Remembering Room77, Bitcoin’s Favorite Bar
Amid the seemingly nonstop flow of wild events in 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the next bitcoin bull run and copycat bacon cheeseburger token scams (more on that later), the legendary Room77 has now officially closed for good. The Room77 was the first brick-and-mortar business to accept bitcoin. You could pay for your drinks, burgers and for a slightly overpriced hot chocolate (more on that later, too). I would visit the “Room” several times a year while visiting Berlin and have probably paid for some — now quite expensive — burgers and drinks. Sometimes I....
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Yesterday Room77, the original Bitcoin-accepting restaurant and now world-renowned Bitcoin hub of Berlin, had a successful monthly meetup with dozens of people coming from both Berlin and around the world attending. Bitcoin.de's Oliver Flaskamper, Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson, stateless political activist Mike Gogulski, libbitcoin developer Amir Taaki and Mihai and myself from Bitcoin Magazine were all present, along with many others. Now, Room77's Joerg Platzer has announced that there will be another Bitcoin event taking place tomorrow - an event which he has dubbed "Bitcoin Group....
Over the past two years, Berlin has gained a reputation as one of the Bitcoin capitals of the world. Around the city, there are nearly two dozen restaurants and shops accepting the currency, including six concentrated in a single block. Room77, the restaurant that started it all, holds Bitcoin meetups on the first Thursday of every month, and dozens of people attend. The most recent meetup on August 1 saw unusually high attendance, with a number of prominent Bitcoin activists from Europe and around the world attending; stateless political activist Mike Gogulski, Defense Disributed's Cody....
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