Press

This article lists Bitcoin-related press from the project's creation through October 2011. Since that time, due to the increased frequency of published articles, a Press forum board was created on the BitcoinTalk Forum to allow the wider Bitcoin community to share articles as they are discovered.

Articles / Blog Posts

2011

May

• What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters 2011-05-24 Technology Review by MIT
• Bit Players, An open source digital currency seeks to gain wider acceptance 2011-05-23 iPad news app The Daily
• My Money Is Cooler Than Yours 2011-05-18 Slate
• L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen 2011-05-15 Launch
• What Is BitCoin? 2011-05-19 Gizmodo.com
• Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency 2011-06-08 Ars Technica

April

• Crypto Currency 2011-04-20 Forbes Magazine
• Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks 2011-04-16 TIME TechLand

March

• Bitcoin: It's Not Too Late To Send Me Money 2011-03-27 Ironwolf Blog
• Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen 2011-03-21 CIO Australia
• What the Frack is Bitcoin and Can I Use it with Drupal? 2011-03-14 CivicActions
• HTG Explains: What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency? 2011-03-01 HowToGeek.com

Feb

• Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity 2011-02-10 news.Slashdot.org

2010

• Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency 2010-12-29 ReadWriteWeb
• Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency? 2010-12-10 PC World
• Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins 2010-11-26 Irish Times

Podcasts / Video

• Princeton University lectures
  • Lecture 1 — Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
  • Lecture 2 — How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
  • Lecture 3 — Mechanics of Bitcoin
  • Lecture 4 — How to Store and Use Bitcoins
  • Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining
    • Sidenotes and errata
  • Lecture 6 — Bitcoin and Anonymity
  • Lecture 7 — Community, Politics, and Regulation
  • Lecture 8 — Alternative Mining Puzzles
  • Lecture 9 — Bitcoin as a Platform
  • Lecture 10 — Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
  • Lecture 11 — The future of Bitcoin?
  • Lecture 12 - History of Cryptocurrencies <nowiki>[Bonus lecture</nowiki>]
• Khan Academy
  • Bitcoin: What is it?
  • Bitcoin: Overview
  • Cryptographic hash functions
  • Digital signatures
  • Transaction records
  • Proof of work
  • Transaction block chains
  • The money supply
  • The security of transaction block chains
• Free Talk Live - interview with Roger Ver 2011-11-19 An hour-long interview with Roger Ver of Memorydealers.com
• Reuben Grinberg on the legality of Bitcoin 2011-01-31 (mp3)
• NPR Planet Money - The Tuesday Podcast: Bitcoin 2011-07-12 (mp3)
• Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoins 2011-06-30 (mp3, ogg)
• CBS / What’s Trending - Bitcoin: The Future Of Money 2011-06-08 Shira Lazar interviews Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik.
• The World's First Bitcoin Road Trip 2011-05-30 An interview with The Real Plato on the Corbett Report.
• What Are Bitcoins? 2011-05-24 NPR All Things Considered (mp3)
• TWIST #140 2011-05-10 This Week In Startups interviews Gavin Andresen and Britcoin's Amir Taaki
• Cypherpunkd Episode 005: "Bitcoin Mania" Part 1 - mids 2011-04-06 Podcast interview of mids, from AgoristRadio.com (mp3)
• Bitcoin at EPCA 2011-04-04 Video of Genjix's presentation on Bitcoin at EPCA conference. (followup)
• Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency 2011-04-04 EconTalk's Russell Roberts interview Bitcoin lead Gavin Andresen (mp3, transcript)
• What is Bitcoin? video introduction (mp4)
• Bitcoin – a Digital, Decentralized Currency 2011-03-18 omega tau interviews Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen (podcast)
• Spark 139 2011-02-27 CBC Radio covers Bitcoin. A nice non-technical overview (podcast)
• Security Now 288: Q&A 2011-02-16 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:44:00 to about 1:13 of the podcast (podcast),(video)
• Ignite Amherst 2011-02-15 Presentation by Bitcoin Principal Gavin Andresen (Slides)
• Ignite D.C. 6 2011-02-03 Presentation by Darrell Duane (Slides) About Bitcoin and Potomac local currency
• Security Now 287: BitCoin CryptoCurrency 2011-02-09 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:41:25 to the end of the netcast (video), (podcast)
• Steve Gibson's Explanation of Bitcoin
  • sidenotes and errata
• World Bitcoin Network - Bitcoin 101
  • What is Bitcoin?
  • Understanding The Name Is Key To Understanding Bitcoin
  • How To Buy/Get Your First Bitcoins
  • What is Deflation? & Why It's Fundamental to the Rise of Bitcoin's Price
  • Why Mining? Understanding Why Bitcoiners Mine is Fundamental
  • Bitcoin Vs. Gold - How Bitcoin Could Take Over a Trillion $ Market
  • Bitcoin Vs. Credit Cards - How Bitcoin Could Take Over a Trillion $ Market
  • Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme - Debunking Bitcoin Myths - Part 1
  • Why Bitcoin's Growth is Normal & The S-Curves You Could Never See
  • The Nightmare of Bitcoin Regulation - A Laundry List of Scenarios
  • How to Make a Digital Currency (pt.1) - A Beginner's Guide to the Thoughts of Satoshi
  • How to Make a Digital Currency (pt.2) - Satoshi's Thoughts & Double Spending
  • Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 1 of 3) - A Beginner's Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
  • Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 2 of 3) - A Beginner's Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
  • Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 3 of 3) - A Beginner's Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
  • Intro to Paper Wallets & Cold Storage - Bitcoin Security & Fun with Sloppy Wallets
  • Getting Your BTCs out of Your Paper Wallets & Cold Storage - Fun with Sloppy Wallets
  • Fun with Brain Wallets (Making and Playing With Them) - Bitcoin Security
  • Glorious Coinbase - The Best Place to Buy Your First Bitcoins
  • A Free Market for Transparency (The Bitcoin Revolution)
  • Merkle Roots and Merkle Trees - Bitcoin Coding and Software - The Block Header
  • Multi-Signature Addresses pt1 - Coding This Major Security Improvement
  • Multi-Signature Addresses pt2 - Spending, Protocol & Coding
  • The Nightmare of a 51% Attack - Part 1 - Calculating the Costs
  • The Nightmare of a 51% Attack - Part 2 - How to Destroy Bitcoin
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography - Part 4 - Generating the Public Key (in Python)
  • Calling All APIs - Coding Live Price Data From Bitcoin Exchanges
  • Getting Started With Bitcore - A Full JavaScript Implementation of Bitcoin
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography - Part 5 - The Magic of Signing & Verifying
  • Modelling the Price of Bitcoin - Is a $100,000 bitcoin possible?
  • Quindecillions & The Amazing Math Of Bitcoin's Private Keys
  • A Million Killer Apps - Part 1 - Smart Contracts & Bitcoin's Big Bang of Disruption
  • A Million Killer Apps - Part 2 - Blockchains & A Global Shared History
  • Bitcoin 101 - idchains - Part 1 - The Basics Of A Bitcoin-Based Global Identity System

Presentations

• The BarCamper's Guide to Bitcoin 2011-07-25 by Ash Moran
• Bitcoin - The World's 1st P2P Digital Currency 2011-06-?? Gavin Andresen Presentation given at In-Q-Tel investment conference
• Bitcoin - P2P Virtual Currency 2011-06-05 Jake Hansen Presentation submission for Defcon 19
• Monetising Game Play on Social Network Sites 2011-03-31 Jon Matonis at KPMG eGaming Summit
• Bitcoin - new P2P currency 2011-02-19 Juraj Bednar

See Also

• Bitcoin Press forum board
• Blogs
• Bitcoin News daily posts
• Research
• Bitcoin Press Center
• CoinDesk

Source

http://bitcoin.it/