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The 5-minute Ignite! talk I did about Bitcoin is up:
  http://blip.tv/file/4771178

It was mostly what I wanted to say; I think I ended better than I started.  My slides and script
with exactly what I planned to say are here:
  http://www.skypaint.com/bitcoin/GavinIgniteTalk.pdf

Feel free to remix it.  If I ever do another Ignite! talk (they're 5 minute talks with slides that auto-advance ever 15 seconds) I'll plan to say less, try to interact with the audience more, and may hire somebody (with bitcoins, of course) to replace my text-heavy slides with more pretty pictures.

Good work gavin!

Very good talk for just 5 minutes! You covered many of the most important points in an interesting way.

well done, gavin!  and you're right... "Making Money" is not appropriate as a title. 

great talk gavin. :)

now, where can i invest in some of that stone money? i'm not sure i like the intangibility of bitcoins... haha

I haven't looked yet but... slides should almost never have text. If you want people to actually remember what you have to say then I recommend looking up "Death by powerpoint". There has been some interesting work on the subject and basically, having text up while speaking leads people to try and read and listen at the same time, and has been shown to decrease peoples ability to recall information.

Slides work much better when they present information in a visual (rather than textual) way. Graphs, charts, pictures. Otherwise, I might ditch them all together, since they are probably hindering, rather than helping, the message.

I loved the Bernanke canoe comment around 3:50.  Well done!

No need for "I should'a this, I should'a that", talk did the job, well done. :)

Great talk! Gavin did an excellent job of both relating to the audience and putting bitcoin into terms that the average technically inclined person is able to understand.  [begin plug] Incidentally, I'll be doing a similar pitch at Boulder Startup Weekend http://boulder.startupweekend.org/  in about 2 weeks.  If any active Bitcoiners are in Colorado, I invite you to attend. [/end plug]

Superb !

Thank you for this!

Heh excellent and I liked the slides, when you said wordy slides, I thought you meant it.

It sent a friend of mine on his way out of the house raving about how he wanted to check out these bit coins and what a great idea this was, and how he wants to check into what he needs to do to start accepting coins on his business site, oh and I believe he may have made some disparaging comments about the fed printing money.

I am particularly interested in the graphic of where people are running the client from. Nice to know how many clients are running, though, did you filter our tor nodes?

Let us know when the video goes up  :)

Interesting, in this talk supposedly on the Feb. 8 2011 there is two references to the total money supply of Bitcoin being ~ 3 million btc, by the moderator and Gavin.

Yet on bitcoin watch the total money supply today is 5.4 million btc. http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ and this number is what there should be with the 50 per block rate. Also I have in my mind that total supply number on bitcoin watch only a few days ago was 3. xx million not 5 million .... tell me I'm not losing my marbles here.

My final ignite slides are up at http://bitcoinbasics.com/ignitedc (http://bitcoinbasics.com/ignitedc).  They were way too wordy, and I tried to cram too much info into the presentation,
but I'll know better next time.  Speaking of next time, I've just applied to present at an ignite at DrupalCon Chicago in a few weeks, I'll know on the 28th if I've been accepted.

A short time ago, the total was around 3 million dollars and just over 5 million coins. Now it's around 5.8 million dollars and 5.4 million coins. So the main change in that time is due to the increase in the exchange rate, rather than a large increase in the number of coins.

Excellent job, well done Sir !

Arnold & Chuck Norris approve this:
http://images1.memegenerator.net/Arnold/ImageMacro/2895417/gobernator-approves.jpg  http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/2/5/128783305950481573.jpg

Well, i noticed some trauma, but still it was an awesome presentation ! If you train some more, you can become the official Bitcoin's PR face (no need to hire another PR guy).

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

And ribuck's right-- when I first started putting together the talk there were about 5 million bitcoins worth about 2.5 million dollars.

By the time I gave it, they were worth about 4 million dollars.  And two days after I gave it bitcoins hit $US 1.00 ...

Good stuff. This video should be on the front page of bitcoin.org.

This is definately the best video about bitcoin that has been made so far.
It should be posted on the frontpage as explanation, used as an advertisement and posted to YouTube (of course).

Gotcha, dollars not btc.

Agreed, it is a neat little video talk for informed newbies, audience was buzzing about it so stick it up somewhere prominent for newcomers.

The timing is just right for BTC, it is an idea who's time has come, this is what gives me a lot of confidence ... I've been investigating these monetary problems for over 15 years, first as a hobby and then keeping an interest with gold/silver investments I accrued back when I was student on RA salary in the '90s. People are now widely sick of this crap being piled down on high from centralised money systems and their nepotistic, corrupted hangers-on. As communism showed, centralised systems ultimately collapse from the corruption they breed, the temptation for tapping the power is too great for mortals.

Definitely. Ok for Gavin?

Sure.   sirius:  after getting the 0.3.20 release out, I want to work with you (and everybody else) to make the bitcoin.org website more newbie-friendly.

there's this 15.000 BTC bounty for a bitcoin video
does gavin's talk qualify for that? : ))))

That particular bounty is for an animation.

But da2ce7 pledged 100 bitcoins for "a video with real humans", and I think Gavin's video qualifies for that.

Admittedly, da2ce7 went on to say "preferably someone hot, maybe your girlfriend" but this was only a preference, not a requirement.

Original thread:
Human Bitcoin Video Competition (Bounty: 100BTC) (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1890.0)

Next time pay a glamour model with bitcoins to stand on stage .  :)

+1

I doubt any glamour model could have spoken as convincingly as Gavin, no matter how much she rehearsed her presentation.

Thanks! I remixed it into a short article:
How is Yap stone money similar to Bitcoin? (http://quezi.com/14671)

I'm paying one bitcoin for each article contributed to that site (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3312.0), so feel free to PM me your receiving address if you'd like a coin.

I have used that video now to introduce people who couldn't understand what I was talking about to Bitcoin in a way that they tell me that they want to join the project. Thanks Gavin!

Vote! - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232922

Yes. We also need to solve the server problem. It's currently unable to handle big traffic like slashdotting, which we'll surely be getting more of. Making the main page static helps a lot, and using lighttpd could also be considered.

My Ignite talk in Washington DC is now up: http://blip.tv/file/4801077 (http://blip.tv/file/4801077)

Are there a lot of interested parties in the Amherst MA area? I'm in the area. Maybe we can put a group effort together getting merchants in the region to accept bitcoin?

We could move hosting of it to AppEngine. It's just static files after all.