World’s Longest-Running Weekly Bitcoin Meetup Celebrates 200th Meetup

World’s Longest-Running Weekly Bitcoin Meetup Celebrates 200th Meetup

The Manchester Bitcoin meetup, the world’s longest-running weekly Bitcoin meetup, just celebrated its 200th consecutive meetup. The meetup, started in 2012 by the Harvey brothers of Lamassu fame, has taken place every Sunday evening in Manchester, New Hampshire since then without fail. Derrick J. Freeman, prominent local cryptocurrency activist and one of the meetup’s attendees, summed up its significance: “Weekly meetups like the one in Manchester give the Bitcoin community a pulse. It says to the world, "We're alive and growing -- Bitcoin hasn't gone anywhere." In fact, the....


Related News

New Hampshire: The World’s Most Bitcoin-Friendly Community

When US-based online retailer, Overstock.com, began accepting Bitcoin at the beginning of 2014, the state of New Hampshire delivered the highest sales per capita of any state, relegating the company’s home state of Utah to second place. This was largely due to the presence in New Hampshire of the Free State Project, a political movement whose members tend to believe in decentralized and non-governmental forms of currency, making them very receptive to Bitcoin. World’s longest-running Bitcoin meetup. Because of New Hampshire’s high concentration of tech-minded entrepreneurs, combined with....

Bitcoin Meetup Groups in India and Europe See Amazing Growth Over Past Month

Bitcoin Meetup groups are thriving over the past few years, and the recently posted power rankings show some interesting facts once again. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Bitcoin Meetup groups in India are growing by leaps and bounds. But the European Bitcoin Meetup groups should not be underestimated either. Even though very little of the conferences and educational efforts are aimed at European and developing markets, there is still a huge growth in Bitcoin Meetup numbers. According to the latest power rankings, the Bangalore India Bitcoin Meetup saw a member growth of....

Bitcoin.com Bus Shunned by Las Vegas Bitcoiners Over Politics

The Bleish family’s “Dash Across America Tour” in the Bitcoin.com bus was derailed yesterday when, during their Las Vegas stop, the organizer of the city’s Bitcoin meetup denied them access because of the family’s support for Dash. Bitcoin.com Bus Tour Denied Access to Las Vegas Meetup. Catherine Bleish, co-organizer of the tour, penned a blog about the....

Bitcoin Meetup Growth Around The World (April 20th – May 19th 2015)

Bitcoin meetup groups are a great way to get together with like-minded people and discuss anything digital currency-related. Not only will you form a circle of new friends, but you will also be treated to a few presentations now and then. For those among us who like a few statistics, let’s take a look at some of the more recent changes and shifts in the Bitcoin meetup “power rankings.” The most popular Bitcoin meetup groups are to be found in traditional places. Major cities always tend to draw a bigger crowd, but that doesn’t mean that smaller communities are left in the cold either.....

First Bitcoin meetup in Ecuador a big success

About 30 people attended the first-ever Bitcoin meetup in Quito, Ecuador on Thursday, February 6th. The meetup was organized by Dutch alternative money promoter Paul Buitink (@paulbuitink), currently residing in Quito, and American IT entrepreneur Justin Leitgeb (@justinleitgeb), who made available the Quito office of his company, Stack Builders, who specialises in Ruby and Haskell software development. Argentinean Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, who organized the Buenos Aires conference in December of last year and who coordinates Bitcoin initiatives in South America, also helped with....