There is no Secret Ingredient w/Curtis & Leo: Vancouver, BC | Ep. 036

Curtis and Leo of Vancouver BitDevs join us for the last of our three Vancouver episodes, covering the Bitdevs Socratic seminars at Funk Coffee, the Node Academy workshops, and the old vending machines at the DCTRL hackerspace that they’ve rewired to take Lightning and now stock with SeedSigners and local art. They explain how Vancouver’s meetup culture grew from just two meetups in 2022 to Bitcoiners being “everywhere all the time”: CoinOS merchant bounties, the city’s density, a meetup bar that went Bitcoin-only, and organizers who keep hosting cheap and easy. We also talk about food bank volunteer days, book clubs, the annual Bitcoin Block Party, and heating with miners, and Curtis and Leo say the city has no secret ingredient: people just showed up and did stuff.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Vancouver Bitdevs: bitdevs.ca

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