Unschooled Bitcoiners' Meetup no.1 Learning Resources
📹 Edward Griffin, Trace Mayer and Max Wright Talks About Money And Bitcoin (2014)
- In this video, Trace Myer and Edward Griffin answer some key questions such as, what is bitcoin and what problems does it solve. Myer is a bitcoiner OG and Griffin authored the highly esteemed work, The Creature from Jekyll Island, which goes into gruesome detail about the origins of the Federal Reserve Banking System. Both of them are very knowledgeable. The whole interview is worth a watch.
📹 Bitcoin: Global Utility w/ Alex Gladstein:
- A talk delivered at Bitcoin 2024, given by HRF Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), exploring "how Bitcoin is transforming commerce, promoting freedom, and revolutionizing our approach to energy consumption worldwide. From empowering the unbanked to saving wasted energy, learn about the real-world impact of this misunderstood technology."
📹 The future of energy? Brooklyn's bitcoin-heated bathhouse:
- Behind the scenes of a traditional bathhouse in Brooklyn, something extraordinary is taking place: The pools, heated to 104 degrees, are not warmed by conventional means but by computers mining for bitcoin.
📚 Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy (Alex Gladstein, Bitcoin Magazine)
- Here is an article written by Gladstein, again detailing how "if you aren’t mining Bitcoin, you are wasting energy."
📚 Opinion How a Bitcoin conference in Bedford changed the way I see financial freedom and human rights
- A very cool editorial piece written by a journalist who attended Cheatcode 2025, a conference held in Bedford, UK, exploring how the conference changed his perspective of Bitcoin
The people on stage weren’t investors or salespeople. These weren’t blockchain bros chasing the next coin or market high. They weren’t there to get the audience to swallow the ‘orange pill’.
These were activists who were using Bitcoin in a way not often reported. These people had everything taken from them and had needed to flee their homes to save their lives, but they had found a lifeline in digital currency.
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