Topic: I'm giving a talk on bitcoin at my company, helpful resources? (Read 752 times)

god luck mate,i wish you have nice enthusiasm from your boss or your work colague,i know its not easy to introduce bitcoin in formally company that never know about bitcoin,and i wish someone there already know about bitcoin and then you will get help to explain about bitcoin.

Wow nice! Good luck to you plorph. I also want to introduce bitcoin to my company soon, and advise them to use it for payment system for their ecommerce website. I've already checked the coinpayments method and it's wonderful. Soon as i get the chance , i'll introduce bitcoin to them. Don't forget to share your experience in here plorph. thanks!

Thanks for all the advice! I'm going to go through the links and see what I can add. The company is very technical since someone asked, and I know more than surface info on bitcoin, but not an expert any any particular aspect.

That alone as a resource material wouldn't even nearly be enough. Although if op only needs to talk for like maybe 30 minutes or less, it might be enough.

Best advice so far.

you can go to bitcoin.org and its will better for you to get any information from official sites,and also its good for you to explain about bitcoin your company,i wish you have no problem with your company after that,because i ever interview with bank manager and i asked about bitcoin,i explain about bitcoin,and i'm stuck when asked about bitcoin legality and regulation.

the work is pretty good and very good. But I hope you have mastered it all if you're only talking about Bitcoin and have questions outside of a context that you write then it will remove the value by those who have yet to know the Bitcoin. May your hard work pays off

https://bitcoin.org/en/ is very good website containing valuable knowledge about bits. give it a shot.. you can also use google for more helpful articles.

So you're planning to give a talk on bitcoins without having any information on it ? I dig if you are a beginner and only know the basics but if you have no idea what bitcoin is I'd advice you to not give a talk as  you might not be able to convey the points correctly.That again depends on the time you have for preparation.

I recommend you going to en.bitcoin.it to find out some information on bitcoin. It pretty much covers all you need to know. The wikipedia article of bitcoin you might also find helpful.

You can also search up some explanatory videos on Youtube, they are often very easy to understand.

Good luck with your presentation.

You can basically take all James D'Angelo's videos on Youtube and work through them, and all your basis will be covered. I think his videos are the best educational material out there for Bitcoin. Lately it seems as though he has been struggling with some decentralization concerns, but his earlier videos are still very good. ^smile^ Doing a talk to people you know, is more stressful than doing it to strangers.

work out what the company you are talking to does. not only to know what to highlight. but also HOW to highlight it.
EG how:

if the company is "technical" (EG a IT firm). then the importance of the technicals of how bitcoin works should mention such things as sha256, ECDSA, private public keys, distributed/independent network nodes.

if the company is "financial" (EG a bank). then the importance of the technicals of how bitcoin works should mention such things as cryptography used to secure users ability to sign transactions and cryptography to create the blocks, then distributed over thousands of different users computers to be independently verified. to ensure that no one but the owner of the funds can move the funds. and no one single person can manipulate the data(i hope you notice the word differences between talking to an IT or financial firm)

if the company is "retailer" (EG starbucks). then the importance of the technicals of how bitcoin works should mention the speed of seeing a zero confirm. vs the average speed of a 1 confirm. and why in most cases the small value customer spends could get away with not waiting for one confirm. along with explaining how once its confirms, those funds are not just 'authorized' but actually settled and cleared to be spent by the retailer, unlike banks sometimes taking days..


EG what:
if the company is "technical" then talking about how each block started as 50btc, and every 210000 blocks it halves and to make sure no one over produces too quickly every 2016 blocks the difficulty increases..

if the company is "financial" then talk about the 21mill cap and how we are already over 15mill of that cap

if the company is "retailer" then demonstrating a transaction live by having a QR code ready and blockexplorer/blockchain.info ready to show the funds move. even asking one of the company to download a wallet app and display their own qr code and you send them $1.50cents as a gift to them for demonstration purposes.


in short.. know who you are talking to and know what level of understanding they want, require and will use

get someone else to do it

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One suggestion: consider making slides from a series of transactions that you have done yourself: getting a wallet, buying BTC, spending BTC.

Another: showing some screen shots from blockchain.info and/or other easy to understand [sic] sites.

Also, some general website links (bitcoin.com, I think they have a beginner's video) that internet users in your audience can access easily.

You can tell them that once they have a marginal understanding to come here to bitcointalk as well.

Finally, wait for more suggestions here to roll in!  

It really comes down to the nature of the presentation. What are you going to focus on; are you going to go in-depth about the maths or technology and such. It also comes down to what you actually understand now, since you're the one who's going to make the presentation. Regardless, here are some good sources:
1) Bitcoin Whitepaper
2) The Essence of How Bitcoin Works (Non-Technical)
3) How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes (Technical)
4) Bitcoin Wiki

I'm putting together a slideshow, any good resources to help me explain how bitcoin works, history, and maybe other valuable information? Thanks!