Casual monthly gathering of local Bitcoiners in Santa Cruz, CA.
Socratic seminar style discussion of current events, projects & developments in the bitcoin & nostr ecosystems.
Under current rules, every bitcoin payment is taxed as if you were selling stock. A de minimis exemption would fix that, treating payments like money, not an investment.
https://btcismoney.xyz/
#everydaymoney
Learn about Bitcoin and circular economies in Central and South America with our guest speaker, Alexandra Navarro.
Chief of Impact at Paystand.org, Alexandra will give a presentation on various projects that promote financial inclusion and Bitcoin education.
Join us! February 12, 6PM
There are 24,644 global bitcoin nodes!
https://bitnodes.io/
Node operators help increase the resiliency of the network by enforcing the consensus rules and can benefit by having their Bitcoin wallet communicate privately with the Bitcoin node to validate and accept incoming or broadcast new wallet transactions.
Santa Cruz Bitcoin meetup is Thursday, 01/08 at 6PM.
Join us for a hands-on workshop about setting up a bitcoin full node. If you have hardware, bring it – and if you don't, there's a lot to learn by just watching how its done.
Reminder: see you on Thursday at 6pm. We will discuss NOSTR and get hands on experience by setting up accounts & learning how to submit discussion topics for our meetup.
RSVP so we know how many pizzas to order!
Santa Cruz - Bitcoin meetup, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 6:00 PM
Santa Cruz Bitcoin meetup next Thursday, 12/11 at 6PM.
We'll be talking about NOSTR. Please join us!
Use #scmeetuptopic to submit NOSTR related topics for discussion.
Join us on November 13th for a Socratic discussion of the ⚡️Lightning network. We will spend some time setting up wallets and zapping ⚡️
Use #scmeetuptopic to submit topics for discussion.
Great to see you yesterday!
Here are two of the great books that @Garrick Hileman mentioned:
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Next meetup 10/9! We got a special guest speaker: Garrick will lead a discussion about money. He is ranked as one of the 100-most influential economists in the UK and has been studying and teaching Bitcoin since 2013 so this will be a fun discussion.
Happening this week! Join us in downtown Santa Cruz for the first meetup at the new location. Scan code to rsvp and get location address. Hope to see you there : )