Careers are built in rooms like this.

Connections become companies.
Conversations become jobs.
Ideas become movements.

"Level up by working in Bitcoin" - @Erik Cason

BTC Prague 2026 · The Bitcoin Capital of the World

Europe needed a home for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin already had one.
Prague.

The first mining pool
The first hardware wallet
The BIP39 seed phrase standard

These are historical milestones.
Prague is widely regarded as the Bitcoin Capital of the World.

In June, Prague becomes the center of the Bitcoin world.

Europe’s biggest and most influential Bitcoin conference.

BTC Prague · June 11–13, 2026

🎙️ @Julian Liniger is a Swiss entrepreneur, founder, and CEO of Relai 🇨🇭

He has led @Relai 🇨🇭 to become Europe's biggest onramp, with +100K users enjoying simple Bitcoin purchases direct to self-custody.

In 2026, Julian returns to BTC Prague to share what comes next.

🇨🇭 @Relai 🇨🇭 joins BTC Prague 2026 as our General Partner

Serving 100,000+ users in Europe, Relai is a Bitcoin-only app built for simple stacking and self-custody.

We're thrilled to join forces on the road to spreading Bitcoin adoption across the continent.

Buy Bitcoin with Relai.

“BTC Prague should not be missed.”
- @Roman Reher

Because there is no second best Bitcoin conference.

June 11–13 · The Bitcoin Capital of the World

🎟 Get your ticket now.

Mt. Gox wasn’t a Bitcoin failure. It was a custody failure.

On February 24, 2014, Mt. Gox, at the time handling the majority of global Bitcoin trading, went offline. 850,000 BTC were missing. For thousands of individuals, it meant devastating losses. For Bitcoin, it became a defining moment.

What’s often misunderstood is that the Bitcoin protocol itself did not fail. Blocks continued to be mined. Transactions continued to settle. The network functioned exactly as designed.

What failed was centralized custody. That distinction reshaped Bitcoin culture. “Not your keys, not your coins” stopped being a slogan and became a lived lesson. The collapse accelerated the development of hardware wallets and pushed serious conversations around key management and seed phrases into the mainstream.

In Prague, builders were already working on solutions that made self-custody practical and accessible. @slush and @stick co-founded Trezor, which began shipping the first commercially available Bitcoin hardware wallet in 2014. The year before, @stick proposed BIP39, the mnemonic seed standard developed within SatoshiLabs that is now widely used across the industry.

Twelve years later, the lesson still stands.

If we want to take Bitcoin seriously, whether as builders, investors, partners, or institutions, we need to understand custody. How it works. How it fails. And how to design systems that reduce single points of trust.

At BTC Prague 2026 (June 11–13), self-custody won’t just be discussed as theory. Attendees will be able to test hardware wallets, speak directly with builders, and experience practical Bitcoin usage in a real-world setting.

Understanding Bitcoin means understanding responsibility.

Get Your ticket today: https://btcprg.me/4kVwl9k

Victory in Prague 🇨🇿

The Czech Chamber of Deputies has rejected further EU-level crypto centralization by issuing a formal “Yellow Card.”

Libor Vondráček served as rapporteur, bringing in experts to warn about the long-term market impact of excessive centralization.

Europe is at a turning point.

If Bitcoin is about sovereignty, responsibility must follow the same principle.

Bitcoin is more than a store of value.

Let 2026 be the year you start using it.

Visit BTC Prague in June
and see it in action.

Secure your spot at BTC Prague 2026.

Europe’s biggest and most influential Bitcoin conference.

📍 Prague · June 11–13, 2026

🎟️ Get your ticket

Secure your spot at BTC Prague 2026.

Europe’s biggest and most influential Bitcoin conference.

📍 Prague · June 11–13, 2026

🎟️ Get your ticket

Some moments don’t need explanation.

If you know, you know.

@BTCPay Server @UNCLE ROCKSTAR

🎙️ @Peter Todd joins the speaker lineup at Europe's biggest and most influential Bitcoin conference.

Long-time Bitcoin developer, public speaker, and founder of OpenTimestamps, one of the earliest protocols anchoring data to Bitcoin for verifiable proof-of-existence.

BTC Prague 2026 · June 11–13 · Prague