Blockchain Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Channel: WIRED
Views: 3,356,948
Rating: 4.7626309 out of 5
Keywords: banking, banks, bio, biologist, bitcoin, currency, expert, network, technology, cryptocurrency, cryptography, blockchain, blockchain expert, cryptographer, crypto currency, block chain, satoshi nakamoto, online banking, blockchain network, finn brunton, grad student, blockchain system, blockchain computer, computer network, bettina warburg, peer to peer, peer to peer network, bitcoin expert, bitcoin price, bitcoin currency, one concept, wired
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Length: 17min 50sec (1070 seconds)
Published: Tue Nov 28 2017
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She didn't really explain it that well.
βWhat is this communist gobbledygook?β - My grandpa
I love the teenager's inquisitiveness. He seems really quick, almost eager to ask the next question.
i like that expert guys shirt. any clue where he got it from?
Basically
An astute pre-teen makes as good a student as any older human being.
On an unrelated note, it's interesting to see how the conversations with the pre-teen and the last expert dude felt less one-sided compared to the college and grad students. I assume it's because that while they are smart enough to grasp anything explained to them, they were also aware of the limits of their knowledge on the subject, and were also shrewd enough to gauge the general level of knowledge held by the interviewer on the topic, making them reluctant to ask her to expand on the finer details at the risk of causing an awkward situation. The interviewer seemed to be giving too much of a layman's description on the topic rather than to explain what it the blockchain physically was and was using a lot of buzzwords. With the expert it was a lot better since he was able to bridge the divide in understanding with his own supplemented knowledge, and was able to keep the conversation relevant to the topic even as it began to stray away.
Someone in another post mentioned the video could have significance in teaching how to teach. I think first of all you need an educator that is truly an expert on the topic (obviously) and secondly to cultivate an atmosphere in education where asking questions are never wrong. Students don't need to fear being ridiculed for asking stupid questions and educators don't need to feel like they are being challenged when asked a difficult question. Both things we kind of knew already but are hard to implement in modern educational institutions where asking questions with obvious answers (say, in the textbook) are severely looked down upon as wasting everyone else's time, when educators are stretched for time between teaching and research, the student-educator ratio is exceeding large, and no one is really anonymous. Learning over the internet is the future (if not already the present).
Blockchain is not difficult to explain or understand. The applications of blockchain, such as cryptocurrency, are. So I'm not sure what this video set out to do or prove.
I have doubts that the host actually knows what she's talking about on a granular level.
My friend lex malone knows a lot more about blockchain than you do.