Program Bitcoins Asia 2025

Mariel's experience in creating sustainable Bitcoin education programs and taking them into the academic level. Why it seems like a Trojan horse but it is actually more profound than that.

Joe Bryan introduces Fiatello and the big red button - connecting the dots between the money printer and the ultimate corrosion of everything.

Fortunately, we have a solution…

A practical comparative overview of successful Bitcoin adoption strategies from different regions literally from Brazil to Japan. Includes cases from Europe (Portugal and Spain) and Latin America (Argentina, El Salvador, Paraguay). Discover region-specific approaches to education, circular economies, community building, corporate adoption, and seamless financial integrations that build stronger global Bitcoin bridges.

Centralized social media is broken—censored, manipulated, and driven by ad-based algorithms. But a new wave of builders is offering something radically different.

In this panel, key contributors to the Nostr ecosystem will share what’s happening under the hood of the decentralized social revolution. From protocol upgrades and UX improvements to monetization, identity, and interoperability—this is where the future of digital communication is being shaped.

Discover why Nostr is more than a Twitter alternative—it's a movement for sovereignty, freedom of speech, and open participation in the digital world.

This presentation introduces the Pubky protocol stack, its components, and how it enables us to take the web back from Big Tech using an open-source architecture. It also showcases the first application built on top of it, the Pubky App, highlighting the idea of a taggable web experience.

The Global Majority remains unbanked, and Bitcoin offers a workable path to financial inclusion. This panel explores how Bitcoin enables the ostracized communities to join the global payment system without third-party intermediaries, bypassing traditional finance's scrutiny and barriers. We'll assess the current state of Bitcoin adoption in Africa and Latin America and the challenges bitcoin educators face in these regions. Join us to discover how Bitcoin's mission is transforming lives for Global Majority and why education is key to unlocking its full potential.

Sustainable Solutions for Agriculture and Water Heating

Bitcoin and longevity medicine are parallel revolutions addressing the root causes of economic and biological decline. This talk explores their striking similarities and how they move us from symptom management to systemic transformation.

A primer on how to reason about network privacy and an overview of network privacy mechanisms in Bitcoin.

Now that you have bitcoin, you are becoming a high value target. Against you stand bad people - dishonest bankers, phony taxmen, kidnappers, extortionists, finger-cutters. On your side - a strong community, skills, techniques and tools. Let's explore the landscape of physical risk and how to not become an easy target. If you're unarmed, carry a GLOK.

Everyone talks about Bitcoin—but how do you actually get it?

This panel is designed for newcomers who want to understand the many ways to buy Bitcoin safely and confidently. Whether you're using a mobile app, a centralized exchange, meeting someone for a P2P trade, or even paying in cash—there’s a method that fits your comfort level and goals.

We’ll cover:

The difference between KYC (know-your-customer) and non-KYC options

What to look for in an app or exchange

How peer-to-peer and cash trades work

Security and privacy tips for beginners

How to avoid common mistakes and scams

If you're ready to take the first step toward owning real Bitcoin—this is the session that will show you how.

Different ways how P2P non-kyc trades benefit different communities

In this talk, Reyna, Education Director at Mi Primer Bitcoin, explores the real-world challenges of scaling Bitcoin education, sharing personal experiences from El Salvador and insights from her role supporting global collaborations. She highlights growing risks from both external and internal influences quietly attempting to co-opt Bitcoin education and consolidate control, warning that without careful attention, we may find ourselves replicating the same centralization issues that Bitcoin seeks to escape. Reyna will discuss the importance of decentralized, open-source education, confronting diplomatic, political, and financial obstacles impacting Bitcoin adoption. This session will offer insights on how we can preserve the independence and integrity of Bitcoin education while ensuring it remains accessible, decentralized, and free from external influence.

A deep dive into the muddy waters of sovereign reserve management.

This talk explores how privacy transforms security by lowering defensive costs while raising the stakes for attackers. It examines critical areas like financial sovereignty, personal data control, and secure communication, and how privacy-preserving tools elevate these domains. Attendees will learn practical applications of Bitcoin for censorship-resistant transactions, self-custody wallets to reclaim asset ownership, and encryption frameworks to safeguard digital lives. The session blends theory with actionable steps, demonstrating how decentralized technologies empower individuals to neutralize surveillance and institutional overreach. Real-world examples will highlight the risks of poor privacy hygiene and the tangible benefits of adopting tools that prioritize user autonomy.

In this talk, Pierre will present the key take aways from his latest book.
1) Energy is everywhere in many different forms: heat, matter, waves. Anything that has a mass, like a particle or an object, is a condensed form of energy while waves and heat are more diffuse forms of energy.
2) Energy self-organize in open systems called dissipative structures such as particles, atoms, molecules, ore, living beings, planets and the universe itself. Typically, a dissipative structure is embedded in a larger one, e.g an animal is a dissipative structure made of cells and part of a species, cells and species are also dissipative structures.
3) Dissipative structures, in turn, self-organize to maximize the flow of energy going through them. This is called the 3rd principle of thermodynamics aka the principle of maximum entropy production.
4) The 3 principles of thermodynamics (the science of energy) explain how nature works, including individual and social behavior in the human species and how a monetary system reduces the entropy of its users.

Many see the rise of Bitcoin as a store of value—with institutional giants like BlackRock entering the space—as the death of its cypherpunk dream. I argue the opposite. The path to Bitcoin as a global medium of exchange requires its consolidation as a store of value first. ETFs, corporate adoption, and even sovereign holdings aren’t diversions from the original vision, but necessary steps to make Bitcoin truly viable for everyday transactions.

This talk makes a compelling case for Bitcoin as the ultimate store of value in a digital world, engineered with ideal properties for global adoption. Learn about Bitcoin’s total addressable market, how early we still are in the adoption phase and how Bitcoin can enhance traditional investment portfolios. Understand why Bitcoin offers a strategic opportunity for investors seeking to preserve wealth and optimize returns.

Not your keys, not your coins! Don't trust, verify! Decentralization, open source or consorship resistance... We all heard this terms and quotes and use them when we talk to our family about bitcoin. But we don't succeed as often as we would like to when it comes to explaining why Bitcoin matters. In this talk Dusan will introduce various powerful tangible stories that will help your parents finally appreciate Bitcoin and its purpose.

Traditional banking, especially international banking, is unusable in 2025. It becomes impossible to send a few thousand transactions without the bank knowing the complete source of your income, your identity, the addressee. Blocking international transactions is a very common thing that affects most people.

The European crypto legislation MiCA has introduced complete spying on crypto transactions. Central exchanges have withdrawn anonymous currencies like Monero from the European market.

Realistically, living on crypto is getting easier every year than on fiat. That is why it is high time to break away from it.

In the following presentation, I will explain how to not only survive, but lead a comfortable life on crypto, taking advantage of both local and global crypto services.

In just twenty minutes, I’m going to give you four reasons why Bitcoin really matters. Four big reasons for why Bitcoin is important, impactful, and meaningful to the future of our world.
I’m fourteen. People my age will be running the world in twenty to thirty years, so I think a lot about the future. And I think a lot about how Bitcoin can make it a better future.