Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025
2025-11-13..2025-11-14
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Bitcoin Amsterdam 2022, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025]
as the organisers put it
Join the Bitcoin Conference of the Netherlands 5 - 6 November 2026 in the SugarFactory.
who it's for
corporate treasury managers, institutional investors, bitcoin builders and developers, custody and compliance teams, mining operators, payments product managers, retail bitcoin entrepreneurs
topics
bitcoin treasury management; corporate bitcoin balance sheets; bitcoin exchange traded funds; Strike bitcoin lending products; Lightning onboarding and liquidity; hash rate derivatives and miner finance; BitVM smart contract demos; hardware wallet security tradeoffs; selecting custody and compliance providers; sovereign and institutional bitcoin allocations; bitcoin price power law analysis; fiat-as-war monetary critique
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote Speech – Saifedean Ammous | Saifedean Ammous | 28m |
Argues fiat is born in WWI and becomes a war-enabler: Bank of England holds 31% gold reserve, prints ~£300m, suspends gold redemption and runs a bond sale… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Jack Mallers | 27m |
Launches and results: Strike Europe launch plus a recent Strike lending in Europe and the UK put regulated Bitcoin brokerage and credit tools live — no‑fee… | ||
| Universe of Value: The Power Law Lens on Bitcoin | Giovanni Santostasi | 14m |
Claims that Bitcoin’s price and its time‑price follow a power law in time on a log‑log plot, with a fitted relation like price ∝ days^5.8 that yields a high… | ||
| Day 1 Livestream | Jack Mallers, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, Khing Oei, Saifedean Ammous, Gilles Roth | 08h 36m |
Livestream shows concrete moves not slogans: Luxembourg discloses a 1% sovereign allocation to Bitcoin, a new Euro listing plan announces a $150M raise and… | ||
| Bitcoin’s Evolving Market Structure | Ben Cowen, Matt Crosby, André Dragosch | 26m |
Panel claims ETFs and corporate treasuries now hold 2.29 million BTC (11.5%) of circulating supply and institutional purchases in 2025 outpace post‑halving… | ||
| Day 2 Livestream | Jack Mallers, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, Khing Oei, Saifedean Ammous, Gilles Roth | 07h 49m |
Day two is heavy on hard numbers and product launches, not slogans: Jack Mallers’ Strike rolls Bitcoin-backed lending into Europe and reports fast retail… | ||
| on JP Morgan, Epstein & the REAL Definition of Money | Jack Mallers | 04m |
Argues Bitcoin is literally saved human time and energy and therefore money, and shows how payments work by converting at point of payment—you earn BTC, hold… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Cameron, Tyler Winklevoss, Khing Oei | 45m |
Direct account of concrete moves: Gemini goes public, a Cypherpunk equity-dapp (CYPH) lists on NASDAQ and opens with a several-hundred-percent pop, and… | ||
| Bitcoin Fixes the Problem NOBODY Talks About #bitcoinconference | Jack Mallers | 01m |
Argues that money should store value of human effort and that fiat fails by diluting saved value, with Bitcoin presented as the alternative that lets people… | ||
| Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Trump — Trump Needs Bitcoin | Jack Mallers | 05m |
Argues the recent U.S. administration pivots pro-bitcoin because politicians prefer utility over opposition and because Bitcoin’s economics force cooperation… | ||
| Bitcoin as a Generational Wealth Building Strategy | Stefania Barbaglio, Hunter Albright, Chris Seedor, Jim Crider | 26m |
Argues Bitcoin is a durable generational asset because of scarcity, verifiability, portability and teams lay out concrete tools: self‑custody plus insurance… | ||
| Bitcoin Can End Inflation & War | Saifadean Ammous | 01m |
Claims that Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply prevents governments from printing money to finance wars, so inflation falls and fiscal stimulus for conflicts… | ||
| We Are Still Early | Luke Broyles, Robin Seyr, Brandon Keys, Temo Bezhiashvili | 30m |
Argument: Bitcoin is still early because concrete constraints and new users, not vibes, matter. The layer has 21 million units and UTXO scarcity means many… | ||
| Keynote Speech – Gilles Roth | Gilles Roth | 16m |
Luxembourg announces an already executed 1% allocation of its sovereign wealth fund to BTC and declares it BTC-only and long-term hodl, cites €7.6T of… | ||
| Quantitative Tightening Ends in December – Is the Bitcoin Cycle Just Starting? | Ben Cowen | 08m |
Jerome Powell confirms QT ends in December, which is argued to trigger the next Bitcoin leg as institutional flows replace retail. Analysis uses a global M2… | ||
| The Rise of Bitcoin Treasuries: The Future of Banks in a Hyperbitcoinised World | Peter McCormack | 23m |
Claims that corporate treasuries move from passive inflation hedges to treasury as yield engine, with firms like MicroStrategy holding Bitcoin balances that… | ||
| The Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats | Matthew Mežinskis, Paul Buitink, William Middelkoop, Wyatt O'Rourke | 29m |
Panel argues 2025 is a watershed: Wall Street shifts from 60/40 to 60/20/20 portfolio (60% equities, 20% gold, 20% alternatives) while central banks keep… | ||
| Bitchat Demo: Calle | Calle | 19m |
Bluetooth mesh chat that sends messages peer‑to‑peer via Bluetooth and moves Bitcoin value using Cashu Chaumian e‑cash (and Lightning where available); demo… | ||
| Designing Systems From The Cypherpunk Perspective | Adam Back, Shinobi | 27m |
Hostile-market design claim: hashcash origin is cited as the anti-spam lesson and an exit-node was run from Switzerland until police pressure shut it… | ||
| Why Bitcoin Is More Than Digital Gold | Bart Mol | 15m |
Argues that Bitcoin’s security is an active, game‑theoretic system powered by miners and that 97% of BTC is mined by 2033 so the block subsidy evaporates… | ||
| The Future of Financing In a Bitcoin-Dominated World | Matt Kelly Williams, Derar Islim, David Bailey, Tyler Evans | 29m |
Capital markets for miners expand rapidly: cost of capital falls from high teens to sub-10% cost of capital and Bitcoin‑denominated loans hit 6–7%, lenders… | ||
| The Ways Bitcoin Treasury Companies Choose to Structure Capital | Johan Bergman, Jeff Walton, Garry Krugljakow, Sander Andersen | 25m |
Panel lays out concrete structures and outcomes: a $150M perpetual preferred equity raise buys Bitcoin with zero debt maturity, companies shift from 5-year… | ||
| How European Treasury Companies Are Building Their Bitcoin Balance Sheets | Amanda Fabiano | 24m |
Europe pursues specific plays: Netherlands leverages trading expertise and crypto exchanges; Sweden offers a NASDAQ Sweden $2 trillion market and tax arbitrage… | ||
| Robin Linus Presents BitVM3 | Robin Linus | 20m |
BitVM3 replaces the bulky BitVM2 SNARK verifier with a garbled-circuit verifier that cuts worst‑case on‑chain dispute data from megabytes to kilobytes: an 8… | ||
| Who Wants to Be a Satoshi Millionaire | Adam Back, Shinobi, Susie Violet Ward, Chris Seedor | 28m |
Live fast-paced Bitcoin gameshow with 21 trivia questions and 1,000+ players on Slido, testing specific facts: early Bitcoin v0.1 runs on Windows-only, the… | ||
| How to Get a Job in Bitcoin | Marek Szabelski, Kristyna Mazankova, Sergi Delgado | 29m |
Hiring now spans marketing, ops, sales and compliance as well as devs, with roughly 2,000 unique Bitcoin job listings last year in community channels and more… | ||
| Has Bitcoin Lost its Punk Rock Edge? | Peter McCormack, Hunter Albright | 19m |
Panel argues Bitcoin trades punk ethos for institutional money while offering concrete tools: borrow against BTC via Salt Lending for tax‑efficient liquidity… | ||
| Symbols of the Sovereign: The Visual Language of Bitcoin | Pat Riley | 18m |
Covers how Bitcoin’s visual system actually formed: the MIT‑licensed orange ₿ (rotated 13.88° with circle scaling tied to 42), the deliberate reuse of currency… | ||
| When Fiat Fails, People Die | Stafford Masie | 10m |
Claims daily use of sats across Africa with 650,000 merchants accepting Bitcoin, pan‑African corporate listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and SMS… | ||
| Why War Runs on Fiat | Saifedean Ammous | 07m |
Claim: wars run on fiat, illustrated by Britain 1914. A bank run finds the Bank of England with 31% gold reserves, so it prints £300M in August, suspends gold… | ||
| Hardware Wallets: Finding the Balance With Security, Decentralization, and Convenience | Bastien Taquet, Douglas Bakkum | 29m |
Panel argues the hardware wallet wars are over and collaboration wins: companies commit to open standards and interoperable features. Expect NFC smart cards… | ||
| Tick Tock, Next Block: The Cadence of Civilization | Brady Swenson | 17m |
Argues Bitcoin is a new civil clock that bridges slow natural time and fast machine time by using a proof-of-work timechain and a concrete difficulty rule… | ||
| The State of Corporate Adoption | George Mekhail | 16m |
Claims corporate adoption reaches over 50 firms holding billions of BTC and institutions lock roughly 5% of supply while buying more Bitcoin each quarter than… | ||
| Igniting The Digital Golden Age | Khing Oei | 14m |
Treasury says it permanently HODLs 1,111 BTC (placing it inside the top 50 global treasuries), raised founder-led capital backed by Winklevoss Capital and… | ||
| Upgrading Your Personal Values With Bitcoin | Bram Kanstein, Vijay Selvam | 17m |
Argues that a hard-money standard instills low time preference by making saved capital gain purchasing power, which enables longer projects, tolerated failure… | ||
| Why Treasury Companies are Still an Attractive Investment | Kingsley Advani, Sebastien Hess, Hervé Larren | 27m |
Bitcoin sits near $96K and many treasury stocks are trading below NAV, which the panel calls a buying opportunity because discounts enable M&A & buybacks and… | ||
| Developing Tools for Freedom Fighters | Lyudmyla Kozlovska, Kevin Ravensberg, Grafton Clark, Mogashni Naidoo | 25m |
Privacy tools face legal pressure in Europe while activists need them to survive: the Wasabi company halts operations but an individual Wasabi coinjoin… | ||
| The New Corporate Archetypes of European Bitcoin Treasury Companies | Gareth Jenkinson, Khing Oei, Alexandre Laizet, Sander Andersen | 28m |
European treasury companies disclose concrete scale and go-to-market tactics: Treasury announces a $150M raise and holds 1100 BTC, Capital B reports 2,818 BTC… | ||
| Selecting the Right Service Providers for Bitcoin Custody & Compliance | Allen Helm, Brett Reeves, Park Kwon, Derar Islim | 28m |
Checklist for treasury selection: custody must show offline cold vaults with keys in undisclosed locations, MPC/multi‑sig, third‑party audits (Big Four) and… | ||
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