Andreas shares his initial thoughts on Steemit a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating and curating content; and using money to mediate social relationships.
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When Facebook launched it didn't launch world wide, they didn't launch state wide,  they launched building wide; they went to one campus and annoyed the hell out of everyone in that building until they signed up to the Facebook and then it was useful because at least you knew everyone in the building had it. Its not the team, its not the funding, its not the idea, its not the execution, its the timing, you can have most brilliant idea ever and you're just too early. Google was the 22nd search engine launched, Amazon was 30th attempt at doing home delivery over the internet; nobody remembers the other 29.
https://youtu.be/Ny49ZbKwu0o
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Watch the full talk here: [Money as Free Speech](https://youtu.be/3NqDNetEqmI)

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Andreas is the author of two books: “Mastering Bitcoin,” published by O’Reilly Media and considered the best technical guide to bitcoin; and “The Internet of Money,” a book about why bitcoin matters. Andreas has also co-authored with Gavin Wood the book 'Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and Dapps' due for release 28 Feb 2018 and is also published by O′Reilly Media.

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This clip is an excerpt from 'Money as Free Speech' which was first published under a creative commons licence (CC-BY-SA) by the aantonop YouTube channel on 26 Nov 2016 and can be found here: [Money as Free Speech](https://youtu.be/3NqDNetEqmI)
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