Sam Patterson

FULLSTACK DEVELOPER

Portfolio and Media

Writing

My most recent writing can be found on my blog. Selected articles below.

Unc's Unlearning Outfit for 2024

A short fiction piece that won runner up in the 2024 Interintellect Essay contest

Why I'm Hopeful About the Prospects for Bitcoin

Foundation for Economic Education, 2014

Is Bitcoin Dead (Again)?

Foundation for Economic Education, 2016

Decentralized Markets

Coin Center, 2015

How Bitcoin Works

Hillsdale College Free Market Forum, 2014

Book

Bitcoin Beginner

One of the first books published about Bitcoin (2013)

Presentations

Now Is The Time To Shift To A Decentralized Marketplace

Hacker's Congress, Paralelni Polis, Prague, 2017

Free Trade Through Decentralized Commerce

Hacker's Congress, Paralelni Polis, Prague, 2016

Presentation on Bitcoin and decentralized commerce

PorcFest XIII, New Hampshire, 2016

Up & Running with Bitcoin

Liberty.me, Online, 2014

How Bitcoin Works

Hillsdale College Free Market Forum, Panel on Bitcoin, Indianapolis, 2014

Art

The Sound of Progress

Video/audio project highlighting the improving state of the world, 2019

Amulets

Computer-generated poetry - I wrote a python program to create short poems with a unique hash

AI Images

I've been experimenting with using AI to create or enhance images, particularly my landscape photography

Media

Bitcoin Without Internet

School of Block - Mar 2021

CryptoEcon 2020 - Interview Sam Patterson (Co-Founder OpenBazaar)

CryptoEcon Conference, Saigon, Vietnam - Feb 2020

A Conversation on Technology and Liberty

The Antigua Forum, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala - 2017

OpenBazaar

TheProtocol.TV - September 2014