Neha Narula: The future of money
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about the future of money.
about this culture
in the early 1900s, called the Yap.
العشرين و سميت ب(الياب).
is really interesting.
called Rai stones.
المسماة بأحجار (راي).
move these Rai stones around
من مكان لآخر
we do with our coins,
to be pretty massive.
and 12 feet across.
وعرض اثني عشر قدمًا.
of who owns part of what stone.
بمن يمتلك أي جزء من أي حجر.
across the ocean
and the stone actually fell in.
and -- why not? -- it still counted.
-- مازال محسوبًا.
at the bottom of the ocean,
was just a small culture
in the Western world as well,
في العالم الغربي أيضًا،
a form of these stones.
تلك الحجارة.
asked the United States
من الولايات المتحدة
from dollars into gold.
to think about actually shipping
التفكير في شحن
that gold was being stored
إلى المكان المخزن فيه الذهب
as belonging to France now.
that France owned the gold.
with these two examples
inherently valuable
have any value
and the transactions
that we tell each other about value.
التي نحكيها لبعضنا البعض.
إيداع النقود في المصرف،
is deducted from my paycheck
in my retirement account.
في حسابي التقاعدي.
1's and 0's on computers.
على أجهزة الحاسوب.
like a stone or a coin.
أو العملة المعدنية.
so that I can pay someone around the world
ما في أي مكان في العالم
underwriting every 1 or 0
of those large institutions.
to fix the problem.
the US credit card companies
بطاقات الائتمان الأمريكية
still don't work in Europe.
لا تعمل في أوروبا.
and across currencies
can set up an online business in minutes,
عملًا تجاريًا على الإنترنت خلال دقائق،
to get loans and to get paid:
و استلام الأموال:
and our ability to freely transact
على القيام بالمعاملات المالية بسهولة
by these gatekeepers.
in the system slowing things down.
تجعل الأمور تسير ببطء.
isn't really mine,
that belong to my bank,
المصرف الخاص بي،
or my investment firm.
الاستثمار الخاصة بي.
have the right to say "no."
and I can't get paid.
in the way of innovation.
Facebook photos, Google Photos,
they're on my laptop,
they're in Dropbox.
ال دروب بوكسDropbox.
websites and services.
والخدمات.
don't work together.
the money supply.
don't inter-operate,
what we can do with payment.
two phases of money.
to deal with these physical objects,
مع تلك الأشياء المادية،
the speed of humans.
سرعة البشر.
much farther and is much faster,
إلى مدى أبعد وبسرعة أكبر،
of these gatekeeper institutions.
من أطوار النقود
than just a static unit of value,
ساكنة(متوازنة)
on institutions for security.
حتى نحصل على الأمان.
and institutions from the loop.
we're transacting anymore.
of this evolution.
in a world without intermediaries.
بدون وسطاء.
cryptocurrency,
الأكثر انتشارًا،
Stellar, Dogecoin,
of the more popular ones.
that I can use to buy sashimi.
لشراء الساشيمي.
that moved around 100,000 bitcoins.
البيتكوين في مارس الماضي.
of 40 million US dollars.
a special field of mathematics
على مجال خاص في الرياضيات
of how to secure communication,
تأمين الإتصالات،
really important things:
be hidden in plain sight,
of information's source.
so many of the systems around us.
الكثير من النظم حولنا.
classified it as a weapon.
breaking cryptosystems like Enigma
نظم التشفير شيء غامض
enemy transmissions
web browser is running
our interactions on the Internet.
to type our passwords in
على الإنترنت مأمنة
information to websites.
للمواقع الإلكترونية.
application of cryptography.
علم التشفير.
have to rely on the banks anymore
الاعتماد على المصارف
idea that the Yap used,
التي استخدمتها (الياب)،
knowledge of transfers.
by transferring Bitcoin,
عندما أقوم بتحويلها،
transfers Bitcoin to me.
بتحويل البيتكوين لي.
is I can give you a sheet of it
on my piece as well.
the transfers that they're doing
التي يقومون بها
around to everyone else's pieces of paper.
of the transfers that are happening
with the Bitcoin blockchain,
في سلسلة الكتل ل البيتكوين
of the transactions in Bitcoin.
of networked computers
بشبكة الإنترنت
are collectively confirming
is core to how Bitcoin works.
كيفية عمل اللبيتكوين.
to create new Bitcoin
is that to get those Bitcoin,
للحصول على تلك البيتكوين،
a random cryptographic puzzle.
أحجية عشوائية مشفرة.
over and over again.
are all actually doing.
أجهزة الحاسوب.
to land on the right number.
إلى أن تصل للرقم الصحيح.
to the rest of the network
helping to secure the Bitcoin blockchain
سلسلة كتل البيتكوين
all over the world running this software,
بإدارة تلك البرامج،
يصبح عامل منجم بيتكوين.
and try to collect some bitcoins.
وتحاول جمع بعض البيتكوين.
and the network is so powerful,
قوية جدًا،
Bitcoin on my laptop,
for about two million years.
مليوني عام.
use this special hardware
يستخدمون أجهزة خاصة
the puzzle really fast.
and all of this special hardware,
that the amount of energy it uses
and a little bit cumbersome.
to be so much better and so much faster.
وأسرع إلى حد كبير.
programmable money.
or ask permission,
about my money getting stuck.
بأن تعلق نقودي.
an explosion of innovation,
an open architecture.
changed the way we communicate,
to change the way we pay,
قيامنا بالدفع،
does programmable money create?
القابلة للبرمجة؟
rent out my healthcare data
بيانات رعايتي الصحية
in a way that we agreed.
التي اتفقنا عليها.
for what they find out.
for streaming services
my watching habits
عادات المشاهدة لدي
that fit within my budget
with our attention when we view content,
عند مشاهدتنا لمحتوى ما،
كالمدفوعات الصغيرة
the way security works in our world,
الأمان في عالمنا،
to allocate value,
القيمة بطريقة أفضل،
and their energies
to send an email,
يتكلف كسرا من السنت،
that is seeing the first automobile.
للمرة الأولى.
like the first car,
and hard to use.
like the horse and carriage,
is built on it.
combustion engine,
think you were crazy:
this large, clunky machine
that lights on fire,
of programmable money.
القابلة للبرمجة.
but it's also a little bit scary.
for illegal transactions,
في معاملات غير قانونية،
in the world today.
في وقتنا الحالي.
who can see what we do?
من باستطاعته أن يرى ما نفعله؟
in this new world and who isn't?
ومن يصبح غير مستفيد؟
that I didn't have to pay for before?
كانت مجانية من قبل؟
to algorithms and utility functions?
ووظائف المنفعة؟
a lot of ways to waste time.
increased productivity.
بشكل كبير.
like I have to stay connected to work
البقاء على اتصال بالعمل
to friends and family.
بأصدقائي وعائلتي.
is going to eliminate some jobs.
بعض الوظائف.
new, flexible forms of employment.
for large, trusted institutions
كبيرة ومؤتمنة
out to the edges, where it belongs.
ديمقراطية.
things are going to change and unfold
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Neha Narula - Currency futuristNeha Narula is helping redefine the future of money by researching cryptocurrencies and providing clarity on how digital currencies will transform our world.
Why you should listen
Neha Narula is director of research at the Digital Currency Initiative, a part of the MIT Media Lab where she teaches courses and leads cryptocurrency and blockchain research. While completing her PhD in computer science at MIT, she built fast, scalable databases and secure software systems, and she spoke about these topics at dozens of industry and research conferences.
In a previous life, Narula helped relaunch the news aggregator Digg and was a senior software engineer at Google. There, she designed Blobstore, a system for storing and serving petabytes of immutable data, and worked on Native Client, a system for running native code securely through a browser.
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