Satoshi and Vitalik: the origins of blockchain, “trust” technology

Disruptive, fascinating, controversial: blockchain is one of the most talked-about  technologies of recent years, from cryptocurrencies to the web3. Two different but revolutionary leaders have ushereda new era: the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto with Bitcoin and Vitalik Buterin, the wunderkind who invented Ethereum

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In the vast panorama of Industry 4.0 technologies,  blockchain is one of the most promising in terms of its potential for innovation in all economic sectors.. Also known as "trust technology", it promises traceability, transparency and incorruptibility of peer-to-peer communications, through the system of "distributed ledgers".

Bitcoin is the first blockchain, created in 2008, but the secret identity of its inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, is a mystery of our time. Created as an alternative to a fragile and failing  financial system, Bitcoin is the digital currency that aims to remove the "human factor", discretion and margins of error from any transaction of value, with the guarantee of an impersonal "peer-to-peer" infrastructure.

But the history of blockchain goes back to the dawn of the computer age, and seems destined to continue into the cybernetic one. This is what new talents are working for, such as Vitalik Buterin, the boy-genius inventor of Ethereum, the world’s second most famous blockchain, born with the potential to "decentralize everything" and lead digital society to the new horizons of web3Satoshi and Vitalik are the protagonists of this story that Infra The Mundys Journal tells, with the help of Professor Ferdinando Ametrano, for the ninth episode of the Pioneers of the Future podcast .

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Text: Daniele Monaco
Narrated by: Giuditta Avellina
Editorial coordination: Teresa Bellemo
Sound: Luca Piceno
Interview: Ferdinando Ametrano, CEO of CheckSig, Professor of "Bitcoin and Crypto" at ESSEC Paris, Milan-Bicocca and Statale University, founder and scientific director of the research center Digital Gold Institute.
A production by: Studio Editoriale 

Pioneers of the future - A podcast by Infra The Mundys Journal

Pioneers of the future is the podcast of Infra The Mundys Journal. The second season is a six-episodes journey through some of the most relevant innovations of the last 30 years, trying to hypothesize their impact over the next 20. As always, featuring the lives and adventures of the innovators who are shaping our present and even the future.

How is a breakthrough invention conceived? Which challenges had its creator to overcome? What are the needs, the fears and the beliefs of these pioneers in thought and imagination? Pioneers of the future collects the stories of the masters who are shaping the course of our times, through a podcast narration made of voices, anecdotes and interviews.

Men and women, well known and less well known, who stay faithful to their ideals and intuitions, even when nobody else was able to see along with them. Their ideas still pose many questions to us, but at the same time they are a promise to improve our lives, capable of lighting up our way of living, communicating, moving and traveling. All around the world.


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