Bitcoin Rocks 12th Annual PorcFest Festival This Week
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....
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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.....
Overview. This summer, my family decided to add a bitcoin-only twist to our annual trip to New Hampshire for the Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest). We had no clue if cross country travel on bitcoin was possible, but our love for adventure and crypto currency inspired us to find out. Last year we challenged ourselves to spend no Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) at Porcfest, and it was a smash success. We used silver, bitcoin, and barter for food, childcare and other needs during the festival. At the time, a bitcoin was worth around $20. During the course of the past year, we watched Bitcoin....
The Bitfilm Festival, an annual film festival about all things Bitcoin and Blockchain and spanning multiple cities around the world is due to kick-off tomorrow, October 31 in Berlin, Germany. The first global film festival to showcase films exclusively related to Bitcoin and Blockchain will have its second annual event start in Berlin tomorrow. The film festival will then roll around to more than a dozen cities around the world where local communities of Bitcoin enthusiasts will organize the event in their respective cities. The final pit stop of the worldwide tour is rumored to be in....
Bitfilm Festival, the first global film festival dedicated entirely to Bitcoin, is getting ready for its second annual iteration. The festival will kick off on October 31 in its hometown of Berlin, after which local Bitcoin communities will individually organize editions in cities across the globe all month long, until the closing event in Buenos Aires on December 12. The festival events will screen a number Bitcoin-related films and feature talks and panels on Bitcoin and blockchain technology. It will also serve as the kickoff for a Blockchain developers contest. The exact schedule of....
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....