Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem 2024
2024-05-25
Arnhem, Netherlands
who it's for
bitcoin entrepreneurs, human rights activists, infrastructure operators, wallet developers, compliance and legal counsel, community organisers, bitcoin researchers
topics
lightning payments and merchant onboarding; upcoming layer 2 designs; self-custody and seed security (BIP39 backups); circular bitcoin economy projects; gridless mining and demand response; merchant onboarding strategies; aml regulations and FIU reporting issues; bitcoin and human rights use cases; custodial ETFs versus on-chain custody; privacy tools and prosecution (Tornado Cash); bitcoin governance and block size limits
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| From Fear to Hope | Gerardo Linares, Evelyn Lemus | 16m |
El Salvador reports concrete changes since adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021: homicide rates drop, tech firms and road projects arrive, and public spaces… | ||
| Bitcoin and Human Rights | Anita Posch | 27m |
Work in Ghana, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe supports local meetups and 50-person workshops for human rights activists; identifies 11 UN… | ||
| The Goal of Bitcoin | Kemal Yaşar, Ben de Waal, Aaron van Wirdum | 39m |
Argues Bitcoin merges two concrete goals: a hard money incentive to bootstrap adoption and a digital-cash privacy lineage; cites eCash and eGold as concrete… | ||
| The Story of Bitcoin Ekasi | Hermann Vivier | 23m |
Project Bitcoin Ekasi converts an existing surf-and-tourism nonprofit into a local Bitcoin circular economy: salaries paid in Bitcoin to ~7–11 staff, merchant… | ||
| Pockets of wasted energy | Janet Maingi | 15m |
Gridless deploys containerized miners across Kenya, Malawi and Zambia to soak up pockets of wasted energy, pairing Bitcoin hashing with local hydro, solar… | ||
| Fiat the system vs Bitcoin the tool | Rigel Walshe | 17m |
Claims that 877,000 BTC flowed into newly approved ETFs since 10 January, and that these are custodial instruments, contrast with Glassnode charts showing… | ||
| Bitcoin and Weaponisation | Bota Jardemailie | 21m |
Authoritarian regimes use fabricated half a billion euros money‑laundering claims, private banks and Interpol notices to exile, freeze accounts and force… | ||
| How To Secure Your Seed Phrase | Ruben Middelhoven | 20m |
Explains that backup is a BIP39 master seed — BIP39 12 vs 24 words — and compares physical methods: letter tiles/CryptoSteel cassette, hammered Cryptotech Tor… | ||
| Living On A Bitcoin Standard | Ben de Waal | 23m |
Claims living on a Bitcoin standard since 2017, using Bitcoin as primary money for savings, invoicing and daily spending; mines four blocks in 2010, references… | ||
| Upcoming L2 Systems | Peter K Todd | 34m |
Explains why true L2s must allow unilateral withdrawal or fraud prevention, contrasts Lightning’s HTLC-based reactive security with proposals that trade… | ||
| Setting up a Circular Bitcoin Economy | Hermann Vivier, Gerardo Linares | 49m |
Project builds local circular economies in El Salvador and a South African township by onboarding merchants, running a Bitcoin center, painting branded shacks… | ||
| AML Regulations and Financial Freedom | Lyudmyla Kozlovska, REBECCA VAN ESSEN, DORIEN ROOKMAKER, MAUD BOKKERINK, Sjors Provoost | 54m |
Panel argues that 2020 Dutch AML registration forced crypto firms into a costly gatekeeper role and created widespread derisking and financial exclusion (one… | ||
| The Biggest Secret Worldwide Bank Fraud Revealed | Hester Bais | 19m |
An investigation into large-scale bank fraud affecting customers worldwide, explaining how banks or financial systems are exploited and which techniques enable… | ||
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