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1,000+ Attendees.
40+ Speakers.
2 Unforgettable Days.
1 Big Mela.
This is what India’s first Bitcoin Festival looked like 🇮🇳View quoted post on X
What a festival!
Truly, I haven’t been to such a colorful event in the #Bitcoin space ever. I have seen a few from Miami to Prague to Lugano. So here is something that I felt.
Kudos to these three humans who put their heart, soul, and their pocket on the line to make one of the most beautiful events this ecosystem has ever seen.
Getting good speakers is important, but making it not just about Bitcoin and adding real flavor to it is also important. And this one was one big-ass festival. It literally felt like a marriage of technology and tradition here in India.
There was a Bollywood actor @kapoorkkunal on day 1 and a comedian @aashishsolanki_ on day 2. It was a full house over 1000 attendees!!
There were games, food stalls, photo booths, colors, music, dance, and musicians. All of it in the same venue and on the same ticket. Utilizing the budget is smart, but maximizing the use of the budget like this is mashallah great work.
We had a bunch of students, corporate folks, and ideathon participants. It really felt like India is growing in the ecosystem.
Bitcoiners from around the world had flown in from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, Brazil, Thailand, and more. They even got their face and palms read by local pundits who said btc be $32,000,0000 per coin atleast 😅
Will this mela(festival) stay only in India or will they take it to different countries?
Because Bitcoin is merely the salt to the meat. (Words of Santosh) And the real beauty of these small and nice conferences is when they actually feel alive like this.
Red is the new orange.
Bitcoin is a tool.
Life is filled with abundance.
Bitcoin is all about scarcity.
Choose what you need, and make yourself a promise for 2027, that you will visit atleast one unconference/meetup in and around your home. And if u wanna travel outside your comfort zone then please come to India. Let your belly be full of flavors and eyes filled with colors.
The crew of @thebitmela were always kind even when folks enetered without tickets. Hosting such an event is not easy, and I am sure the next one will be even more GRANDE!!
I guess I will be back again next year, becuase it's always good to meet your friends , meet those humans who believed in you, when you had not even 1 follower. And now here in this mela we all are blossoming like a flower. Together.
I pray and hope and wish that every bitcoiner around the world inspires atleast 1 soul with their story.
Thank you team India
Thank you @BitashaIndia ( miners and hardware wallets)
Thank you @BhartiyaBitcoin (education in 13 languages)
Namaste & Blessings
PacoView quoted post on X
It really did feel like a mela.
I came for the talks and left with new friends, memories I'll keep for a long time, and sore feet from dancing.
The best gatherings make strangers feel like they belong. Thank you @thebitmela. Counting down to Edition 02.
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From our first meeting, I knew working with @travelwbitcoin and @studentofbtc would be fun, and I wasn’t wrong. They had such a clear vision for @thebitmela, and I’ve loved helping them bring it to life. So much respect for everything these two have put into making it all happen.View quoted post on X
