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      "body": "Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, seems like a pretty smart guy. He has a law degree from Notre Dame and has held leadership positions at BofA for the past 7 years. That kind of thing doesn't just happen by accident. The guy must be sharp. \n\nSo, if that is the case, then how could a man as smart as he is be on TV today saying that Bitcoin is \"nothing new\" because banks have been using \"digital currencies\" for years?\n\nLet's break down his appearance on CNBC today sentence by sentence, because it really is quite fascinating. If you'd like to watch it first, here's the clip:\n\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/26/bofa-ceo-moynihan-anonymous-part-of-bitcoin-causes-debate.html\n\n### Moynihan: \"I think that the question of anonymous currencies is a question that has got to be thought through from a policy decision. The inability to track massive amounts of money moving is tricky.\"\n\nRight off the bat, we encounter fallacies. Bitcoin is far from anonymous. In fact, thanks to government imposition of KYC (Know Your Customer) laws on  cryptocurrency exchanges, Bitcoin is now more easily tracked than the U.S. Dollar.  From the moment that you purchase Bitcoin, the federal government is able to track its movement through the blockchain. Anonymity simply is not a thing when it comes to Bitcoin in the U.S.\n\nAside from that, isn't cash anonymous? Do I need to show identification to give $10,000 in cash to another person? Of course not. Paper cash is far more of an \"anonymous currency\" than Bitcoin.\n\n### Moynihan: \"The idea of digital currency is nothing new. We'll send out half of our consumer payments, which is $2 trillion per year today, are digital. So this isn't something new or different.\"\n\nSaying that Bitcoin is no different from what banks are doing currently shows that Moynihan is either completely ignorant as to what Bitcoin actually is, or he is knowingly trying to deceive the public. I'm going to with deceit, because I just can't fathom that the CEO of one of America's largest banks could be that uninformed as to his company's largest competitor.\n\nBitcoin is a stateless global currency that exists on top of a completely decentralized infrastructure that cannot be controlled by any individual, company or government. Bitcoin knows no middlemen - it enables the world's first trustworthy, uncensorable peer-to-peer financial transactions.\n\nA digital bank payment is quite literally the opposite of Bitcoin on nearly every level. The bank is a middleman which Americans are forced to use to send government currency from one party to another, if the bank chooses to allow the transaction. \n\n### Moynihan: \"It's the anonymous thing that causes debate from an operational perspective. From the speculation, I'll let you and your colleagues talk about what it's worth. But, there oughta be a hard look at the policy of anonymous currencies because the ability to track information and the money flowing is one of the things that we use to seriously...against terrorism and against improper, illegal behavior. That's the reason that there's only $100 bills in the U.S. economy. You don't want large amounts of money to travel without attribution. And that's what our banking system does for this country  and the world, is that we track all of this money, and the data can be found, and you can do things to find people, bad activities, etc.\"\n\nSo, the CEO of Bank of America just admitted to the world that he is an agent for the U.S. government. It's nothing that we didn't already know, but it's good to hear him being honest for once.\n\nAnd, wow, all this time you thought it was only at the airport that you were being treated like a terrorist. Little did you know that it's at the bank as well! Apparently you can't be trusted with anything larger than a $100 bill because, well, \"terrorism\". \n\nThe more we hear Moynihan talk, the more he makes it sound like he doesn't think that your money is actually your money any more once it goes into his bank. After you deposit your hard-earned money, BofA's policy seems to be that they'll scrutinize your transactions and decide if they'll let you have it back. But come on, they'd never keep your money from you for no good reason, [would they](https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/56936/boa-closed-my-accounts-and-froze-my-funds-how-can-i-get-money-back-besides-cash)?\n\n### Interviewer:  \"So Bitcoin is currently used for crime?\"\n### Moynihan:  \"Well, you can read the stories, as I can.\"\n\nObviously, the insinuation here is that Bitcoin is being used for crime and must be stopped.\n\nIsn't the U.S. Dollar used for crime too? How about the Euro? The Australian Dollar? The South African Rand? Are any of those currencies *not* used for crime?\n\nLet's sum this up.\n\n**According to Moynihan, Bitcoin isn't a threat to banks - it's a threat to the safety of the American people that must be stopped.**\n\nHowever, in reality, Moynihan knows very well that Bitcoin is the biggest threat that banks have ever faced. \n\nBitcoin completely eliminates the need for banks by using the power of the Internet to enable a new protocol for how money can work. \n\nNeither Moynihan nor Jamie Dimon are ever going to come out and say \"Bitcoin is about to destroy us. We need to stop it from eating our business.\"  The only way that they can try to fight back against this new technology is to spread lies about it.\n\nBut, shouldn't that be illegal? How can they do this? Well, Bitcoin isn't a company that can sue them. At its core, Bitcoin is an internet protocol that is quickly evolving into a decentralized global currency. There is no CEO of Bitcoin that can fight back against these banksters or file a libel lawsuit against them. And they are well aware of that.\n\nSo, what can the rest of us do as we watch people like Brian Moynihan and Jamie Dimon use their bully pulpits to straight-up lie about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies? We can fight back from the grassroots. I'm no one special. I'm just a guy who understands and sees the revolutionary power of Bitcoin. I have a keyboard and I have the Internet, so I can write this article. I can send it to my friends and family so that they can know what is really happening out there. \n\nYou can share this article, or you can write one yourself. Whatever you do, don't sit silently while these bank CEOs try to wage an unfair battle against a leaderless movement. \n\nTake solace in the fact that technology is undefeated in its long-standing battle against business. That's not going to change any time soon.\n\n**And a final message to the banks: adapt or get eaten. 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      "body": "Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin. You’re hearing it everywhere these days, aren’t you? Whether it’s CNBC, The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, everyone these days seems to be talking about the huge increase in Bitcoin’s value and the potential for long-term growth.\n\nBut aside from the amazing returns that investors have seen in 2017, have you ever taken a closer look at exactly what the technology is? Most people don’t know much about Bitcoin aside from the fact that it’s “digital cash”. \n\nSo, now seems like a great time to share **2 facts about Bitcoin that will blow your mind!**\n\n# 1. Your Bitcoin wallet does not contain Bitcoin, and it will never contain Bitcoin.\n\nWhen you purchase Bitcoin on Coinbase and then send it to your own wallet application, no Bitcoin is actually moving through the Internet. Coinbase never actually holds any Bitcoin, and neither do you.\n\nWait a minute — so what exactly am I buying here? How does this work?\n\nAll of the world’s Bitcoin exists inside of one giant ledger. The technical name for this ledger is the blockchain. \n\nThe Bitcoin blockchain contains a vast amount of virtual “drawers”, also known as Bitcoin addresses. Your Bitcoin is stored in a drawer in the blockchain, and it never leaves there until you send it to another drawer.\n\n*Bitcoin only exists inside of “drawers” in the blockchain. It does not exist outside of those drawers. It just moves from drawer to drawer.*\n\n![safety-deposit-shutterstock_122863825.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVPsMn9GPEgwzJa7wTTqKjTDYod2FtgABHSURgosLfmho/safety-deposit-shutterstock_122863825.jpg)\n\nWhen you purchase and hold Bitcoin, your wallet holds the key to each drawer that you have Bitcoin in. You never hold the Bitcoin. You just hold the key that opens each drawer where your Bitcoins are being held.\n\nMost wallet applications create a new “drawer” for every transaction in which you receive Bitcoin, so you may have several of them. However, newer wallet apps make this part of the process invisible to the end-user, showing them just their total balance and locking & unlocking drawers in the background as needed.\n\n# 2. The number of Bitcoin drawers is greater than the number of seconds in the age of our universe.\n\nWhen you receive Bitcoin into your wallet application, the app chooses a Bitcoin drawer in the blockchain at random, assigns it to you, and puts your Bitcoin into it. It doesn’t check to see if it’s empty, because it doesn’t need to. It already knows that whichever drawer it selects will be empty.\n\nHuh? Millions of people are using Bitcoin. How does the wallet app know that the drawer it selects will be empty?\n\nThis is where the incredible power of numbers comes into play. This is how many Bitcoin drawers exist inside of the blockchain:\n\n**1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976\n(this also can be written as 2¹⁶⁰)**\n\nThis means that the odds of your wallet app choosing a Bitcoin drawer that has been used by someone else is 1 in 2¹⁶⁰.\n\nI know what you’re thinking — it may be unlikely, but isn’t it still possible that two people could randomly end up with the same Bitcoin address?\n\nWell, let’s compare this massive number to a few other things...\n\nNumber of Bitcoin “drawers” in the blockchain:\n1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976\n\nNumber of atoms in the atmosphere of the Earth\n200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000\n\nThe age of the known universe, in seconds\n473,000,000,000,000,000\n\nThe number of seconds that a 95 year old person has lived\n3,000,000,000\n\nThe number of potential number combinations in the Powerball lottery\n292,201,338\n\nWhat does this mean? It means that it would take you longer than the age of the universe to randomly find a Bitcoin address that has been used before. \n\nWhen comparing the odds of choosing the winning Powerball numbers (already unbelievably unlikely, as most of us painfully know) to the number of Bitcoin drawers in the blockchain, you really start to understand the vastness of the numbers that we’re dealing with in Bitcoin.\n\n\n![planets-distance.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTYY6Kq4FxQ5Y6VYVccwgPgTYVvtTCReJMtsRnuiRtVLs/planets-distance.png)\nEven the distances between planets in our solar system seem tiny when compared to the number of Bitcoin virtual “drawers” in the blockchain.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZcCLfeH28\n**This is probably how you’re feeling right about now!**\n\nIf you’re having trouble wrapping your head around these mind-blowing facts about Bitcoin, you’re definitely not alone. Bitcoin and blockchain technology is just as much of an intellectual revolution as it is a technological revolution. \n\nRemember those pictures from the good ole days where you just had to keep staring at it until you could finally see it? Learning about Bitcoin is kind of like that.\n\nUnderstanding Bitcoin is kind of like staring at an image like this until you can finally clearly see what it is.\n\nKeep on consuming as much content as you can about these topics, and it will continue to come more and more into focus for you. The key is not to give up.\n\nDon’t own any Bitcoin yet? [Use this link to sign up on Coinbase and get $10 in free Bitcoin right now!](https://www.coinbase.com/join/54ccea96e2e0c85625000060)\n\nIf you enjoyed this article, please follow, share and feel free to contact me @ChrisBlec with any questions.",
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