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Local Bitcoiners

Reed & Rev Hodl

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 30

A bitcoin podcast about Bitcoin meetups. Finding, building, and growing local Bitcoin culture through Bitcoin meetups. Reed and Rev meet with Bitcoin meetup organizers to learn about different local Bitcoin cultures and what makes them valuable.

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https://docs.cakewallet.com/cryptos/bitcoin/#silent-payments
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https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups
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You Can Just Do Things w/Average Gary: Middletown, VA | Ep. 030

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 • Duration 02:13:39

Rev and Reed sit down with Average Gary, organizer of the Shenandoah Bitcoin Club, to talk about why he moved his meetup to a low-pressure Saturday "Bitcoin brunch," how consistency built it into a community anchor, and what it means to become the local "Bitcoin guy." Gary also explains how Bitcoin Veterans works as a leaderless, veteran-led network with just two rules (no violence, no shitcoins), and why veterans are well positioned to push the mission forward. The conversation then turns to mining: Gary's work on rotating Coinbase payouts, eHash, and paying into Ark, plus a thought experiment on hyper-local mining pools and zero-fee community blocks, before the crew wraps up with the V4V leaderboards and boosts.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Shenandoah Bitcoin Club: shenandoahbitcoin.club

Bitcoin Veterans: bitcoinveterans.org

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

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Cooking Up Community at Nostr Valley w/Seth: State College, PA | Ep. 029

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 02:21:37

Seth joins Rev and Reed to talk about Nostr Valley, the annual Central Pennsylvania gathering he and Derek Ross have grown from a patched-together first year at Happy Valley Brewing into a free three-day event returning October 17th, plus Zap Cooking, the Nostr recipe platform he built around food as the base layer of culture. The conversation works through why hodl culture sent the wrong message, why a Nostr meetup is a Bitcoin meetup, and how remixing open source code is the same move as remixing your grandmother's pickle recipe. Rev ties it back to the nine forms of capital: when you spend financial capital to get people in a room, what comes back is trust, friendship, and collaboration you could never have bought.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Nostr Valley: nostrvalley.com

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

Reducing Friction and Increasing Velocity builds Culture | Ep. 028

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 • Duration 02:24:04

Rev and Reed kick off their new cadence of three themed guest episodes followed by a two-host recap. The episode begins with meetup adventure stories from a locked-out South Bend meetup and the four-year (full halving cycle) anniversary of The Western Mass Bitcoin Meetup, plus a look back at what the BitDevs trilogy taught them about cold storage, Fedimint, and Payjoin. From there the conversation turns to what value for value actually measures: velocity as the number of participants times their frequency of interaction, the surprising finding that the biggest zappers on Nostr often send out more than what they take in, and what that says about converting financial capital into social, cultural, intellectual, and experiential capital. The back half applies the permaculture lens of succession to meetup building and a walkthrough of the OnlyBoosts ranking that scores episodes on sats, boosts, and boosters rather than sats alone.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

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Rev Hodl's npub: npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

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Quiet on Quantum Loud on Privacy w/Satsie and Armin: Boston, MA | Ep. 027

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 • Duration 02:22:12

Reed and Rev sit down with Satsie and Armin of Boston BitDevs, who trace the meetup's four-year run at Fidelity and MIT and its unusually cryptographer-heavy crowd, including their ten-minute "quantum rule" for reining in the room's favorite recurring tangent. The conversation goes technical, unpacking PayJoin's promise and pitfalls, wallet fingerprinting, Armin's in-progress Fungi protocol, and how AI-assisted "vibe coding" is reshaping (and sometimes frustrating) open-source contribution and mentorship. The back half runs through Local Bitcoiners' V4V leaderboards, thirty listener boosts, several featured meetups, and this week's 21K sat giveaway.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Boston Bitdevs: https://bostonbitdevs.org/

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here:

Fedimint Socratic Seminar w/Justin: Minneapolis, MN | Ep. 026

Thursday, August 27, 2026 • Duration 02:24:23

Justin, organizer of BitDevs Minneapolis and a Fedimint protocol developer, joins us to talk about what a BitDevs meetup is actually for: furthering the community's understanding of Bitcoin without going so deep into the protocol stack that the impact stops landing. From there we go Socratic on Fedimint itself: guardians, gateways, and users as three distinct roles; how eCash notes are backed by an on-chain multisig; why the Lightning gateway is just a special client running a swap service; and what happens when a mint winds down. We close on FROST and ROAST, signing Nostr events with a federation, and why choosing guardians is a social problem more than a technical one; which makes a local meetup, with its built-in reputation and proof of work, a natural place to try it.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Justin’s Bitdevs: https://bitdevsmpls.org/

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

Bitdevs are Bitcoin Meetups w/Shinobi: Chicago, IL | Ep. 025

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 02:15:31

Rev and Reed welcome Shinobi, co-organizer of the Chicago BitDevs, for a deep dive into what makes BitDevs meetups distinct from other Bitcoin gatherings — their Socratic, technical format, and the tension between serving highly technical attendees versus newer members trying to learn. The conversation moves into hands-on UTXO management, multisig cold storage best practices (physical backups over digital), and a sober take on privacy tools like PayJoin, CoinJoin, ARC, and Spark. The episode wraps with the usual value-for-value boost segment, highlighting community topics and events and reading the boosts!

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Shinobi’s Bitdevs: https://chibitdevs.org/

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

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Meetups Decentralize Bitcoin Culture | Ep. 024

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 02:37:07

Rev and Reed reconnect after a heavy few weeks in Bitcoin, opening with meetup updates and Rev's recap of Lake Satoshi, before diving into the fallout from the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability that cost some community members their savings. The hosts unpack how centralized hardware wallet hype spread through podcast sponsorships and Twitter and became an attack vector, and argue that decentralized, meetup-based knowledge-sharing is the better defense going forward. They close with Local Bitcoiners Leaderboards and an extended Boosts segment, including a lump-sum donation of episode proceeds to the Samurai Wallet developers.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

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Rev Hodl's npub: npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here: https://github.com/Reeds-Agent-Team/Bitcoin-Meetups

Prefer on-chain donations?

Silent Payment (what are silent payments?): sp1qq0cvn8x7x43xcpmqjzmej24jr5ccnsmvqpvjcn7ctzlpntfq9u252qj70jgwxsqugcwp7tmuq6pq77ffepsklhlhv7r434ycxy00zknjygxsl0rl

Michigan Meetup Roundtable w/Buffalo: Grand Rapids, MI | Ep. 023

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Duration 02:01:03

This episode features Buffalo, who got inspired to run a meetup at Lake Satoshi and revived the Grand Rapids' social meetup at Two Guys Brewing in Wyoming, Michigan. Buffalo talks orange-pilling his family and local businesses, building a circular economy through spend-and-replace, and his plans for a "White Paper Day" regional meetup in November. Post-interview, Reed and Rev debuted a brand-new Community Roundtable, recorded live over Corny Chat with Michigan organizers Jackie, Matthew D, Bruce, and Diesel. Together they trade meetup origin stories, reflect on the friendships and trust that make meetups irreplaceable infrastructure (including a heavy reminder of why local trust matters), and make the case that Michigan has some of the strongest meetup culture around.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Grand Rapids Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/grand-rapids-bitcoin/

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us: localbitcoiners@gmail.com

Find or contribute information on how to start, run or grow your meetup here:

Getting Lucky with Meetups w/Jacob: Indianapolis, IN | Ep. 022

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 • Duration 02:08:22

Jacob from the Indy Bitcoin Meetup joins Rev and Reed to trace a five-year run built on one thing above all - consistency, the third Wednesday of every month without a single miss - and a running joke that all their good fortune is just "getting lucky." Along the way the meetup has birthed a mining company (Megawatt), put 75+ home nodes into the wild, spun off a Lightning Social night, and cultivated a genuine local economy of buying, selling, and proof-of-work reputation-building. In an extended second half, Rev and Reed swap the usual V4V boosts segment for a workshop on the community-building tools behind localbitcoiners.com which uses Nostr identities, follow packs, and community feeds to demarcate a culture and turn a podcast audience into a real nostr community.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Indy Bitcoin Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/indianapolis-bitcoin-meetup/

Indy Beef Steak: https://pay.zaprite.com/order/odp_8aFlRgBaVb?pl=pl_WjZUb24nT1

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Do you run a meetup and want to talk about it with us? Want more information about Grassroots Bitcoin or the quarterly meetup organizer calls? Reach out to us:

The Great Lakes Megalopolis w/Matthew D: Ann Arbor, MI | Ep. 021

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 • Duration 02:06:06

Matthew D has been boosting Local Bitcoiners since episode one, and this week he finally joins Rev and Reed to represent Michigan Bitcoin culture. We discuss his meetup journey from his first meetup at a downtown Ann Arbor brewery, where talking Bitcoin with a Ben Franklin lookalike in front of a brick wall felt like sitting in a revolutionary tavern, to the dozen-odd meetups now scattered from Blue Water to Grand Rapids. A forester by trade who came to sound money by way of local food, Matthew explains how quitting seed oils turned into White Paper Street Soap: a beef tallow bar he sells for sats at meetups, and a practical answer to the question of what an ordinary person can actually contribute to a circular economy. The conversation digs into why consumables are the bridge from store of value to medium of exchange, how Lake Satoshi has become the glue binding Michigan's meetup cultures together, and why a state with no single center may have accidentally built one of the best circular economies in the world.

Reed's Meetup: westernmassbitcoin.com

Rev's Meetup: South Bend Bitcoin Meetup: Meets the First Thursday of Every Month at Lang Lab 6:30pm Eastern Time

Ann Arbor Bitcoin: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/108337725431

White Paper Street Soap: https://www.whitepaperstreetsoap.com/

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