Topic: Short presentation about Bitcoin (technical focus) (Read 4074 times)

On Monday I will be giving a talk about Bitcoin in the Haifa Linux Club at the Technion. For this occasion I have written a greatly expanded version of the presentation:

https://bitcoil.co.il/Bitcoin%20Haifux.pdf

here is similar question on Reddit,may help
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/16lggw/what_is_mining_actually_doing/

For the January 2013 meetup I have prepared a presentation "What is mining?" - https://bitcoil.co.il/What%20is%20mining.pdf.

well done made technical presentation in AT ,look for inspiration
DevFest Vienna 2012 - Introduction to BitcoinJ

The particular talk which prompted this presentation will be next week.

Things like this are on the list but there are higher-priority items currently.

Nah, they'd equivocate and say it's used as currency.

What was the overall interest of the presentation?
Is there any chance of making presentation about BTC in Top 10 technical school in IL? thx

I added some notes to the slides.

Thanks.  My concern is with inculcating an  audience new to bitcoin and probably without extensive technology knowledge (obviously not your case).

I do currently feel that calling the bitoin public key an "address" lets to initial confusion and misconceptions about the protocol.  I'd love to debate that further at a later date.

It will probably be in Hebrew. I don't know what the venue will be like but I'll look at recording possibilities.

It is ~15 guys at Oracle, who I presume are programmers.

I doubt it will be necessary and this talk will be really crammed, every minute counts. I will however pronounce it "peer to peer".

I don't see how the term "address" adds in any way to the confusion, on the contrary. How many times did you hear someone ask, "how can I read Bill Gates' emails? I have the address, [email protected] [note: probably not his real address]." People understand that an address is something public to which you send things, and that to actually have access you need some form of password. Likewise people don't expect to be able to spend someone's money by knowing his mailing address or bank account number.

In any case, a fool and his money are soon parted and there is no cure to arrogance and recklessness. Someone who buys/accepts bitcoins without making a minimal effort to understand how to use them can't complain for losing them. Publishing a concise "things you must know before using Bitcoin" is one way to help people. Using a different name for addresses is not.

Also, AFAIK this talk is intended to be some sort of "extracurricular education", the goal is not to convince people to go out and buy bitcoins, so the presentation is light in practical usage tips.

I agree, presentations should be tailored to the target audience, which this one was.

On this note it's worth mentioning that there's a video of a talk I gave (in Hebrew) to a more general audience, it's loosely based on this which is also in Hebrew, but has an English translation here.

Who is your audience by the way.

I think you should use peer to peer (and define that) instead of  p2p. I also think we have to move away from calling bitcoin public keys "addresses."  That leads to confusion and misunderstanding about how bit coin functions. There was a guy on the board recently who installed bitcoind, sent 50 BTC  to an address thinking his funds were safe in the block chain,  could not sync, deleted the whole set up including the wallet.dat then was asking how to retrieve his funds as he still had the "address". Another guy once asked me how to get the bitcoin I sent him out of the block chain.  And I can't tell you the number of new buyers who down load the client and immediately buy bitcoin not understanding that it can take a few day to download the blockchain and thus view or spend the new coin. So if this is a non technical, general interest audience please strive for clarity. To create greater adoption we have to move away from the techno-geek speak as a community continue to discuss and explain bitcoin in laymen's terms.  Just my 2c.

Can you video your talk with good sound quality? Never hurts to have another good video explaining bitcoin on you tube.  Thanks for the PDF.

Thank you for all the positive comments.

Of course, as with any presentation, much of the content is in what I intend to say orally. I wonder if there will be demand for a document based on the same principles, but more self-contained with more text.

Added a pdf version: https://bitcoil.co.il/Bitcoin_Meni.pdf.

Thanks for sharing! I am still learning the technological basics of bitcoin, and this presentation made a few things click.

can't open pptx.  can you pdf

thanks.

Following that quote I'd say you understand Bitcoin very well.  Thanks for sharing it.

nice presentation!  succinct and clear.  i especially liked the diagrams illustrating tx's.  i learn something new everyday.

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Very nice presentation. Concise and presented in logical order.

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Specially liked the "Used as money". Even the folks that don't think bitcoins are money can agree to that.

Very nice presentation Meni.