Can you video your talk with good sound quality? Never hurts to have another good video explaining bitcoin on you tube. Thanks for the PDF.
It will probably be in Hebrew. I don't know what the venue will be like but I'll look at recording possibilities.
Who is your audience by the way.
It is ~15 guys at
Oracle, who I presume are programmers.
I think you should use peer to peer (and define that) instead of p2p.
I doubt it will be necessary and this talk will be really crammed, every minute counts. I will however pronounce it "peer to peer".
I also think we have to move away from calling bitcoin public keys "addresses." That leads to confusion and misunderstanding about how bit coin functions. There was a guy on the board recently who installed bitcoind, sent 50 BTC to an address thinking his funds were safe in the block chain, could not sync, deleted the whole set up including the wallet.dat then was asking how to retrieve his funds as he still had the "address". Another guy once asked me how to get the bitcoin I sent him out of the block chain. And I can't tell you the number of new buyers who down load the client and immediately buy bitcoin not understanding that it can take a few day to download the blockchain and thus view or spend the new coin.
I don't see how the term "address" adds in any way to the confusion, on the contrary. How many times did you hear someone ask, "how can I read Bill Gates' emails? I have the address,
bill@microsoft.com [
note: probably not his real address]." People understand that an address is something public to which you send things, and that to actually have access you need some form of password. Likewise people don't expect to be able to spend someone's money by knowing his mailing address or bank account number.
In any case, a fool and his money are soon parted and there is no cure to arrogance and recklessness. Someone who buys/accepts bitcoins without making a minimal effort to understand how to use them can't complain for losing them. Publishing a concise "things you must know before using Bitcoin" is one way to help people. Using a different name for addresses is not.
Also, AFAIK this talk is intended to be some sort of "extracurricular education", the goal is not to convince people to go out and buy bitcoins, so the presentation is light in practical usage tips.
So if this is a non technical, general interest audience please strive for clarity. To create greater adoption we have to move away from the techno-geek speak as a community continue to discuss and explain bitcoin in laymen's terms. Just my 2c.
I agree, presentations should be tailored to the target audience, which this one was.
On this note it's worth mentioning that there's
a video of a talk I gave (in Hebrew) to a more general audience, it's loosely based on
this which is also in Hebrew, but has an English translation
here.
