Thank YOU & Cornell Bitcoin Club Meeting #11 Follow-Up | Have a great summer!

Hi All, 

Hope you are enjoying the start of summer! Sincere apologies for the delay in sending this email. Thank you all so very much for this past semester. Words don't do justice to express my gratitude and appreciation for your interest, participation, and contributions. These are some thoughts I shared during our last meeting.

Also, here are the slides & recording from the eleventh meeting. I made a mistake and forgot to record the audio for the beginning, so I re-recorded the first half. (All of our meetings can now be found on YouTube.)

Main Topic: Bitcoin x Human Rights & Elections

• IMF & World Bank Overview

• Hidden Repression & Global Theft in Money 

• Freedom Go Up

• Announcements

• Fall 2024 Plans

• Speeches & Elections

Fall 2024 E-Board 

Thank you to everyone who has joined our E-board! I will reach out to you all in the coming weeks about the fall, but enjoy your summer!

• President: Ella Hough

• Vice President: Jennifer Sun

• Treasurer: Victoria Varkonyi 

• Secretary: Matthew Correa 

• VP of Engagement: Rafaela Baldeon 

• VP of Public Relations: Salvador Pineda 

• Public Relations Subcommittee Lead: Athletics: Emily Gibbons 

• Public Relations Subcommittee Lead: Academics: Bruno Chong 

• Public Relations Subcommittee Lead: Undergraduate Community: Brian Liu & Maggie Gao

• Public Relations Subcommittee Lead: Graduate Community: Salvador Pineda 

Updates

• Last week, the Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute's (BTPI) Bitcoin adoption x Financial Freedom research study, led by our club advisor, Professor Sarah Kreps, was announced. 

• I am working on putting together the plan for Fall 2024 and will share an update later in the summer! 

Spring 2024

• 02/08: Welcome | Intro to CBTC | Base Layer Knowledge (slides & recording) 

• 02/15: The Blockchain Trilemma, Timechain, State of Our World & Bitcoin as Money (slides & recording) 

• 02/22: PoW & Overview of Bitcoin x Energy | Part 1 (slides & recording)

• 02/29: No Meeting: Ella at conference.  

• 03/07: GUEST SPEAKER: Zach Young, Analyst at Trammell Venture Partners (slides & recording) 

• 03/14: GUEST SPEAKER: Manuela Rios, VP of Product at Strike (slides & recording) 

• 03/21: GUEST SPEAKER: Jason Brett, Former U.S. Regulator at the FDIC || Author || Speaker || Regulatory Analyst at Forbes Digital Assets || Government and Regulatory Affairs Consultant, Key Bridge Advisors LLC || Policy Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute (slides & recording) 

• 03/25: Finance, Regulation, & The Role of the Market SEC: Commissioner Hester Peirce in conversation with Cornell SC Johnson College Dean Andrew Karolyi. Watch here

• 03/28: GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Bradley Rettler, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming, Author of Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin, and Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute (slides & recording) 

• 04/04: No Meeting; Spring Break

• 04/11: GUEST SPEAKER: Elizabeth Stark, Lightning Labs (slides & recording)

• 04/18: Halving Party & Plans for Fall '24 (slides)

• 04/25: GUEST SPEAKER: D++, Entropy (slides & recording)

• 05/02: Bitcoin x Human Rights & Elections (slides & recording)

Be in touch if there's anything I can do for you. Thank you!

Warmly,

Ella