Aalto Bitcoin

We are a student organisation raising awareness of the bitcoin and blockchain industry in the Finnish student community.

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

Thank you for an amazing SLUSH DAGEN EFTER! Last week brought together Finnish Bitcoin builders, students, and Slush attendees.

A huge thank you to our speakers @btcbenchmark, @HarjunpaaSamuel , @ElmeriSuomi, Kristo from Bitcoin Beef Bits and @roni_karjalaine.

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first event “What is Bitcoin – The Evolution of Money & Bitcoin as an Asset Class” last week!

A special thanks to @thlbr and @iamtuomaa for sharing their expertise and sparking insightful discussion.

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

@btcbenchmark

[Esa Iivonen @bitcointutkija]

Bitcoin broke ATH once again🚨

This is not the time to FOMO in. This is the time to start studying bitcoin, finally.

My top 10 learnings about bitcoin🧵

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

🚀 What is Bitcoin?

Join Aalto Bitcoin’s first event: The Evolution of Money & Bitcoin as an Asset Class

🎤 Thomas Brand (Coinmotion) & Tuomas Tuominen

Keynotes + panel & Q&A
Free entry – open to all students

🗓 6.10.2025 | 16:30
👉 Sign up: https://t.co/QPglfNWjjS

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@geyserfund @btcbenchmark @bitcointutkija

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

@btcbenchmark @IAmBullsaw @bitcointutkija We are coming🫡

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@btcbenchmark @bitcointutkija

[Remu ⚡️ @btcbenchmark]

A new Bitcoin student association was just formed in Finland 🔥

The Board of @AaltoBitcoin was here today at the BTCHEL hub to workshop for their payment and custody solutions with our staff.

You can just do things. Go follow them. This is how we win.

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@btcbenchmark @bitcointutkija

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Board:

Joonatan Knuutila
Ismo Hautamäki
Karo Honkoila
Emil Laaksonen
Esa Iivonen
Lauri Kajakko
Akseli Ristola

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

Introducing the Aalto Bitcoin Board of 2025-2026!

We are excited to make special events for you! Get ready for a year filled with new connections and inspiring events. Can’t wait to see you at our upcoming events! Stay tuned.

[Remu ⚡️ @btcbenchmark]

I just came back from a month-long hiatus after the BTCHEL 2025 execution.

The first-ever large-scale bitcoin conference in the Nordics got together a thousand attendees, twenty businesses, and seventy speakers from all around the world on three stages. At least 5 different traditional media outlets covered it. It was truly a phenomenon that we had not seen before in this part of the world.

First of all. Thanks to everyone involved. Thanks to the best possible team of organizers, the relentless dedication of this team made BTCHEL truly magical. Thanks to so many voluntary contributors in the active community here in Helsinki. You know who you are. Thanks to the sponsors for putting your blind bet on me so early on, without you taking the risk with me, none of this would have happened in the first place.

I have now rested, reassessed, and I'm ready for the next challenge. Stay tuned for the new website, dates, early bird tickets, and all the build-up shenanigans we are going to come up with.

I'd like to highlight some of the publications and spin-offs that spun out of BTCHEL:

1. A Portrait article of Martti Malmi : by the Finnish equivalent of the Economist

2. "Bitcoin-miners love Finland all of a sudden, here's why:" By the Finnish equivalent of the Financial Times

3. Finland Joins the Bitcoin Conference Map with BTCEL: an interview by the Bitcoin Magazine

4. A global Mining-focused online news site notices BTCHEL and its unique agenda by European Bitcoin Energy Association e. V.

5. "Bitcoin is still Punk after all" - An essay by me in Helsinki uni student mag, Bitcoin argued through a leftist lense to fit the audience.

6. "Bitcoin saves the world" - Bitcoin fans gather in Helsinki to host an outworldly conference: a report by the Finnish equivalent of the Financial Times

7. An article about BTCHEL was the most-read news article of the day. Our ability to achieve virality has been shown on many platforms.

8. "For a Rainy Day - HS Visio joins a bitcoin conference in Helsinki. Attendees all united under orange and in the belief that bitcoin is omnipotent." An in-depth article about the conference through the lense of the reporter and an attendee. Very well written and received tons of lovely feedback from the local community. Thanks again for Alex af Heurlin for this piece.

9. "Diversification with the help of Bitcoin" Front page in the largest Finnish Swedish newspaper in Finland!

10. "Two members of the National Coalition party Tere Sammallahti and Martin Paasi : The government of Finland should own Bitcoin - Sammallahti estimates the strategic reserve could be the size of some billion euros. Paasi doesn't estimate the possible size of the reserve"

Spin-offs that BTCHEL planted the seed for include many popular podcasts, including a show with an elected official talking about mining and its potential for our country. Also, we saw a new bitcoin-related start-up to be founded in the Founders Sauna - a side-event for start-up founders called Bitcoin Beef Bits, which dries meat with the waste heat generated by mining and sells them as snacks. A new student organization was formed right after BTCHEL, called Aalto Bitcoin , that seeks to keep the flame of BTCHEL and accelerate the local adoption among the youth. The Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy is now calling together the field in Finland to be heard in a round table setting, and I personally got invited to represent BTCHEL in there.

BTCHEL truly pushes the field as a whole forward here like no other.

[Esa Iivonen @bitcointutkija]

Vuonna 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto julkaisi Bitcoinin "Whitepaperin" otsikolla "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

Käydään ketjun muodossa yksinkertaisesti läpi mitä siihen on kirjoitettu🧵

[Nordnet Suomi @nordnetFI]

Traders' Club goes @btchelevent!

@iamtuomaa ja @JukkaLepikko haastattelevat:
@mikko, @marttimalmi, @Technom4ge, @TereSammallahti, @ElmeriSuomi, @Topias_21, @Sanderandersenn ja @HeiskanenToni.

Jakso nyt YouTubessa ja Spotifyssä!

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

@KHonkoila @UCumberlands @AaltoUniversity Let’s see what we can do👀

[Esa Iivonen @bitcointutkija]

Miten lähtisin tutustumaan bitcoiniin juuri nyt?🔍

Teen ketjun mielestäni hyvistä materiaaleista, joiden avulla voit nopeuttaa matkaasi ymmärtää bitcoin.

Teen ketjun kronologisesti eli voit edetä askel askeleelta eteenpäin.

Vamos🧵

[Esa Iivonen @bitcointutkija]

Uusi profiilikuva ja nimi🚨

Tänne on tullut mukavasti uusia seuraajia, joten teen lyhyen esittelyn itsestäni samalla:

Olen Esa ja aloitin viime toukokuussa kirjoittamaan täällä bitcoinista nimimerkillä "Bitcoin Tutkija". Pidän nimen vielä hetken mukana profiilissani.

Kiinnostuin ensimmäisen kerran bitcoinista viime härkämarkkinan huipussa, mutta kiinnostus hiipui yhtä nopeasti, kun markkina romahti. Kun hinta nousi uudelleen, aloin noin kaksi vuotta sitten tutkimaan bitcoinia uudestaan, eikä tälle tutkimusmatkalle tunnu tulevan loppua.

Minulla oli kuitenkin vaikeuksia selittää bitcoinista muille, koska se on niin monialainen aihe. Tästä syntyi idea tähän X-tiliin, jossa voisin jakaa muille sisältöä, jota olen opiskellut ja kuluttanut

Kesällä kävin @btchelevent Bitcoin-tapahtumassa ja tajusin välittömästi, kuinka suuri tiedon kuilu on bitcoin-yhteisön ja muiden suomalaisten välillä. Ensimmäisenä tuli mieleen perustaa @AaltoBitcoin, jotta voisin levittää tietoa opiskelijoiden keskuudessa. Nyt fokus onkin siirtynyt enemmän @AaltoBitcoinin rakentamiseen kuin X:ssä kirjoittamiseen, mutta pyrin edelleen jakamaan sisältöä täällä.

#RIPTutkija

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@4rthury @AaltoUniversity https://t.co/oTxqdyBS8V täältä löytyy meidän kaikki somet. Viestiä voi laittaa meidän telegramin chattiin tai sähköpostiin [email protected]

[Aalto Bitcoin @AaltoBitcoin]

Thank you to all the new students who visited our stand at OtaOrientering, an event for new students at @AaltoUniversity organized by the Aalto University Student Union. We really appreciate all your questions and the conversations!

#Bitcoin #Aaltouniversity #Aaltobitcoin

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@bitcoinbeefbits @AaltoUniversity We will!