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Talks to empty rooms, Senate hearings, “rat poison squared” and the first explainers that millions watched. For each video: why it matters, when it came out, how many views it has and what one bitcoin cost back then compared with today.
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“Andreas Antonopoulos - Bitcoin Neutrality - Bitcoin 2013 Conference” · Satoshi nakamoto · uploaded 10 Jun 2013 · 32K views
Andreas Antonopoulos's first public Bitcoin talk, “Bitcoin Neutrality”, at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose on 18 May 2013. He was a last-minute addition, his slot clashed with the main keynote, and by his own account only about ten people watched. He went on to become one of Bitcoin's best-known educators.
One bitcoin then is worth about ×678 as much today.
Earliest upload we found (10 June 2013, an anonymous channel named “Satoshi nakamoto” that posted the conference recordings with the Bitcoin Foundation's description). The viral clip “educating an empty room… when it was $100” is a 2021 re-upload by Moments in Crypto. Andreas re-posted the talk on his own channel in 2020.
LastWeekTonight · · 20.2M views
John Oliver's segment, filmed after the 2017 peak, is part explainer and part roast of the ICO mania. With about 20 million views it is one of the most-watched TV takes on crypto.
3Blue1Brown · · 18.1M views
Grant Sanderson rebuilds Bitcoin from scratch, from a shared ledger to digital signatures and proof of work. With 18 million views it is one of the most-watched in-depth Bitcoin explainers.
Barely Sociable · · 13.6M views
The story of Silk Road, the darknet market that ran on Bitcoin until the FBI shut it down in October 2013 and arrested Ross Ulbricht. More than 13 million views. Ulbricht was pardoned in January 2025.
Lex Fridman · · 11.4M views
Four hours with Michael Saylor on money, energy and why MicroStrategy (now Strategy) moved its treasury into Bitcoin. With 11 million views it is one of the most-watched long Bitcoin interviews.
Simply Explained · · 10.5M views
A six-minute animation on blocks, hashes and proof of work that passed 10 million views, released just as the 2017 boom pulled millions of newcomers in.
WeUseCoins · · 10.3M views
The two-minute cartoon that introduced Bitcoin to millions and for years was the most-watched Bitcoin video on YouTube. When it went up, one bitcoin cost less than a dollar.
VICE News · · 6.6M views
VICE's Michael Moynihan travels to Russia with Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin to ask why states care about blockchain while investors obsess over the price. About 6.6 million views.
CuriousInventor · · 6.2M views
A five-minute technical walk through keys, signatures, transactions and mining. With more than 6 million views it taught a generation of developers how Bitcoin works.
The Guardian · · 3.1M views
The Guardian's animated explainer from 2014, one of the first by a major newspaper, with more than 3 million views.
ENDEVR · · 1.6M views
Torsten Hoffmann's 2015 documentary traces money from barter to Wall Street and asks whether Bitcoin is the next step. The full film went online in 2021 and passed 1.6 million views.
CNBC · · 784K views
Event: spring 2013
CNBC's own archive of its spring 2013 panels, when Bitcoin first crossed $100: is it a bubble, is it like gold? A time capsule of how business TV first framed Bitcoin.
CNBC uploaded this compilation in 2018; the “price then” uses 2 April 2013, the first daily close above $100. We could not find an official upload of the 2013 Mark Cuban segments.
Bitcoin Embassy · · 488K views
Andreas testifies to the Senate banking committee on 8 October 2014 and argues that you cannot regulate Bitcoin itself, only the businesses around it. Clips from this hearing have circulated for a decade.
Full session uploaded by Bitcoin Embassy (Montreal) the same day. Andreas later re-posted his part on his own channel.
HBO · · 396K views
Trailer for HBO's 2024 film that claimed early developer Peter Todd is Satoshi. Todd denied it, and no evidence has confirmed the claim.
Bitcoin Magazine · · 352K views
Trump promises a “strategic national Bitcoin stockpile” and to fire SEC chair Gary Gensler. In March 2025, as president, he signed the order creating the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Gravitas Ventures · · 274K views
Trailer for the 2016 documentary about Bitcoin's early idealists, entrepreneurs and the regulators who came after them; the film later reached Netflix.
TheTedNelson · · 246K views
Internet pioneer Ted Nelson, who coined the word “hypertext”, names Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki as Satoshi. One of the first viral “who is Satoshi” videos; no evidence ever backed the guess.
Meme Fountain · · 161K views
Carlos Matos's ecstatic speech at a BitConnect event became one of crypto's biggest memes. BitConnect collapsed in January 2018, and US prosecutors later called it a $2.4 billion fraud. A reminder that not everything sold under Bitcoin's name is Bitcoin.
Re-upload of event footage; BitConnect's own channel is gone.
CNBC Television · · 160K views
BlackRock's CEO, who called Bitcoin “an index of money laundering” in 2017, tells CNBC he was wrong. Six months earlier BlackRock had launched IBIT, which became the largest Bitcoin ETF.
CNBC · · 160K views
A month after calling Bitcoin “a fraud” in September 2017, JPMorgan's CEO tells CNBC he could not care less about it. In January 2018 he said he regretted the fraud remark.
wwwmemorydealerscom · · 139K views
Roger Ver, later nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus”, offers anyone who calls Bitcoin a scam a $10,000 bet that it will beat gold and silver over the next two years. One of the earliest public bull calls by a business owner.
Bitcoin Magazine · · 132K views
On stage at Bitcoin 2021 in Miami, Strike's Jack Mallers plays a video message from President Nayib Bukele announcing a bill to make Bitcoin legal tender. Passed within days, it made El Salvador the first country to do so. In 2025, under an IMF deal, accepting Bitcoin became voluntary.
60 Minutes · · 116K views
Laszlo Hanyecz tells 60 Minutes why he paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas on 22 May 2010, the first known purchase of real goods with Bitcoin.
CBS Mornings · · 74K views
Newsweek's cover story named Dorian Nakamoto, a Californian engineer, as Bitcoin's creator, and reporters chased him across Los Angeles. He denied it, and nothing has ever supported the claim.
Jon Southurst · · 65K views
Kolin Burges flew from London to Tokyo to ask Mt. Gox in person where his bitcoin was. Ten days later the exchange, once the biggest in the world, shut down with about 850,000 BTC missing.
TheBitcoinMovie · · 34K views
Trailer for one of the first feature documentaries about Bitcoin, following programmer and early miner Dan Mross through the 2013 boom and the Mt. Gox era.
Fox Business · · 31K views
At Berkshire Hathaway's 2018 annual meeting Warren Buffett called Bitcoin “probably rat poison squared”. The phrase became a meme that Bitcoiners still quote at every new high.
Fox Business clip; CNBC's original broadcast is not on YouTube.
BBC News · · 23K views
BBC News looks back at 2017, when Bitcoin went from about $1,000 to nearly $20,000 in December and then lost about a third within days. The 2017 bubble and crash in one clip.
Brave New Coin · · 11K views
At the BitcoinSouth conference in New Zealand, Andreas argues that money is becoming just another content type on the internet, sent as easily as text or video. A talk often quoted by Bitcoin and Lightning builders.
This Week in Startups · · 8K views
Gavin Andresen, who took over as lead developer when Satoshi stepped back, explains the basics on a mainstream startup show in May 2011, one of the first TV-style interviews with a Bitcoin core developer.
Benjamin Michael Brown · · 2K views
Event: 18 Nov 2013
“Beyond Silk Road”, the Senate Homeland Security committee's hearing on 18 November 2013. Officials from the Justice Department said virtual currencies had legitimate uses, and the price jumped during the two days of hearings.
Recorded and uploaded by a viewer; the committee's official video is at hsgac.senate.gov.
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