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Two Days at @BTCPrague 2025: Raw Thoughts from a Bitcoin Nerd
Last weekend I went to BTC Prague 2025, this was my second time in Prague for the BTC event and once again it did not disappoint. My first time at the event was in last year’s edition, and it was also my first ever BTC only event. Over the past 12 months, many, many advancements on Bitcoin have happened, such as the emerge of hundreds of BTC treasury companies, the US government fully embracing Bitcoin and record amounts of inflows into BTC ETFs.
Gladly, even with all these advancements and big institutional players coming into the universe, the majority of the public in the event were just a bunch of Bitcoin nerds, like me. I would summarize BTC Prague as an “October Fest for Nerds”. The very best part of the event are the outdoor tables where you can have beer with fellow Bitcoiners from all over the world, as they say, the real yield on HODLING Bitcoin is the friends you make on the way up!
Another amazing part of the event is that, since we are still very early in the industry, it is possible to meet, greet and talk to the pioneers in the field. Dr. @adam3us was around, @saylor was taking selfies with the participants, and I was able to shake hands and briefly talk to @Excellion , from Jan 3.
Regarding the companies on the expo, there were many mining companies, I believe they were the majority, then wallet companies and a few consultancy companies. The busiest stand was the stand of Primal since they were very creative and placed a pull up bar to test the strength and endurance of the participants, the challenge was to hang on bar for as long as one could and for each second hanging, the participant would get 24 sats into their Primal lightning wallet – I was able to hodl for 1 minute and 14 seconds 💪.
There were many talks and panels that were great, on my top 3 I would have (not exactly in the order presented):
- Michael Saylor: The room was completely full for Saylor as one would imagine. He basically started his talk with a summary of what has happened on the past 11 months with Bitcoin and made a prevision of BTC price: 21 million a coin in 21 years. It was a very interesting talk, and there was just one point of his talk that made my brain enter in alarm mode, which was his recommendation on leveraging to accumulate more BTC, which from my point of view, if you are a company, that’s totally fine, however for individuals, I do not think that’s a very good idea, chances are Saylor is right and I am wrong – very likely.
– Jack Mallers: Jack had the most personal talk I’ve ever seen on these events. He was not talking to the audience, it felt like he was talking directly into the eyes of each millennial in the world. Jack, thanks, I honestly feel like you’re my best friend from High School that the friendship has thrived through time. If you were born between 1985 and 1996, do yourself (and your future self) a favor and listen to Jack’s talk carefully. Thank me later.
- Panel on Institutions, States & the Bitcoin Shift:
This was a panel on the expo stage, so open to all participants, moderated by the highly recommended Podcaster, @RobinSeyr , and the participation of Jonas Benner, Benjamin de Waal, Samson Mow and Serge Kaulitz. The discussion was around the governmental adoption of BTC and the stage of adoption of the technology on the S curve, which my conclusion at the end of the panel was that we are very early on the S curve still and what will probably push us up is the participation of big institutions and governments – remembering that Bitcoin is permissionless, there are some individuals that do not see the governmental and institutional adoptions with good eyes, however there’s nothing they can do but embrace it and help the big players to join the universe.
I will definitely be there for 2026 and you should too! Thanks for the BTC Prague team for organizing such a cool event.
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