Bitcoin At Porcfest, Part 0: Exploring Boston and New Hampshire

School is out, and the 12th annual PorcFest Freedom Festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire begun on Sunday. Started in 2004 as part of the Free State Project, hundreds of merchants, teachers and businesses come together every year to meet people from all over the state and the world to showcase some of New Hampshire's finest people and offerings. Over the last few years, Bitcoin has become a major part of New Hampshire economics and culture, and there are many interesting events centered around the digital currency. Bitcoin and PorcFest. Perfect together. New Hampshire has long been one of....

The Porcupine Freedom Festival, or PorcFest, might be the most Bitcoin-friendly festival in the world. The week long festival, put on by the libertarian non-profit organization the Free State Project, just wrapped up its 13th annual instalment last Sunday. It took place at Roger’s Campground in Lancaster, in the far north of New Hampshire. PorcFest serves as both an outdoor camping festival and as a political conference. Registration staff estimated its attendance as high as 1,400 over the course of the week. CoinTelegraph was present at PorcFest to observe events and interview attendees.....

This article was originally part of Bitcoin at Porcfest, Part 1: A Social Experiment, and has been split off because it deals with a separate topic that deserves to be treated on its own. In the past three days, we have seen Porcfest attendees successfully applying Bitcoin in real-world usage, with between a quarter and a half of all transactions taking place using the currency. In a practical sense, Bitcoin and Porcfest go extremely well together. Porcfest needs merchants to feed its attendees, merchants need a currency, and Bitcoin is a currency that desperately needs real-world....

So far, we have had one major Bitcoin conference this year, and the event proved to be an astounding success. Over a thousand people showed up, panelists discussed issues including financial privacy, alternate cryptocurrencies and even floating cities. Following that success, over the past few weeks a number of other Bitcoin-related events have also announced themselves. You may have already heard of some of the larger ones, but many of these events have been carely noticed by the Bitcoin community. Porcfest - Porcfest is not, strictly speaking, a Bitcoin-centric event; it is the main....

To understand more about what Porcfest is and why Bitcoiners should care, see part 0 of this series. Today marks the third official day of Porcfest, and already hundreds of people have showed up. In the nine Porcfests before this one, attendance has always trickled up slowly, with only a few people present on Monday and the event ramping up to full force on Friday and Saturday. This year, those who have attended previous Porcfests are saying that as many people have come to this Porcfest already as came to the previous one by Friday, and the number of attendees is expected to continue....