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I am organizing a special Mastercoin meetup.

The date and time aren't set yet. If you consider attending, please RSVP.

A Bitcoin special lecture, "Bitcoin and computer security in a post-quantum world", has been scheduled for November 3, 19:30, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv. Gathering at 19:00.

The lecture will be given by our special guest, Vitalik Buterin, Head Writer of The Bitcoin Magazine.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/145566422/.

Slides: https://bitcoil.co.il/files/Quantum%20Computing%20and%20Bitcoin.pdf
Video: http://youtu.be/DkUpZkeqhF4

I will be giving an "Intro to Bitcoin" talk at Hub Tel Aviv, you're all invited. I will cover Bitcoin basics, why Bitcoin is useful, and talk about the status in Israel for a bit.

Unlike our own meetups, this one has an entry cost of 30 ILS, as part of the procedures of Hub Tel Aviv.

The lecture will be given in Hebrew.

A Bitcoin lecture, "The Bitcoin Blockchain", has been scheduled for October 27, 19:00, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/144290312/.

Slides: http://bitcoil.co.il/files/blockchain.pptx
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYiFbS-kJTk

A Bitcoin lecture, "Practical Paranoia", has been scheduled for October 10, 19:00, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/140690872/.

Slides: https://blog.non.co.il/extra/bitcoin-security-lecture/
Video: http://youtu.be/de5Mn_4oixs

A Bitcoin lecture, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Bitcoin", has been scheduled for September 16, 19:00, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/137810212/.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lFkvJIq0Fwc9BUD6QahWUQELYF510SNhdzo5uC5NZT4/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYLLDtgkCk

A Bitcoin lecture, "Mastercoin", has been scheduled for August 25, 19:00, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/134955742/.

Slides: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/464119/Bitcoin/Meetups/August%202013/MasterCoin.pptx
Video: http://youtu.be/R-9-aGeapkU

A Bitcoin lecture, "State of the Coin", has been scheduled for August 15, 19:00, in Google's Tel Aviv offices, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon, Tel Aviv.

Details at http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/131505112/.

Slides: https://bitcoil.co.il/State%20of%20the%20coin.pdf
Video: http://youtu.be/aJQYnDCoa90

And finally, here are the videos (Hebrew only!)

Here are the slides (no vids yet, sorry):

- Intro to Bitcoin - Meni Rosenfeld (English)
- Free trade in the Bitcoin Era - Zach Harvey (Hebrew)
- Bitcoin and Regulation - Jonathan Rouach (English)
- Alternative Payment Technologies (English, also on this thread)

There were about 160 people, which is nice. I didn't really like the venue and there were many glitches with the flow. I hope to do better next time. We will try to upload slides and videos soon.

The Tel Aviv Bitcoin Meetup March 2013 has been scheduled for March 21, 17:30, in the Rozin Community Center, Drezner 2, Tel Aviv. See http://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-il/events/106892452/.

I regret to inform that there will be no videos from the January 2013 meetup in Google.

Google was able to provide us with a video camera for the event. However, this camera was based on mini-dv cassettes medium which are fairly hard to work with. Additionally, no experienced cameraman was available which means we were left with figuring out how to operate the thing. This led to several mishaps.

The first is that one of the cassettes we tried to use was actually a head cleaning cassette. It has a very short tape and once it finished we replaced it with a good one, so only a few minutes from before the event started was missed.

The two good cassettes had to be physically taken to a photo shop that can convert them to a more accessible format. One shop we tried handing over the cassettes to told us one week later that they couldn't read their format, and didn't provide any other info. Afterwards we tried a different shop, that one told us that they were recorded in NTSC (PAL is more popular here), and that it required a different set of equipment - which they had, but it was a long and costly process (100 NIS per cassette).

When they finally delivered the converted data, I checked it out and noticed to my horror there was no audio. The store confirmed that indeed no audio existed in the recorded tapes, probably because the camera had a microphone that needed to be explicitly turned on but wasn't.

So now we have video footage of the event without any sound, and as fun as it is to watch us making all kinds of hand gestures and wondering what we're saying, I don't think it's of much use. If there's demand I'll consider uploading the videos as they are, but I think it would just cause confusion.

It's a real shame because I think the event was quite successful and I wish we had a way to preserve it and make it available to those who missed it.

To better handle the next events we've now purchased a video camera of our own. It won't be of the same quality, but at least we won't have to scramble calling in favors to get a camera each time, and we can figure it out once and be confident that we'll get it right when it counts.

Presentations from the last meetup (no vid yet):

• Ron Gross - State of Bitcoin in Israel, Jan 2013 (Hebrew)
• Meni Rosenfeld - What is mining?

I guess I could obtain one (I'm in contact with both Dorit and people from the Technion), but AFAIK basically the paper itself could be considered a summary of the talk (http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf).

Do you have any summary of this past talks presentations?
"Dorit Ron will present her work with Adi Shamir on "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph" in ceclub in January.
http://ceclub.technion.ac.il/past.html

I will be giving a talk about Bitcoin in the Haifa Linux club in the Technion, on Monday February 4th, at 18:30.

The first part of the lecture will be a general introduction to Bitcoin. The second part will be a technical explanation of how Bitcoin and the blockchain work.

The lecture will be slightly adapted to the terminology of the free software community.

You can find more information and updates on the Haifa Linux club website.

http://haifux.org/
http://haifux.org/lectures/292/

We already had someone ask for us to organize a special meetup for startups.
It might be some time before we get to do that, but it's definitely in our plans.

Exciting times!

You are truly interested in meeting new people and are open to learn.
I can not wait to see what BTC services and ideas come out from IL.

Cool, I love seeing these photos of these events. :-)  Thx for posting.