How He Built Europe’s Biggest Bitcoin Conference From Nothing

About this episode

Matyáš Kuchař discusses the journey of building BTC Prague, Europe's largest Bitcoin conference, from a small event to a major global gathering.

Matyáš Kuchař, co-founder of BTC Prague, takes us behind the scenes of building the largest Bitcoin conference in Europe. What started as a 500-person event is now a global conference with 8,000+ attendees and over 250 speakers. “It started as a passion project and turned into a full-time mission.” In this episode: • How BTC Prague scaled so fast • The challenges behind running a big conference • The future of in-person Bitcoin events • How this all ties into the digital industrial revolution Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (00:32) - Matyáš's nickname (02:17) - The Bitcoin-only cafe that started it all (03:43) - What makes BTC Prague so special (05:04) - First impressions of the conference (08:26) - Where the idea for BTC Prague came from (10:15) - Starting during COVID (500 attendees) (11:15) - From passion project → real business (13:10) - How they scaled so fast (18:23) - What a full year of planning looks like (22:09) - Team size + behind-the-scenes operations (24:08) - Biggest problems (you never see) (25:24) - The venue disaster before opening (27:22) - The 10,000 beer cups problem (29:45) - Dealing with weather chaos every year (30:45) - How they landed top Bitcoin speakers…

People in this episode

Guest: Matyáš Kuchař

Topics covered

• Bitcoin conference
• event planning
• digital industrial revolution
• scaling events
• in-person events

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• conference
• BTC Prague
• event planning
• digital revolution
• scaling
• in-person events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BTC Prague

Places: Prague

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