The hostel was founded by Berliners Albert Wolframm and his girlfriend, Valeria Pandimiglio. “She’s the business part, and I’m the architecture part, but I’m also more into Bitcoin,” he jokes. The Bitcoin Hostel combines Wolframm’s skills and hobbies: “traveling, Bitcoin and architecture.”

The Bitcoin approach to building a business is gaining traction,

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Although Wolframm’s professional architecture skills will come in handy, the website jokes that the design “with the most Hash... eh sorry, Design-Power will win!”

Wolframm shared that he has received a tremendous amount of value from Bitcoiners in the space, and the encouragement spurs him on to continue building out the business in a Bitcoin-centric way.

“If people have an itch to contribute something or to do a side project in this space, I would say ‘Throw your heart into it’