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Update:
A simple introduction to Bitcoins!
https://youtu.be/E3nHiAB2DiM

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Update:
Preparations on for India's biggest bitcoin event!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1624337707798414

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_TKfecQSBfY/VQmi190Z5oI/AAAAAAAAAOE/NMdqjZy1fRk/w643-h358-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-18%2Bat%2B9.37.18%2Bpm.jpg


India's first 'Future of Money - The Bitcoin Story (http://zebpay.com/event)' Conference is happening on 19th March at YMCA Banquets, Ahmedabad.

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Attended By
350+ people
Leading industrialists and business houses of Ahmedabad
TiE, GCCI Youth Wing, FILO (FICCI) members
MBA students
Technology company heads

Speakers
Sandeep Goenka, Zebpay: on the title topic that is the future of money and bitcoins
Nishith Desai: head of India's leading international law firm
Panel Discussion: eminent business personalities from bitcoin and financial world

Sponsors
iGot - Australian bitcoin OTC exchange with operations in 12 countries including India
CoinSecure - India's bitcoin exchange
SearchCoin - Indian bitcoin company
CoinTelegraph - leading international bitcoin news website

Pre-register for the event and enter for free:
zebpay.com/event (http://zebpay.com/event)

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Zebpay (http://zebpay.com)
Download Zebpay Android App (http://dl.zebpay.com)

Looking forward to meet everyone from Bitcoin community in India.

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What is this getmagnet.co ?

Event site is hosted with them.

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This is very encouraging. It will encourage students and bitcoin enthusiasts to participate.
I remember another conference/workshop where the registration fee was ~ INR 25K !!!

As I can see, iGot is among the sponsors. Are iGot founders Indian ?

Nope, but they have Indian entity I guess. Not sure though.

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Good job. Let all the people in India buy 0.00000001 BTC.  :P

Will surely do that, amount may very :D


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Will try to attend.. Would have been nicer if it was a weekend. Out of curiosity how many people have registered till now?

As far as I remember the registration cost for students on that one was on;y 500 - 1K.


I wish I could attend this, but travelling to Ahmadabad is a long stretch.

Well, we got to start somewhere in India - from that perspective this looks like a pretty good line-up. All the best...

Watched and can say that this may be a kick start in India for Bitcoins... We were lacking something, and I feel this was it...

Have registered, let's see if I will be able to reach you guys there on 19th... ;)
Anyways, I am from Guj. too... :)

Hey, I forgot to ask you one thing...
While registering, I thought I will be getting some e-mail or SMS from your side for me to confirm something or like that, but didn't receive any details nor any SMS for the venue...

I know that everything's posted on the site, but for people a bit lazy like me, I think you should send some SMSes and confirmation emails too in order for us to be able to track the event on time...

Please look into it and see whether you can add such feature on your website... :)

Actually you should have received an email. Can you please check once spam/junk folder.
In case its not there, let me know we will send you one ( I will need your registered email via PM )

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Hey, sorry for being a bit lazy...
I checked it and got it in there... Anyways, do I actually need to print that e-mail and show it there in order to get in for free, or what?

Hi Apologies for delayed response.
Just show that email at gate and you will be in. No need for printed copy.

Regrads

Atleast few people will be able to buy prepaid bitcoin vouchers for sure which you can redeem on zebpay.

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Can not wait to meet some awesome people tomorrow ?

#futureofmoney2015

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Preparations on for India's biggest bitcoin event

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1624337707798414


Welcome you guys !!!


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Cool... Hope it turns out to be a very successful event :)

Any livestream ?

Was really good. Saw a lot of cameras, should have videos out soon.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/03/23/bitcoin-revolution-comes-to-india/

Bitcoin Revolution Comes to India

A conference organized by India’s first Bitcoin app, Zebpay in association with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) on March 19, 2015 in Gujarat, India was attended by over 400 Bitcoin enthusiasts. The audience comprised of eminent business personalities of Ahmedabad, YPOs, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), business friends, top B-school students, and the media.

Any video ?

Hi all,

Apologies for late response. Just got video published.

Bitcoin - future of money presentations by Sandeep Goenka, Co founder, Zebpay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmU28mgihB4&feature=youtu.be


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A great succint presentation!

few notes :
1. At around 7 mins in, he says that because fiat isn't actually being transferred in case of electronic transactions, hence we need to trust a third party. This is absolutely correct but gives the impression that somehow btc is applicable only to fiatless third-party-based situations whereas you can implement bitcoin using any kind of computing network (even a bunch of scientific calc or even just pen and paper) and offers advantages, like the fiat that you are receiving might take 10 minutes to be secure, but it is the real world equivalent of you checking the note was not fake, then calling RBI to confirm that the number on the note is indeed in circulation and then somehow the police checks the notes in circulation in the entire world to confirm that there isn't even a fake note with a number on it! This happens everytime you wait 10 mins. Would you wait 10 mins for such kinda security? No? You are just selling veggies? No problem. Use litecoin. But remember, now you only gave the police 2 minutes to go around the world.

2. He goes on to say that we thus we can see that we need an anonymous currency. Let me tell you, bitcoin is not anonymous. No crypto is. And there is a mathematical reason for it. And no that reason is not clustering and IP forensics etc.

3. At 11 he says no third party, which is again true. But later on he should add that this third party in our case is the internet of miners.

4. At 12, you don't even need smartphones. You just need to know counting. Write any hexadecimal string 256 bit long. Congratulations, you have a bank account and this string is your password.

5. 16:00 Bitcoin ATMs, there are some in India as well :) Checkout localbitcoins. We have one in delhi!

6. In the end he should have concentrated on what zebpay is, which was rushed through and he came to the offers like flipkart etc ..

But I really LOVE bitcoins! Where are my 50 rs worth ? ;)

Thanks for feedback, we really appropriate it.

The idea with this presentation was to explain why Bitcoin. We initially started our presentations ( trust me we have given a lot of presentations ) where we covered Bitcoin's advantages its technical brilliance but no one was able to understand it ( Most of the time it was me who decided content). So after lot of discussions Sandeep decided he will do it in his own way and decided no mention of complex innovative Bitcoin concepts, just present them why Bitcoin and propose it as a better solution than existing system. IMHO it worked very well.

We never wanted to promote Zebpay in the video, it is conscious decision. We wanted to make sure people first understand Bitcoin and not Zebpay. I have been here from a long time and I learned that its Bitcoin that needs to be marketed first, we can market our products later and if we have good product in hand people will automatically love it.

I will ask Sandeep to answer, discuss few of the points you have raised.

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Sorry if my intentions came out the other way. I felt the presentation was great and did exactly what it intended to do!

I did't mean to seek answer or undermine anyone, just made these observations for us bitcoiners on here, to discuss.. Minor nitpicks nothing important.

I think it depends on how u r using bitcoin. If you use DarkWallet, u r probably anonymous.

What? Really ? There is a bitcoin atm in delhi ?
Where ???

https://localbitcoins.com/ad/134242/bitcoin-atm-new-delhi-delhi-india
I am going there tomorrow and would post pics.

I have doubts that you will find anything there.

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I think the same as well. It is from a random advertiser called fsdaf who have 0 trades and is not seen online since 5 months ! No reason to believe that it is genuine.

Why would you even mention it lol
I was really excited for a moment :(

;D

Phew, really busy with working on a new business, so didn't get time to go see that Lamassu.
Will post soon.

The reddit post is trending at top now :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3b6mud/my_attempt_at_becoming_the_andreas_antonopoulos/

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WoW! Topping /r/bitcoin/ is really cool. Great achievement.

Unbelievable response, truly feeling nostalgic. Andreas also responded, so thats awesomeness delivered hot :)

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