Everything Bitcoin Meetup

The first Bitcoin meetup will be held on Sunday April 14th at 7pm.

Potential Agenda:

1. Introduction: Voluntarily tell us about your experience with Bitcoin. Since anonimity is one of the appeals of Bitcoin, this is optional.

2. Group business. Discuss the purpose of the group and begin to shape it's future

3. Watch "Intro to Bitcoin" video described below if appropriate for the audience

4. What are you using Bitcoin for now? What possibilities do you see for the future?

5. Regulatory concerns. The spirit of Bitcoin is open and free. Let's discuss how the recent FinCEN paper potentially affects Bitcoin.

6. Trading. Does it make sense to try to facilitate small trades among a local group?

7. Online forums. What are the most active venues? Which are you using? What do you like \ dislike?

8. Open discussion.

Video: What is Bitcoin?

"It's a bird, it's a plane..." Bitcoin is a currency (a form of money), as well as a set of protocols (a set of rules that make the Bitcoin network operate) that enables people like you and me to use Bitcoin (the currency) to purchase goods and services while the verification (done by the Bitcoin network) of each transaction and a history of those transactions (called a block-chain) is verified and maintained by the computers participating in the Bitcoin network. In this video, Keith walks you through some traditional examples of what was has been used for money in the past, some of the pros and cons of each method, and then introduces Bitcoin as an international, government-independent currency and system that is protected by cryptography. This video covers "What is Bitcoin?" and the logic and methods used by the Bitcoin currency and Bitcoin network.