Sarah Jeong - The what and how of Bitcoin

Sarah Jeong

Writer

From The Conference August 20, 2014



"Human beings want to trust each other and the systems around them."



Can money exist without a government? And is the biggest value of the coin actually the gold or the face of the king?





Sarah Jeong, writer and Harvard Law School graduate, discusses the trust issues surrounding the Bitcoin blockchain. She concludes that even though Bitcoin may have started out as a reaction to the financial system, it has actually become a part of it.