The History of Money, Lending, and Banking, and its Future in the Crypto-Age

We're very happy to welcome Joshua Scigala from the gold-for-bitcoin exchange vaultoro.com (https://www.vaultoro.com/), Kersten Schütze from the crypto-lending platform ethlend.io (https://about.ethlend.io/), and developer and monetary systems thinker Martin Kreidenweis.

We'll take this opportunity to look at the history of money and banking, and to think about what we can learn from it for a potential future of "Hyperbitcoinization (http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/hyperbitcoinization/)" or the like in which crypto-currencies widely succeed.

How did money originate? How did people in the past save, lend, and invest? And how will we do online banking without actual banks in the near future (or even, today)?

We'll have in-depth talks and presentations full of information that cover many angles and viewpoints, so prepare also for an interesting discussion round!

Such a full program means we're going to start at 18:30!

Target Audience: Everyone interested in different viewpoints about the nature of money in general, and of course of crypto-currencies in particular. No all-to-deep technical knowledge required.

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Josh Scigala (https://twitter.com/Vaultoro) has been working with Bitcoin since late 2010 and co-founded the world's first allocated asset exchange and exchange transparency protocol. As the CEO of Vaultoro and entrepreneur his focus is to make the world a better place by giving people back control of their money and help develop financial solutions for people in developing countries. He is often guest in various international podcasts in the space (also co-host (https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/tatiana)).

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Kersten Schütze (https://twitter.com/kpriv97) is Head of Strategy for ETHLEND, a fully decentralized peer-to-peer lending platform for Ether on the Ethereum network, where anyone has the ability to participate in a fair and free lending market.

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Martin Kreidenweis (https://twitter.com/mkreidenweis) has been reading, thinking and talking about monetary systems and digital value transfer for more than a decade now, founded an alternative local currency in his university years, was active in the crypto-currency startup scene in Vancouver, Canada, and is now working as a software engineer and consultant.

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Timetable so far:

18:00 Volunteers are welcome to arrive earlier and help with preparations.

18:30 Official start, drinks

18:45 Welcome from your hosts, then talks and presentations:

Joshua Scigala: The History of Money and how Crypto-Currency Makes Gold Relevant Again

Joshua will take you on an epic journey through the history of money, and will also talk about how to evaluate all the different tokens and coins, and how to spot scams when investing.

Kersten Schütze: ETHLend — Democratizing Lending

ETHLend is a Blockchain startup that democratizes the lending market with its international team. They use tokenization and crypto-currencies to allow collateralized lending on the blockchain which brings new possibilities for lenders and borrowers all over the globe. Kersten will speak about how the blockchain will reshape the banking market and make it more approachable, fair and safe.

20:15 Break, socializing, pizza, drinks

20:45 Talk and Panel

Martin Kreidenweis: The Essence of Money

The talk will cover the essence of money, how most of our historic view of money is actually pure fiction, and what consequences this has for large scale crypto-currency adoption. Martin will offer viewpoints quite different from both mainstream economics as well as "hard money" and Bitcoin enthusiasts.

Discussion round and Q&A with all our speakers

22:30 End of official part

23:59 Doors closing

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We'll be in a new venue in the Southern center of Munich this time, hosted by the accelerator, incubator and software development company mantro.net (https://mantro.net/) who started working on interesting new projects that might be of great relevance to our community.

(Our meetup group is organized by independent enthusiasts and not affiliated with venues, sponsors, or presenters of this or past events. Viewpoints expressed by our speakers do not necessarily represent our own. We aim to educate by putting forward the various viewpoints and opinions in the crypto-currency and blockchain space, encouraging discourse to enable everyone to make up their own minds. In particular, our program is not to be understood as investment advice.)