Adopting Bitcoin 2024

Adopting Bitcoin 2024

Your locale preferences have been saved. We like to think that we have excellent support for English in pretalx, but if you encounter issues or errors, please contact us!

Charlie Stevens

Charlie is focused on building The Natural Investor, focused on understanding the nature of money, capital & investment.

The Natural Investor is principled on helping individuals, businesses and institutions improve their relationship with the money that they own and how they structure it and use it for investment.

Charlie graduated with an honours in Actuarial and Financial Studies and progressed to work as an actuarial consultant for an auditor reviewing large insurance company balance sheets across Europe.

Charlie progressed to sell bitcoin across Europe after a stint in India, using peer to peer platforms and deploying a Bitcoin ATM in Spain while working as a calculations analyst and market reporter for one of the largest life insurers in Europe (+300B Assets).

Charlie now resides in Berlin, El Salvador, landing just after the initiation of the project to help it grow into what is currently ranked as the number one Bitcoin circular economy in the world in terms of density of up to date merchants accepting Bitcoin according to BTCmap.org. Charlie has extensive experience onboarding merchants onto Bitcoin and giving lessons on Austrian Economics and Personal Finance.

Charlie is co-organising Adopting Bitcoin, the high signal Bitcoin conference born in El Salvador.


Session

11-15
14:20
30min
The Value Of Exchange
Charlie Stevens

The act of exchange between two parties is fundamental to life.

I argue that understanding the value of exchange is essential to grasp the monumental impact that Bitcoin will have on the future of the human species. I use Austrian Economics as a theoretical framework to navigate this topic.

"The Value of Exchange" is a talk that explores how exchange drives our evolution over time and how it is a core principle in all major cultures, religions, and societies. It shows that exchange transcends the material and extends beyond time.

Mises Stage
Mises Stage