106: Kurtis Warren ON: This Cafe Owner’s Bitcoin Strategy Will Change How You See Money

About this episode

Kurtis Warren discusses how his cafe has integrated Bitcoin into its business model and the implications for long-term financial strategy.

What if your neighbourhood cafe quietly turned itself into a Bitcoin miner? In this episode, I'm kicking off a new series with Bitcoin entrepreneurs and executives who are actually weaving this asset into the way they work and save. Today I'm joined by Kurtis Warren, a longtime Bitcoiner and owner of a downtown Vancouver coffee bar that's evolved into a community hub. He shares how his path collided with Bitcoin and how it changed how he thinks about building for the long term. The coffee industry runs on tight margins in a city where costs just keep climbing. Curtis flipped that script for his team and his own future plans. You’ll hear the questions he had to answer around day-to-day payments, security, and taxes, and why he still chooses to keep stacking instead of selling. You’ll Learn: [00:00] Introduction [02:16] Why building a cafe around low time preference changes how a business survives [05:12] What happens when a coffee shop becomes a modern version of a historic idea hub [08:47] How a community space transforms once people start treating it like a meetup home [10:59] The reason Bitcoin reshapes how owners think about margins, risk, and expansion [20:14] How comparing…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Dedels

Guest: Kurtis Warren

Topics covered

• Bitcoin strategy
• cafe business
• community hub
• long-term savings
• financial decisions
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• cafe
• entrepreneur
• community
• savings
• margins
• risk
• expansion
• payments
• taxes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin, coffee bar, cafe

Places: Vancouver

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