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An Introduc+on to Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology
Sonya Kuhnel, Managing Director
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The History of Bitcoin
2008 • Someone called Satoshi Nakamoto published
a white paper on Bitcoin • Pseudonym for a person or group of people 2009 • Satoshi released the source code and
soDware client to the world
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“The Times 03/Jan/2009
Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”
Comment by Satoshi in first block
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Disillusioned with current
banking system To create a form of money which does not have the same problems that are apparent in our current
financial system.
Possible Mo+ve
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12 January 2009:
The first Bitcoin transac+on occurs between Satoshi and Hal Finney.
The First Bitcoin Transac+on
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22 May 2010: The first, real-‐world transac+on occurs when a developer in the US pays 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza. At the +me, the exchange rate put the purchase price for the pizza at around US$25. At todays BTC price = R95 million
Pizza is bought using bitcoin
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What is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin vs. bitcoin
Two important concepts: • Bitcoin (capital B) refers to the protocol • Bitcoin (lowercase b) refers to the currency which is governed by the protocol
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What is Bitcoin?
• Digital currency: created and held electronically • Not printed • Decentralised • A peer-‐to-‐peer payment network • Created through mining • Underlying technology: the blockchain • Technology and a protocol
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The Bitcoin Protocol
Internet TCP/IP Web Pages
HTTP
Email SMTP / IMAP
Bitcoin MOIP
Money Over Internet Protocol
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TCP / IP
Applica+ons built on TCP/IP Protocol
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What can it be used for?
As a currency: People can use bitcoin to pay for goods and services online or in a retail environment. As a technology The blockchain, bitcoin’s underlying technology, can be used to store data and rules to execute smart contracts; for example, +tle deeds. As a commodity Some people view Bitcoin as a commodity, and have invested in Bitcoin and speculate on the price.
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The Currency (bitcoin)
How many bitcoins exist?
21 million
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Total bitcoin over +me
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The Currency (bitcoin)
How many bitcoins have been mined?
15 554,575
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Bitcoin Vola+lity
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Market Price: Over 1 Year
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Market Price
On BitX exchange: 19 May 2016 • Price of 1 BTC = ZAR
7,556.00 • Volume of BTC traded in
last 24 hours > about 102 BTC
• Over R770,000.00 traded in one day
On BitX exchange: 23 June 2016 • Price of 1 BTC = ZAR
9,546.00 • Volume of BTC traded in
last 24 hours > about 401 BTC
• Over R3 million traded in one day
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There are two main types of currencies: 1. Commodity backed currencies -‐
conver+ble into a commodity such as gold 2. Fiat currencies -‐ derives its value from
government regula+on or law
Types of Currencies
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A finite number of bitcoins available: 21 million
VERSUS
InflaRon: occurs due to unrestrained prin+ng of fiat currency by governments & central banks. This creates an increase in the money supply in a country.
Bitcoin is Defla+onary
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• Demand high = price high • Demand low = price low • Limited supply & demand high = price high • Influenced by percep+on based on media reports and
incidences and specula+on of the price • Small market capitaliza+on of 21 million limits the supply
& therefore increases the price
How is the price of bitcoin determined?
Purely by supply and demand:
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Acquiring bitcoin
1. Mining bitcoin 2. Buying bitcoin 3. Earning bitcoin
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What is Mining?
• Process where all bitcoin transac+ons are stored on the blockchain
• Miners use special computers and soDware to solve mathema+cal algorithms to validate each bitcoin transac+on on the blockchain
• Fastest miner gets rewarded with bitcoin as an incen+ve
• 25 bitcoin are released each +me • Miners keep network secure
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Purpose of Mining?
1. Confirms all bitcoin transac+ons ever made
2. Creates new bitcoins
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Mining Investment
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Mining Centralisa+on
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How to buy bitcoin?
• Online Exchange: 3 in South Africa recommend BitX (www.bitx.co) AML & KYC Compliant: Upload ID & proof of address
• Operates like a tradi+onal exchanges • Market for buyers and sellers • Buyer places bids: no. of bitcoin & price • Sellers places no. of bitcoin & sets the ask price • If both happy – exchange matches the order
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BitX Website
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How to send bitcoin?
• Send to a bitcoin address: a string of leqers and numbers of between 27 and 34 alphanumeric characters that represents a des+na+on for a bitcoin payment. Example: 19JjM72bmgA39fED9YsLfg1SNrXTD Similar to sending an email.
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How to send bitcoin?
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How to send bitcoin?
• Send to recipients email address
• Send to phone number (select from contacts)
• Scan a QR code
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How to receive bitcoin?
• Scan a QR code:
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How to receive bitcoin?
• Send bitcoin address to sender • Send QR code to sender
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How to buy & sell bitcoin?
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BitX Exchange
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Bitcoin Transac+ons
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Wallets
• Bitcoin wallets store the public & private keys (similar to a bank account and your pin)
• The public key is used to send someone bitcoin
• The private key needs to be kept a secret • Bitcoin wallets don't hold actual bitcoin
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Types of Wallets
1. SoUware wallets: installed on your computer
2. Web or online wallets: installed on mobile devices and web sites. Advantage = convenient Disadvantage = trust a third party, such as BitX
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BitX Mobile Wallet (web wallet)
Bitcoin Smart Wallet: available for Android & iOS
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Types of Wallets
3. Paper wallets: public and private keys are printed on a piece of paper
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Paper Wallet
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Types of Wallets
4. Hardware wallets: a physical device
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Types of Wallets
5. Brain wallets: user commits a pass phrase to memory. Advantage = very secure
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Wallet Safety
• Wallet backups:
-‐ Encrypt -‐ Mul+ple loca+ons -‐ Regular backups of private keys
• Cold storage: completely offline: storing keys to a device not connected to the internet
• MulR-‐signature transacRons: the owner can specify rules which require a certain number of private keys to sign the transac+on
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
• Pseudonymous • Addresses can be linked to real iden++es • Transac+ons are
– public – viewable on blockchain.info website – traceable
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
• Publishing your name and bitcoin address online
• Who knows your address: anyone on the internet
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
• Trading bitcoin for na+onal currency on an exchange
• Who knows your address: the exchange
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
• Buying goods and services online • Who knows your address: the merchant / payment processor
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How anonymous is Bitcoin?
• Using a Thin Client or Hosted Wallet • Who knows your address: server administrators
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Bitcoin has an image problem
Silk Road was an online black market best known as a plavorm for selling illegal drugs.
Mt. Gox was one of the largest bitcoin exchanges based in Tokyo, Japan. Claimed to have lost 650,000 bitcoins Closed in 2014 and filed for bankruptcy Many people lost their bitcoin.
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The Blockchain
• Distributed, decentralised public ledger • Available to anyone, anywhere in the world • Stores all past bitcoin transac+ons • Write-‐only: data can only be added, not
edited or deleted • Technology that underpins bitcoin
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3 January 2009:
The Genesis Block is mined
The Genesis Block
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The Blocks
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How the Blockchain works
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Trustless Payment System
– Milton Friedman, early 2000’s (Nobel winning economist)
“The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-‐cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A
knowing B or B knowing A.”
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Transfer of money: tradi+onal method
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Transfer of money: tradi+onal method
MulRple sources of the truth. At each point in the process there is risk, cost and Rme delays.
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Transfer of bitcoin
node
node node
node
Single source of truth for all parRes there is no need for central authoriRes
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Merchant Acceptance
More than 100,000 merchants now accept bitcoin: • MicrosoD • Expedia • Dell • DISH • Overstock • Virgin Galac+c • WordPress • PayPal • GyD • Steam
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Merchant Acceptance
• Payment integra+on – 3rd Party Bitcoin payment processors such as BitPay They convert bitcoin into fiat so no vola+lity
• Benefits: -‐ transac+on fees lower (no intermediary) -‐ no need for a bank account -‐ no risk of chargebacks for merchants (can not be reversed) -‐ payment informa+on can not be stolen
• Payment processing companies eg. PayFast & BitPay • Transac+on verifica+on / confirma+ons:
1 confirma+on for small vendors, up to 6
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Why use Bitcoin?
1. It’s fast (compared to cheques & wire transfer)
2. It’s cheap 3. Central governments can’t take it away 4. There are no chargebacks 5. It isn’t infla+onary
Someone who had been selling a chocolate bar for a dollar will have to double the price to make it worth the same as it was before, because a dollar suddenly has only half its value.
6. People can’t steal your payment informa+on from merchants
7. It’s as private as you want it to be 8. You don’t need to trust anyone else 9. You own it 10. You can create your own money
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Compliance, regula+on & tax
• RegulaRon in South Africa: No regula+on Regulators have issued a warning only
• RegulaRon world-‐wide: Most governments around the world are applying exis+ng regulatory frameworks for electronic and mobile payment systems Currently no countries where bitcoin is accepted as legal tender
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Compliance and regula+on
• Countries that have banned bitcoin: 1. Bangladesh 2. Bolivia 3. Ecuador
Legality of bitcoin by country: hqps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country
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Why are people talking about it?
• Disrup+ng tradi+onal ways of transac+ng and storing of informa+on
• Almost US$1billion investment in bitcoin and blockchain technology startups since 2012
• In 2015 it was the worlds best performing currency
• Decentralised nature of this technology is out of the control of the regulators
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Financial Ins+tu+ons researching or developing POC’s
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Why are people talking about it?
• Payment rails: cross border payments & interbank seqlements
• Remiqances • Immutable ledger • Time-‐stamped records • Proof of ownership • Micro-‐transac+ons: 0.00005430 BTC =
0.26 Rands • Smart contracts
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Why are people talking about it?
Ripple:
• Enabling a real-‐+me gross seqlement system for cross-‐currency payments between banks
• Remiqance service for retail customers
• Interna+onal transac+on banking service
• Interna+onal corpoate payments
• Cross-‐border intra-‐ bank currency transfers
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Why are people talking about it?
Barclays:
• Helping business clients reduce costs associated with supply chain management
• Replacing printed documents with versions that are stored electronically in blockchain transac+on metadata
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Why are people talking about it?
NASDAQ: • Using blockchain to streamline financial record keeping • Trading of shares of pre-‐IPO private companies IBM: A plavorm that operates without a na+ve currency like bitcoin and can be used to keep track of business to business, bank to bank, and bank to business transac+ons and enforce smart contracts
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Why are people talking about it?
Deutsche Bank:
• Issuing corporate bonds and coupon payments, redeeming itself by means of a “smart contract” that automa+cally executes the terms
• Enforcement and clearing of deriva+ves contracts
• Know-‐your-‐customer and an+-‐money laundering registries and surveillance
• Securi+es asset servicing
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Why are people talking about it?
Smart Contracts:
• Car rental agencies using smart contracts that automa+cally allow rentals when payment’s received and insurance informa+on is confirmed through a blockchain record
• A refrigerator equipped with sensors and connected to the internet using the blockchain to manage automated interac+ons with the external world—anything from ordering and paying for food to arranging for its own soDware upgrades and tracking its warranty
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Why are people talking about it?
Insurance:
• Transparent company ledger for real-‐+me audi+ng by regulators and client confidence
• Gives the regulator the confidence to reduce the ini+al capitalisa+on requirement of an insurance program
• Enables the ensured individuals to see that premiums are being collected appropriately and that there are sufficient funds for claim payments in the event of a loss
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Managing Director
Address: The Bandwidth Barn, Block B, 3rd Floor, Woodstock Exchange,
66-‐68 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925
Tel: +27 (21) 409 1376 Email: [email protected]