A Local Meetup is Far Much Better than a Global Conference

Two cultures naturally exist side by side: the small local meetup and the grand global conference. Both claim to promote adoption, but their focus and impact are vastly different.

Bitcoin conferences are flashy events built around celebrities, politicians, and corporations. They attract governments, banks, and institutions looking for headlines and partnerships. Panels debate regulations, policies, and large-scale adoption.

While this may sound impressive, it does little to help the ordinary person trying to buy groceries with sats. Instead, conferences often promote a top-down vision of adoption. They believe that Bitcoin will succeed only if governments, banks, and corporations embrace it. That's the same control and manipulation being reintroduced again.

But Bitcoin was never built for them. It was built for individuals. Conferences end up creating an illusion that government or institutional approval equals adoption, when in fact adoption comes from people using Bitcoin in their everyday lives.

A local meetup might only bring together a small group of people in a café or community hall, but the value is immense. The discussion is practical and individuals based. People ask questions like:

Meetups deal with real problems faced by individuals. They provide hands-on learning, peer-to-peer support, and community-driven solutions. Just people helping each other become sovereign individuals.

My advice is: If the mission is financial sovereignty, then the real work is clear: join or start a local meetup. Because that is where Bitcoin lives, grows, and truly belongs — with individuals, not institutions.