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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th Cent to a Billion Dollars

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Summary

Olaf Carlson-Wee explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines the various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure billions of dollars in global bitcoin banks.

Bio

Olaf Carlson-Wee is the Head of Special Projects at Coinbase. He has built a 40-persons operations team, conducted agent training and designed fraud prevention and account security mechanisms protecting billions of dollars in transactional value occurring in over 30 countries. He is an expert in decentralized ledger protocols, crypto-based financial instruments, and anti-fraud systems at scale.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Jul 13, 2016

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