Riga Bitcoin Week

About The Event

Riga Bitcoin Week is a week of high-quality educational content delivered by the top industry players. Yearly initiative around the Baltic Honeybadger conference full of Bitcoin events focused on education, sharing recent development, and growing Bitcoin adoption.

We speak about Bitcoin, hold workshops, brainstorm, network and party!

This year’s Riga Bitcoin Week will be the biggest ever, with many more side events hosted under its umbrella.

Agenda

August 31st

The opening of the Riga Bitcoin Week will start with an absolute beginner level and an intro to the new companies in Bitcoin.

1/ Noob Day - Introduction to Bitcoin (11:00 - 17:00):

• Bitcoin empowers Africa and Africans empower Bitcoin by Anita Posch
• Practical Bitcoin privacy and security by Bitcoin Q+A
• Bitcoin Psychopaths and Sociopaths by Coinsure
• How to get Bitcoin by Ethan
• Buying Bitcoin P2P by Tony Nakamoto
• Your brain on Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm
• Bitcoin as a Polymath creature by Mir Liponi
• Bitcoin history, cypherpunks and the road ahead by WizardofAus
• Bitcoin is private property by Kai

2/ Spanish Meetup - 18:00 - 22:00:

We are welcoming the Spanish-speaking Bitcoin community in Riga. Attend the event if you speak Spanish and want to meet local community representatives.

September 1st

Latest L2 developments presented by the top industry companies.

1/ Layer 2 Day - Presenting the latest Layer 2 developments (10:00 - 17:00):

Blockstream, Breez, Synonym, Ark, Voltage, LNP/BP Standards Association, Galoy, TDEX, Fuji Money, LNbits, Dusty Daemon, more participants to be announced soon.

2/ Twentyone Party - 20:00 - 02:00:

Twentyone.world is a network of open communities that provide localized, high-quality, Bitcoin-only content, where each community provides a space for bitcoiners in their respective countries to connect, collaborate, and exchange ideas. Attend the event to meet the TwentyOne global community, enjoy drinks with Bitcoiners, listen to good music, and pay with Bitcoin!

September 2nd

1/ Conference Day 1 - Baltic Honeybadger (10:00 - 18:00):

Presentations, panels, and fireside chats about the most crucial and controversial topics in Bitcoin, a day full of content on 2 stages, workshops, and demos!

2/ Main Afterparty - 18:00 - 24:00:

An afterparty for all Baltic Honeybadger attendees, where you can network, meet the speakers in an informal atmosphere and enjoy the music delivered by bitcoiners and famous BH DJ - All-viss!

September 3rd

1/ Conference Day 2 - Baltic Honeybadger (10:00 - 18:00):

Presentations, panels, and fireside chats about the most crucial and controversial topics in Bitcoin, a day full of content on 2 stages, workshops, and demos!

2/ Nostr Party:

Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. Attend the event to learn more about nostr and meet people building nostr community!

September 4th

Talks, demos, workshops, and user experiences presented by the BTCPay Server team.

1/ BTCPay Server day - 12:00 - 18:00:

BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source Bitcoin payment processor. Attend the event to learn more about BTCPay Server’s recent developments and meet the team in person!

Speakers

• Tadge Dryja - Founder of Lightning Labs
• Adam Back - CEO of Blockstream
• Balaji - Former CTO of Coinbase, former partner at a16z
• David Bailey - CEO of BTC Inc
• Tuur Demeester - Founder of Adamant Research
• Giacomo Zucco - Bitcoin cultist
• Abubakar Nur Khalil - CEO of Recursive Capital
• Lawrence Nahum - Founder of GreenAddress, Chief Architect at Blockstream
• Rockstar Dev - Core Contributor at BTCPay Server
• Calle - Lightning dev at LNbits and Cashu
• Dylan LeClair - Head of Market Research at BTC Inc
• Robert Breedlove - Host of the ‘What is Money?’ Show
• Rigel Walshe - Engineer at Swan Bitcoin
• wiz - Co-founder of mempool.space
• Sergej Kotliar - CEO of Bitrefill
• Peter Todd - Bitcoin Core developer
• Max Hillebrand - CEO at Wasabi Wallet
• Luna - Host of ‘Lunaticoin’ podcast
• Stephan Livera - Bitcoin podcaster, Head of Education at Swan Bitcoin
• Daniel Prince - Bitcoin author, Host of the 'Once Bitten' podcast
• Reckless-Satoshi - Privacy advocate, developer of RoboSats
• Alexander Mann - Partner at Timechain
• Pavlenex - PM at BTCPay Server & Stratum v2
• Leo - Early Bisq contributor
• Nicolas Burtey - CEO of Galoy
• Salvatore Ingala - Engineer at Ledger
• Josie - Bitcoin Core developer
• Aaron van Wirdum - OG at Bitcoin Magazine
• and more...!