The Bitcoin Wednesday conference has been held in Amsterdam on every single first Wednesday of the month since July 2013.

We will celebrate our 5 year anniversary with a special 2-day conference on 4 - 5 July 2018.

The event will feature talks on the Lightning Network, smart contracts, tokens for enterprise and industry, the investment case for Bitcoin and much more.

See  https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/events/5-year-anniversary-edition/

RSVP https://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/


Early Bird Tickets

Registration has started with an early-bird ticket price of 99 EUR (Bitcoin accepted only), although they will increase later this week.

https://tickets.bitcoinwednesday.com/

The tickets do not come close to covering the venue expenses, hence the need for corporate sponsors.


Call For Proposals, Papers and Presentations

If you have any research relevant to issues surrounding blockchain technology and the digital currency revolutoin, your proposal for a presentation at the Amsterdam conference would be most welcome.

Please see https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/speaker-materials/ for details.

Recorded in one take!

http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/video-bitcoin-bitches/

Deze maand wordt BITCOIN Wednesday gehouden in de cinema van Lab111 in Amsterdam.  BITCOIN wordt geaccepteerd in de nieuwe LAB cafe.

Op het programma deze keer op het grote scherm:

- Gedecentraliseerde marktplaatsen

- BigChainDB

- Een tentoonstelling van de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten inclusief de wereld premiere van de rap groep BITCOIN Bitches.

- Coinfest: Wij vieren de verjaardag van Satoshi.

- Andreas Antonopoulos (live via video conference)

- En meer.


Voor meer info over het programma zie http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/event/BITCOIN-wednesday-34/

Plaatsen zijn beperkt. RSVP hier: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/events/224454212/

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Bitcoin Wednesday is a free conference covering the digital currency revolution.

The Netherlands' first biggest and best monthly conference on this subject.




It's held in Amsterdam on the 1st Wednesday of every month.  We're now in our second year, 22 consecutive months.

On 1 April we'll feature a conversation with Bitcoin visionary Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

We have limited places at the De Zwijger Conference Center.

Reserve your place quickly with this direct link: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/events/218924978/


For more about BitcoinWednesday.com and for background on Andreas, see http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/profile-andreas-antonopoulos/

In case you can't make it, you can mail us your questions for Mr. Antonopoulos to hello@bitcoinwednesday.com.

The event will be videotaped.

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Er zijn een beperkt aantal plaatsen voor Bitcoin Wednesday op 1 April 2015:  Reserveer snel je plaats.  Neem vrienden en collega's mee.

Schrijf met deze link nu direct gratis in: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/events/218924978/





In deze editie -- de 22e aflevering van de maandelijkse en gratis bijeenkomst -- begint de Nederlandse digital currency community een dialoog met een van de bekendste autoriteiten in de Bitcoin wereld, Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Voor achtergrond informatie lees BitcoinWednesday's profiel van Andreas Antonopoulos: http://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/profile-andreas-antonopoulos/.

De heer Antonopoulos is door de stichting Bitcoin Nederland stichtingbitcoin.nl uitgenodigd om in gesprek te komen met de relevante Nederlandse overheidsinstanties vanwege de grote economische potentieel en diverse uitdagingen voor de Nederlandse samenleving die dit technologie met zich mee brengt.  Dit wordt het thema van dit gesprek.

Als jullie verhinderd zijn op 1 April, kan je ons je vragen voor Andreas mailen naar hello@bitcoinwednesday.com

BitcoinWednesday.com is the country's biggest and best monthly conference on the digital currency revolution in The Netherlands.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos can also be followed at http://antonopoulos.com/ (@aantonop op Twitter).

Deze keer presentaties en een zaal met twee schermen.

Since our last bounty announcement on September 18, 2013, we are pleased to announce that only one actual vulnerability has been reported on PikaPay. We nevertheless want to acknowledge all of the following security investigators who have sent in findings that we found especially interesting and useful. We have paid out rewards for each of these cases because we value the time, attention and insights that these particular contributors have submitted.

PikaPay says thanks for the following:

* The lone XSS vulnerability was discovered by Michael Blake.

* A low-impact _xsrf cookie-related issue involving a web framework we use submitted by a security researcher who has not yet requested acknowledgement. Unless we hear from him we will make a donation on behalf of his security submission to Project Pika.

* A report that certain server header information had been revealed was sent in by Sahil Saif.

* A minor Javascript bug that caused a page to continue loading longer than needed was found by Ben Holden-Crowther.

* The implementation of HSTS headers was suggested by Anand Prakash.

We appreciate the effort these security experts have contributed and thank them for their participation in our vulnerability bounty program.

Help us send free Bitcoin to as many new users as possible!

Our mission to distribute free Bitcoin to every man, woman and child on the planet is now officially underway.

We've developed a new style of Bitcoin Fountain: https://www.pikapay.com/bitcoin-fountain


You can use it to help us in our goal to distribute as many bits as possible -- quickly and freely -- to everyone in the world.  Use it to get some free bits for yourself or to send to as many other people as you want.

The bitcoins are sent and received within seconds.  Our only restriction is that you only send free bitcoin to both senders and recipients who are real, established Twitter IDs.

To use PikaPay's Magic Bitcoin Fountain at https://www.pikapay.com/bitcoin-fountain just follow these steps:

• Just fill in the recipient's Twitter ID where it says, "Enter Twitter ID Here,"
• Then select "REWARD,"
• Then sign in, and then
• Press "DONATE."

* The technology behind the Fountain is completely customizable.

* Sponsorship opportunities are available.

* Please spread the word about it wherever you can.



If you like this idea and want to contribute to the Bitcoin sponsorship pool or to the development of new features, here is the Fountain's Bitcoin address:

1GQEZwtdRnkzZCQNFZ3QiFgqqwbWAsfcPh

[Send Bitcoins to anyone on Twitter, as easy as a Tweet!]

We're curious about what others here think of this patent application.

I know they can't do anything about Bitcoin itself, but it does sound like Amex is trying to file a patent for our service. What should we do?


US Patent Request 20140006297 filed on July 2, 2013

An integrated, end-to-end, automated system that
enables a first social networking user to seamlessly
transfer value to a second social networking user, even if
the second user is not registered with the money transfer
service from which the first user initiates the transfer...

Our service:

PikaPay.com

Send Bitcoins to anyone on Twitter, as easy as a Tweet!

PikaPay is a Bitcoin wallet integrated with the Twitter API and is one of the easiest ways to use Bitcoin. Just like in the Amex patent, with PikaPay the recipient doesn't need to have a PikaPay account to receive bitcoins.

We were the first to start sending bitcoins on Twitter back in 2011. But we're sure that scores of other companies have been doing "value transfer via social networks" even earlier.
Do we have to take that Amex patent application seriously in any way, and is there anything specific we should do?

We Tweeted AmEx a little while ago.

The first and best Bitcoin party of 2014 is now being planned.  It will be held on the evening of 1 January, so anything goes.

True to tradition Bitcoin Wednesday organizes a big Bitcoin meetup on the first Wednesday of every month.  Edition number 7 falls on January first.
The members of the Netherland's best Bitcoin community will clink champagne glasses to another successful year for Bitcoin.
Make sure that you are here for this special event and register for free to take part in the best New Year's party of 2014.

RSVP for this event here: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/

Bitcoin Wednesday Amsterdam is the best and longest-running regular Bitcoin Meetup in the Netherlands.

Bitcoin Wednesday Amsterdam #6

4 December 2013  First Wednesday of the month.

The Netherlands' longest running Bitcoin event.

Register here:

http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinWednesday/

Starts at 20:00 in Amsterdam.

This will be a special event because the regularly scheduled international conference organized by Bas de Lange has been cancelled at the last minute.

Bitcoin Wednesday will be the alternative event and will be completely free.

Please register here if you'd like to attend:

http://bitcoins.eventbrite.nl/

The Netherlands is an interesting small country with advantages for Bitcoin.  For the latest news see: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7725/the-economic-singularity-from-holland-with-love/

The Hacker News discussion about the article is also worth a look:  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633400

The fact that the penetration level is already high makes it a good test case.  What will happen when we establish a lot more Bitcoin activity there?

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7725/the-economic-singularity-from-holland-with-love/

Op Twitter hebben @basstraathof en 2e kamerlid @henknijboer (PvdA) recentelijk wat minder vriendelijke opmerkingen over Bitcoin gemaakt.

We're getting organized in Bolivia right now.  If you're in the neighborhood and interested in Bitcoin, send a DM or write to hello@PikaPay.com

If you're still in town, join the rest of us.

The 4th Bitcoin Wednesday in Amsterdam will have a new location:

Cafe Brandstof, Marnixstraat 431 on the corner of the Rozengracht and right down the street from the Rosentheater -- where Bitcoin Europe was held.

We meet on 2 October, Wednesday night at 20:00

This time we'll have a semi-official After Party for the Bitcoin Europe Conference.  Some of us are still hanging around Amsterdam, and we'll get together.


Time: 20:00, Wednesday Night, 2 October

Location: Cafe Brandstof, Marnixstraat 431 (corner of Rozengracht, across from the Fire Station)


Thanks to the dedicated work of some Bitcoiners, Amsterdam now has its (I think first) restaurant that accepts Bitcoin.  A small Thai restaurant called Warie's, right across the street from Cafe Brandstof.  Food there is both delicious and affordable.  See http://www.wariesthaifood.nl/.

Register for Bitcoin Wednesday here (https://dutchbtc.eventbrite.nl/) and we'll know you're joining us.

http://bitcoinspot.nl/pikapay-bitcoins-sturen-met-twitter.html

In de Nederlandse Bitcoin community zijn er volop innovatieve ontwikkelingen. Een van de voorbeelden is PikaPay.com, een nieuwe dienst ontwikkeld door Nederlandse Bitcoin pionier Joris Bontje en zijn team. PikaPay laat je bitcoins sturen van je eigen Twitter account naar de Twitter account van iemand anders. Op de homepagina van PikaPay klik je op "Sign In" en binnen enkele seconden wordt je Twitter naam automatisch gelinkt aan een Bitcoin adres.

Op het eerste gezicht ziet PikaPay eruit als een gewone online banking app. Het draait in web browsers zoals Chrome, Firefox, Safari en Opera -- op je pc maar ook op mobiel telefoons en tablets. Dit kan nuttig zijn, maar wat PikaPay anders maakt is de integratie met Twitter.

[PikaPay's vulnerability bounty program continues.]

PikaPay's vulnerability bounty program continues.

Many of the valuable contributions you've sent in are inspiring and keep us moving forward!

We believe security is one of the keys to bringing the benefits of Bitcoin to everyone.  To that end we hereby gratefully acknowledge the issues reported and
resolved since we made our last acknowledgements on 14 July.

* URL validation error involving OAuth Redirect
Reported by Charlie Briggs

* Session expiration error on logout
Reported by Satish Bommisetty

* Clever social engineering exploit via parameter variable manipulation
Reported by Ben Holden-Crowther

* Force logout exploit
Reported by Nitesh Shilpkar

* Cookie was found that required secure + HTTP only flags
Reported by Shubham Raj

Each of the issues listed here qualified for a bounty to the individual who first reported them. Each issue has been carefully investigated and resolved.
We are very grateful to the security researchers who spotted them.

We see security as a project that requires continuous improvement above  almost every other priority, and we appreciate the ongoing attention
received from the security community.

PikaPay thanks everyone who contributed so far.  We launched this program on March 18 (one of the first Bitcoin services to do this).  We intend to keep this program running and to disclose the results to make the community safer.

Whether you have or haven't qualified for a bounty so far, your work is appreciated.  We encourage you to keep looking and testing PikaPay.

PikaPay



Security@pikapay.com is the address of PikaPay's security team.

The bounty program rules are here: bit.ly/14J1YZz



Even if you're not interested in the bounty, please come check out PikaPay.com.

We have a full and open API with documentation at Github.com/PikaPay.

We welcome suggestions and critique.  We still have a lot of improvement coming.

We're hard at work to make this service into something unique, and any suggestions, questions and critique are very important to us.  Write to us: hello@PikaPay.com

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https://ohm2013.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Wednesday_Amsterdam_-_%26_Now_in_9_Different_Cities

Call it a just coincidence or take part in one of the world's most exciting global tech revolutions.

Tomorrow, the first Wednesday of the Month, there will (by last count) Bitcoin Meetings in the following 9 cities:

Amsterdam
Sydney
Munich
Vancouver
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Austin
Paris
Buenos Aires
Cinncinnatti

... and add your city here.

I'm posting this on the main board, because I think it's time to show worldwide solidarity and do whatever's needed to make this into a popular global movement.

Recent market research http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/bitcoin-awareness-and-trust/?utm_content=bufferf9504&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer shows a quarter of U.S. consumers have heard of Bitcoin and the majority of them trust it. In some countries these numbers are even higher.

Join us and help spread the word: First Wednesday of the month is Bitcoin Wednesday.

[First Wednesday of the month is Bitcoin Wednesday]

Call it a just coincidence or take part in one of the world's most exciting global tech revolutions.

Tomorrow, the first Wednesday of the Month, there will (by last count) Bitcoin Meetings in the following 9 10 cities:

Amsterdam BitcoinWednesday.com
Sydney
Munich
Vancouver
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Austin
Paris
Buenos Aires
Cinncinnatti
Las Vegas

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... and add your city here.

I'm posting this on the main board, because I think it's time to show worldwide solidarity and do whatever's needed to make this into a popular global movement.

Recent market research http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/28/bitcoin-awareness-and-trust/?utm_content=bufferf9504&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer shows a quarter of U.S. consumers have heard of Bitcoin and the majority of them trust it. In some countries these numbers are even higher.

Join us and help spread the word: First Wednesday of the month is Bitcoin Wednesday.

The next Bitcoin Wednesday is August 7.