Position: Author, Mastering Bitcoin
Education: Degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems from University College London
Website: https://antonopoulos.com/
Twitter: @aantonop
GitHub: @aantonop
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become one of the most well-known and well-respected figures in bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher and writer, Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks.
Mastering Bitcoin
Andreas is the author of Mastering Bitcoin, a book on the basics and technical aspects of Bitcoin. The book was published in December 2014 and is available for free on GitHub.
Blockchain.info
Antonopoulos served as Blockchain.info’s Chief Security Officer for eight months. He currently serves as an advisor to its board.
Public Speaking
A former teacher, Andreas has used his skills to become one of the most recognized Bitcoin public speakers. He made an appearance at the Canadian Senate, has been featured on the Joe Rogan Experience, and hundreds more of his speaking appearances can be found on YouTube.
History
Andreas literally grew up with the Internet, starting his first company, an early BBS and proto-ISP, as a teenager in his home in Greece. He earned degrees in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Systems from University College London (UCL), recently ranked in the world’s top 10 universities. After moving to the US Andreas co-founded and managed a successful technology research company, and in that role advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers and cloud computing. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. He holds 2 patents in networking and security.
In 1990, Andreas started teaching on various IT topics in private, professional and academic environments. Andreas honed his speaking skills in front of audiences ranging in size from five executives in a boardroom to thousands of people in large conferences. With more than four hundred speaking engagements under his belt he is considered a world-class and charismatic public speaker and teacher. In 2014, he was appointed as a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. In this role, he helped to developed the curriculum and co-taught the Introduction to Digital Currencies course, offered as a MOOC (massively open online course), through the University.
As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the popular Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide.
Videos
Andreas at the Canadian Senate
Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Crash Course
Joe Rogan Experience #446
Bitcoin articles by or related to Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Global Financial Crisis - GFC
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How is Fungibility Tied to Privacy
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Unstoppable code
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Fee markets, SegWit, and scaling
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Scaling is a moving target
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Irreversibility and Consumer Protection
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Separation of Money and State
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The End of Vampire-Squid Financing
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Rules versus Rulers
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What happens to our bitcoins during a hard fork?
- Video - Embrace the Good, Reject the Fear
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Price premiums and arbitrage
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Can Cryptocurrencies Support Terrorism
- Video - Fake News, Fake Money
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Hot vs. cold wallets
- Video - Bitcoin Q an A What is the role of nodes?
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Unlimited vs. Cypherpunks
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why Satoshis Identity Doesnt Matter
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How long until mainstream adoption?
- Video - The Stories We Tell About Money
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How much bitcoin do you have?
- Video - Blockchain vs. Bullshit Thoughts on the Future of Money
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What is the biggest threat?
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How to Get People to Care About Security
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Is Bitcoin Development Centralised
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The War on Cash and Crypto
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Does Lightning Need SegWit
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Lightning Network
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Scaling Rites of Passage
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Lightning, Full Nodes, and Miners
- Video - Hardware, Software, Trustware
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Aadhaar and Blockchain Identities
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A When Will the Scare Stories Stop
- Video - Bitcoin for Beginners
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Bridging the Gap Between Geeks and Mass Markets
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Are Chain Splits a Governance Failure
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Where are the Exchange-Traded Funds - ETFs
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Alternatives to Centralised Exchanges
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Trump and the Economic Crisis
- Video - Bitcoin 101 - Introduction to the Future of Money
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Crossing the Chasm of Theoretical vs. Real Need
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Coinbase vs. the IRS
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Remittances And Smuggling in Venezuela
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Lightning Network have Proof-Of-Stake Elements
- Video - Bitcoin, Lightning, and Streaming Money
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Could a State-Sponsored 51 Percent Attack Work
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What are the Most Exciting Recent Developments
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Lightning Network and Rootstock
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Governance and The Transaction Fee Market
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why I Earn Bitcoins Instead of Buying Them
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Does MimbleWimble Enhance Privacy
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Politics and Counter-Economics
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Trust, Promise of Value, and Intrinsic Utility
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Should Not Go On a Blockchain
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Divisibility and Deflationary Monetary Policy
- Video - The Currency Wars and Bitcoins Neutrality
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Proprietary Editable Blockchains and Patent Trolls
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Oxymoron of National Blockchains
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Innovations In Wallet Design
- Video - Money as Free Speech - Zurich 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Dangers of Hard Forks in Protocol Evolution
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Scaling and the Block Size Debate
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Zcash in the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Who Determines the Value of Bitcoins
- Video - Bitcoin is the Real Electronic Cash - Merkle Conference 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Design For The Disabled and Disempowered
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A A Voluntary Alternative To Mandatory Currencies
- Video - Exponential Innovation - Hackers Congress
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why has Mining Centralised in China
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Anonymity and Confidential Transactions
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Steemit, Yours Network, and Future Social Platforms
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Trend of Decentralisation is Cyclical Halvenings of Power
- Video - Hard Promises, Soft Promises Promoting Autonomy instead of Authority
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Do We Stop Being The Product
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Evolving Layered Technologies in Cryptocurrency
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Transaction Fees When the Block Reward is Zero
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Core Roadmap and Scaling Solutions
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Decentralised Immunity From State-Sponsored Attacks
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Solar Energy and Mining In Space
- Video - Immutability and Proof-of-Work - The Planetary Scale Digital Monument
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A West vs. East - The Consensus Balance of Power
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A ShapeShift and The Altcoin Constellation
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Security In Proof-Of-Work vs. Proof-Of-Stake
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Proof-Of-Capacity, Proof-Of-Storage, Proof-Of-Resource
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Predicting BTC vs. ETH Application Development
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Are There Interest Rate Markets For Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Immutability As An Anchor For Other Systems
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Essential Points On Blockchain Experimentation
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Determines The Supply Of Bitcoins
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Are Uber and Airbnb Paving The Way For Decentralised Markets
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Will Uber and Airbnb Enable Bitcoin Payments
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Will Reputation Work In A Decentralised System
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Incentives For Innovation In Decentralised Open Ecosystems
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Governments As Intermediaries
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Developing-World Communities and Spam Transactions
- Video - The Re-decentralized Web - LA Meetup Sep 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Will Bitcoin Save Us from a Global Currency Crisis
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The 14 Nanometer Limit
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Bitcoin Drilling Holes in the Financial System Dam
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Is Capitalism Compatible With Decentralization
- Video - Decentralization and the Architecture of Power
- Video - Bitcoin Programmable Money - Nov 2014
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Open Blockchains or Dystopia
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why Mainstream Adoption will be Neither Gradual Nor Radical
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The New Experimental Science of Consensus Algorithms
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Out-Of-Sync Hype Around Blockchain
- Video - Investing In Education Instead of Speculation
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Someone Said Bitcoin is Dead
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Help Re-Decentralise Mining
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Does Monetary Policy Determine Currency Competition
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Not All Blockchains Are Created Equal
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Can Banks Still Offer Services For Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Open Source As Cross-Pollination and Consensus Through Collaboration
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why We Should Resist Financial Surveillance
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Will Compliance With Regulation Benefit Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why We Should Worry About Optimization, Not Scaling
- Video - Bitcoin A New Species of Money - An Evolutionary Perspective on Currency
- Video - Blockchain or Bitcoin Understanding the Differences
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Are There Opportunities for UX Designers in Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Will Bitcoin Be Adopted By Developing Markets
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Bitcoin Will Scale Gracefully
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What are the Most Interesting Bitcoin Developments
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why Historical Transitions Arent Smooth
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What are Challenges to Achieving Mass-Adoption
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Ethical Considerations Influence Software Engineering
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Is the Centralization of Mining in China a Problem
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Will Replace Our Current Banking System
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Will Altcoins Diversify and Proliferate
- Video - Bitcoin Beyond National Money - Zurich March 2016 - Fintech2016 Conference
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why Are Decentralised Networks Resistant
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Does Bitcoin Differ from Other Altcoins
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The Halvening 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Will Bitcoin Survive Global Government Intervention and Regulation
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Will Politics and Bitcoin Be in 30-40 Years
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How Do We Protect Privacy When Bitcoin is Traceable
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why KYC is Dangerous
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Do Miners Control Consensus
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Can Patent Law Slow Down Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Why Bitcoin Is The Poison Pill of Global Finance
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What Is The Future Role of Altcoins
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A What is the Impact of Private Blockchains and Coins
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A How do Banks React to Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Banks Are Software Companies At Heart
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A Do Altcoins Threaten to Replace Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Q and A The End of Mining Centralization
- Video - Bitcoin Money As Language and the Multi-Currency Future
- Video - Los Angeles Bitcoin Meetup - January 2014
- Video - Disrupt Conference - What is Bitcoin?
- Video - Bitcoin Elements of Trust Unleashing Creativity - Berlin March 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money - Barcelona Fablab Meetup March 2016
- Video - Bitcoin and the Coming Infrastructure Inversion
- Video - Bitcoin Scaling - Prague 2016
- Video - Bitcoin Money As A Content Type and the Grand Arc of Technology
- Video - Programmable Money Hard Promises, Soft Contracts
- Video - Bitcoin and the Banks - Five Stages of Grief
- Video - Innovators, Disruptors, Misfits and Bitcoin
- Video - Bitcoin Design Principles - IDEO Lab Presentation
- Video - Bitcoin, Payment Security, and Consumer Protection
- Video - Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin UCL
- Video - Bitcoin Security - Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat
- Video - Peer-to-Peer Money In A Historical Context
- Video - Wired Money 2015 - Bitcoin Is The Real Disruptor
- Video - CoinScrum and Proof of Work - Tools for the Future 3
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 7
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 6
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 5
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 4
- Video - Keynote Plus Q And A for Bitcoin
- Video - Andreas Antonopoulos All About Bitcoin
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 3
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 2
- Video - MOOC 3.0 Session 1
- Video - Bitcoin Dumb Networks, Innovation and the Festival of the Commons
- Video - Andreas Antonopoulos At MIT Bitcoin Club
- Video - The Potential of Blockchain Technology - The Bitcoin Address
- Video - The Teacher - Bitcoins And Gravy Episode 41
- Video - Andreas Antonopoulos on the Future Of Bitcoin
- Video - Andreas Antonopoulos on air at Decentral Toronto
- Video - Bitcoin in the Beltway The Future of Cryptocurrency
- Video - Ask Me Hard Questions About Bitcoin Part II
- Video - Andreas M. Antonopoulos - L.A. Bitcoin Meetup - April 2014
- Video - The Future Of Crypto-Currency
- Video - Is Bitcoin a flash in the pan?
- Video - Bitcoin Wallet Encryption
- Video - A Bitcoin MKE LIVE Hangout
- Video - Bitcoin Multisig and P2SH Transactions
- Video - Labitconf 2013 - Bitcoin Neutrality - Andreas Antonopoulos
- Video - Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas 2013 - Moving Bitcoin Forward
- Video - Fighting for Bitcoin Neutrality Q And A with Andreas Antonopoulos
- Video - Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Crash Course
- Video - Andreas Antonopoulos - Bitcoin Neutrality - Bitcoin 2013 Conference