CoinFest Hangout & Tutorial

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CoinFest (http://www.coinfest.org/) started in 2013 as a relatively small gathering of 100 or so Bitcoiners, celebrating the adoption of Bitcoin at the Waves Coffee House at Smithe and Howe. It was conceived as a way to incentivize cryptocurrency acceptance while educating the public about its importance and use. Its popular success prompted the Bitcoiniacs to place the world’s first Bitcoin ATM there, which we again celebrated.

By 2014, CoinFest was growing in popularity, and that year it took a new direction: CoinFest spread across Canada and now internationally, exemplifying the border-defying and decentralized nature of crypto. Vancouver lead the way again by booking multiple venues simultaneously for a less centrally organized variety of exhibits, as Satoshi would have wanted. In 2015, CoinFest spread worldwide, and new ground was broken in Latin America and Europe.

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This year, CoinFest Vancouver will begin with a small gathering at 436 West Pender, a local hub for decentralization supporters and fans. It will function as a base of operations for the International Hangout, which coordinates live virtual presentations beamed simultaneously to audiences around the globe. Speakers will include notable thinkers and leaders such as Andreas Antonopoulos, who will join us for the first real test of the International Hangout.

Later on, we'll broadcast local speakers Shane Golden, Alex Millar and Piotr Piasecki to teach everything you need to know to prepare for the new concepts to be introduced at CoinFest. Airbitz will demonstrate their wallet, and everyone will get one preloaded with .0025 BTC and more for tweeting about it. You can also spin the Wheel of Bitcoin for a chance to win mBTC, as well as cool prizes like a hardware wallet by BitNation, Bitcoin gift cards by Coincards.ca, or 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.

SCHEDULE

1:00 PM – Andreas M. Antonopoulos

2:00 PM – Dor Konforty (Synereo)

3:00 PM – Wheel of Bitcoin (Tim Tayshun)

4:00 PM – Chris Williams – decentralized insurance

5:00 PM – Shane Golden – mining in a nutshell

6:00 PM – Alex Millar – history of money

7:00 PM – Piotr Piasecki – Bitcoin and beyond