by Friedemann Brenneis, Manuel Madrenes, Stefan Richter
These are slightly modified slides originally made for a Bitcoin introductory workshop meant for refugees (in English). We held this workshop in 2015 in Halberstadt and it has been documented (in German) here.
We believe that Bitcoin is an ideal match for people who need to transcend borders. So we hope you can help us introduce them to the topic, and maybe these slides can help you. They are very sparse and general, however, so they might be useful for any Bitcoin introductory talk, maybe with slight modifications.
Two concepts have been important for us when designing them:
We have tried not to introduce ANY technical concepts, but ONLY talk about use cases.
The slides are really only meant as a guiding structure in which we can talk freely and, most importantly, answer questions. Originally, we intended to talk 10 minutes and then answer questions for an hour. In reality, the talk took 2 hours because there were so many questions in between.
Following this concept, the first concept has been subverted whenever someone asked us a technical question. Interestingly, there hasn’t been a lot of that. So we really think it is a good idea not to force technical details upon people unless they ask for them.
These slides and their source code are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 license. You are free to remix and use the material here in your own talks.
The slides have been made using the great org-reveal, which allows for exporting Emacs org mode documents into nice-looking reveal.js presentations which can then be shown using a simple browser. The big html file already contains reveal.js and the images (you can also generate a much smaller file if you have a local copy of these things). Unfortunately, the images that are shown in the background do not seem to get embedded by org-reveal, so you need to have these available locally even if you use the big file.