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Asia’s largest and fastest growing physical Bitcoin hub.
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Kostro 6 months ago
Thai Bitcoin communities aren't waiting for top-down mandates; they're proactively embedding #Bitcoin literacy into schools, villages, and daily life. This bottom-up model, blending local culture with global expertise sets them apart from more fragmented scenes in Asia, where adoption is high but education often lags behind hype.
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Kostro 6 months ago
Building offline community through sports is powerful because it transforms shared physical effort into trust, unity, and purpose. Sports cut across social and cultural barriers, creating real human connection and lasting memories. They strengthen health, leadership, and volunteer spirit while anchoring online movements in real-world experience. Sporting events visibly showcase teamwork and shared achievement, inspiring others and turning ideas into living, collective action. image
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Kostro 6 months ago
Kasikorn Bank (KBank), Thailand’s largest financial institution and parent company of Orbix, one of the country’s licensed Bitcoin exchange platforms, visited us today, extending support and acknowledgment of our rapidly growing Bitcoin community in Northern Thailand. image
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Kostro 6 months ago
Bitcoin Chiang Mai is the only Bitcoin community in Asia collaborating consistently with multiple universities, local governments, and institutions at this scale while our daily Bitcoin educational podcast reaches more than 1,500 listeners every single day.
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Kostro 6 months ago
How we built the largest Bitcoin community in Asia.
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Kostro 6 months ago
This weekend we hosted an exclusive gathering of Thailand’s leading Bitcoin community leaders and builders, and it went beyond all expectations. The speed at which Thailand evolves will largely be driven by how we empower and support these builders, their voices, and their tools. image
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Kostro 6 months ago
Bitcoin is a human rights tool in many different ways, Bitcoin also gives activists, dissidents, and those under oppression a way to speak, save, and survive when their voices or bank accounts are silenced. image
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Kostro 6 months ago
Bitcoin represents something unique to everyone, a tool of freedom, a path to hope, and a symbol of what’s possible when people take control of their own future. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
@gladstein sharing that our Bitcoin community has created one of the world’s most thoughtfully designed Bitcoin hubs on @Danny Knowles WBD podcast. Thank you for sharing our meaningful work.
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Kostro 7 months ago
It doesn’t matter how rich or poor your school district is. Everyone can learn about Bitcoin. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
Today, I spoke to over 200 university students and compared a crypto exchange to an amusement park, a circus, and a buffet, flashy, loud, and full of temptation. It’s easy to get lost in the excitement if you don’t know why you’re there. Bitcoin is the signal. All else is noise.
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Kostro 7 months ago
We continue to educate on Bitcoin and build relationships with the major universities in Northern Thailand. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
Today, 10 new guests from Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand all visited our Bitcoin building around the same time. Maybe it’s because Google says we’re open 7 days per week from noon to 1 PM 😂
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Kostro 7 months ago
Final registration numbers are in for the world's first Bitcoin Half Marathon. 2,750 runners from over 45 nations will blaze a trail of orange in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on November 2nd. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
Bitcoin is making its debut at the top-tier Chiang Mai University in Northern Thailand today.
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Kostro 7 months ago
Not Ai. It’s the Run For Freedom, First place 🏆 at the Bitcoin Marathon in Thailand this November. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
🎃 Bitcoin White Paper Party 2025 – Chiang Mai, Thailand. This Halloween will be different the color orange won’t just represent pumpkins, but the light of hope from Bitcoin. In a TED Talk–style atmosphere, we’ll hear fresh perspectives from 16 friends across Thailand and around the world who believe Bitcoin is not just financial technology, it’s Hope.
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Kostro 7 months ago
Historic day for Bitcoin education in Thailand , today’s two-hour meeting led to real, actionable progress and clear commitments from all sides. image
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Kostro 7 months ago
Massively inspired by Thai Bitcoiners pioneering Modern Finance at the nation’s top universities more proof that Thai Bitcoiners take massive action, underscoring the importance of Bitcoin in academia! image