Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022
2022-10-12..2022-10-14
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025]
who it's for
lightning developers and operators, bitcoin protocol developers, bitcoin miners and mining operators, wallet and hardware wallet developers, merchant and payment integrators, institutional investors and OTC desks, privacy and civil liberties advocates, policy makers and regulators
topics
RGB smart contracts on Bitcoin; BIP-300 drivechain and Liquid sidechains; Lightning routing performance metrics; LNURL and Lightning Addresses; LSAT macaroon payment authentication; setstack Ledger Live local node bridge; BTCPay Server point-of-sale stacks; running and connecting a Bitcoin full node; miner heat recovery and methane capture; FATF travel rule and regulatory pressure
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 Day 1 | David Bailey, Sebastiaan Van Erne, Greg Foss, Jeff Booth, Prince Phillip, Niko Jilch, Dylan LeClair, David Zell, Zach Bradford, Andy Long, Jelmer ten Wolde, Daniel Condon, Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, Aaron van Wirdum, Knut Svanholm, Sam Wouters, Stephan Livera, Patrick Hansen, Kevin Murcko, Sjors Provoost, Matt Odell, Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Dan Held, Maxim Orlovsky, Tuur Demeester, Stella Assange, Grant McCarty, Frank Holmes, Christophe De Baukelaer, Allen Farrington, Troy Cross | 07h 59m |
Panels that give answers not slogans: a developer demos RGB smart contracts (privacy + Turing‑complete logic on Bitcoin), miners show profitable use of waste… | ||
| Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022 Day 2 | Kalle Rosenbaum, Daniel Prince, Jemima Kelly, Izabella Kaminska, Pete Rizzo, Joe Hall, Katie The Russian, Jessica Hodlr, Dylan LeClair, Marc Friedrich, Marc van der Chijs, Alfonso Peccatiello, Willem Middelkoop, Nigel Farage, Peter McCormack, Sergej Kotliar, Giacomo Zucco, Leopoldo Lopez, Alex Gladstein, Greg Foss, Joaquin Bitgo, Thomas Restout, Stef Wynendaele, Theo Rozencwajg, Alex Hwang, Stephan Livera, Tristan Thoma, Steve Tangoa, Obi Nwosu, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Jaroslav Likhachevsky, Anna Chekhovich, Bota Jardemalie, David Bailey | 07h 58m |
Day two packs specific wins and warnings: a security math claim that a hostile state can spend ~$2B/day against a global mining defense of ~$20M/day; a live… | ||
| Has Bitcoin's Inflation Hedge Narrative Failed? | Greg Foss, Jeff Booth, Dylan LeClair | 54m |
Panel argues Bitcoin is practical insurance against a credit driven collapse not merely a CPI hedge and cites $400 trillion global debt vs $100 trillion… | ||
| Bitcoin's Media Problem | Daniel Prince, Jemima Kelly, Izabella Kaminska, Pete Rizzo, Joe Hall | 01h 02m |
Panel argues that mainstream coverage mixes sloppy framing with genuine reporting, citing a driver in Ivory Coast uses Bitcoin to receive remittances from… | ||
| FATF is a Threat to Bitcoin Privacy | Matt Odell, Patrick Hansen, Kevin Murcko, Sjors Provoost | 52m |
FATF issues 2019 guidance that pushes the travel rule onto crypto, forcing custodial services to pass names, addresses and wallet data and risking a country on… | ||
| Free Julian Assange | Stella Assange | 31m |
Julian has been held since April 11, 2019, after being dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy; WikiLeaks built an encrypted submission dropbox and large… | ||
| The Future of Sidechains | Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, Aaron van Wirdum | 36m |
Paper first appears in 2014 and a miner-pegged BIP-300 drivechain is prototyped on testnet (clones of Zcash, Ethereum, NFTs and even a joke “trainchain”)… | ||
| Rings of Fire | Edward Hollander, Stef Martens | 30m |
Community-run Lightning rings balance inbound liquidity by having each participant open a fresh channel and a designated ring leader send a self-payment that… | ||
| Growing the Bitcoin Army | Erik Dale | 14m |
Compares the Reformation to Bitcoin and extracts concrete tactics: start with family and friends, translate and copy content (late 15th-century Europe already… | ||
| Bitcoin On The Web | Kwinten De Backer, Michael Bumann | 29m |
Workshop demonstrates practical stacks that put Lightning payments directly into web apps, showing the Albi browser extension and how WebLN or LNURL fetch… | ||
| Don't Trust, Verify: Connecting your Bitcoin Full Node with Ledger | Rodrigo Carraresi, Adrien Lacombe | 31m |
Shows how to replace Ledger Live’s backend with a local node by running a setstack bridge that translates Ledger Live requests into Bitcoin Core RPC calls over… | ||
| Lightning Interoperability Geyser | Stelios Rammos, Mick Morucci | 33m |
Geyser is a Lightning-native crowdfunding platform that connects podcasts, wallets and even USSD phones using Podcasting 2.0, LNURL-pay, Lightning Addresses… | ||
| Lightning Starters Guide | Bart Mol | 24m |
Lightning makes instant, tiny Bitcoin payments practical: real-world examples include paying a McDonald’s and street ice cream in El Salvador, NFC tap-to-pay… | ||
| BitBox02 Hardware Wallet Demo | Douglas Bakkum | 41m |
Live demo of the BitBox02 shows a dual-chip architecture (MCU + secure element), microSD instant backups, epoxy-filled casing and pairing so swapped chips… | ||
| Bitcoin Behind The Scenes | Joe Downie, Marko Tarman | 13m |
Explains how Bitcoin uses proof of work hashing: miners iterate a nonce until a block hash meets a difficulty target that the network adjusts to keep block… | ||
| Setting Up IBEX Lightning POS | Ry Sterling, Jeremy Winkler | 21m |
Workshop shows step-by-step setup of IBEX Lightning POS with a live demo of the device-agnostic web app used to create invoices, scan a lightning QR code, and… | ||
| LNBits LN URL | Ben Arc | 01h 12m |
LNbits is a free open‑source account wallet with a Python backend and an extension framework that runs on RaspiBlitz/MyNode/Umbrel and connects to many funding… | ||
| NODL: How to set up a node | Laurent Askuwheteau, Michel "ketominer' L | 29m |
Hands-on walkthrough of NODL cloud and hardware nodes: ten trial accounts distributed, devices ship pre-synced and services run a full non-pruned Bitcoin Core… | ||
| Analyzing the Bitcoin Market | Root | 15m |
On-chain cycle analysis classifies coins by spending behavior using a 25% spending threshold to mark liquid supply, then compares liquid vs illiquid across… | ||
| PoW vs PoS | Pierre Noizat | 22m |
Argues Bitcoin is proof of past energy (coins come from coinbase work) while fiat is pledge money created by bank loan entries that promise future energy… | ||
| BTCPay Server Workshop | Pavlenex, Bas Peters | 52m |
Live demo of BTCPay Server shows a self-hosted full node plus optional Lightning node bundled in Docker, with the team deploying a working POS Android terminal… | ||
| Building Bitcoin data applications PostgreSQL | Attila Tóth | 28m |
Shows how Postgres + TimescaleDB ingests Bitcoin blocks and joins on-chain transaction volume with BTC‑USD ticks to produce dashboards and candlesticks using… | ||
| Intro to Austrian Economics | Willem Cornax | 30m |
Argues that continual fiat inflation creates a human energy leak by capturing productivity through money printing and taxation, showing wages stagnate while… | ||
| Dollars over Bitcoin | John Carvalho, Rena Shah, Olga Ukolova, Joe Hall | 47m |
Panel argues that issuing credit on Bitcoin is practical but risky: billions of dollars already exist as tokens, the original Tether starts on Omni-issued… | ||
| The Case for DeFi on Bitcoin | Tycho Onnasch | 20m |
Argues that Bitcoin-native lending is feasible and needed, with Zest Protocol using hash time lock contracts on Bitcoin + the Stacks programming layer to mint… | ||
| Your Risk is not Risk | Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, David Seroy, Allen Farrington, Sam Abbassi | 42m |
Panel explains concrete Bitcoin credit mechanics: collateralizing BTC to mint a Bitcoin‑backed stablecoin (xero) and dollar loans, a USDC savings product… | ||
| Anatomy of Today's Payment Networks and Bitcoin | Prashanth Balasubramanian | 17m |
Built and shipped the world's first lightning powered payments device in Europe that blends Lightning and MasterCard so a card-funded payment can be sent over… | ||
| Bitcoin, Making Honeybadgers Out Of People | Danny Brewster | 15m |
Nine years of setbacks turn into tangible products: Fast Bitcoins becomes the first platform with Lightning payments (2018), a cash-to-Bitcoin POS, and a… | ||
| Mass Bitcoin Adoption in Europe | Bert Slagter | 21m |
Argument: Mass adoption maintains decentralization by expanding real-world use so miner incentives and network security stay strong. Three concrete pillars are… | ||
| The Madeira Bitcoin Experiment | André Loja, Knut Svanholm, Jeff Booth, Troy Cross, Daniel Prince | 37m |
Twenty bitcoiners travel to Madeira, meet the president, and launch the Free Madeira nonprofit to guide adoption, education and merchant rollout. They record… | ||
| Beating the Energy Crisis with Heat Recovery | Jelmer ten Wolde | 13m |
Green Tech Technologies showcases a 45-foot 1.8 MW Greenbox that claims a 97% heat recovery rate, letting immersion miners overclock safely (company reports… | ||
| The Bitcoin Privacy Debate | Max Hillebrand, Matt Odell, Nicholas Gregory, Giacomo Zucco, Perianne Boring | 01h 02m |
Panel debates concrete attacks and defenses: mining pools and ASIC centralization risk, a Stratum V2 test release to let miners build blocks themselves, and a… | ||
| Maximalism | Mir Liponi, John Carvalho, Pete Rizzo | 42m |
Panel argues maximalism means prioritizing Bitcoin as the fundamental monetary primitive, offering a three-point definition (Bitcoin as invention, other tokens… | ||
| Lightning Scaling Challenges | Gleb Naumenko, Ben Arc, Rafael Cordon, Sergej Kotliar, Aaron van Wirdum | 59m |
Panel argues adoption, not base protocol scaling, is the main blocker and lists concrete tools and failures: LMbits demo and hosted-channel wallets for easier… | ||
| Emerging Markets & Bitcoin | Ray Youssef, Mohammed Roshan, Obi Nwosu, Oliver Kobliźek | 48m |
Teams describe building actual products: a Bitcoin rewards app in India, a Filipino Lightning provider with 230 merchants accept Bitcoin on a Bitcoin Isle… | ||
| The Bitcoin Audience | Peter McCormack, Layah Heilpern, Aubrey Strobel, Lina Seiche, Roman Reher | 39m |
A practical conversation about who actually consumes Bitcoin content and what works: podcasts partner with Cash App and Lolli to reach mainstream shoppers… | ||
| Bitcoin & the Future of Collateral | Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Dan Held | 36m |
Argues Bitcoin is unusually good collateral because it trades 24/7, is divisible and globally liquid; a platform example loans up to 50% LTV with a 7.9%… | ||
| Insights from the 4th Largest Lightning Network Node | Sam Wouters | 20m |
Node operates as the 4th largest node in capacity while keeping channel count at rank 36 by design to prioritize uptime and route reliability. Team of four… | ||
| Uncertainty and Hope | Tuur Demeester | 20m |
Argues that current geopolitical and market upheaval — global bond markets down 30% year over year and rising populism — creates both existential risk and… | ||
| The Euro & Bitcoin | Dylan LeClair, Marc Friedrich, Marc van der Chijs, Alfonso Peccatiello | 53m |
Discussion claims the euro is a fragile monetary experiment that’s breaking under mismatched interest rates, demographics and the end of cheap energy and… | ||
| Institutional Bitcoin | Joaquin Bitgo, Tom Restout, Stef Wynendaele, Alex Hwang, Theo Rozencwajg | 41m |
Panelists argue institutional adoption hinges on custody, credit and market plumbing, not slogans: BitGo handles spot and perpetual flows of $5–10B/day, one… | ||
| Sovereign Countries & Bitcoin | Stephan Livera, Ambassador Hector Enrique, Celarie Landaverd | 52m |
Panel describes how El Salvador deploys a national Chivo wallet powered by AlphaPoint, onboards ~70% previously unbanked citizens with a 30 USD bonus… | ||
| Short the State | Katie The Russian, Jessica Hodlr | 26m |
Plan B passports sells second citizenship and lays out flag theory as a practical hedge: acquire a passport, residency, offshore bank, foreign property or… | ||
| Replacing DeFi with Bitcoin Finance | Maxim Orlovsky | 22m |
Released mid-summer, RGB protocol is a native smart-contract layer for Bitcoin and Lightning that runs off-chain with client-side validation, uses… | ||
| Adversarial Thinking | Kalle Rosenbaum | 23m |
Argues that the likeliest powerful adversary is the state and lays out a concrete resource gap with $2 billion per day vs ~$20 million as an attack budget… | ||
| The Energy Crisis & Bitcoin | David Zell, Daniel Condon, Jelmer ten Wolde, Patrick Hansen, Andy Long | 52m |
Panel gives concrete examples: CleanSpark claims ~90% carbon‑free mining and Blockware runs rigs in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia; miners tap flare gas… | ||
| The Specter of CBDCs | Grant McCarty, Frank Holmes, Christophe De Baukelaer, Allen Farrington, Janine | 52m |
Panelists lay out concrete risks and timelines: CBDCs aim to digitize central‑bank liabilities but often drop cash‑like privacy, promise digital cash? only for… | ||
| Bitcoin the Idea | Knut Svanholm | 21m |
Key claims: Bitcoin is an agreement on a fixed set of rules that enforces absolute scarcity and solves double spending, and that its real “killer app” is… | ||
| Sustainable Abundance | Troy Cross | 40m |
Argues Bitcoin mining can reduce emissions by monetizing wasted energy: miners run on vented methane from landfills and flare stacks and curtailed solar/wind… | ||
| Bitcoin Is Borderless | Obi Nwosu, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Jaroslav Likhachevsky, Anna Chekhovi | 50m |
Panelists describe concrete deployments: using Bitcoin and USDT to fund frontline medical supplies—delivering helmets and medical kits—and to pay doctors… | ||
| The Multichain Debate | Sergej Kotliar, Giacomo Zucco | 31m |
Bitrefill’s wallet selector data shows a surprise: most people who pay with Bitcoin use multi‑coin wallets (Exodus, blockchain.com, Trust Wallet) and few use… | ||
| The Fixed Income Bitcoin Revolution | Greg Foss | 20m |
A keynote argues Bitcoin is the best risk‑adjusted asset seen from decades in fixed income, backing that with a 2016 paper picked up by Bitcoin Magazine… | ||
| Decentralization | Nigel Farage, Peter McCormack | 36m |
Claims Bitcoin is a proven, government‑proof monetary technology and an economic insurgency that grows by grassroots outreach not slogans — built from one pub… | ||
| The Struggle for Freedom | Leopoldo Lopez, Alex Gladstein | 37m |
Uplifts the claim that political ruin and money printing create the world’s largest displacement: 7.1 million Venezuelans now live abroad. Describes prison… | ||
| Banks & Bitcoin | Stef Wynendaele, Franz Bergmüller, Allen Farrington, Roy Van Krimpen | 47m |
Panel argues banks and Bitcoin can coexist but list concrete hurdles: banks demand on-chain analytics and robust AML/KYC, insurance markets currently cap cover… | ||
| Inflation Is Coming For Everyones Savings | Greg Foss, Jeff Booth | 10m |
Claim: inflation is a man-made consequence of a credit system that must expand via loans, not a natural rise in prices. Global debt hits $400 trillion global… | ||
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