Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin Will Cause Massive Decentralization of Financial ServicesBitcoin will revolutionize the world, says Andreas Antonopoulos a leading voice in crypto-currency technology. Interview with Andreas Antonopoulos. Bitcoin has become a hot topic in liberty circles. Some believe it can free humanity from the clutches of a parasitical financial system, while some suspect that it may be a trap for a one-world digital currency. We decided to ask an expert to weigh in. There are very few people on the planet who fully understand Bitcoins technology and its potential to impact the world. Andreas Antonopoulos is one such fellow. Last year he gave what some call the must-see TED Talk about Bitcoin even though it was presented at the Disrupt Conference in Greece (watch below). Antonopoulos is a California-based programmer and entrepreneur primarily focused on Bitcoin in the developing world. He says Bitcoins technology to transmit value using a distributed consensus is truly revolutionary. He calls it the Internet of Money with many applications. Besides his technical acumen, Antonopoulos has emerged as the leading voice for how Bitcoin will be a force for good. How a few lines of code could unseat entire industries, even those as powerful as banking. How billions of unbanked people now have access to global financial markets without a middleman. And how it offers decentralized solutions beyond currency. Heres our email interview with Andreas Antonopoulos about some of the more controversial subjects concerning Bitcoin: Q: Bitcoin has the potential to disrupt many legacy systems. What do you think will be Bitcoins greatest impact on society? Q: There are many who philosophically believe in the core elements of Bitcoin,such as that its open source, limited in supply, decentralized and pseudonymous, but theyre suspicious that it can be corrupted or used as a tool for control in the future. How concerned are you about Bitcoin becoming more centralized? Q: Thanks to Edward Snowden, we now have proof that Google and Facebook are essentially hubs to collect our data. Yet they also serve as powerful communication tools to do good in society. Is it fair to say that Bitcoin, even if its a data trap, is still a powerful tool to disrupt or is anonymity essential for it to reach its full potential? Q: In a recent discussion you said theres a danger to Bitcoin going mainstream too fast. Please explain Q:The stewards of Bitcoin have the ability to ensure anonymity at the protocol level or engineer better tracking to placate authorities. Are application layer solutions for anonymity like Dark Wallet or Zerocoin enough to protect users privacy? Q: You often say currency is the first app of Bitcoin, that it is the Internet of Money. What are likely to be the second and third apps? Learn more about Andreas Antonopoulos here,follow him on Twitter. or check out his podcast at LetsTalkBitcoin.com. 