Are you asking yourself questions? 😂

sure! i started bitcoin++ in the summer of 2022 in Austin. there were a bunch of reasons for starting it.

i had been running Base58, my non-profit education school for learning protocol development for a year at that point, and saw a need for a way to connect the talent coming in through the projects and businesses in the space. also thought it'd be a cool way to start building relationships with companies that were hiring, as a way to get them familiar with what we were doing at Base58 and the caliber of students that were coming out of the program.

my co-founder at the time was @stakamoto and together we pulled together a great crew of speakers, found a venue in Austin, and recruited the @PlebLab to run a two day hackathon after the two day conference.

i had the idea in March; we ran the event in June, the same week as Consensus. It was a lot of fun, and during the event I started talking to Car from PlebLab about re-running the event, except in Mexico City that December.

so i hopped on a plane the next week and flew down to CDMX for the first time by myself. I went to every hotel in the hipster neighborhood until I found a spot that seemed great, and found a local partner who helped us get the contract + connect with the hotel for the event.

So we were international basically immediately after the first event. And have been running events a few times a year, in different places around the globe since then!

Every event since then has come out of a conversation with a local or person who's passionate about having the conference come to their city/locale. These days I get pitches from communities all over the globe to come run an event there.

We're planning 8 events for 2026 -- and have turned down a bunch more opportunities. We're actually already sketching out plans for 2027 so if you're interested in having an event in your city reach out...