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From the archive
These older Bitcoin conferences released some or all of their talks under a Creative Commons license. Anyone can watch and share them with credit. There are 98 talks here, Bitcoin sessions only.
Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024
Dec 9–11, 2024 · Nairobi, Kenya · 22 videosOpening Remarks, Farida Nabourema
Karibu Kenya (Welcome to Kenya), Janet Maingi
Remarks by the Conference's Convener, Farida Nabourema
The Unlock: How Bitcoin Creates an Endless Energy Future, Erik Hersman
Exploring Bitcoin Mining in an Emerging Market: Ethiopia's 600 MW Journey, Nemo Semret
Building Bitcoin's Future: The Case for a Career in Open Source, Adam Jonas
Lightning: The Future of Payments with Bitcoin's Layer 2
Bitcoin: A Safety Net for the Working Class
Bitcoin for Peace and Freedom: Stories from Palestine, Israel and Somalia
Funding Freedom: The Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund
Bitcoin Dada: Financial Freedom for Women Through Bitcoin, Marcel Lorraine Atieno
What Does Bitcoin Mean in Africa? (Femi Longe)
Empowering Bitcoin Education in Africa: Collaborating for Impact, John Dennehy
Building a Bitcoin-Powered Future: Community, Cooperatives and Innovation, Jodom Konuko
Global Bitcoin Game Theory: How Bitcoin Thrives in China Despite Bans
The Bitcoin-Stablecoin Debate: Impact on Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets, Bernard Parah
Lessons from the Internet for Bitcoin Regulation in Africa, Nii Quaynor
Financial Freedom in the 21st Century: Evidence from 25 Countries
Empowering Communities with Freedom Technologies
Adapting to a Changing World, Noelyne Sumba
Telling the Story of Financial Revolution through Film
Bitcoin Above $100,000: What It Means for Africa
Africa Bitcoin Conference 2023
Dec 1–3, 2023 · Accra, Ghana · 27 videosOpening Keynote, Prof. Nii Quaynor
Owning the African Bitcoin Narrative, Femi Longe
Building Bitcoin Communities: Stories from Africa, Anita Posch
Adoption and Community Building: Lessons from the Global South
Opportunities for Bitcoin in the Development of Arts and Entertainment in Africa
Bitcoin Literacy: Innovative Approaches to Bitcoin Education
Bitcoin and Education: EdTech Innovations
Africa Unchained, Charlene Fadirepo
Evolution of Bitcoin VC Funding in Africa, Abubakar Nur Khalil
Mining Beyond Borders: Innovation in BTC Mining
How Bitcoin Is Transforming Payment Systems
Chasing Low-Cost Energy: Africa Is the Future of Bitcoin Mining, Philip Walton
Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation, Farida Nabourema and Jeff Booth
From Seed to Success: Investing in and Scaling Bitcoin Startups
Promoting Sustainability in Bitcoin Mining, Elliot David
Encouraging Women's Engagement in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Privacy, Security and Human Rights, Mike Brock and Ojoma Ochai
Coming Home: This Time It Will Be Different, Ray Youssef
Build for Africa Hackathon: Finalists Pitch
Build for Africa Hackathon: Winners Announced
Self-Custody: Innovations in Wallet Technology, Leon Johnson, Max Guise and Abhilash Nair
Fireside Chat, Max Guise and Erik Hersman
Bitcoin in Africa: Trends, Challenges and Success Stories, Tochi Onyia, KG and Modibe Matsepane
The Intersection of Bitcoin and Human Rights
Navigating Safely: Tips and Tools for Spotting and Avoiding Scams
There Is No Spoon, Kgothatso Ngako
Driving Humanitarian Innovation with Save the Children, Ettore Rossetti
Africa Bitcoin Conference 2022
Dec 5–7, 2022 · Accra, Ghana · 4 videosBitcoin Mining in the Face of Climate Change
Bitcoin-Powered vs. Traditional Payment Systems
The Power of the Lightning Network
Bitcoin Mining as an Edge, Richard Detente
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2022
May 7–8, 2022 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 8 videosFireside Chat, Michael Saylor
Fireside Chat, Elizabeth Stark
Lightning Panel
Lightning Address, Andre Neves
Bitcoin R&D Panel
"Why," Jeremy Rubin
Long-Term Trust and Analog Computers, Andrew Poelstra
Generation Bitcoin
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2021
Apr 3–4, 2021 · Online · 14 videosOpening Remarks
Recent Developments in Bitcoin Core
Payment Planning and Execution for the Lightning Network
Mining Panel
Bitcoin Security and Privacy
Fireside Chat on Bitcoin
How Bitcoin Gains Adoption
Bitcoin 2107: Did We Make It?
How Much Security Is Too Much Security?
Entrepreneurial Capital Allocation in a Sound Bitcoin Economy
Bitcoin Transcripts
What Bitcoin Did at the Expo, Part 1
What Bitcoin Did at the Expo, Part 2
Henoch Award and Closing Remarks
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020
Mar 7–8, 2020 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 13 videosWelcome!
Taproot, Andrew Poelstra
Bitcoin Core Devs Panel
Contributing to Bitcoin Core: A Case Study of assumeutxo, James O'Beirne
What Is Bitcoin Being Used For?
Lightning Network Data: Ambitious, Not Reckless
Institutional Custody Panel
BIP 119 (CheckTemplateVerify), Jeremy Rubin
Lightning Panel
Mining Panel
Node Modes: A Taxonomy of Bitcoin Network Nodes
Bitcoin and the Explosion in Self-Hosting
The Promise and Perils of Non-Deterministic Bitcoin Scripts
MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019
Mar 9–10, 2019 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 10 videosWelcome!
Schnorr, MuSig, Thresholds and More for Bitcoin: A History, Andrew Poelstra
Utreexo: Reducing Bitcoin Nodes to 1 Kilobyte, Tadge Dryja
Wasabi Wallet: Unfairly Private, David Molnar
10 Years of Bitcoin: Evaluating Its Performance as a Monetary System
Lightning Implementations: A Scaling Story
Landing a Node on the Moon: Does It Have to Be Rocket Science?
Incentivizing Mesh Networks with Layer 2 Micropayments
The Path to Personal Sovereignty, Jeremy Welch of Casa
Funds Are ScAFE: Security of Open-Source Hardware Wallets, Charles Guillemet of Ledger
These videos come from the Africa Bitcoin Conference and MIT Bitcoin Club YouTube channels. They are shared under YouTube’s Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which lets anyone share them with credit. We play them from YouTube and have not changed them.
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