The slide deck from Let’s Learn About Using Bitcoin for Social Good - http://www.meetup.com/sfnetsquared/events/165109572/ The event description: Join us on April 8th when we’ll have Ryan Breslow, the founder of Sites by Hand and a research scientist with the Stanford Bitcoin Group, and Jake Zeller, an entrepreneur and investor working on a project in the Bitcoin space. This session will help you understand what Bitcoin is, how it works, and how nonprofits and social good orgs might benefit by using the Bitcoin network. #bitcoin4good #SFN2

1. #Bitcoin4Good
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Ryan Breslow
Jake Zeller

2. What is Money?

3. (Caveman Image)

4. Bitcoin Blockchain
The Ledger
Person A
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1 BTC
Person B
1EPDNBHo4BBXtSK5dUrvJRG
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0.5 BTC
Person C
1NUxQcdSK9eCUZo2ovZcyd2j
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0.023 BTC

5. How do transactions work?
public and private keys
public key + private key + amount = transaction

6. Securing the network
Mining

7. How does it work?
Ledger of balances
& transactions
The Blockchain
Spending Bitcoin
Public and private
keys
Validating
transactions,
creating new Bitcoin
Mining

8. Bitcoin Properties
• Digital currency
• Decentralized
• Network-Driven
• Universal Ledger
• Infinitely Divisible
• Instant Transactions

9. Uses of Bitcoin

10. Store of Value

11. Medium of Exchange

12. How about
social good?

13. Providing Stability
for Emerging Markets

14. Enable Low-Cost Remittances

15. Empower the Unbanked

16. Public Fundraising

17. Censorship

18. Reliability, Accountability, and
Regulation
• Positive shifting attitude
• Clear regulatory path
• Clear taxation guidelines
• Security
• Complete transparency

20. International
Kipochi
• Mobile Bitcoin Wallet
• Integrates with M-Pesa
Highlighted Benefits:
• Free of inflation
• Global
• Secure
• Transparent
• Low cost

21. What to do
Accept Bitcoin whenever possible
Don’t believe everything you hear
Buy, hold, and share