Bitcoin 2024
2024-07-25..2024-07-27
Nashville, United States
Bitcoin ·
[Bitcoin 2024, Bitcoin 2025, bitcoin++ villain edition 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote Speech | Donald Trump | 50m |
Speech makes specific policy promises: fire SEC chair Gary Gensler; create a Presidential Crypto Advisory Council that must write rules in 100 days; keep 100%… | ||
| Keynote Speech | Michael Saylor | 37m |
Argues Bitcoin is a durable store of value with concrete metrics: 10 basis points custodian implies ~1,000‑year useful life, self custody at ~1 basis point… | ||
| Keynote Speech | Edward Snowden | 31m |
Claims that machine-learning models will be trained on public blockchains plus exchange logs to turn transaction graphs into identifiable lives, using existing… | ||
| Live Desk Interview | Ron Paul | 14m |
Argues that ending the Fed monopoly requires an audit and competing currencies bill introduced in Congress and recounts joining the Banking Committee after… | ||
| Bitcoin Is Freedom of Speech | Russell Brand, Chris Pavlovski | 31m |
Rumble describes concrete wins and technical fixes: it streams conferences when YouTube pulls content, lists a multibillion IPO under NASDAQ RUM, and launches… | ||
| Unveils Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill | Cynthia Lummis | 07m |
Bill proposes the federal government to assemble 1 million Bitcoin over five years starting with a 2,000‑BTC transfer, store holdings in a geographically… | ||
| Billionaire Capital Allocator | Bill Miller IV, Eric Weiss | 22m |
Argues Bitcoin offers the best risk‑reward based on three concrete features: proof of work security, Satoshi’s anonymity creating causal ambiguity, and strong… | ||
| For Love of Country & Bitcoin | Cynthia Lummis, Tim Scott | 22m |
Promises a concrete regulatory push: Republicans pledge majority next year and control of the Senate Banking Committee to pass clear statutes that distinguish… | ||
| Las Vegas Sizzle | 02m | |
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| Keynote Speech | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., RFK Jr. | 51m |
Proposes executive orders that transfer ~200,000 BTC to the Treasury and buy 550 BTC daily until the US holds 4 million, plus IRS rules to make Bitcoin–dollar… | ||
| Bitcoin ETF Flows: A Passing Fad? | Jan van Eck, Matt Hougan, Robert Mitchnick, James Seyffart | 25m |
Sees $17 billion of inflows since Jan 11 and roughly $60 billion parked in ETFs against a ~$1.5 trillion Bitcoin market, arguing flows are large but still… | ||
| Announces New Flex Hardware Wallet | Pascal Gauthier | 21m |
Ledger announces two new devices: Ledger Stacks (curved eink, $399, 100,000+ waitlist) and Ledger Flex (2.8" eink touchscreen, NFC, $249, available now at… | ||
| Opening Remarks | Bill Hagerty, Stuart McWhorter | 07m |
Tennessee announces a Bitcoin Park partnership that includes workforce development grants to recruit tech and open source talent to Middle Tennessee… | ||
| Nation State Bitcoin Game Theory | Matthew Pines, Brian Morgenstern, Marwan Al Zarouni, David Zell | 30m |
Panel claims nations now treat Bitcoin as a potential strategic reserve, with US politicians openly bullish and proposals to peg the dollar to a commodity… | ||
| BlackRock’s Bitcoin Journey | Robert Mitchnick, James Seyffart | 31m |
BlackRock builds a top-selling Bitcoin ETF IBIT launched that draws roughly $17–20B of inflows in months, records only one negative net‑flow day in 6½ months… | ||
| Make Bitcoin in America Great Again | Bruce Fenton, Luke Rudkowski, Ben Askren, Jimmy Song | 27m |
Claim: institutional adoption—ETFs, BlackRock, KYC—corrupts Bitcoin and mirrors the administrative state that rent-seeks, enabled by fiat printing. Specifics… | ||
| The Bitcoin Treasury Strategy | Andrew Kang, Eric Semler, Simon Gerovich, Dylan LeClair | 43m |
Three public companies recount concrete steps: one company buys $57 million of Bitcoin and files a $150M shelf with a $50M ATM to fund more purchases; another… | ||
| Conquering the Bitcoin Sales Frontier | Trey Sellers, Josh Friedeman, Chad Blackburn | 30m |
Panel lays out concrete sales moves: custody + key-management services (Unchained-style) for firms and IRAs, an adtech flow that pays users in sats via… | ||
| Nation State Bitcoin Game Theory: Energy Infrastructure | Harry Sudock, Jeff Lucas, Lisa Hough | 28m |
Claim: Bitcoin miners buy stranded or excess power, add revenue to grids, and act as a large flexible load that avoids building for rare peaks. Examples cited… | ||
| Building Bitcoin-Native Financial Products | Mike Belshe, Nick Neuman, Dhruv Bansal | 27m |
Panelists outline concrete custody models and tradeoffs: collaborative multisig and MPC are deployed in production, with BitGo popularizing a two-of-three… | ||
| Bitcoin's Role in Traditional Banks | Caitlin Long, Miles Paschini, Sagun Garg | 30m |
Traditional banks struggle because the Fed forces horse-and-buggy backends onto modern rails, leaving real-world examples like the Evolve breach and the… | ||
| Bitcoin Leadership & Strategy | Sophie van Laer | 32m |
Claims a 20% boost to the bottom line and turnover cuts based on research, and cites resilience increases up to 35% from appreciative inquiry. Introduces a… | ||
| Inside Bitcoin ETFs | Anthony Bassili, Nitin Gaur | 31m |
Claims rapid institutional adoption with the ETF market hitting $10B in 7 weeks and all Bitcoin ETFs totaling about $60B, while custody demand rises — a single… | ||
| Improving Bitcoin UX | Alex Leishman | 12m |
Company builds Riverlink to send claimable Bitcoin links that recipients can sweep to any Lightning or onchain wallet, and reports only 30% onchain activity… | ||
| The Future of Bitcoin Mining in America | Fred Thiel, Jason Les, Zachary K. Bradford, MacKenzie Sigalos | 28m |
Closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago claims a path to make the US a Bitcoin power with a proposed strategic reserve and political backing; industry data cited… | ||
| Bitcoin & Macro Investment Trends | Cathie Wood, Alyse Killeen | 33m |
Bitcoin shows concrete momentum: up 50% year‑to‑date and 130% over 12 months, with spot ETFs holding roughly $60B, while the Lightning Network reports 1200%… | ||
| Bringing Bitcoin Mainstream | Dave Ripley, Johann Kerbrat | 24m |
Onboarding now takes minutes on major apps with step‑by‑step learning modules and hardware wallet recommendations, while Bitcoin ETFs let users buy through… | ||
| Crossroads: TradFi & Bitcoin | Howard Lutnick | 22m |
Claims that Cantor Fitzgerald verified Tether reserves and holds US treasuries for USDT with instant liquidity on US treasuries, meeting a hidden $10 billion… | ||
| Accelerating Bitcoin | TJ Miller | 12m |
Announces a live Mempool Accelerator that claims to clear stuck Bitcoin transactions by relaying fee-bump requests to miners who call the… | ||
| Government Out of Control | Dave Smith, Luke Gromen, Mark Moss, Guy Swann | 33m |
Panel argues the US now spends about $199,500 per person (1970: ~$4,500), with entitlements + defense + interest consuming roughly 120% of tax receipts… | ||
| Building Bitcoin Country | Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert | 21m |
El Salvador declares Bitcoin legal tender and reports putting BTC on national reserves, builds a plan to give away 5,000 passports to tech builders, and… | ||
| Bitcoin & Nostr: The Ultimate Freedom of Speech Protocol | Matt Odell, Will Casarin | 31m |
Nostr is a simple interoperable protocol that ties posts to cryptographic signatures and portable private keys so identities move between apps without losing… | ||
| Bitcoin As a Winning Political Strategy | John Deaton, Sam Brown, Bernie Moreno, David McIntosh | 29m |
Three Republican Senate candidates running in Ohio, Massachusetts and Nevada lay out concrete policy moves: defend self‑custody rights, fight regulatory… | ||
| A Progressive Vision for Bitcoin | Ro Khanna, Jason Maier | 26m |
Argues that Bitcoin is a tool for freedom and a hedge against hyperinflation, enables cheaper cross‑border payments that cut out middlemen, and can scale with… | ||
| Pay Me In Bitcoin | Russell Okung, Cris Cyborg, Kenny Florian, Peter McCormack | 29m |
Athletes describe choosing Bitcoin as a defensive financial strategy and give concrete results: a club moves from 15 BTC to 82 BTC on its balance sheet and… | ||
| The Best Path For Scaling Bitcoin | Obi Nwosu, Ryan Gentry, Paul Sztorc, David Seroy | 32m |
Four concrete paths debated with numbers and working demos: drive chains claim 12–14 merged L2s can handle ~9 trillion transactions by 2030 and deliver… | ||
| A Brief History of Bitcoin's Future | Matt Corallo | 24m |
Argues Bitcoin’s core is trustlessness and that the real threat today is pool-driven mining centralization: pools pick blocks and can censor despite… | ||
| Bitcoin & The Future of American Democracy | Vivek Ramaswamy, Marsha Blackburn | 29m |
President Trump unveils a first-ever Bitcoin platform and proponents push a strategic Bitcoin reserve, federal support for low-cost mining energy, and legal… | ||
| Thunder Funder Announcement | Mike Jarmuz | 07m |
Thunder Funder announces a Reg CF license obtained this week that lets nearly anyone invest in early-stage Bitcoin companies with low minimums (examples: $200)… | ||
| Keynote Speech (With Slides) | Michael Saylor | 37m |
Argues Bitcoin is an immaterial, ultra‑long duration store of capital — self custody at ~1 basis point/year yields a 10,000‑year asset, institutional custody… | ||
| Global Utility | Alex Gladstein | 01h 16m |
Argues Bitcoin is already a working tool for commerce, freedom, and power: people in Malawi face 11% electrified towns and an overnight 44% devaluation of… | ||
| The Future of Compute | Frank Holmes, Adam Sullivan, Nazar Khan, Nishant Sharma | 27m |
Panelists from Core Scientific Terawulf and Hive explain that Bitcoin miners are repurposing sites for AI/HPC but only where power quality fiber and scale… | ||
| Bitcoin Ownership & Custody | Bobby Lee | 16m |
Argues that Bitcoin enables true, individual custody but common hardware-wallet setups actually create joint custody because devices plus 24-word paper backups… | ||
| Freedom Tech: Bitcoin’s Policy Outlook | Bill Hagerty, Rod Roudi | 23m |
Argues that an incoming administration will issue executive orders, replace regulators like Gary Gensler, and “end the war on digital assets day one,” linking… | ||
| The Great Asymmetric Opportunity | Anthony Scaramucci, Gary Cardone, Dan Morehead | 34m |
Claims Bitcoin can hit gold’s market cap (~$15–16T) from ~$1.5T today, implying ~10x; ETFs already raise ~$16B while gold ETFs lose ~$4B; institutions… | ||
| Special Announcement | Aaron Green, Brian Dixon | 04m |
One Medet, a NASDAQ‑listed healthcare data company with a $20 million market cap, announces that Off the Chain Capital invested and One Medet used the proceeds… | ||
| The Crypto Trojan Horse | Pete Rizzo, Casey Rodarmor | 23m |
Claims that Ordinals and Runes pull users and fee revenue from other chains into Bitcoin, backed by Dune numbers: 650,000 unique users, $4 billion volume since… | ||
| Open Source Mining | Matt Corallo, Kulpreet Singh, Skot 9000, Murch | 26m |
Mining centralization is the problem and the concrete fixes are Stratum V2, a revived P2Pool-style Braid Pool and open hardware like Bitx. Braid Pool aims to… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining & The Grid | Austin Mitchell, Kent Draper, Kerri Langlais, Mario Gutierrez | 28m |
Panel claims Bitcoin mining functions as a highly flexible load that can curtail in minutes, enabling demand to follow intermittent supply and unlocking… | ||
| How "Green" is Bitcoin Mining? | Margot Paez, Brian Consolvo, Adam Haynes, Robert Davidoff | 30m |
Panelists argue Bitcoin mining lowers emissions by buying low‑cost wind and solar, acting as a flexible load that runs 98–99% uptime and curtails 1–2% of the… | ||
| The Next Wave: AI + Bitcoin Mining | Andrii Garanin, Aydin Kilic, Sam Tabar, Anthony Power | 30m |
Panelists argue Bitcoin miners can repurpose data centers for AI hosting and claim 20x revenue per kWh (example: S21 mining ≈ $0.12/kWh vs H100 ≈ $2.50/kWh)… | ||
| WhatsMiner: Leading in Green Mining | Zuoxing Yang | 15m |
Zuoxing Yang of MicroBT delivers his keynote presentation about Whatsminer!
Speaker: Zuoxing Yang - MicroBT
Lower your time preference and lock-in your… | ||
| Strategic Bitcoin Mining Collaboration | Niek Beudeker, Wright Wang, Ghazaleh Barman, Taras Kulyk | 27m |
Covers concrete partner wins and problems: manufacturers set up a US assembly line to cut customs and import costs, miners drive a shift to liquid cooling and… | ||
| Mining Enters The Political Arena | David Bailey, Brian Morgenstern, Jayson Browder, Justin Nolan | 31m |
Panelists describe the Bitcoin Voter Project as a 501(c)(4) coalition of miners running digital ads and voter lists to mobilize bitcoiners and “activate” votes… | ||
| Public vs Private Mining Companies | Drew Armstrong, Justin Ballard, Kent Draper, Colin Harper | 29m |
Public miners claim faster scale because ATM equity offerings let them raise hundreds of millions, driving the fastest hash‑rate growth and now accounting for… | ||
| Power Play: Increasing Revenue with Price Response & Energy Management | Andrii Garanin | 11m |
Claims a 20–30% improvement in revenue by tying load to spot prices using an AI-driven price response system that overclocks/underclocks rigs and participates… | ||
| Opportunities & Challenges for Bitcoin Mining in the US | Leo Wang | 17m |
31 publicly traded miners exist and together account for ~34% of network hash rate as of last quarter, up from a US share of 4% to ~24% during the China… | ||
| From Energy to Bitcoin: A Sneak Peek Into the Future | Haris Basit | 17m |
Roadmap promises new ASICs every other quarter and mining rigs reaching 5 J/TH by mid‑2025, about three times current best efficiency. Efficiency gains come… | ||
| The Bitcoin Power Generation Production Credit | Jamie McAvity | 19m |
Claims that Bitcoin mining soaks up negative-price renewables and then shuts off within seconds at price spikes to restore generation incentives, backed by… | ||
| Evolution of Mining for Bitcoin as a Mainstream Asset | Rajiv Khemani | 14m |
Auradine unveils TeraFlux hardware and platform claiming 16 J/TH energy efficiency, air-cooled units running 0–260 TH and immersion units 0–375 TH with optimal… | ||
| The Bitcoin Storage Revolution | Nick Neuman | 13m |
Casa unveils using Yubi Keys as a third option between cold and hot storage, encrypting a Bitcoin key with a passkey on the Yubi Key, storing the encrypted key… | ||
| Mining Strategies: Expectations vs Reality | Amanda Fabiano | 12m |
Claims that miners will hand over Bitcoin for 2–3% yield fail because of third‑party counterparty risk, high KYC/switching costs, and capital inefficiency… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining Economics | Brian Wright, Russell Cann, Glenn Harrison, Amanda Fabiano | 40m |
Panel contrasts Bitcoin mining vs AI/HPC economics with hard numbers: typical Bitcoin site costs ~$0.5M per MW (all‑in ~$1M/MW), HPC conversions run $10–12M/MW… | ||
| Protecting Your Rigs In Case of Emergency | Rachel Nixon, Thomas Shewchuck, Rachel Silverstein | 34m |
Covers practical insurance for Bitcoin miners: which policies to buy (property, workers comp, D&O, cyber), common claim causes (operator negligence, HVAC… | ||
| Behind The Scenes Of Mining Industry Deals | Kevin Dede, Steve Winer, Andrew Bond, Nishant Sharma | 29m |
Panelists lay out concrete deal criteria: valuation uses discounted future cash flows plus comparables where large public miners trade near $160M per exahash… | ||
| Impacts of Mining Policy & Regulation | Margot Paez, Alex Travis, Ian Northon, Rachel Silverstein | 34m |
Explains that the EIA’s emergency survey gets legally suspended after Riot Platforms sues — OMB had allotted 30 minutes compliance time while miners spent ~10+… | ||
| The Financialization of Hash Rate | Ben Harper, Mike Cohen, Will Foxley | 27m |
Hash price is trading near all‑time lows at ≈ $0.44 per TH, driven by low subsidy and volatile transaction fees; revenue depends on four inputs: Luxor Hashrate… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining Firmware | Brett Rowan, Guzmán Pintos, Pavel Moravec, Marc Fresa, Matt Lousteau | 45m |
BrainsOS already runs Stratum V2 support but compatibility gaps and missing pool/farm-side software limit decentralization; most operators (Luxor’s 3,000+… | ||
| Empowering Africa: Bitcoin Mining's Role in Bridging Energy Poverty | Janet Maingi | 15m |
Sub-Saharan electrification sits at 48.4% and Gridless deploys Bitcoin miners as a buyer of last resort, attaching containerized rigs to underused hydro, solar… | ||
| Mining Centralization Pressures | Fred Thiel, Matt Corallo, Rachel Rybarczyk, Steve Lee | 30m |
Four pools (Foundry, ViaBTC, Antpool, F2Pool) hold over 75% of hash rate, two pools reach ~51%, and Antpool-linked templates imply a single node controls many… | ||
| Early Lessons From Braidpool: Decentralized Mining Needs Open Source Solutions | Kulpreet Singh | 14m |
Claims that most pools run a proprietary SAS black box with opaque accounting and that miners lack auditability; BraPool builds a peer-to-peer pool that shifts… | ||
| Decentralizing Bitcoin's Hashrate | Bob Burnett, Skot 9000, John Stefanopoulos, Susie Violet Ward | 27m |
Four pools control roughly 83% of hash rate while only about 6 million devices chase ~53,000 blocks a year, so a single home rig actually mined a whole block… | ||
| What Do Miners REALLY Think About Ordinals? | Brandon Bailey, Mike Hamilton, Romain Nouzareth | 29m |
Ordinals and runes generate half a billion dollars of fee revenue in 18 months and create sharp, spiky fee events that force miners to rethink revenue and… | ||
| Immersion Mining: Longevity & Efficiency | Mario Conti, Taylor Monnig, Vicent Hong, Will Foxley | 29m |
Claims 80–90% fewer failures and over a gigawatt of tanks deployed, with operators managing ~500 MW and vendors offering modules from 150 kW to 1.2 MW. Cooling… | ||
| The Future of Exchange Regulation | Alex Leishman, Bobby Zagotta, Ray Kamrath, Joe Carlasare | 20m |
European MiCA unleashes bank participation and drives white‑label offerings, while US banks largely refuse service, creating on‑ramps bottlenecks. Spot ETFs… | ||
| Demystifying Bitcoin Accounting | Markus Veith, Rob Loban, Ed Reginelli, Brian Carson, Aaron Jacob | 37m |
New guidance moves US GAAP from irreversible impairment to a level‑1 market measurement so Bitcoin is marked to market under the fair value ASU (mandatory for… | ||
| Investing in Bitcoin Season 2 | Asher Corson, Greg Carson, Matthew Sigel, Namcios | 31m |
Argues that Season 2 is driven not by promises but by ordinals and BRC‑20/runes which unlock tradable Bitcoin‑native assets; Bitcoin spot ETFs now own about 5%… | ||
| Bitcoin Through The Eyes of Institutional Investors | Chris Kuiper | 21m |
Fidelity Digital Assets survey shows institutional familiarity rising to 60% familiarity, 51% invested (up from 39% and 22%), with adoption concentrated in… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining Diversification | Aydin Kilic, Tom Masiero, Mitchell Askew, Rob Warren, Colin Harper | 43m |
Panel describes miners repurposing Ethereum GPUs into HPC to sell compute via a self‑serve marketplace click-to-rent, running A40/H100 instances at about $2–$4… | ||
| Legal & Regulatory Aspects of Citizenship by Investment | Nuri Katz | 14m |
Company with 30 years in the industry reports over $3 billion placed into citizenship programs and says some paths take 4–8 months to citizenship while others… | ||
| The Future of Bitcoin Banking | Caitlin Long, Chris Hunter, Hailey Lennon, Colin Crossman | 33m |
Wyoming grants two SPDI charters but both are blocked from Fed master accounts and rely on partner banks; almost 5,000 US banks exist and fewer than ten openly… | ||
| Bitcoin M&A and Restructuring | Jane VanLare, Kevin Dede, Bobby Zagotta, Patricia Trompeter | 26m |
Panel lays out concrete outcomes: Genesis wins in-kind recoveries (creditors get crypto, not dollars), miners face a data center grab as HPC bids for power and… | ||
| Institutional Bitcoin Tax Considerations | Rob Massey, Tim Savage, Gavin George, Jeff Rundlet | 29m |
New fair value guidance (late 2023) forces mark‑to‑market for books but not automatically for tax, creating deferred tax assets, valuation allowances and a… | ||
| Expanding Your Horizons w/ Citizenship By Investment | Katie The Russian, Alex Recouso, Nuri Katz | 33m |
Platform CitizenX sells citizenship-by-investment access, five Caribbean states run CBI programs, and governments double prices July 1 in response to EU/US… | ||
| The Risks and Benefits of Bitcoin ETFs | Fred Krueger, Chris Sullivan, Wolf von Laer | 26m |
Uptake is huge — about 930,000 BTC in US ETFs and IBIT hitting $20 billion in six months — and ETFs give mainstream investors click-to-buy access with tight… | ||
| Bitcoin Collateralized Credit | Matt Dines, Mauricio Di Bartolomei, Nitin Agarwal, Trey Sellers | 26m |
Panelists describe concrete traction: Leen reports over $100M retail loans and $5B in institutional originations, a Puerto Rico-based bank custody solution… | ||
| Risk on vs Risk off | James Lavish, Fred Krueger, Peruvian Bull, Brandon Keys | 29m |
Panel argues ETFs remove custody and marking hurdles so institutions can buy Bitcoin directly, turning technical objections into operational acceptance. Cited… | ||
| The Transition: TradFi to DeFi | Sam Abbassi, Brian Mahoney, Christian Lawrence, Hunter Albright | 27m |
Panelists argue Bitcoin is moving from custody-first products to on-chain capital markets, citing 100+ Bitcoin L2s expected in the next 6–12 months and several… | ||
| Bitcoin's Institutional Adoption Phase | Brian Dixon, Joe Carlasare, Thierry Adant, Chad Thevenot | 30m |
University of Austin launches the first Bitcoin endowment raising a $5 million campaign and commits to a multisig custody (3 keys) model with Unchained… | ||
| Bitcoin's Global Regulatory Landscape | Andrew Bailey, Grant McCarty, Aqsa Zubair, Mitchell Dong | 28m |
Bermuda reports a bespoke Digital Asset Business Act from 2018 and licensed about 30 companies, updating rules every year as an annual iterative amendment… | ||
| Bitcoin Native Venture Capital | Allen Farrington, Chris Calicott, Nico Lechuga, Vikash Singh | 34m |
Panel argues Bitcoin-native VC is practical and growing: focus is Lightning applications, ZK rollups for extra programmability, DLCs and covenants as tooling… | ||
| Stablecoins: Enemy of the Good? | Nick Philpott, Dread, Wolf von Laer | 30m |
Stablecoin volume surges from about $5B in 2019 to $180B in 2022 and sees $50 billion daily movement, driving real use in remittances, commodity trades and as… | ||
| Institutional Lightning | Graham Krizek, Jesse Shrader, Tadge Dryja, Alex Bergeron | 26m |
Lightning now ships specific upgrades: splicing and cooperative channel creation that let channels add or remove on‑chain funds, and taproot assets reaching… | ||
| Bitcoin Institutional Capture | Preston Pysh, Mike Benz | 36m |
Argument: Tether and other stablecoin issuers are functioning as shadow liquidity providers and buying Bitcoin with excess cash — Tether nets $3–4B per quarter… | ||
| Michael Saylor Deep Session | Michael Saylor | 31m |
Says political endorsements shift Bitcoin from pariah to national asset, proposing a national United States Bitcoin strategic Reserve and three regulatory… | ||
| A Practical Approach To Orange Pilling | Sam Wouters | 18m |
Frustration around Thanksgiving and meetups leads to a diagnosis: orange-pilling fails because people get overloaded, not convinced. The practical claim is… | ||
| Proof of Reserves | Sam Abbassi | 11m |
Hoseki, a digital-asset verification platform with seven years in the space, proves only the reserve side (onchain assets) while noting liabilities remain… | ||
| Taproot Assets: Stablecoins at Lightning Speed | Hannah Rosenberg | 23m |
Taproot Assets 0.4 enables trustless onchain swaps using PSBTs, adds multisig at script, taproot, group and asset levels (MuSig2 or k-of-m), and connects… | ||
| Unlocking Expressivity With OP CAT | Rijndael, Andrew Poelstra, Brandon Black, niftynei | 27m |
OpCat adds a simple concatenate stack elements opcode that, combined with existing checksig mechanics, lets scripts extract signed transaction data to build… | ||
| BitVM: Innovation Without a Soft Fork | Robin Linus, Jeremy Rubin, Liam Eagen, Weikeng Chen | 28m |
Explains how BitVM uses an optimistic computation model to verify SNARKs on Bitcoin, why Bit VM2 moves from a general computational trace to an… | ||
| The ZK Rollup Endgame | Esad Yusuf Atik, Simanta Gautam, Alex Bergeron | 27m |
Panel describes working Bitcoin rollups that already run ZK proofs, a bridge prototype that currently requires 3 GB on-chain split into 4 MB chunks, and a… | ||
| Jeremy Season | Jeremy Rubin | 13m |
Char Network proposes a bonded consensus layer that sequences state for a Bit VM reducer using bonded oracle attestation chains which force each signed message… | ||
| Covenants: Make Script Great Again | Brandon Black | 18m |
Covenants claim to let wallets and protocols encode concrete behaviors on spend: OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY already enable Lightning’s… | ||
| Machankura | Kgothatso Ngako | 22m |
Project Machankura gives offline people a way to buy and spend Bitcoin by combining retail vouchers (TECO), gift-card offramps (Bitrefill), and… | ||
| Human Rights Foundation: Special Announcement | Alex Gladstein, Alex Salascastro | 05m |
Announces that targeted funding is scaling open source Bitcoin work with concrete backers and programs: Reynolds Foundation funds developers in the Global… | ||
| Digital Privacy & Public Policy: The History & The Future | Phil Zimmermann | 28m |
Chronicle of the crypto wars names PGP (1991) as the tipping point, then government export controls ended 2000 after court fights and litigation; mass adoption… | ||
| Making Bitcoin More Private With CISA | Jameson Lopp, Craig Raw, Fabian Jahr | 23m |
Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) compresses per-input Schnorr data so a transaction with many inputs can present one signature object; half signature… | ||
| The Battle For Privacy: Free Samourai | Zack Shapiro, Econoalchemist, Diverter NoKYC, Tor Ekeland | 30m |
Samurai Wallet is a privacy‑first Android wallet that natively integrates Tor and implements non‑custodial coinjoin (Whirlpool); developers face pre‑dawn… | ||
| Bitcoin Privacy Tools and Techniques | Shinobi, Seth for Privacy, Dan Gould, Aaron van Wirdum | 27m |
Panel argues regulators are already shutting down coordinator-based privacy tools after the Samurai arrests and Wasabi coordinator shutdown, pushing a shift to… | ||
| Silent Payments BIP352 | Rafael Saes dos Santos, tuxsudo | 16m |
Cake Wallet ships a working implementation of BIP352 Silent Payments on mainnet that lets one public SP1 address receive unlinkable Taproot outputs; it does… | ||
| Nostr: Past, Present & Future Impact | Rockstar Dev, Will Casarin, Ben Arc | 29m |
Nostr claims roughly 600,000 users and a simple JSON/pubkey model that lets developers build a client in a weekend; relays store notes, enabling a smart client… | ||
| Frostsnap: Self Custody Designed for Million Dollar Bitcoin | Nick Farrow | 23m |
Proposes a concrete multisig redesign using FROST Taproot threshold signatures implemented in daisy‑chained hardware devices that form a 2‑of‑3 by default and… | ||
| What’s Going On with Bitcoin in Southeast Asia? | Dea Rezkitha | 16m |
Southeast Asia hosts 673 million people with roughly 70% underbanked and six of 11 countries piloting CBDCs; weak currencies and repeated double‑digit… | ||
| eCash Debate: What Are The Tradeoffs? | Ben Arc, Eric Yakes, Kody Low, Seth for Privacy, Alex B | 37m |
eCash implements blinded accounting so a mint sees only total reserves, not individual balances, and currently appears as two technical paths: federated mints… | ||
| Why Open Source Development Matters | Mike Schmidt, Christian Keroles, Aaron Daniel, Hong Kim | 23m |
Claims that community funding already finds real problems: funding-supported audits uncovered 10 historical vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Core. Nonprofits named… | ||
| Bitcoin Adoption in Africa | Janet Maingi, Machankura, Femi Long, Charlene Fadirepo | 27m |
Panelists describe concrete deployments: USSD wallet across eight countries (South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia plus WhatsApp… | ||
| LATAM Bitcoin Adoption | Borja Martel Seward, John Dennehy, Rodolfo Andragnes, Isabella Santos | 28m |
El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender and goes from 0% to 20% in 3 years — ATMs, restaurants and delivery apps accept sats and many workers take wages in… | ||
| UTXO Management Workshop | Hodl Dee | 25m |
Shows step‑by‑step UTXO consolidation using Cold Card Q with a QR air‑gap (BBQRS) into a watch‑only wallet on nunchuk.io, creating a PSBT, signing offline and… | ||
| DLCs: Loans, Stablecoins | Aki Balogh, Shehzan Maredia, Daniel Hinton, Tadge Dryja, Gwart | 28m |
DLCs let users borrow against native Bitcoin by locking BTC in layer‑one contracts and using off‑chain oracle attestations to decide payouts; implementations… | ||
| The Path Forward For Lightning | Jesse Shrader, Roy Sheinfeld, Aditya Sharma, niftynei | 28m |
Panel lays out concrete fixes: a market for channel liquidity via liquidity ads and LSPs, a live demo web service mibanco.app letting users self-custodially… | ||
| Building on BDK | Ben Carman, Alekos Filini, Steve Myers | 29m |
Announces a stable BDK beta 1.0 API with async storage and networking; reports real-world use: a web and mobile wallet using wasm in browser and mobile, a… | ||
| The State of Bitcoin Core Development | Aaron van Wirdum, Ishaana Misra, Ava Chow, Murch | 29m |
Panel announces new disclosure policy: two weeks after an affected version reaches end‑of‑life, documents vulnerabilities back to 0.21 and schedules… | ||
| Multi Vendor Multisig | Hodl Dee | 27m |
Multivendor multisig reduces single-vendor failure by using different hardware and software (SeedSigner, Coldcard, Coinkite MK4/Coldcard Q) and keeps a wallet… | ||
| Bitcoin in a Taproot World | Nick Farrow, Rob Hamilton, Kody Low | 32m |
Taproot makes multisig look like single-signature onchain by enabling Schnorr/FROST threshold sigs, cutting fees and hiding that a 2-of-3 or 3-of-5 policy… | ||
| Self Hosting: The Cloud Is Someone Else's Computer | Ben Carman, Evan Kaloudis, Matt Hill | 28m |
Explains concrete paths for self‑hosting: use Start9 / StartOS to run a home node and connect over Tor, or run light clients like Zeus and Mutiny that either… | ||
| Human Rights Foundation Announcement: CBDC Tracker & Hal Finney Freedom Prize | Christian Keroles | 07m |
Human Rights Foundation runs a CBDC tracker that maps research, development and deployments worldwide and updates quarterly, a Weekly Financial Freedom Report… | ||
| Insecure Lightning Node? VLS Fixes This | Jack Ronaldi, Sean Gilligan | 14m |
Claims a hardened signer that enforces Lightning rules before signing so a compromised node cannot steal funds, implemented as an open source VLS remote signer… | ||
| How We Did It: ZK Proofs on Bitcoin | Eden Yago, Gadi Guy | 12m |
Bitcoin OS proves zero‑knowledge verification on Bitcoin mainnet without a soft fork by converting an enormous SN verifier (naively a terabyte) into an… | ||
| MSTR: Corporate Adoption of Bitcoin | Shirish Jajodia | 19m |
MicroStrategy converts a stagnant software company into a treasury-led growth story by buying Bitcoin and levering capital markets: the corporate treasury… | ||
| exSat: The Docking Layer for BTC Scalability | Yves La Rose | 13m |
exSat builds a docking layer that indexes full UTXO state into a RAM-backed network so Bitcoin transactions can trigger off-chain smart contracts. Miners with… | ||
| Founders on a Lightning Standard | Desiree Dickerson, Evan Kaloudis, Roy Sheinfeld, Frank Corva | 30m |
Panelists argue Lightning must earn real utility rather than rhetoric, showing concrete wins and tradeoffs: Thunder Games reports long‑term retention up ~500%… | ||
| Open Source Marketing in Bitcoin | Haley Berkoe, Mayur, Mike Germano, Renata Rodrigues | 32m |
Panel lays out how Bitcoin survives without a central marketing arm: no CMO or marketing budget, so exchanges and media fill the gap; Bitcoin Magazine says it… | ||
| Proof of Workforce | Dom Bei | 16m |
Santa Monica Firefighters put Bitcoin on their balance sheet June 3, 2023, buying a token-per-member to get off zero and teach custody, winning 89% membership… | ||
| BitEscrow | Topher Scott, Tristan Bietsch | 15m |
BitEscrow delivers a working noncustodial escrow stack: pre-signed transactions and a two-of-two multisig deposit address with a timelocked refund, so the… | ||
| Bitcoin Disrupts Everything | Dhruv Bansal | 21m |
Claim: Bitcoin’s power comes from layered, market-driven primitives — miners selling blocks in a layer zero mining market (remember the first 50,000 initial… | ||
| Bitcoin is Cypherpunk | Aaron van Wirdum | 15m |
Argues Bitcoin directly descends from the 1990s cypherpunk movement, which builds concrete tools like PGP, remailers, ecash and hashcash and runs a mailing… | ||
| Is Bitcoin's 4 Year Cycle Ending? | Dylan LeClair, Alex Thorn, James Check, Michael Terpin | 28m |
Argues that the canonical four‑year rhythm may be breaking: halving issuance from 900 to 450 matters less now versus ETF flows and macro, on‑chain data shows… | ||
| Inscriptions Are Cypherpunk | Casey Rodarmor, Erik Cason, Erin Redwing, Dan Held | 29m |
Panel argues that Bitcoin inscriptions (using Ordinals and a newer protocol called Runes) are already storing arbitrary data — from dissident images like Tank… | ||
| Onboarding the Next Wave of Bitcoin Users | Raph Japh, Brian Laughlan, Alec Taggart | 29m |
Ordinals and inscriptions enable putting arbitrary data and full HTML/JS apps on Bitcoin, spawning an inscription service, multiple browser wallets (about five… | ||
| The Bitcoin Meta Problem | John Light | 14m |
Argues that validity rollups solve the "Bitcoin meta problem" by letting developers add privacy, programmability and huge throughput without changing consensus… | ||
| More Expressive Smart Contracts with Bitcoin | Tristan Dickinson, Charlie Hu, Willem Schroe, Gwart | 19m |
Claims a stack of EVM‑compatible Bitcoin L2s that settle back to Bitcoin and target the $1.3 trillion Bitcoin liquidity (56% market share), with one project… | ||
| How Staking Bitcoin Unlocks Other Use Cases | Brian Mahoney, Rich Rines, David Tse, Janusz G | 25m |
Claims that Bitcoin can collateralize PoS chains, with Core reporting ~300M BTC locked and ~5% yield and asserting no slashing custody retained, drive the… | ||
| Why Spend Your Bitcoin? | Michel Gustavsson, Nico Moran, Paul Keating, Efrat Fenigson | 29m |
Panel argues bottom line don't spend but shows why people actually do: Bitrefill enables purchases via Bitrefill gift cards and Visa, Lightning wallets power… | ||
| Mind, Body, Bitcoin | Robert Breedlove, Harry Gray, Brett Ender, Seed Oil Disrespecter | 34m |
Claims that an elimination/carnivore protocol stops severe autoimmune gut inflammation and cured ulcerative colitis for at least one attendee, plus anecdotal… | ||
| Bitcoin Financial Planning | Pierre Rochard, Morgen Rochard | 25m |
Recommendation: start with a life plan and treat Bitcoin as a long‑term savings technology, not short‑term cash; maintain an emergency fiat reserve of 3–6… | ||
| Solving for Layer 2 Security, Scalability & Interoperability | Jeff Garzik, Max Sanchez | 15m |
Claims a way to inherit Bitcoin’s full security without requiring miner buy‑in by introducing proof of proof miners that publish Hemi consensus payloads to… | ||
| Bitcoin Veterans | Alex Stanczyk, Gabe Lord, Jordan Gambrell, Mike Hobart, Shane Hazel | 27m |
Bitcoin Veterans pitches a concrete plan: educate 17 million veterans with a mix of training, community, and jobs, and reports a podcast and Twitter launch… | ||
| Self Governance: Bitcoin + Beef | Texas Slim, Elizabeth Murphy, Cole Bolton, Breeauna Sagdal | 28m |
Panel argues Bitcoin and local investment solve a liquidity crisis in U.S. beef by moving value back to land and herds, not subsidies. Cites 27,000 farms lost… | ||
| ZEBEDEE: Making Play Pay | Andre Neves, Ben Cousens | 14m |
Claims that adding Bitcoin boosts retention and revenue with concrete results: integrating the Bitcoin effect into Bitcoin Miner turns a failed launch into… | ||
| Bitcoin Research Institute | Bradley Rettler | 15m |
Universities publish widely cited papers that ignore Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment and block size cap, extrapolating energy use into a claim that Bitcoin… | ||
| Value 4 Value Musicians | Captain Youth, DJ Valerie B LOVE, Joe Martin, Bobby Shell | 28m |
Value for Value claims let musicians get paid instantly via Bitcoin Lightning using platforms like Wave Lake, Fountain app and the Noster identity layer, with… | ||
| Bitcoin Fixes the Music Industry | Oscar Merry, Sam Means, James Costello, OpenMike | 27m |
Three apps — Fountain (podcast player), WavLake (music library launched Jan 2023) and Tster (live-streaming) — interoperate using open RSS, Nostr for social… | ||
| BTC Betting & Gaming: P2P Advantages | Desiree Dickerson, Gino Donati | 21m |
BetOpenly is a peer-to-peer sportsbook built to eliminate the house edge, claiming saves 90–95% on fees by keeping funds in Bitcoin and cutting currency… | ||
| The Growth of the Bitcoin Runes Protocol | Viktor Ihnatiuk | 12m |
Runes protocol allows token inscriptions and value distribution on Bitcoin and a new stack of products targets liquidity, trading and meme-coin launches… | ||
| Bright Orange Future | Daniel Harmon, Efrat Fenigson, Russell Okung, George Mekhail | 24m |
Panelists describe a concrete pipeline from education to action: a kids’ cartoon episode reaching 40 million views that leads children to ask for chores paid… | ||
| The Student's Guide to Working in Bitcoin | Autumn Domingo, Ella Hough, Owen Aston | 23m |
Student entrepreneurs describe starting campus Bitcoin clubs, livestreaming meetings, publishing for Bitcoin Magazine and using cold messaging to land… | ||
| Bitcoin Content Creation | Aubrey Strobel, Peter McCormack, Julian Figueroa, Isabella Santos | 20m |
Short documentaries and podcasts show concrete results: a 13-minute film funds a new surf center in Melkbos South Africa after raised 80,000 in Bitcoin when… | ||
| State of Bitcoin Education | Adam Nili, D++, Zachary Shelton, Andrew Bailey | 17m |
Live demo sends trivia answers over Lightning to prove proof Lightning is fast and private by collecting subsecond payments via Strike, Phoenix, Wallet of… | ||
| Timestamping Elections to Avoid a S#*% Show | Carlos Toriello, Peter K Todd | 28m |
Claims that Guatemala’s June 2023 election files proved fraud get checked against OpenTimestamps proofs anchored to Bitcoin blocks, showing most suspicious… | ||
| Two Sides of the Same Coin | Anil Patel | 14m |
Claims Bitcoin uniquely combines salability across time and space by merging money and network properties, arguing that fiat debasement and mobility-driven… | ||
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