Pizza Day Prague 2023 | Rigel Walshe - Bitcoin as Performance Art

Bitcoin is not simply a money or peer-to-peer transfer network. It's an invention that stands at odds with all the stories that society tells about our relationship to technology.
Understanding that story and articulating, sharing, and remaining true to the new one that Bitcoin has to tell the world is essential to creating a new financial system, rather than simply recreating the one we have on Bitcoin.
Rigel is an aspiring cypherpunk. Currently engineer at Swan Bitcoin. Ex-Cop. International man of death metal mystery. Nomadic lifestyle maximalist
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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence innovative thinking, and the development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government, and most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of freedom in order to shape the public discourse and ultimately work towards a freer future.