Nächstes Treffen: Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2019, 13:30 Uhr & 18:30 Uhr

₿🗣️ Cryptocurrency Market Dynamics + The Liquid Sidechain

We will discuss the recent trends in the cryptocurrency sphere as well as the reason for exponential growth in the market. Since 2009, Bitcoin has shown various exponential growth patterns, but where does it come from? What are the metrics that we can use to identify patterns early on? Is it driven by institutions or by retail investors?

We will also learn about Liquid, the first production-ready sidechain for Bitcoin.

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/264773458/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1180051786234773504

₿🛠️ Socratic Seminar: Liquid & Lightning ⚡

The Socratic Seminar format pioneered by a number of Bitcoin developer meetup groups all around the world is coming to Munich, and we'll be joined by the initiator of the London chapter to help us get going!

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/265193941/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1180051788529049600

Nächstes Treffen: Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020, 19:00 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #002: JoinMarket

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/269959320/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1263114670052904960

This time we'll dive into JoinMarket, which is a CoinJoin implementation aimed at improving the privacy and fungibility of Bitcoin transactions. It works by creating a market that allocates the participants' coins in the best way.

As market makers can earn CoinJoin fees, it is possible for long-term holders to use JoinMarket as an investment vehicle to generate an income from their held bitcoins.

- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/JoinMarket
- https://joinmarket.me/
- https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org

Lecturers and notable participants this time include:

Adam Gibson aka waxwing, main contributor to the JoinMarket project.
- https://x0f.org/@waxwing
- https://joinmarket.me/blog/

[...]

This is our new in-depth, no-nonsense seminar series Satoshi's 21, which will take place every 21st of a month in various different locations (hackspace, co-working space, conference room, or similar), or online if circumstances so require.

We'll have one or more selected topics concerning Bitcoin's technology, security, ongoing development, economics, monetary theory, or its societal and political impact. Some preparation work might be required from participants in order to make the most out of the seminar.

Satoshi's 21 stands for:
- Every 21st of a month so that weekdays rotate
- 21 participants is the targeted and ideal working group size, but we could be more, we could be fewer
- And of course: honoring Bitcoin's monetary supply of 21 hundred trillion sats!

Nächstes Treffen: Dienstag, 21. Juli 2020, 19:00 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #004: Taproot 🥕

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/271290157/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1283838309983236096

Taproot is the name for a set of updates that will soon be activated in Bitcoin via a soft-fork.

Among other things and for a start, these updates will improve privacy and on-chain capacity by providing ways such that the available block space can be used more efficiently. Scripts can be more compact and reveal less information, and (with later additional updates) the inputs and outputs of transactions can be aggregated.

That means, true and actual on-chain scaling (i.e., not by just increasing the block size).

It is generally hoped that for example CoinJoin, which is a method to use Bitcoin in a more private way and a "many-users-to-many-users-in-one-transaction" format, should see more adoption simply because of the lower fees per user, as the available block space is used more efficiently than when all those users submitted many individual "normal" transactions as per usual.

This will be the case even more so with the Schnorr signature scheme, as "many-to-many" transactions can then be compacted by aggregating the involved public keys and signatures into one single so-called threshold public key and the corresponding threshold signature, making such an aggregated transaction look indistinguishable from a "normal" transaction, benefiting scalability and privacy even more. (This cross-input aggregation part is what's further down the roadmap though.)

Combined with MAST (Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree), also rather complex scripts ("Smart Contracts") can be made to look indistinguishable from "normal" transactions.

More detailed introduction: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin

Instructors and notable participants today include:

Michael Folkson, London BitDevs
- https://twitter.com/michaelfolkson

Many more researchers and developers that are rather prominent in the Bitcoin field will likely chime in.

This meetup will be co-hosted with the London BitDevs.
- https://www.meetup.com/London-Bitcoin-Devs/

Further Material:

- Recent London BitDevs about BIP 340 Schnorr: https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/london-bitcoin-devs/2020-06-16-socratic-seminar-bip-schnorr/
- BIP 341 Taproot: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki
- Reading List: https://pastebin.com/WcRA09Vy

Format: Socratic Seminar https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar

Language: English

Target Audience: Highly technical, advanced or expert-level researchers and developers in the Bitcoin field, or related fields like Cryptography and Distributed Systems, with a strong curiosity to learn more about the design decisions in Bitcoin and the upcoming roadmap. This kind of seminar usually starts with conversations on a level that provides a good overview, but then goes deep into the details.

Streaming/Recording: Yes

Food and Drinks: None

Location: Online, Jitsi Meet via Freifunk Munich

[...]

Nächstes Treffen: Montag, 21. September 2020, 20:00 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #006: Money Printing 💸

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/271827507/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1306194800434176000

It's almost a cliché that we think Bitcoin is great because central banks print too much money, but what does that really mean? Is it true, is it really that bad, and how does this process actually work?

Stefanie von Jan will walk us through this process much more in-depth than the usual "Stammtisch" level, and give insights if and how Bitcoin can help protect the individual's self-sovereignty.

Stefanie holds lectures and seminars about monetary and economics related topics at German universities and is an advocate for Austrian Economics and safe, beneficial technologies.

- https://twitter.com/stefanievjan

Title of the talk: On the crossroads between serfdom and freedom - how the monopoly of money creation out of thin air in the fiat system comes with financial enslavement

Abstract:

In the beginning, we briefly discuss whether we are going into a (Hyper-)inflation, Deflation or Stagflation. In the main part, we discuss the underlying reason for (Hyper-)inflation, namely the extension of the money supply and its mechanisms.

It is much easier to understand this concept by first going back in time to the gold standard and seeing how banking worked in a non-fraudulent and a fraudulent gold standard system. The fraudulent banking system has become the norm and eventually the backing of money by gold was completely discarded as it has become clear that more money was created than it was backed with gold.

Now the creation of new money by banks and central banks escalated which is performed during two processes namely 1) by credit issuance and 2) by purchasing assets (as in Quantitative Easing). This is done through an „accounting trick“ which is illustrated in the talk.

When comparing Bitcoin with the current fiat system, it becomes clear that a monetary system may serve as a means of control or as a means to achieve freedom. Bitcoin is an antithesis to the fiat system and enables financial sovereignty to preserve individual freedom.

Finally, we discuss how to best prepare for the upcoming chaos when the unsustainable fiat system falls.

[...]

Nächstes Treffen: Samstag, 21. November 2020, 19:30 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #008 × Reckless VR: Above the Fold 💳

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/273866728/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1328771520471199745

We'll join the Reckless VR meetup today, a global Virtual Reality meetup series taking place (almost) every Saturday with prominent participants, moderated by Udi Wertheimer.

This time, Fold CEO Will Reeves will talk about Bitcoin rewards, payments, using the Lightning Network in production, and ways to protect consumer privacy.

Your hosts:

Udi Wertheimer, Reckless VR
- https://www.recklessvr.com/
- http://twitter.com/RecklessVR
- https://web.archive.org/web/20191230095159/https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/

Will Reeves, CEO at Fold
- https://twitter.com/wlrvs
- https://foldapp.com/

[...]

Nächstes Treffen: Sonntag, 27. Dezember bis Mittwoch, 30. Dezember

₿🛠️ Bitcoin at the remote Chaos Communication Congress 2020

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/275036476/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1341859258359558144

The annual Chaos Communication Congress, organized by the Chaos Computer Club and other volunteers, is one of the largest hacker conferences in the world, peaking at around 17,000 visitors last year.

Not only are there great talks and lectures on the main stages, what makes the event especially alive are the hackerspaces and other communities who build so-called "assemblies". This is where they present what they're tinkering on, collaborate, offer workshops, and much more.

The "402 Payment Required" aka Bitcoin assembly is present each year as well.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
- https://events.ccc.de/

This year of course, everything's different, but the "remote Chaos Experience" ("rC3") enables us to reach out for an audience here on the meetup platform as well.

The tickets (this year for free, or for a donation) are currently (again) "sold out" (December 15th), but the contingent might get stocked up (again) if infrastructure scaling can further be improved.

Video streams of the main talks don't require a ticket, and a lot of online workshops and sessions won't require one either. The tickets are largely only necessary to join the multiplayer-game-like 2D environment that connects all the different virtual locations like the main stages and assemblies in a visual way.

RSVP here on meetup if you want to let people know you'll be around, or to receive notifications about Bitcoin-related sessions that you might be interested in and want to join. We'll post the ones we organize ourselves as well as additional selected picks and how to join them in the comment section below in time for each day.

There'll be technical workshops, likely also discussions and debates about societal aspects and the "difficult" sides of Bitcoin, and probably hang-out sessions where we'll watch relevant talks from the main stages and comment on them from a Bitcoiner's perspective.

A virtual version of the traditional "Bitcoin sofa" will be present as well where you can hang out and chat with us about anything. It is usually staffed each day from noon until late at night.

Part of the program will double as a Lightning Hacksprint.

- https://wiki.fulmo.org/wiki/Lightning_HackSprint_December_2020

When: Sunday 27th December to Wednesday 30th December, noon until late at night each day

Format: Many presentations, workshops, sessions, and opportunities to just hang out too

Language: Bitcoin-related workshops will almost exclusively be in English, maybe some occasional German session. Sofa chat might sometimes be in German. (The main stages have many German talks.)

Target Audience: Mostly technical and advanced, depending on the session. The virtual sofa can be approached by newcomers, but it might be assumed you have a hacker/tech background.

Streaming/Recording: tbd/tba/depending (Main stages will be streamed of course.)

Location: Online, various Free and Open Source video conferencing tools and other environments hosted non-commercially, respecting and preserving privacy.

More info tba

Want to contribute a session/workshop? Other questions or suggestions?

Contact us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
Or join our Telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

Nächster Event: Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2021, 20 Uhr

₿🗣️ Magic Future Money — (un)mögliche Geschichten vom Geld der Zukunft

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/275731880/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1357317940715139073

Zu unserem diesmal deutschsprachigen Online-Event begrüßen wir The Coinspondent aka Friedemann Brenneis, Blogger, Journalist und langjähriger Bitcoin-Berichterstatter u.a. mit dem Honigdachs-Podcast aus Leipzig. Wenn ihr ausnahmsweise mal auf einen kompetenten Artikel über Bitcoin in den Leitmedien hierzulande trefft, dann stammt der sehr wahrscheinlich von ihm.

- https://coinspondent.de/
- https://coinspondent.de/honigdachs-der-bitcoin-podcast-aus-leipzig/
- https://twitter.com/thecoinspondent
- https://twitter.com/fbrenneis
- z.B. https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/bitcoin-kurs-der-kryptowaehrung-auf-rekordhoch-a-1b24ca2d-1e58-4546-b518-6ab02e9904e1

Er wird eine Präsentation über die Zukunft des Geldes halten und über seine Feststellung, dass es kaum Visionen gibt, wie eine solche Zukunft aussehen könnte, da diese Frage in der Science Fiction oft ausgespart wird.

In diesem Zusammenhang hat er einen Schreibwettbewerb mit Preisgeld ins Leben gerufen, an dem ihr euch als ambitionierte Schriftsteller versuchen dürft!

- https://coinspondent.de/2021/01/03/die-zukunft-des-geldes-neu-denken/
- https://magicfuturemoney.de/
- https://twitter.com/MagFutMon
- https://www.heise.de/news/Magic-Future-Money-Schreibwettbewerb-zur-Zukunft-des-Geldes-5013119.html
- https://paymentandbanking.com/magic-future-money-warum-wir-endlich-ueber-geld-reden-muessen/

Die 30 besten Geschichten werden in einem Buch herausgebracht, und jede veröffentlichte Geschichte erhält 1 Million Sats!

Mehr Info folgt, Änderungen vorbehalten.

Format: Präsentation und Diskussion

Sprache: Deutsch

Zielgruppe: Alle die interessiert sind, keine bis wenig Vorkenntnisse notwendig

Streaming/Recording: Ja

Ort: Online. Ihr könnt über Jitsi Meet (gewöhnliche Videokonferenz-Funktion; einfacher) oder über Mozilla Hubs (VR-Umgebung; mehr Möglichkeiten der Interaktion) teilnehmen (wir verknüpfen diese Plattformen miteinander). Beide sind Freie und Open Source Software, Non-Profit, respektieren und bewahren eure Privacy, sammeln keine unnötigen Daten, verlangen keine Anmeldung/Registrierung, und laufen ganz einfach in eurem Webbrowser ohne irgendwelche Downloads.

- Jitsi Meet auf Freifunk München: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
- Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Wie ihr uns findet: Wir teilen euch weitere Instruktionen und die genauen Zugangslinks eine Stunde bevor wir starten in der Kommentar-Sektion unten mit (das sollte auch eine Erinnerungsmail triggern).

Ablauf:

(19:00 Ankündigung der Zugangslinks)

20:00 Rollender Beginn, kommt herein, sagt hallo, stellt euch außerhalb der Aufzeichnung vor wenn ihr möchtet, organisatorische Dinge
20:15 Livestream startet, optionales aufgezeichnetes Sich-Vorstellen, Start der Präsentation
22:00 (ungefähr) Abschluss, Livestream endet, optionale Break-out-Sitzungen

Kontaktiert uns:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
- Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

Bis demnächst!

—

Dieser Event wird der Beginn einer neuen deutschsprachigen Vortragsreihe sein, die auf vielfachen Wunsch darauf ausgerichtet ist, für eine breitere Allgemeinheit verständlich zu sein. Wir werden exzellente Speakers einladen, die die fachlichen Grundlagen von Bitcoin verständlich erklären oder Aspekte des größeren Bildes gut vermitteln. Die Events werden unregelmäßig und an unterschiedlichen Orten stattfinden.

Nächster Event: Donnerstag, 11. März 2021, 20 Uhr

₿🗣️ Was ist Bitcoin - ein Überblick

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/276350416/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1367487584423866376

Diesmal gibt's ein deutschsprachiges Bitcoin-1x1 für euch, wenn ihr neu seid, oder für eure Familie und Freunde. Die bildende Künstlerin und langjährige Bitcoin-Kaninchenbau-Erforscherin Sina Wagner aus München hat ihre neue Präsentation schon öfter für ihr Umfeld gehalten und tut das nun auch Rahmen unserer Meetup-Gruppe.

- https://twitter.com/bit_sina
- https://sinawagner.com/

„Die Fragen von Freunden & Familie häufen sich, der Preis steigt wieder und damit das Interesse. Diejenigen die damals desinteressiert meine Insta-Storys blockiert haben, folgen mir doch wieder und fragen vorsichtig nach, was es denn damit auf sich hat.

Um nicht ständig von vorne beginnen zu müssen und weil es sich nicht so leicht in zwei Sätzen erklären lässt, um was für ein Phänomen es sich da handelt, habe ich eine Präsentation vorbereitet.

Ich komme nicht aus der Welt der Wirtschaft, kann auch nicht programmieren (noch nicht), sondern habe Kunst studiert und kann mittlerweile kaum noch an etwas anderes denken als an Bitcoin.

Das Thema ist so komplex und allumfassend und faszinierend, dass ich nicht aufhören kann, immer mehr darüber zu lernen. Jeder Aspekt wäre für sich einen Vortrag wert, doch versuche ich für Einsteiger einen groben Überblick zusammenzustellen, um die Tragweite dieser Erfindung zu vermitteln.

Was ist Geld, wie läuft unser bisheriges Finanzsystem, wie funktioniert Bitcoin, wieviel ist Bitcoin wert, wie könnte es weiter gehen, usw.

Ich habe nie besonders gerne Vorträge gehalten... aber Bitcoin erscheint mir zu wichtig, nicht allen davon zu erzählen. “

Mehr Info folgt, Änderungen vorbehalten.

Format: Präsentation und Diskussion

Sprache: Deutsch

Zielgruppe: Alle die interessiert sind und endlich verstehen wollen, was dieses Bitcoin eigentlich ist, aus einer erfrischenden Perspektive vermitelt. Sagt auch eurem Umfeld Bescheid!

Streaming/Recording: Ja

Ort: Online. Ihr könnt über Jitsi Meet (gewöhnliche Videokonferenz-Funktion; einfacher) oder über Mozilla Hubs (VR-Umgebung; mehr Möglichkeiten der Interaktion) teilnehmen (wir verknüpfen diese Plattformen miteinander). Beide sind Freie und Open Source Software, Non-Profit, respektieren und bewahren eure Privacy, sammeln keine unnötigen Daten, verlangen keine Anmeldung/Registrierung, und laufen ganz einfach in eurem Webbrowser ohne irgendwelche Downloads.

- Jitsi Meet auf Freifunk München: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
- Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

Wie ihr uns findet: Wir teilen euch weitere Instruktionen und die genauen Zugangslinks eine Stunde bevor wir starten in der Kommentar-Sektion unten mit (das sollte auch eine Erinnerungsmail triggern).

Ablauf:

(19:00 Ankündigung der Zugangslinks)

20:00 Rollender Beginn, kommt herein, sagt hallo, stellt euch außerhalb der Aufzeichnung vor wenn ihr möchtet, organisatorische Dinge
20:15 Livestream startet, optionales aufgezeichnetes Sich-Vorstellen, Start der Präsentation
22:00 (ungefähr) Abschluss, Livestream endet, optionale Break-out-Sitzungen

Kontaktiert uns:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
- Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

Bis demnächst!

—

Dieser Event ist Teil unserer neuen deutschsprachigen Vortragsreihe, die auf vielfachen Wunsch darauf ausgerichtet ist, für eine breitere Allgemeinheit verständlich zu sein. Wir werden exzellente Speakers einladen, die die fachlichen Grundlagen von Bitcoin verständlich erklären oder Aspekte des größeren Ganzen gut vermitteln. Die Events werden unregelmäßig und an unterschiedlichen Orten stattfinden.

Nächster Event: Mittwoch, 21. April 2021, 20 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #013: RGB Smart Contracts - From Assets to Digital Identities

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/276047859/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1380159065821691924

This time, Olga Ukolova and others will show us the latest developments in the LNP/BP (Lightning Network Protocol Bitcoin Protocol) stack and especially RGB, the concept which started as Colored Coins aka tokens "on Lightning" and grew into a privacy-preserving smart contracts & bearer rights system.

She will explain the basics of the technology, give a demonstration of MyCitadel - the first RGB-enabled wallet, and the asset issuance tool Bitcoin Pro. We will also scratch technical details.

Though started as a simple idea of having tokens on Lightning, RGB has developed into a system that covers many more use cases, while still benefiting the Bitcoin ecosystem.

From the technological perspective, RGB is highly robust & modular at the same time, it does not ‘pollute’ the Bitcoin timechain with unnecessary data, adds privacy and scalability even more than Lightning does, while being ready for upcoming improvements like Simplicity and Taproot.

From the user perspective, it covers many real-life use cases, from creating stablecoins like Tether, issuing company shares on Bitcoin, to proving the ownership rights over a collectible (aka ‘NFT’) or even create and manage your Digital Identity.

- https://www.rgbfaq.com/
- https://github.com/LNP-BP/LNPBPs
- https://github.com/rgb-org
- https://twitter.com/mycitadel_io
- https://github.com/pandoracore/bitcoin-pro

Speakers and notable participants include:

Olga Ukolova
- https://twitter.com/OlUkolova

You?
- Message us if you want to contribute to the event and be added to the list

Material: will be posted in the comment section below a few days prior

Format: Presentation, extended Q&A, optional technical details deep-dive

Language: English

Target Audience: Suitable for curious newcomers, optional deep-dive part for developers and technically interested

Streaming/Recording: Yes

Location: Online. As a YouTube stream, or you can join via Jitsi Meet (ordinary video conferencing functionality; easier) or via Mozilla Hubs (VR environment; more possibilities of interaction) (we'll connect these platforms with each other). Both are Free and Open Source Software, non-profit, respect and preserve your privacy, don't collect any unnecessary data, don't require any login/registration, and simply run in your web browser without any downloads.

- Jitsi Meet on FreifunkMUC: https://ffmuc.net/wiki/doku.php?id=knb:meet-en
- Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

How to find us: We'll share further instructions and the exact access links one hour before we start in the comment section below (this should also trigger a reminder mail).

Timetable:

(19:00 Announcement of the access links)

20:00 Rolling start, chime in, say hello, introduce yourself off-the-record if you want to, organizational stuff
20:15 Livestream starts, optional on-the-record introductions, start of the seminar
22:00 (roughly) Wrap-up time, Livestream ends, optional break-out sessions

About Satoshi's 21:

This is our in-depth, no-nonsense seminar series Satoshi's 21, which will take place every 21st of a month in various different locations (hackspace, co-working space, conference room, or similar), or online if circumstances so require.

We'll have one or more selected topics concerning Bitcoin's technology, security, ongoing software development, business opportunities and challenges, economics, monetary theory, or its societal and political impact. Some preparation work might be required from participants in order to make the most out of the seminar.

Satoshi's 21 stands for:
- Every 21st of a month so that weekdays rotate
- 21 participants is the targeted and ideal working group size, but we could be more, we could be fewer
- And of course: honoring Bitcoin's monetary supply of 21 hundred trillion sats!

Contact us:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
- Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

See you around!

Nächster Event: Montag, 21. Juni 2021, 20 Uhr

₿🛠️ Satoshi's 21 #015: The Austrian School & the Political Economics of Bitcoin

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Munich/events/278321861/

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1403040167078809601

Bitcoin is a deflationary money, and deflation is bad for the economy, so Bitcoin wouldn't work as a currency. Is this really the case? We'll discuss this and related topics like the radical unregulated free market and praxeology with Rahim Taghizadegan.

"The political economics of Bitcoin – the Austrian School, the financial system, capitalism and crypto-socialism"

Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.

As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur.

He has written more than a dozen books (like Austrian School for Investors and The Zero Interest Trap), some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles.

Rahim Taghizadegan was one of the first academic economists to understand and analyze the monetary nature of Bitcoin. Today, he heads the Free Private Cities Foundation, which is making Bitcoin Citadels a reality.

- https://scholarium.at/
- https://twitter.com/scholarium_at
- https://www.freeprivatecities.com/en/
- "Austrian School for Investors" https://amzn.to/3fHnuXy
- "The Zero Interest Trap" https://amzn.to/2T6oigX

Material: Some recommended preparation material will be posted in the comment section below a few days prior

Format: Presentation, extended discussion, Socratic light https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-a-local-socratic-seminar

Language: English

Target Audience: Suitable for newcomers as well as long-time bitcoiners, critics, and everyone interested. There'll be an introductory part about the monetary aspects of Bitcoin and later an in-depth discussion part that may require deeper knowledge in Austrian Economics.

Streaming/Recording: Yes

Location: Online. As a YouTube stream, or you can join via Jitsi Meet video conferencing or in a Mozilla Hubs 3D/VR environment. Both are Free and Open Source Software, non-profit, respect and preserve your privacy, don't collect any unnecessary data, don't require any login/registration, and simply run in your web browser without any downloads.

- Jitsi Meet on FreifunkMUC: https://ffmuc.net/wiki/doku.php?id=knb:meet-en
- Mozilla Hubs: https://hubs.mozilla.com/

How to find us: We'll share further instructions and the exact access links one hour before we start in the comment section below (this should also trigger a reminder mail).

Timetable:

(19:00 Announcement of the access links)

20:00 Rolling start, chime in, say hello, introduce yourself off-the-record if you want to, organizational stuff
20:15 Livestream starts, optional on-the-record introductions, start of the seminar
22:00 (roughly) Wrap-up time, Livestream ends, optional break-out sessions

Subject to changes/additions.

About Satoshi's 21:

This is our in-depth, no-nonsense seminar series Satoshi's 21, which will take place every 21st of a month in various different locations (hackspace, co-working space, conference room, or similar), or online if circumstances so require.

We'll have one or more selected topics concerning Bitcoin's technology, security, ongoing software development, business opportunities and challenges, economics, monetary theory, or its societal and political impact. Some preparation work might be required from participants in order to make the most out of the seminar.

Satoshi's 21 stands for:
- Every 21st of a month so that weekdays rotate
- 21 participants is the targeted and ideal working group size, but we could be more, we could be fewer
- And of course: honoring Bitcoin's monetary supply of 21 hundred trillion sats!

Contact us:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc
- Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/CYllaksSLloRHorac85fIQ

See you around!