Adopting Bitcoin 2023
who it's for
community organizers, bitcoin educators, payments operators, wallet and node developers, association and industry leaders, policy makers and regulators
topics
legal tender adoption in El Salvador; Lightning Network deployments in schools; bitcoin ATMs and on-ramps; bitcoin education curricula and residencies; merchant integration with Blink API; OpenTimestamps anchoring for audits; institutional flows and ETF impacts; RGB tokens on Bitcoin; circular economy payments and incentives; satellite participation for node access
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Address | Javier Bastardo | 15m |
Opening remarks for the Adopting Bitcoin 2023 conference, providing links to the event’s Twitter, Telegram, and website. It introduces the conference and… | ||
| A Salvadoran story: From attendee to speaker | Reyna Chicas | 12m |
A Salvadoran account of becoming a Bitcoin educator: the speaker describes deciding in 2022 to get involved in Bitcoin education in El Salvador, leveraging… | ||
| Salvadoran Perception of Bitcoin | Alejandra Guajardo | 10m |
A Salvadoran public figure interviewed 100 everyday Salvadorans, recording their answers to the question “What does Bitcoin mean to you?” The talk presents… | ||
| Bitcoin as an International Asset | Niko Jilch | 24m |
The talk examines how Bitcoin is being treated as an international asset: it notes El Salvador’s legal tender move and surveys other ways governments… | ||
| Toward Circularity: Paying the Supplier | Burtey, Noor, Dismo | 34m |
Blink Wallet (formerly Bitcoin Beach Wallet) has partnered with Dismo, El Salvador’s second-largest distributor, to deploy Bitcoin payments to 20 vendors and… | ||
| Freedom or Control? | Paolo Ardoino | 32m |
The talk discusses tensions between freedom and control in the context of Bitcoin adoption, arguing that proponents are not extremists but are simply ahead of… | ||
| 1 LN Node, 1 ATM, 1 School in El Salvador | Rogzy | 19m |
DB with cubo+ is helping El Salvador’s Ministry of Education and the national Bitcoin office deploy one Lightning Network node, one Lightning ATM, and one… | ||
| I came for democracy but stayed for Bitcoin | Carlino, Ed | 27m |
Testigo Digital is a crowdsourced verification system for Guatemala’s voting records that uses a CAPTCHA-like OCR game to collect millions of data points… | ||
| The Bitcoin Association of El Salvador | Will Hernandez | 17m |
An overview of the Bitcoin Association of El Salvador describing the organization's benefits, members’ experience, activities and services, key partnerships… | ||
| Bitcoin Adoption in LATAM | Ho, Peterson, Eliazar | 32m |
The talk explains why Bitcoin could address Latin America’s economic problems—lack of banking access, loss of savings from poor public policy—and argues… | ||
| Bitcoin and Psychedelics | Ioni Appelberg | 30m |
Compares Bitcoin to psychedelic substances, arguing Bitcoin acts like a non-chemical psychedelic for individuals and society. Describes parallels between how… | ||
| Who Makes the Bitcoin Generation? | Samantha de Waal | 15m |
The talk examines who makes up the "Bitcoin generation," asking whether people first encountered Bitcoin as infants, children, or teenagers. It analyzes the… | ||
| The Bitcoin Miracle in Virunga | Sébastien Gouspillou | 18m |
A short documentary about Virunga National Park, its hydroelectric project and the unexpected role Bitcoin mining has played there, followed by Sébastien… | ||
| Financial Inclusion: A Path to Economic Freedom | Dejan Roljic | 17m |
The talk explains how Bitcoin can address global financial challenges by bridging traditional and decentralized systems to advance financial inclusion. It… | ||
| Announcement: Bitcoin ATMs with Lightning Network | Matias Goldenhörn | 09m |
Athena Bitcoin announces that its network of Bitcoin ATMs in El Salvador now supports the Lightning Network, enabling instant cash withdrawals using… | ||
| A New Era of Bitcoin Creators | Julian Figueroa | 26m |
Explores how to reach future Bitcoin users by using more engaging, creative formats and storytelling in new media to improve the traditional "orange pill"… | ||
| Anatomy of Bitcoin | Pedro | 21m |
A community-funded, open-source film project that creates a hyperreal visual presentation explaining how Bitcoin works. The project aims to make Bitcoin’s… | ||
| Is Mexico the next big step for Bitcoin adoption? | Maciej Cepnik | 15m |
Overview of Bitcoin adoption in Mexico, presenting real-world impressions and usage statistics to outline current challenges and opportunities. Covers adoption… | ||
| Fighting Fiat Corruption with Truth | Michelle Weekley | 20m |
The talk argues that Bitcoin is essential because it counters the widespread corruption enabled by fiat currency. Drawing on the speaker’s experience in… | ||
| Keynote | Akin Fernandez | 23m |
Akin, founder of Azteco, explains a system to buy bitcoin using prepaid voucher codes bought with cash. The talk covers how voucher-based distribution… | ||
| Presenting MOTIV PERU | Valentin Popescu | 17m |
A video presentation about MOTIV PERU showing what the project is doing and how it operates, followed by about 10 minutes of explanation and clarification and… | ||
| Manifesting Freedom | Ricardo Martinez | 34m |
A panel discussion in Spanish featuring Paolo Ardoino, Josué López, Gerson Martínez, and Mike Peterson exploring how Bitcoin can be used to express and expand… | ||
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