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Europe’s largest bitcoin conference, bitcoin Amsterdam, is now accessible to a global audience as all videos from the event have been uploaded to video platforms includingYoutube,Rumbleandx.
Concluding this Friday, the event featured a notable lineup of speakers and discussions about bitcoin and the global freedom movement.
In the second year of the event, organizers estimate that nearly 2,500 enthusiasts came from around the world to discuss how bitcoin is leading to a new era of financial freedom for citizens around the world.
Highlights from the first day include:
- Edward Snowden analyzes bitcoin: The renowned whistleblower expressed his enthusiasm for bitcoin, underscoring the importance of financial privacy and decentralization in an increasingly surveilled world. Reiterating his stance, Snowden emphasized that bitcoin is positioned to disempower authoritarian regimes, further highlighting its potential as a tool for individual empowerment.
- Stella Assange Addresses WikiLeaks Ordinals Protest: The wife of renowned journalist Julian Assange has broken her silence on the mysterious Spartacus project, which attempts to store the entire contents of the Afghan war records on the bitcoin blockchain forever. She went on to argue that bitcoin is opening a new frontier for freedom through decentralized and immutable publishing.
- Eva Vlaardingerbroek receives orange pills:New to bitcoin, the passionate Dutch political commentator made a massive debut at the event, downloading her first Lightning wallet, receiving her first bitcoin, and discussing her belief that bitcoin can be a tool to limit government crackdowns on free speech against to the disappearance of cash in their country of origin.
Conference talks and debates continued during an action-packed second day.
Highlights from the second day include:
- Prince Philip of Serbia: The royal recognized bitcoin as an “open and secure Internet-like protocol” and emphasized its role as a technology for the future, echoing the sentiment of a bright, decentralized financial future.
- President of Madeira: The president welcomed all things bitcoin to Madeira and announced the launch of a bitcoin business center aimed at fostering local innovation. This endorsement from regional leadership is a notable development in the cryptocurrency space.
- Is there a middle ground found in ordinals? A fireside chat with bitcoin magazine editor Pete Rizzo and RGB creator Giacomo Zucco featured a more measured conversation about the protocol, its technical merits, and why some members of the bitcoin community are looking for better ways to verify the data using the protocol.
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