether (Ethereum)
2017, hard fork to accelerate and scale
transactions
Bitcoin Cash
not a cryptocurrency, int’l transactions for
banks
Ripple
$ 698.37 $ 1,044.68
$ 180.12 $ 0.79

12. ICO’s

13. thank you!
Alessandro Lanteri
alelanteri@gmail.com