Marie Tatibouet, an advocate for Bitcoin and CMO at Gate Technology, details the significance and mechanics of Bitcoin in her January 2022 document. She explains Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency, emphasizing its advantages over fiat money such as transparency, durability, and limited supply. The document also outlines how to buy Bitcoin, the importance of safeguarding investments through wallets, and provides various resources for further learning.

1. Marie Tatibouet | January 2022
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2. Who Am I?
Marie Tatibouet
• Bitcoin Believer since 2016
• CMO at Gate Technology since 2018
• Not a Bitcoin Maximalist

3. Thought Leader since 2019

4. Glossary
• Ledger - list of transactions
• Blockchain Technology - a decentralized, trustless ledger, on which only
additional can be made, hence the ledger history CANNOT be changed. All
computers on the blockchain have the ledger.
• Cryptocurrency - a virtual currency that uses encryption to prevent “double
spending”
• Bitcoin - a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is de
fl
ationary, with a
fi
nite
amount
• Fiat Money

5. What is Money?

6. What is Money?
“Money is a commodity accepted by general consent as a medium of
economic exchange. It is the medium in which prices and values are
expressed. It circulates from person to person, facilitating trade, and it is the
principal measure of wealth.” - Britannica

7. What is Money?
According to the IMF, money can be anything that can serve as
• Store if value which means people can save it and use it later - smoothing their
purchases over time;
• Unit of account, that is, provide a common base for prices
• Medium of exchange, something that people can use to buy and sell from one
another

8. What Makes a Good Medium of Exchange?
• Durability
• Transportability
• Divisibility
• Fungibility
• Non-counterfeit ability

9. Fiat Money

10. How Did Bitcoin Begin?
• Origin Story
• Financial Collapse of 2008
• Satoshi Nakamoto

11. What Bitcoin Is Not

12. What is Bitcoin?
• Bitcoin, the online, digital currency
• Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of
money
• Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no
central authority or banks
• Bitcoin is open-source; its design is public ,nobody owns or
controls

13. What is Bitcoin?

14. Transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain
• Irreversible by design
• Fast. Funds received are available for
spending within minutes
• Cost very little, especially compared to
other payment networks

15. Transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain

16. How Bitcoin is Better Than Fiat

17. Bitcoin Advantages
• Anonymity (Protecting purchasing power)
• Solves Double Spend Problem (E
ffi
ciency of transaction)
• Transparency (Open source, peer-reviewed)
• Mining by Users (Self-su
ffi
cient)
• Scarcity (only 21 Million Coins, making in
fl
ation impossible)
• Divisible (One bitcoin can be divided in 100,000,000 Satoshis)
• Ease of Use (Timely, easy, etc.)

18. How Does Bitcoin Work?

19. Why Bitcoin Is Important
• Bitcoin is Digital Gold
• Bitcoin is Monetary Freedom
• Bitcoin is Accessible Everywhere

20. Why Bitcoin Is Not Going Away
• Jurisdictional Power
• Strong Infrastructure
• Use Cases
• Institutional Investment

21. A Successful Crypto Investment
• Understanding Blockchain and Bitcoin as a Technology
• Non-regulatory Environment Incurs Risk
• Extreme Volatility Incurs Risk

22. Bitcoin Annual Returns

23. Time in the Market > Timing the Market

24. Diamond Hands

25. Best Strategy for Beginners

26. How To Buy Bitcoin
• In Person
• ATMs
• Peer-to-Peer Networks
• Exchanges

27. How To Buy Bitcoin: Exchanges

28. How To Buy Bitcoin

29. Keep Your Crypto Safe: Wallets

30. Crypto Wallets

31. What about the other coins?

32. Altcoins in 2018 vs. 2022
September 1st 2013
September 4th 2018
August 30th 2020

33. Altcoins in 2022
January 17th 2022

34. Altcoins in 2022
January 17th 2022

35. What about NFTs?

36. What about NFTs?

37. Where to Buy NFTs?

38. Any Questions?
Ask me for the presentation on
Twitter @marietatibouet

39. Additional Resources: Books
• Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos
• The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous
• Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapscott
• Cryptoassets, Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
• Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper

40. Additional Resources: Short Videos
• What is Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Explained and Made Simple
• Blockchain Explained
• How Cryptocurrencies Work

41. Additional Resources: Longer Videos
• Ted Talk with Xapo Casares
• Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos
• The End of Money As We Know It

42. Additional Resources: Courses
• https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/free-mooc/

43. Additional Resources: Youtube Channels
• Fundamental Analysis: Raoul Paul at Real Vision
• Cryptocurrency Long-Term Analysis: Benjamin Cowen
• Technical Analysis: Be very careful! Crypto Jebb; Crypto Wendy; Crypto
Michael
• Altcoin Gems: Altcoin Daily ; EllioTrades
• En francais: Hasheur

44. Additional Resources: Media
• Coin Prices: Coingecko
• Analysis: Coindesk, Forkast, Decrypt, The block crypto
• News: Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Potato, Coin Telegraph, cryptonews.net
• En Francais: journalducoin

45. Additional Resources: Tools
• Most used Wallet: Metamask.io
• Coin Prices: Coingecko
• Transaction Tracking: blockchain.com ; ethscan.io