Vietnam - Bitcoin Meetups

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This thursday, 03.10.2019 in Saigon:



Thursday night casual meetup from 8.30 PM onwards at Rico Taco - 97 Hai Bà Trưng !




https://www.facebook.com/events/2539832009627293

Several people will attend upfront the @StiBLabs (which has been over several years one of regular sponsors & companions of our activities) event at Saigon Innovation Hub (invite only):

If you are looking to obtain an invite for the Stib Labs event, feel free to DM us

Otherwise, we'll see you at Rico Taco!

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Not directly a Bitcoin Meetup - but Barcamp Saigon this weekend will also have some folks from the Bitcoin Saigon community attending and giving a talk on "Low Time Preference".

Interview with one of the Core Organizers of Barcamp Saigon can be found here:

https://news.bitcoinvn.io/su-kien-barcamp-saigon-2019/ (English)

https://news.bitcoinvn.io/su-kien-barcamp-saigon-2019/?lang=vi (Vietnamese)

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The most recent podcast "Bitcoin in Asia" by Bitcoin Magazine also touches on the topic of how the local Bitcoin Community in Vietnam evolved:

http://bitcoininasia.btc.libsynpro.com/bia3-bringing-bitcoin-to-vietnam-with-dominik-weil-and-bao-phuong-paige-nguyen

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Thursday night 05.12.19 8 PM onwards
casual weekly bitcoin meetup
this week at Union Jack's
130 Ton That Dam Street, D1, HCMC

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this week you can join us for a falafel & bitcoin babble at our weekly casual meetup!
Alsham - 300 Võ Văn Kiệt, Phường Cô Giang, Quận 1, Hồ Chí Minh
Thursday night, 12.12.19, 8 PM onwards!

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https://twitter.com/BitcoinSaigon/status/1205489843372883968



Bitcoin Saigon got now it's own domain - funded by proceeds from the previous Five Year Party

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Not directly a Bitcoin meetup, but some people working in the space present at the most recent workshop organized by Vietnam's Ministry of Justice:



https://twitter.com/AsiaBlockfin/status/1206227507998969857

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Next Bitcoin Meetup in Saigon:



Thursday night (19.12.2019) casual meetup - this week at Bún Bò Gánh 110 Lý Chính Thắng, P. 8, Quận 3 from 8PM onwards!

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Some pictures from the 5 Year Party got released on Twitter this morning:



https://twitter.com/BitcoinSaigon/status/1207496257020645378

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The recap video from the 5 Year Party got released

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Eric Voskuil / Libbitcoin Institute are organizing CryptoEcon2020 in Hanoi in about two months from now.

#CryptoEcon2020 in #Hanoi - The #Bitcoin-centric event of the year in #Vietnam!

Source: http://bitcoinsaigon.org/cryptoecon-2020-hanoi/

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Video from the morning session of the "Bitcoin Saigon Five Year Anniversary" got released


The timeline:

0:00 - 04:00 Intro to the event by Dominik Weil (Founding Member of Bitcoin Saigon community)

04:00 - 45:30 Panel - “Origins, Values & the future for Bitcoin Communities around the World” with Leo Weese (Hong Kong), Richard Bensberg (Beijing), John Saeyong Ra (Seoul/Korea), Dominik Weil (Bitcoin Saigon Founding Team), Tomo Huynh (Moderator)

46:00 - 1:26:00 “Importance of data and media literacy in the Crypto World” by Koji Higashi (Bitcoinization.com)

1:26:00 - 1:49:30 “Apps that can’t be evil” by Larry Salibra (New Internet Labs)

1:51:00 - 2:13:00 “Designing for Humans: How we approach design for complex systems in order to serve user needs” by Jon Myers (Liquid Exchange (former Quoine Exchange))

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Video from the afternoon session of the "Bitcoin Saigon Five Year Anniversary" got released

The afternoon sessions covered:

0:00 - 40:30 “Who Needs the Internet Anyway: Taking Bitcoin Transactions Offline*” by Neil Woodfine (Blockstream)

41:30 - 1:15:00 “Struck by Lightning” by Albert Buu (Neutronpay)

1:16:00 - 2:01:00 “Privacy in Bitcoin” by Leo Weese

2:01:30 - 2:35:00 “Building on bitcoin: An Intro to Liquid” by Richard Bensberg (Blockstream)

2:36:00 - 3:27:00 “On-Chain Dispute Resolution & The Importance of Proof-of-Work” by Joshua Buirski (Decred)

3:29:00 - 4:16:00 “4 Legit Ways To Make Life Changing Profits™ In Cryptocurrency Investing” by Tai Zen (Cryptocurrency.market)

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Bitcoin Saigon got now a donation page up which allows to provide some financial assistance to the community in covering costs for the events, get some better recording equipment and similar.

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The Bitcoin Community in Da Nang is meeting this week on

Friday, January 24, 2020 from 8PM
@ The Craftsman Cocktail Bar
48 Phan Tứ, Phường Mỹ An, Quận Ngũ Hành Sơn
Đà Nẵng 550000

Join us and RSVP on meetup.com:
Bitcoin Meetup Tet Edition @ The Craftsman Cocktail Bar

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Interview with Fabian Jahr ahead of the premier "Bitcoin Socratic Seminar" on Vietnamese soil (20th of February 2020 in Saigon):



---> https://bitcoinsaigon.org/fabian-jahr-interview/

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Sao toàn tiếng Anh vậy ))

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Bitcoin Da Nang Meetup @ MyCasa - 53 Morrison, Son Tra, DN on Friday 21st Feb 2020 - from 6 PM

This would be one of the next events to keep going with our bitcoin meetup group in Da Nang and get to know all the new members who joined in the last weeks. Maybe some of you guys already met before, if you are members of the regular meetups in town.

Where?
Let's meet again at the mycasa restaurant, who are happy to have us from 6 PM, if you wanna join early. There is a happy hour as well, some cocktails are 50% off until 7 PM.

See you soon!

https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Da-Nang/events/268792949/

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Only 3 more days til CryptoEcon2020 in Hanoi!

Samuel Patterson of OpenBazaar will be just one of the many speakers:



Source: https://bitcoinsaigon.org/interview-sam-patterson/

Other speakers include e.g. Eric Voskuil, Steve Barbour or Roman Snitko.

Certainly one of the highest-profile line-ups in terms of Bitcoin folks we saw so far in Vietnam.