Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024
2024-10-09..2024-10-10
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Defend or Let It Be Banned | Daniel Batten, Jayson Browder, Lyudmyla Kozlovska | 31m |
Argues Bitcoin mining monetizes stranded and flared gas and landfill methane, backed by a claimed 1.2 GW managed and ~26,000 BTC held, plus a signed MOU with… | ||
| Use it or Lose it | Bart Mol | 14m |
Argues Bitcoin is slipping toward Dodo‑like extinction unless usage changes: four mining pools control 80–95% of global hash rate, 10 US‑listed miners produce… | ||
| Crossing the Boundaries Between Bitcoin & Fiat | Christian Rau, Gareth Jenkinson | 33m |
BitRefill outlines a 10‑year build selling gift cards and mobile top‑ups to let crypto pay mainstream merchants, running 30+ suppliers and reporting 25%… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining in 2050 | Kevin Zhang, Andrii Garanin, Wright Wang, Susie Violet Ward | 32m |
Panel asserts that 50–60% of global hash rate is domiciled in North America and manufacturers cluster to a few firms like Bitmain and MicroBT, driving… | ||
| Growing The Bitcoin Ecosystem | Charlie Hu, Tristan Dickinson, Engin Erdogan | 25m |
Panel outlines concrete stacks and numbers: a bridge with 3,000 BTC bridged over four years, an EVM-on-Bitcoin runtime and a sidechain called Meso, and a… | ||
| Transactions As Bitcoin's Key Growth Metric | Dan Held, Stephan Livera, Jeremy Dreier, Stepan Nilov | 32m |
Panel claims onchain activity, not just price, must drive Bitcoin growth and points to concrete gaps: an Outli Ventures October 2023 stat shows <1% of BTC… | ||
| Bitcoin Founders in Europe | Julian Liniger, Grafton Clark, Mike Jarmuzz, Frank Corva | 33m |
Two competing builds: a regulated, KYC-onboarding app that hits product-market fit and scales with a 35‑person team using the Breeze SDK to offer non‑custodial… | ||
| Business Bitcoin Adoption | Sam Wouters | 28m |
Research claims corporate Bitcoin holdings grow 30% in a year and market cap rises from about 90 billion in 2020 to over 1 trillion today which enables big… | ||
| Which Businesses Are Buying BTC & Why: Tales From +100 Onboardings | Julian Liniger, Grafton Clark | 33m |
Data from 100+ onboardings shows unexpected adopters—carpenters, electricians, dentists and real estate firms—putting 1–10% of idle treasury cash into Bitcoin… | ||
| Bitcoin+Telecommunications | Silent Link | 18m |
Anonymous mobile telecom serves Bitcoin users in 160 countries KYC‑free and reports merchant revenue split almost 50% Monero after adding Monero support to BTC… | ||
| The Need for Decentralized Indexers | Carsten Thelen | 09m |
Argues that centralized Bitcoin indexers create single points of failure—data loss, censorship, and balance manipulation—and offers a concrete alternative: a… | ||
| The Future of Bitcoin & Lighting | Elizabeth Stark | 36m |
Argues Bitcoin scales via a layered approach and shows working tech: Lightning Labs ships a multi-asset Lightning protocol that already bridges stablecoins… | ||
| Fighting the Digital Dollar | Roger Huang, Efrat Fenigson, Freddie New, Frank Corva | 31m |
Comparative realities: China rolls out eCNY in 29 cities with pilots on the Beijing metro and cross‑border experiments like mBridge and an eCNY oil purchase… | ||
| The Next Bitcoin Country | Maya Parbhoe, Frank Corva | 20m |
Suriname faces average wages of about $175–$200 monthly, 19% interest rates and a claim that a presidential adviser is mining 10% of national mining capacity… | ||
| Metaprotocols, DeFi and Asset Tokenization On Bitcoin | Carsten Thelen | 13m |
Claims that Bitcoin can host DeFi and tokenization natively using ordinals and a layer‑one meta protocol called tap protocol, avoiding L2 trust assumptions… | ||
| Accelerating Corporate Bitcoin Adoption | George Mekhail | 18m |
MicroStrategy and Bitcoin Magazine launch a three-month-old initiative that packages MicroStrategy’s playbook into a curriculum and membership network to push… | ||
| Austrian Economics, Hard Money & Bitcoin Cycles | Willem Middelkoop, Wolf von Laer | 35m |
Argument: central banks are stockpiling gold and building CBDCs and a government-controlled digital payments network as the practical fallback, not Bitcoin… | ||
| Hackathon Winners | 18m | |
Three hackathon projects ship concrete demos: an analytics stack called Taplytics visualizes and exposes a Tap Protocol L1 API for wallets and marketplaces and… | ||
| Gold & Bitcoin: Friends, Not Foes | Paul Buitink | 30m |
Central banks buy record amounts of gold — about $70–$80bn in 2022–23 — and gold now exceeds the euro as the world’s second reserve asset, while corporate and… | ||
| The Rise of Bitcoin ETFs | Peter Lane, James van Straten | 33m |
Timeline of events: Jacobi files in 2021, US spot ETFs launch January 2024 and attract record inflows, ETFs quickly accumulate roughly 5% of circulating supply… | ||
| Scaling Bitcoin to 2050 | Shinobi, Marco Argentieri (tiero), Simanta Gautam, Alex Bosworth | 31m |
Debates concrete scaling paths: channel-based Lightning with penalty/justice transactions and channel factories versus rollups using zero-knowledge proofs that… | ||
| Craig Wright and the Attempted Fraud on Bitcoin Itself | Tristan Sherliker | 31m |
A legal team spends three years dismantling an attempted takeover that rests on 100 documents of claimed provenance, revealing forged drafts embedded in Word… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining: Navigating the Difficulty | Zachary K. Bradford, Amanda Fabiano | 34m |
Clean Spark announces it has tripled hash rate year‑over‑year and pursues M&A focused on distressed rural sites, buying grid and site assets and plugging in… | ||
| Energy Resiliency & Bitcoin | Vishnu Pantankar, Paul Prager | 30m |
Panel argues Bitcoin mining and AI compute share hardware and grid value, showing concrete moves: a Lake Mariner site running 91% green power and refreshing… | ||
| Lightning Strikes Europe: Funding Bitcoin Startups | Mike Jarmuz | 17m |
Thunder Funder launches an equity crowdfunding portal that lets Europeans buy shares in Bitcoin and open‑source startups with €5 million limit per round and… | ||
| Bitcoin Mining and The 2025 Bull Market | Irene Gao | 13m |
Bitmain shows deployed hardware and case studies: a 150 MW hydro farm in Ethiopia powering local grids and attracting investment, mining heat recycled into… | ||
| Bitcoin for Good: Transforming Communities Worldwide | Obi Nwosu, Philea A. Bartels | 31m |
Fedi and Refu-Night run a six month pilot using Bitcoin, Lightning, eCash, Nostr and Matrix plus wallets like Moon and services BTCmap, Bitrefill and BTC in… | ||
| The Role of Bitcoin Exchanges in 2050 | Elke Karskens, Julian Liniger, Remy van der Nagel | 31m |
Panelists from Coinbase Bitvavo and Relai outline concrete shifts: MiCA passport to 27 countries forces licensing and higher compliance costs, likely causing… | ||
| Bitcoin Self Custody: Challenges & Tradeoffs | Kevin Loaec | 32m |
Asserts that owning private keys is essential and recommends a concrete starter path: download a mobile wallet, send a small amount, write down 12/24 seed… | ||
| Bitcoin Strategic Reserves and Nation-State Power Dynamics | David Zell, Pierre Rochard, Shinobi | 47m |
Panelists debate concrete mechanics and math: a proposed 20-year lock on government-held Bitcoin to prevent political sell-offs, a distributed custody plan… | ||
| NOSTR: Freedom of Algorithmic Choice | Will Casarin, Martti Malmi, McShane | 32m |
Nostr panel argues concrete wins and open problems: the zap spec drives real money flow (developer reports 200,000 paid invoices and roughly one BTC earned… | ||
| Hashrate As a Commodity | Adam Back, Sadiq Jaffer, Matt Kelly Williams, Brandon Green | 33m |
Panel outlines a working market: companies build forward markets and cash‑ or Bitcoin‑settled synthetic contracts to let miners lock revenue per peta‑hash, and… | ||
| How Bitcoin Will Transform National Economies | Joana Cotar, Grant McCarty | 32m |
A German MP describes creating Bitcoin in the Bundestag with a website, newsletter and monthly expert briefings to educate colleagues, cites a law that forced… | ||
| The Bitcoin Revolution | Jack Mallers, Dylan LeClair | 48m |
Claims that ETFs and bank custody normalize Bitcoin and that Bitcoin averages 63% annual over the last decade set the benchmark used to judge business… | ||
| HODLing Is Hard: Fundamentals, Cycle & On Chain Analysis | Rational Root | 31m |
Argues Bitcoin can become a world reserve by competing with gold and fiat within 5–10 years, shows M2 comparisons and a log-scale price vs supply plot, uses… | ||
| Day 1 Livestream | Adam Back, Elizabeth Stark, Jack Mallers, Maya Parbhoe, Pierre Rochard, Joana Cotar, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Willem Middelkoop, Samuel Kullman, Ben Arc, Obi Nwosu | 09h 09m |
🎥 Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 - Day 1 Livestream 🌍
Welcome to the Day 1 Livestream of Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024, taking place in the heart of Amsterdam, NL! This… | ||
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