Press
This article lists Bitcoin-related press from the project’s creation through October 2011. Since that time, due to the increased frequency of published articles, a Press forum board was created on the BitcoinTalk Forum to allow the wider Bitcoin community to share articles as they are discovered.
Contents
Press and notable mentions
Articles / Blog Posts
2011
October
July
June
May
- What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters 2011-05-24 Technology Review by MIT
- Bit Players, An open source digital currency seeks to gain wider acceptance 2011-05-23 iPad news app The Daily
- My Money Is Cooler Than Yours 2011-05-18 Slate
- L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We’ve Ever Seen 2011-05-15 Launch
- What Is BitCoin? 2011-05-19 Gizmodo.com
- Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency 2011-06-08 Ars Technica
April
- Crypto Currency 2011-04-20 Forbes Magazine
- Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks 2011-04-16 TIME TechLand
March
- Bitcoin: It’s Not Too Late To Send Me Money 2011-03-27 Ironwolf Blog
- Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen 2011-03-21 CIO Australia
- What the Frack is Bitcoin and Can I Use it with Drupal? 2011-03-14 CivicActions
- HTG Explains: What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency? 2011-03-01 HowToGeek.com
Feb
- Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity 2011-02-10 news.Slashdot.org
Jan
2010
- Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency 2010-12-29 ReadWriteWeb
- Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency? 2010-12-10 PC World
- Imagine your computer as a wallet full of Bitcoins 2010-11-26 Irish Times
Podcasts / Video
- Princeton University lectures
- Lecture 1 — Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
- Lecture 2 — How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
- Lecture 3 — Mechanics of Bitcoin
- Lecture 4 — How to Store and Use Bitcoins
- Lecture 5 — Bitcoin Mining
- Lecture 6 — Bitcoin and Anonymity
- Lecture 7 — Community, Politics, and Regulation
- Lecture 8 — Alternative Mining Puzzles
- Lecture 9 — Bitcoin as a Platform
- Lecture 10 — Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
- Lecture 11 — The future of Bitcoin?
- Lecture 12 – History of Cryptocurrencies <nowiki>[Bonus lecture</nowiki>]
- Khan Academy
- Free Talk Live – interview with Roger Ver 2011-11-19 An hour-long interview with Roger Ver of Memorydealers.com
- Reuben Grinberg on the legality of Bitcoin 2011-01-31 (mp3)
- NPR Planet Money – The Tuesday Podcast: Bitcoin 2011-07-12 (mp3)
- Linux Outlaws 215 – Bitcoins 2011-06-30 (mp3, ogg)
- CBS / What’s Trending – Bitcoin: The Future Of Money 2011-06-08 Shira Lazar interviews Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik.
- The World’s First Bitcoin Road Trip 2011-05-30 An interview with The Real Plato on the Corbett Report.
- What Are Bitcoins? 2011-05-24 NPR All Things Considered (mp3)
- TWIST #140 2011-05-10 This Week In Startups interviews Gavin Andresen and Britcoin’s Amir Taaki
- Cypherpunkd Episode 005: “Bitcoin Mania” Part 1 – mids 2011-04-06 Podcast interview of mids, from AgoristRadio.com (mp3)
- Bitcoin at EPCA 2011-04-04 Video of Genjix’s presentation on Bitcoin at EPCA conference. (followup)
- Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency 2011-04-04 EconTalk’s Russell Roberts interview Bitcoin lead Gavin Andresen (mp3, transcript)
- What is Bitcoin? video introduction (mp4)
- Bitcoin – a Digital, Decentralized Currency 2011-03-18 omega tau interviews Bitcoin technical lead (podcast)
- Spark 139 2011-02-27 CBC Radio covers Bitcoin. A nice non-technical overview (podcast)
- Security Now 288: Q&A 2011-02-16 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:44:00 to about 1:13 of the podcast (podcast),(video)
- Ignite Amherst 2011-02-15 Presentation by Bitcoin Principal (Slides)
- Ignite D.C. 6 2011-02-03 Presentation by (Slides) About Bitcoin and Potomac local currency
- Security Now 287: BitCoin CryptoCurrency 2011-02-09 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:41:25 to the end of the netcast (video), (podcast)
- Steve Gibson’s Explanation of Bitcoin
- World Bitcoin Network – Bitcoin 101
- What is Bitcoin?
- Understanding The Name Is Key To Understanding Bitcoin
- How To Buy/Get Your First Bitcoins
- What is Deflation? & Why It’s Fundamental to the Rise of Bitcoin’s Price
- Why Mining? Understanding Why Bitcoiners Mine is Fundamental
- Bitcoin Vs. Gold – How Bitcoin Could Take Over a Trillion $ Market
- Bitcoin Vs. Credit Cards – How Bitcoin Could Take Over a Trillion $ Market
- Why Bitcoin is Not a Ponzi Scheme – Debunking Bitcoin Myths – Part 1
- Why Bitcoin’s Growth is Normal & The S-Curves You Could Never See
- The Nightmare of Bitcoin Regulation – A Laundry List of Scenarios
- How to Make a Digital Currency (pt.1) – A Beginner’s Guide to the Thoughts of Satoshi
- How to Make a Digital Currency (pt.2) – Satoshi’s Thoughts & Double Spending
- Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 1 of 3) – A Beginner’s Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
- Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 2 of 3) – A Beginner’s Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
- Understanding Bitcoin (pt. 3 of 3) – A Beginner’s Guide (With Help from Wikipedia)
- Intro to Paper Wallets & Cold Storage – Bitcoin Security & Fun with Sloppy Wallets
- Getting Your BTCs out of Your Paper Wallets & Cold Storage – Fun with Sloppy Wallets
- Fun with Brain Wallets (Making and Playing With Them) – Bitcoin Security
- Glorious Coinbase – The Best Place to Buy Your First Bitcoins
- A Free Market for Transparency (The Bitcoin Revolution)
- Merkle Roots and Merkle Trees – Bitcoin Coding and Software – The Block Header
- Multi-Signature Addresses pt1 – Coding This Major Security Improvement
- Multi-Signature Addresses pt2 – Spending, Protocol & Coding
- The Nightmare of a 51% Attack – Part 1 – Calculating the Costs
- The Nightmare of a 51% Attack – Part 2 – How to Destroy Bitcoin
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography – Part 4 – Generating the Public Key (in Python)
- Calling All APIs – Coding Live Price Data From Bitcoin Exchanges
- Getting Started With Bitcore – A Full JavaScript Implementation of Bitcoin
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography – Part 5 – The Magic of Signing & Verifying
- Modelling the Price of Bitcoin – Is a $100,000 bitcoin possible?
- Quindecillions & The Amazing Math Of Bitcoin’s Private Keys
- A Million Killer Apps – Part 1 – Smart Contracts & Bitcoin’s Big Bang of Disruption
- A Million Killer Apps – Part 2 – Blockchains & A Global Shared History
- Bitcoin 101 – idchains – Part 1 – The Basics Of A Bitcoin-Based Global Identity System
Presentations
- The BarCamper’s Guide to Bitcoin 2011-07-25 by Ash Moran
- Bitcoin – The World’s 1st P2P Digital Currency 2011-06-?? Gavin Andresen Presentation given at In-Q-Tel investment conference
- Bitcoin – P2P Virtual Currency 2011-06-05 Jake Hansen Presentation submission for Defcon 19
- Monetising Game Play on Social Network Sites 2011-03-31 Jon Matonis at KPMG eGaming Summit
- Bitcoin – new P2P currency 2011-02-19 Juraj Bednar
See Also on BitcoinWiki
- Bitcoin Press forum board
- Blogs
- Bitcoin News daily posts
- Research
- Bitcoin Press Center
- CoinDesk