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May 18, 2015
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How an Educator Came to <3 Crypto @mozzadella, Educator at
@stellarorg
Vanessa was quite happy as a spunky edupunk on the
web.
Mission-driven educational work! Open, free and accessible! Huzzah!
I felt weird about “money”
Until I met Joyce Kim…
public infrastructure for money cryptographic hash multiple currencies the financial
system is broken The concepts sounded scary
“Digital currency” seemed really hard. I thought it best to
let someone else worry about it.
Noticed queues outside check- cashing storefronts in West Philly.
Philadelphia is #9 nationally: 37.8% of our city is unbanked
or underbanked. Source: 2009 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households.
Post-2008 applicants can be denied a bank account for one
bounced check.
None
There had to be a better way to include everyone
in the financial system.
Ok, but what is this “digital financial system”?
It starts with a node. I’m a server spun up
on the Stellar network.
It starts with a node… Congratulations! Beep. Beep.
The Stellar network transmits funds from node to node
Gateways are portals from fiat currency to the network.
Lumens are the intermediary currency the network uses to transmit
funds.
Transactions take 2-5 seconds in a settling up process called
consensus Looks like it. Do we all agree that Vanessa’s transaction happened? Cool. Ok, let’s update the ledger!
Products can be built on Stellar for solutions at the
local level. I sell used Apple parts on the Stellar network. We have a lending club.
Stellar is giving away 95% of the 100 billion lumens
to seed the network.
Once you see how the system works, you can’t un-see
it.
The future of money is digital… we all must know
how to use it.
5% 95% Men Women Houston, we have a problem… Demographics
of bitcoin owners
People who make the products In a Stellar future: People
who use the products
Disdain Skepticism Curiosity Crystallization Acceptance The 5 stages of learning
about cryptocurrency
And it’s much less scary.
To learn more: stellar.org @mozzadella, Educator at @stellarorg