[kictanet] Milton Friedman predicts the rise of Bitcoin in 1999! : 1999 interview with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman

[Ali Hussein]

Wangari

Thanks for sharing. What Friedman didn't predict was the rise of the technology that gave rise to Bitcoin. BlcokChain is now probably the most important piece of technology in our generation since the Internet. 

Ignore it at our own peril.

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> On 18 Aug 2016, at 12:51 PM, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnQJFEVY7s
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> "Published on Aug 30, 2013
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> This is from a 1999 interview with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman conducted by NTU/F. Full video: http://youtu.be/mlwxdyLnMXM
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> "The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, it's a reliable e-cash. A method where buying on the internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A. The way in wich I can take a 20 dollar bill and hand it over to you and there's no record of where it came from. And you may get that without knowing who I am. That kind of thing will develop on the Internet." "
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> On Sat, 13/8/16, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [Skunkworks] The Blockchain Report...
> To: wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, 13 August, 2016, 23:27
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> Listers,
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> This might be helpfull , we had an interesting discussion on
> the same
> during the Kenya IGF.
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> Best Regards
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> From: Michael Bullut via skunkworks <skunkworks at lists.my.co.ke>
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:57:54 +0300
> Subject: [Skunkworks] The Blockchain Report...
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> Greetings Team,
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> Please find attached as promised.
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> Warm regards,
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> Michael Bullut.
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