Grass-roots Bitcoin meetups have always been an engine of adoption. They turn abstract ideas into practical skills: someone installs a wallet, learns what a seed phrase is, sends and receives their first sats, and walks away with a clearer picture of how Bitcoin works from the ground up.

Over the past year organisers in Northwest Arkansas, Athens, Paraguay, Zambia, Cuba and more have used Blockstream Local to spark those first moments. Attendees received a modest amount of LBTC for live demos, heard clear explanations of security fundamentals and Layer-2 concepts, and saw for themselves how Bitcoin works. Today the programme is relaunching with a tighter focus on on-chain self-custody and a new foundation, the Blockstream app.

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