Adopting Bitcoin 2024

Adopting Bitcoin 2024

Hermann Buhr Vivier

Hermann Vivier is the co-founder of The Surfer Kids (est. 2010) and founder of Bitcoin Ekasi (est. 2021). Hermann first became interested in Bitcoin in late 2013 as a result of the banking crisis and subsequent bank bailouts in Cyprus. In May 2015 he and his wife adopted Bitcoin as a form of payment. They operate a South African tourism business (Unravel Surf Travel) catering for the Eastern European and Russian markets, and the first Russian-Ukrainian conflict meant that Bitcoin was (in certain cases) the only form of payment available to receive money from their clients. Following the global covid lockdowns and the resulting slump in their tourism business they started looking for ways to become more active in the Bitcoin space. Hermann came across the Bitcoin Beach project in El Salvador in 2019 and started writing for Bitcoin Magazine in January 2021, two events which eventually led to the creation of Bitcoin Ekasi in August 2021.


Sessions

11-15
16:45
45min
Bitcoin Misconceptions: “What scares people out”
Ian Foster, EconoKidz.com, Bitcoin Boma, Efrat Fenigson, Samantha de Waal, Benjamin de Waal, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Şelale Malkoçoğlu (aka Sela, AZA)
Bitcoin Para Niños
Bitcoin Para Ninos
11-16
09:15
40min
Bitcoin Education for the World (with the Node Network)
Arnold Hubach, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Diana (@bulebitcoin), Adam Cowperthwait, Fidel Fúnez C.

How to change the World, independently but also together.

In this panel discussion we explore the topic Open Source Bitcoin Education for the World with project leads and teachers from Zambia (Bitcoin Victoria Falls), Honduras (AmityAge), South Africa (Bitcoin Ekasi) and Bitcoin Indonesia (Indonesia). They explain how they bring the My First Bitcoin Diploma to their local communities, unite in the so-called Node Network, and are all teaching from the same open source resources.

Nakamoto Stage
Nakamoto Stage
11-16
09:55
40min
Making bitcoin come to life
Mike Peterson, Stacy Herbert, André Loja, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Efrat Fenigson
Nakamoto Stage
Nakamoto Stage
11-16
11:45
30min
Kids Panel: “Joyful Voices”
Samantha de Waal, Ian Foster, EconoKidz.com, Bitcoin Boma, Scott Wolfe, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Şelale Malkoçoğlu (aka Sela, AZA)
Bitcoin Para Niños
Bitcoin Para Ninos
11-16
15:15
40min
When Medium of Exchange?
Hermann Buhr Vivier, Charlie Mackenzie, Henrique Albuquerque, Lee Salminen
Nakamoto Stage
Nakamoto Stage