Hey all,
Hope you’re good!
Things have pretty much come to a standstill at the Hub, we aren’t currently open due to my illness (Which has bed ridden me for quite some time). Staffing (Or shall we say having staff I trust to run the place without me there) is one of the hardest parts, many of you know Stefano (The Bar man!) but he has other commitments + without additional staff to support him it’s hard for him to just operate the Hub.
I’m still working on plans for the Hub and our Charity plans are all still in place, I’m recovering slowly so hopefully I’ll make some progress over the next few weeks and will follow with a further update
Just want to say thanks to everyone for their support with the Hub! I’m excited to see what we can build in 2024!
Topic: Satoshi’s Place, U.K. Bury, Greater Manchester (Read 1223 times)
Hey all,
It has been awhile since I posted here, Satoshi's Place has been plodding along, quite quiet but we've only had a few events on due to time constraints with myself and being short staffed, add to that the current venue needs some repair!
The team are working to add any final notes to the 2024 plan and we hope to announce it soon! In short we hope to raise the funds to move to a Manchester based site and operate maximum impact operation (Opening 6 days a week, offering all services, bill board promotion around Manchester etc) BUT estimates put this as very costly (3 year projection is around 450k (For the 3 years not a yearly cost) !)
So of course we are ensuring we have other options should we not hit this target!
I may have developed the original idea of Satoshi's Place and we may be supported (Decision & management wise) by a small (Awesome) group BUT without folk visiting it, spending Sats and Dirty Fiat at it, promoting it, giving feedback, volunteering then we wouldn't even be thinking about a Manchester site!
We are thinking to maybe explore a dual raise (Both a Bitcoin raise and something like a GoFund page) with benefits for folk who support us but we also need folk who will be able to support us on site (Management wise)
If anyone wants to review the 2024 writeup please let me know.
One of the big areas we are pushing is with a UK based charity, this will be the Satoshi's Place Foundation, its Main Goals are to Educate & Onboard, helping people understand the benefits to them of Bitcoin - We are aiming to educate and onboard folk around the UK
More details coming soon!
Website: https://satoshisplace.co.uk
It has been awhile since I posted here, Satoshi's Place has been plodding along, quite quiet but we've only had a few events on due to time constraints with myself and being short staffed, add to that the current venue needs some repair!
The team are working to add any final notes to the 2024 plan and we hope to announce it soon! In short we hope to raise the funds to move to a Manchester based site and operate maximum impact operation (Opening 6 days a week, offering all services, bill board promotion around Manchester etc) BUT estimates put this as very costly (3 year projection is around 450k (For the 3 years not a yearly cost) !)
So of course we are ensuring we have other options should we not hit this target!
I may have developed the original idea of Satoshi's Place and we may be supported (Decision & management wise) by a small (Awesome) group BUT without folk visiting it, spending Sats and Dirty Fiat at it, promoting it, giving feedback, volunteering then we wouldn't even be thinking about a Manchester site!
We are thinking to maybe explore a dual raise (Both a Bitcoin raise and something like a GoFund page) with benefits for folk who support us but we also need folk who will be able to support us on site (Management wise)
If anyone wants to review the 2024 writeup please let me know.
One of the big areas we are pushing is with a UK based charity, this will be the Satoshi's Place Foundation, its Main Goals are to Educate & Onboard, helping people understand the benefits to them of Bitcoin - We are aiming to educate and onboard folk around the UK
More details coming soon!
Website: https://satoshisplace.co.uk
Check this out ----> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61969906
We recently completed a trade off! 1 x Crate of Satoshi’s Brew (8 Bottles) for 1 x DOBLEBIT FREEDOM Coin from DOBLEBIT
We recently completed a trade off! 1 x Crate of Satoshi’s Brew (8 Bottles) for 1 x DOBLEBIT FREEDOM Coin from DOBLEBIT
Congratulations on this initiative!
I think Opening a Bitcoin Hub in the UK is an interesting and ambitious project. By focusing on education and promoting the use of Bitcoin, you can help advance the adoption and understanding of this innovative technology.
Good luck with your endeavours!
I think Opening a Bitcoin Hub in the UK is an interesting and ambitious project. By focusing on education and promoting the use of Bitcoin, you can help advance the adoption and understanding of this innovative technology.
Good luck with your endeavours!
Thank you! Appreciated.
It definitely hasn't been easy (Or cheap!) but if we don't build it, who does!
Congratulations on this initiative!
I think Opening a Bitcoin Hub in the UK is an interesting and ambitious project. By focusing on education and promoting the use of Bitcoin, you can help advance the adoption and understanding of this innovative technology.
Good luck with your endeavours!
I think Opening a Bitcoin Hub in the UK is an interesting and ambitious project. By focusing on education and promoting the use of Bitcoin, you can help advance the adoption and understanding of this innovative technology.
Good luck with your endeavours!
I love to see when people put their soul into something. This place is just wonderful, congratulations!
It's cool that thanks to bitcoin, people create such unique places.
It's cool that thanks to bitcoin, people create such unique places.
Wow, this is incredible m8! We need more brick and mortar bitcoin themed places and this is fantastic for educational purposes and adoption, and just pure fun! I wish you wild success here m8, good luck!
Thank you both!
Yes, the ides has been many years in the making and part of me knows how much Bitcoin I would have now if I didn't spend it setting up the initial Coffee Shop but we only live once!
If we can continue to showcase Bitcoin, the power of the Lightning network, educate and connect then I'll be a happy chap!
**** OPENING 16th September ****
Hey, Not sure where best to post this really but I am working to open a Bitcoin Hub in the UK which will be based in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Our goal is to Educate and onboard users into the Bitcoin space, of course we will be an actual business so will also be taking
We’ll have weekly workshops, a lightning bar, a lightning arcade, art space (Yes NFTs!), a custom lightning drinks menu (Including Brave Bull, Minetini, Gold rush etc) and plenty more on the planning!
Currently funding will cover us to open 3 days a week, probably 16:30/17:00 to 22:30 Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
The workshop and event schedule will be added to our site (and updated here) once we are open.
I’ve been screwed many times by the banks and expect to be again but my thought is that we’ll need this eventually so why not now!
This is the website: https://satoshisplace.co.uk/
This is the twitter: https://twitter.com/satoshisplaceuk
The final parts to take place & complete before we can set an opening date:
- Interviews, essential is Bar staff but we’d ideally hiring a chef aswell
- Funding to buy some final equip, projector/screen & laptops are essential but TVs, custom beers & outdoor signage are ideal
- Fibre install (Up to 28 day install time) Ideally we’d like the Fibre setup before opening as this is a USP for hot-desking, for visitors and we think a must for workshops.
Wow, this is incredible m8! We need more brick and mortar bitcoin themed places and this is fantastic for educational purposes and adoption, and just pure fun! I wish you wild success here m8, good luck!
I love to see when people put their soul into something. This place is just wonderful, congratulations!
It's cool that thanks to bitcoin, people create such unique places.
It's cool that thanks to bitcoin, people create such unique places.
We've been busy over at the hub working on the plan for 2024, I am reviewing feedback, ideas and commercials from the past 6 months and hope to have a solid plan created in the next month or so.
It has always been in the pipeline to move from (or close our) current location.
In other news, we have now setup v1 of our store, at https://store.satoshisplace.co.uk - Still a bit to do on it but it is working for UK shipping, you can grab our brew on the site!
We've also been writing up the plan for the different services to be hosted as part of the hub, one of the most interesting (And attracting the most attention) is the gaming, we've had some of the Satoshi's Place team show people how the ZEBEDEE works.
Our hub is filing with awesome merch from around the World! Thanks to everyone who has sent us merch to display!
Remember, bitcoin will light the way!!
It has always been in the pipeline to move from (or close our) current location.
In other news, we have now setup v1 of our store, at https://store.satoshisplace.co.uk - Still a bit to do on it but it is working for UK shipping, you can grab our brew on the site!
We've also been writing up the plan for the different services to be hosted as part of the hub, one of the most interesting (And attracting the most attention) is the gaming, we've had some of the Satoshi's Place team show people how the ZEBEDEE works.
Our hub is filing with awesome merch from around the World! Thanks to everyone who has sent us merch to display!
Remember, bitcoin will light the way!!
We've slowly started to add more content to our fund raising page, you can now see some more of our milestones, donate for a reward (From keyrings, to t-shirts and your own cocktail) and we've started to writeup more Entries to detail the different areas and ideas around the hub!
Take a look at our fund raising page at: https://geyser.fund/project/satoshisplaceuk
Take a look at our fund raising page at: https://geyser.fund/project/satoshisplaceuk
Say hello to Satoshi's Brew
Hey,
So we have started one of our funding raising plans and have built a Geyser Page (https://geyser.fund/project/satoshisplaceuk) the aim with this is to hopefully hit our smaller milestones (Opposed to raising funds to bring the hub to Manchester etc)! Stay tuned on this.
I've been working to bring some of the electronics i've been building to the hub, we now have the Lightning ATM set up (See video here: Lighting ATM: https://twitter.com/SatoshisPlaceUK/status/1617522187937918977)
Folk can convert FIAT to Sats (Max £5)
We've also got a LNPOS setup, this cool little piece is built by the LNBits team and is quite awesome!
To accommodate the start of the 8 week BoredToCoder bootcamp we are now CLOSED Thursdays and OPEN Sundays (9:30AM to 4:30PM). Sundays we'll have a limited bar (The team from BoredToCoder will be managing the bar) & won't be serving alcohol, here some info on the bootcamp (https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/boredtocoder-18-week-free-bitcoin-mobile-developer-bootcamp-tickets-493401315617)
Got a busy few months ahead and a lot of plans!
So we have started one of our funding raising plans and have built a Geyser Page (https://geyser.fund/project/satoshisplaceuk) the aim with this is to hopefully hit our smaller milestones (Opposed to raising funds to bring the hub to Manchester etc)! Stay tuned on this.
I've been working to bring some of the electronics i've been building to the hub, we now have the Lightning ATM set up (See video here: Lighting ATM: https://twitter.com/SatoshisPlaceUK/status/1617522187937918977)
Folk can convert FIAT to Sats (Max £5)
We've also got a LNPOS setup, this cool little piece is built by the LNBits team and is quite awesome!
To accommodate the start of the 8 week BoredToCoder bootcamp we are now CLOSED Thursdays and OPEN Sundays (9:30AM to 4:30PM). Sundays we'll have a limited bar (The team from BoredToCoder will be managing the bar) & won't be serving alcohol, here some info on the bootcamp (https://eventbrite.co.uk/e/boredtocoder-18-week-free-bitcoin-mobile-developer-bootcamp-tickets-493401315617)
Got a busy few months ahead and a lot of plans!
bitcoin pubs and cafe's are better business models than a premiss of a bitcoin college
more people would just pop into a pub/cafe more then a college. even if a "course" was free
pubs/cafe's are seen as more relaxed, open, social and less restrictive, application required entry
(plus business does get paid with the side hustle of selling beer/coffee/ exchanging coins)
you have a win there.
my gripe i have with your specific concept was the whole "onboarding bitcoin" but then advertising a sub network that operates, functions, and feels nothing like bitcoin. thus gives a false first impression of bitcoin expectation they are told they are experiencing.. thus when they finally wake up and figure out bitcoin(real blockchain experience) themselves and use bitcoin(real blockchain experience). they then experience something else and realise its not what they were taught, sold, experienced in your venue
its like saying "we are bitcoin, now hand me your money so i can sell you some WBTC or renBTC or msat"
"we are digital gold its independent of middlemen, now let me sell you some digital brass iou's that can later convert and settle, IF you have a co-partner (middleman) to cooperatively settle, where you can claim digital gold later"
if you are unable to tell the difference between bitcoin vs subnetworks like lightning. then it limits your teachings to others about the same point
so i hope you are teaching the differences and not just saying "lightning is bitcoin"
more people would just pop into a pub/cafe more then a college. even if a "course" was free
pubs/cafe's are seen as more relaxed, open, social and less restrictive, application required entry
(plus business does get paid with the side hustle of selling beer/coffee/ exchanging coins)
you have a win there.
my gripe i have with your specific concept was the whole "onboarding bitcoin" but then advertising a sub network that operates, functions, and feels nothing like bitcoin. thus gives a false first impression of bitcoin expectation they are told they are experiencing.. thus when they finally wake up and figure out bitcoin(real blockchain experience) themselves and use bitcoin(real blockchain experience). they then experience something else and realise its not what they were taught, sold, experienced in your venue
its like saying "we are bitcoin, now hand me your money so i can sell you some WBTC or renBTC or msat"
"we are digital gold its independent of middlemen, now let me sell you some digital brass iou's that can later convert and settle, IF you have a co-partner (middleman) to cooperatively settle, where you can claim digital gold later"
if you are unable to tell the difference between bitcoin vs subnetworks like lightning. then it limits your teachings to others about the same point
so i hope you are teaching the differences and not just saying "lightning is bitcoin"
Imagine --> We had these hubs around the UK offering FREE bitcoin workshops built to educate and onboard folk into the Bitcoin space!
I am thinking of our current hub as a testbed to build out what a future franchised hub could operate like - So not necessarily will the other hubs have bars, or offer food or host a marketplace etc but we'll see with our current hub what works, what attracts visitors into the hub and of course use feedback (Mainly listening to Newbies) to help us build the hub into space where folk feel comfortable to learn about Bitcoin and hopefully be able to make their first transaction.
We also want the space to be a hub to connect people - We've seen a lot (Through CoinFest mainly) that although Bitcoin is borderless that there are a lot of un-connected Bitcoin folk & groups around the UK, so if we build somewhere that is easily accessible, open through the week & weekend (Morning & Evening) and provides FREE & un-sponsored, community / transparent curated content, that we'll remove a lot of the barriers we've seen over the past 8-10 years.
I am thinking of our current hub as a testbed to build out what a future franchised hub could operate like - So not necessarily will the other hubs have bars, or offer food or host a marketplace etc but we'll see with our current hub what works, what attracts visitors into the hub and of course use feedback (Mainly listening to Newbies) to help us build the hub into space where folk feel comfortable to learn about Bitcoin and hopefully be able to make their first transaction.
We also want the space to be a hub to connect people - We've seen a lot (Through CoinFest mainly) that although Bitcoin is borderless that there are a lot of un-connected Bitcoin folk & groups around the UK, so if we build somewhere that is easily accessible, open through the week & weekend (Morning & Evening) and provides FREE & un-sponsored, community / transparent curated content, that we'll remove a lot of the barriers we've seen over the past 8-10 years.
Happy New year to all!
Fresh into 2023 with big plans!
Firstly: Checkout this FREE bootcamp we have starting on the 29th Jan --> BoredToCoder (18 week free Bitcoin mobile developer Bootcamp)
What are we trying to achieve?
BoredToCoder and Satoshi's Place Launches Initiative to Empower the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers. BoredToCoder, an open-source learning experience dedicated to making Bitcoin technology accessible and engaging, has announced an initiative to empower the next generation of Bitcoin developers. The initiative aims to help unlock the potential of this revolutionary technology and promote financial inclusion, economic freedom, and economic opportunity. Through their comprehensive learning experience, they hope to open doors for aspiring developers who want to be part of this rapidly growing industry.
Why should I do this?
Our comprehensive curriculum covers all aspects of building peer-to-peer applications using modern software tools like Bitcoin, Lightning, React Native, and Hypercore.
Our experienced instructors provide personalised guidance and feedback, ensuring that each student gets the most out of the course.
Our part-time format allows students to continue working while they learn, making it possible to launch a new career in 18 weeks.
The course includes a hackathon where students can showcase their skills and potentially win prizes.
By joining BoredToCoder, students become part of a community of like-minded individuals passionate about Bitcoin and the future of peer-to-peer technology.
When will further detail be published?
While everyone else is indulging in the holiday spirit, Team BoredToCoder is hard at work crafting the perfect 18-week Bootcamp and hackathon! We’re deep in the code, making sure every aspect of the curriculum is just right. But don't worry - we'll let you know all the details shortly after the New Year rolls in.
SIGNUP: At EventBrite OR if you don't want to use EventBrite DM me for a ticket
EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boredtocoder-18-week-free-bitcoin-mobile-developer-bootcamp-tickets-493401315617
This bootcamp is hosted (For free) by an external partner!
Second:
We are working to finalise plans for pushing the hub to its full potential for 2023 and plans for 2024 onwards, if any folk on here have any experience with fund raising for our type of setup (i.e. IRL bitcoin retail / education business etc) and are willing to help us either with feedback or ideas etc please get in touch.
All the best
Fresh into 2023 with big plans!
Firstly: Checkout this FREE bootcamp we have starting on the 29th Jan --> BoredToCoder (18 week free Bitcoin mobile developer Bootcamp)
What are we trying to achieve?
BoredToCoder and Satoshi's Place Launches Initiative to Empower the Next Generation of Bitcoin Developers. BoredToCoder, an open-source learning experience dedicated to making Bitcoin technology accessible and engaging, has announced an initiative to empower the next generation of Bitcoin developers. The initiative aims to help unlock the potential of this revolutionary technology and promote financial inclusion, economic freedom, and economic opportunity. Through their comprehensive learning experience, they hope to open doors for aspiring developers who want to be part of this rapidly growing industry.
Why should I do this?
Our comprehensive curriculum covers all aspects of building peer-to-peer applications using modern software tools like Bitcoin, Lightning, React Native, and Hypercore.
Our experienced instructors provide personalised guidance and feedback, ensuring that each student gets the most out of the course.
Our part-time format allows students to continue working while they learn, making it possible to launch a new career in 18 weeks.
The course includes a hackathon where students can showcase their skills and potentially win prizes.
By joining BoredToCoder, students become part of a community of like-minded individuals passionate about Bitcoin and the future of peer-to-peer technology.
When will further detail be published?
While everyone else is indulging in the holiday spirit, Team BoredToCoder is hard at work crafting the perfect 18-week Bootcamp and hackathon! We’re deep in the code, making sure every aspect of the curriculum is just right. But don't worry - we'll let you know all the details shortly after the New Year rolls in.
SIGNUP: At EventBrite OR if you don't want to use EventBrite DM me for a ticket
EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boredtocoder-18-week-free-bitcoin-mobile-developer-bootcamp-tickets-493401315617
This bootcamp is hosted (For free) by an external partner!
Second:
We are working to finalise plans for pushing the hub to its full potential for 2023 and plans for 2024 onwards, if any folk on here have any experience with fund raising for our type of setup (i.e. IRL bitcoin retail / education business etc) and are willing to help us either with feedback or ideas etc please get in touch.
All the best
This looks like a really cool place, I am going to have to pay this venue a visit in 2023. Just reading your recent update & I’m really happy to see things are going well after a few months of trading. I wish you guys the very best & I have no doubt that your business will be successful & continue to grow in 2023 & beyond.
Hey all,
It has been an awesome few months at Satoshi's Place and we have grand plans for 2023! Seeing the foundations working that we have now set and the potential in the hub we'll be working to raise some funds to 1: Secure our hub operations for the year (Until Jan 2024) and 2: Expand our hubs operations to educate (and onboard) further and wider through Manchester and wider.
Expanding our operation will see us open for more days and hours in the week, We are looking at 10AM to 2PM & 5PM to 10PM Tuesday to Sunday. This of course allows us to host more workshops and events aswell as make the hub more accessible.
We hope to expand our range of workshops into regular weekly or bi-weekly events aswell as hosting hands-on electronics workshops focused around Bitcoin / Lightning tech i.e. POS systems, Tickers, Nodes etc.
We'll also be focusing on educating the youth via workshops & events built (and tested) by the specific age ranges and qualified teachers.
I hope to bring a marketplace to the hub aswell, selling a wide range of Bitcoin apparel aswell as showcasing some of the more collectible things - This will hopefully allow a lot of apparel / merch sellers we know to increase sales as there aren't many physical places to purchase Bitcoin merch (or see it IRL) in the UK.
Plans are underway on how we raise the funds, how they'll be managed (if we do raise some) and a solid schedule for all of the above. Using the past few months as a basis for estimates and with the energy price rises / NMW rises coming into effect then I am hoping we can raise around £100k.
If anyone is wanting to learn any more about our plans please DM me or post your questions here - Our goal is to open more sites around the UK in 2024!
It has been an awesome few months at Satoshi's Place and we have grand plans for 2023! Seeing the foundations working that we have now set and the potential in the hub we'll be working to raise some funds to 1: Secure our hub operations for the year (Until Jan 2024) and 2: Expand our hubs operations to educate (and onboard) further and wider through Manchester and wider.
Expanding our operation will see us open for more days and hours in the week, We are looking at 10AM to 2PM & 5PM to 10PM Tuesday to Sunday. This of course allows us to host more workshops and events aswell as make the hub more accessible.
We hope to expand our range of workshops into regular weekly or bi-weekly events aswell as hosting hands-on electronics workshops focused around Bitcoin / Lightning tech i.e. POS systems, Tickers, Nodes etc.
We'll also be focusing on educating the youth via workshops & events built (and tested) by the specific age ranges and qualified teachers.
I hope to bring a marketplace to the hub aswell, selling a wide range of Bitcoin apparel aswell as showcasing some of the more collectible things - This will hopefully allow a lot of apparel / merch sellers we know to increase sales as there aren't many physical places to purchase Bitcoin merch (or see it IRL) in the UK.
Plans are underway on how we raise the funds, how they'll be managed (if we do raise some) and a solid schedule for all of the above. Using the past few months as a basis for estimates and with the energy price rises / NMW rises coming into effect then I am hoping we can raise around £100k.
If anyone is wanting to learn any more about our plans please DM me or post your questions here - Our goal is to open more sites around the UK in 2024!
Hey folk,
We are working on plans for the next few months at the hub and hope to finalize our Charity & Labs side in the early part of 2023.
We are planning to close the hub for the Christmas & New Year period, this will see us close on 17th Dec & Reopen 5th Jan, however the kitchen will be closed from this week and reopen on the 5th Jan.
We are working to confirm a range of events & workshops for Jan, below are some just have been confirmed already:
- Jan 5th: Monthly Bitcoin News Roundup
- Jan 14th: Whisky Tasting Night - Genesis Block whisky
- Jan 23rd: Bitcoin treasure Hunt - Using Where39 (1 Week Long!)
- Jan 27th: An Introduction to Blockchain Analytics
You can see our upcoming events here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/satoshis-place-52486339423
We've got some exciting stuff in development, I've just had to focus on other work to bring some funds in but got lots planned!
We are working on plans for the next few months at the hub and hope to finalize our Charity & Labs side in the early part of 2023.
We are planning to close the hub for the Christmas & New Year period, this will see us close on 17th Dec & Reopen 5th Jan, however the kitchen will be closed from this week and reopen on the 5th Jan.
We are working to confirm a range of events & workshops for Jan, below are some just have been confirmed already:
- Jan 5th: Monthly Bitcoin News Roundup
- Jan 14th: Whisky Tasting Night - Genesis Block whisky
- Jan 23rd: Bitcoin treasure Hunt - Using Where39 (1 Week Long!)
- Jan 27th: An Introduction to Blockchain Analytics
You can see our upcoming events here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/satoshis-place-52486339423
We've got some exciting stuff in development, I've just had to focus on other work to bring some funds in but got lots planned!
The hub is developing well. We've had great feedback & user input into the hub - ideas and ways we can develop further - Always good to hear!
We've nearly finalized everything for offering hot-desking at the hub! We've re-built our on-boarding workshop following feedback, we'll be hosting this again on December 9th.
Check out this for an event we'll be hosting in the new year --- > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whisky-tasting-night-genesis-block-whisky-tickets-473526619867 (Whisky Tasting Night - Genesis Block whisky)
Pushing to see if we can open 6 days a week in 2023! Stay tuned
We've nearly finalized everything for offering hot-desking at the hub! We've re-built our on-boarding workshop following feedback, we'll be hosting this again on December 9th.
Check out this for an event we'll be hosting in the new year --- > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whisky-tasting-night-genesis-block-whisky-tickets-473526619867 (Whisky Tasting Night - Genesis Block whisky)
Pushing to see if we can open 6 days a week in 2023! Stay tuned
Posted an update here --> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61226466, with the next events scheduled at the hub, covering this week and next.
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