The summit venue, Haikko Manor house as seen from the south, the direction of the sea, in June. I Bitcoin Supernode Summit Finland 9.-12. May 2013
Bitcoin meetup for the ones most deeply interested in it. The Bitcoin Supernode Summit will be organized first time in May, 2013. It is based on the understanding that Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology as pervasive as the Internet. What tells them apart, is the fact that adopting Bitcoin among the first 100 million people in the world, not only gives you the edge when doing anything related to economy in the future, but also increases the value of your share of the monetary stock (bitcoins) in existence, by 1-6 orders of magnitude, depending how early you got in. The ones holding the largest stashes of bitcoins - and the means to use them for the public benefit - now, are quickly emerging as new socioeconomic power centers, Bitcoin Supernodes. The Summit develops these concepts in an atmosphere of pristine natural beauty combined with impeccable luxury.
Venue
Haikko Manor, near Porvoo, Finland. Porvoo is about 30 minutes from Helsinki and the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Haikko Manor is established 1362. The current Manor House, was designed in 1911 to be able to accommodate the most prestigious occasion that was imaginable that time - King of England visiting by sea. The Manor House was such a large project that it was only finished and inaugurated in the 1960s. Since that time, there has been no King in England. The pretender of Russia has visited it though. Haikko boasts of a 35 acre park and shoreline to the Gulf of Finland.
Hosts
The Summit is organized by rpietila, who currently runs an approximately 1.5 class Bitcoin Supernode based in Helsinki, Finland. Members from his organization will act as hosts. Currently the named hosts are Risto Pietilä (rpietila) and Roni Blomberg (rontus).
Staff
There will be enough staff available for the typical needs of the delegates, and the number of staff assigned to serve you, increases exponentially with your ticket class. If you want to bring your own staff, family members, or the like, do organize their stay yourself. Non-participating spouses of Senior Delegates or higher, can stay in the same room at no extra cost. Currently there are available rooms in the hotel compound, also the hotels in Helsinki are only 30 minutes away.
Speakers
There will be no paid speakers. Whole group sessions will be avoided. The workgroups will be based on considerations of the previous work of the delegates, and the interests they currently have. We are likely already aware of your contributions to the Bitcoin economy; if your knowledge is world class, you will be appointed as a workgroup facilitator upon your request. Most of the time during the summit is intentionally left available for self-organized work. Details will be based upon the wishes of the delegates, and updated below.
Schedule
Wednesday, May 8th
19:00 CXV (115th) Club Evening in Silverclub, Helsinki (upon separate invitation only)
Thursday, May 9th
10:00 Conference backend operational. Shuttle service between the Airport, Helsinki, Haikko and Porvoo starts. If you arrive earlier, please reserve for yourself a room in airport hotel and have a good sleep and breakfast; we will pick the early birds up at 10, and transfer to Haikko.
Friday, May 10th
18:00 Opening Gala in Haikko
Saturday, May 11th
Sunday, May 12th
16:00 Conference backend closes operations. Shuttle service between the Airport, Helsinki, Haikko and Porvoo ends. If your flight is later, we will be able to book your airport transfer.
WorkshopsDEALER NETWORKBITCOIN SUPERNODEREAL BILLS AND CLEARINGHOUSE(will be expanded soon, also the 7 non-rpietila delegates can start posting their ideas to the thread, no need to ask my permission, you can be sure we do exactly what we want in the summit, so if your idea is good, we will develop it
and the converse).
NEW: Please somebody set up a private forum for just the participants, unless this forum grants us a private section before 1st May noon UTC.
Admissions & Fees
Maximum 50 admissions available worldwide, of which currently 7 are taken.
Admission Fee is 50,000mBTC, payable to
15X968JjsbT9LBKK9kFsAeAnKwi5G6LoUp.
All (delegate&up) admission fees will be sent to this address, regardless of the method that was used in purchasing the ticket (the tickets are for sale outside of bitcointalk also). This is to preserve the order of registrations for the
98%...2% early adopter discount. This means that the admission fee for the first entrant is 1,000m
BTC, for the second 2,000m
BTC, and so on, until the registration window ends on Sunday, May 5th, 23:59 UTC, or the maximum limit of 50 participants is reached. You may reserve a ticket only by prepayment, and the order of payments after 20 confirmations is the final arbiter of the discount. In cases where two legitimate payments of equal amount are included in the same block, both will get discounted the same amount, resulting in a 500m
BTC additional payment due from both. Send PM with your details after sending your admission fee.
You may transfer your title to an admission to another. Send PM indicating the details, and pay 500m
BTC transfer fee to 18BGLrjetpWjmP4PjQfTpeLXn1gSQx2Erv.
NEW: In case of no show, we will not be able to refund your ticket, unless you convert it to "virtual delegate" latest Sunday 5th. If you do this, we will be able to refund you 5,000mBTC (regardless of how much you paid for it).
Ticket Classes
2.5th class ticket = Delegate
(no additional cost)
- 2pax room, full board, and shuttle rides from and to the airport or city centre
2.0nd class ticket = Senior Delegate
(an additional 3,000m
BTC)
- Single Room
1.5th class ticket = Donator
(an additional 10,000m
BTC)
- Butler service
1.0st class ticket = VIP
(an additional 50,000m
BTC)
- You may post a reasonable wishlist of maximum 3 sheets, and it will be granted upon availability
Details of what the higher classes get, will be added later.
A higher class gets first choice of suites, transportation, workgroups, etc. limited resources.
A higher class accumulates all benefits of the lower classes. (The costs are not accumulated though.)
Do not pay these to the Admission Fee address. We will charge them separately.
NEW_APR_29: All technical means will be available to attend to the summit virtually. If a delegate plans to do this, (s)he is expected to contact me, and start preparations from his/her part. This will entitle to a 5,000mBTC refund.In addition there will be:
Hosts (participating staff of the rpietila supernode)
Staff (non-participating from rpietila and hotel)
Guests (paid speakers who are not bitcoiners yet)
Visitors (short term tickets issued to mainly local non-bitcoiners for specific events during the summit)
PledgesIf certain threshold numbers of admissions are reached, there will be some improvements in our living conditions, plus the overall feel of the summit:
- At least 10 admissions
Airport/city transfer upgraded to black German cars (E/5/6 class or larger).
- At least 20 admissions
Everything inside the compound will be free of charge, including spa treatments.
- At least 30 admissions
A Summit Secretariat will be organized, who will provide 24h backend services for the delegates, including snacks and drinks, taxis/limo, excursions to sights and clubs etc., completely according to your request, completely for free, for the duration of the summit. This will operate from two permanent bases, both in Haikko Manor and
Hotel Kämp, Helsinki.
- At least 40 admissions
An opening gala dinner in the Romanov suite of the Manor House, with real silver tableware, engraved with the name of the delegate and the occasion, and gifted to the delegate. Afterparty in Helsinki, transfer in white limos (subject to availability).
- Sold out! (50 admissions)
We will employ the total of 30 girls to dole out free bitcoins to bystanders in 10 selected European cities for the duration of the summit. I will pledge 500,000mB of my private funds towards this free distribution.
Welcome to I Bitcoin Supernode Summit 2013![All info is subject to be updated.]