Welcome to the London chapter of BitcoinWalk – a weekly ritual where Bitcoiners trade screen glow for sunlight, keyboards for footsteps, and endless scrolling for real human connection. Every Saturday morning we gather at a different park or riverside path across the city, lace up our shoes, and walk. No agenda slides, no sponsors, no merch table – just fresh air, exercise, and the best conversation you’ll have all week.
BitcoinWalk is deliberately simple: we walk, we talk Bitcoin, we leave sharper than we arrived. Whether you’ve been stacking sats since 2011 or you’re still trying to explain to your mum what a private key is, you’re welcome. Beginners get gentle on-ramps from patient veterans; veterans get fresh questions that make them rethink first principles. The rhythm of walking loosens tongues and drops guards. Ideas that sound abstract on Twitter suddenly feel visceral when you’re striding next to someone who quit their banking job because of Bitcoin, or a developer who moved countries to work on open-source Lightning code, or a refugee who escaped currency collapse carrying their wealth in twelve words.
As boots hit the path, the topics flow naturally. One moment you’re dissecting the latest difficulty adjustment and its implications for energy markets, the next you’re debating proof-of-work’s environmental narrative versus the reality of stranded methane flaring in oil fields now powering miners. Game theory, Austrian economics, node running, coinjoins, ecash, federated Chaumian mints, the ethics of soft forks, the geopolitics of dollar weaponisation, the mental clarity that comes from low time-preference living – nothing is off-limits. And because we’re moving through parks and along the Thames instead of sitting in a pub or conference hall, the conversations have room to breathe. A debate can pause while everyone watches a heron fish the canal; a profound realisation often lands right when the group crests Primrose Hill and London suddenly sprawls out beneath an orange sky.
These walks are more than pleasant exercise – they’re a quiet act of resistance. Every step is a vote for self-sovereignty, for verifiable scarcity in an age of infinite money printing, for a parallel system that doesn’t require permission from central banks or payment processors. We’re living the future we want to see: meeting face-to-face, transacting peer-to-peer when someone wants to buy a coffee with sats after the walk, building trust without intermediaries. Friendships forged on these paths have led to startup co-founders, marriage proposals (true story), and at least one person finally understanding what a seed phrase actually is after their third walk.
The magic of BitcoinWalk is that it’s radically inclusive and completely permissionless. There is no central organiser, no treasury, no KYC. Anyone can announce a route on the Telegram group or the Nostr relay and people simply show up. We’ve walked in torrential rain with twenty die-hards and in glorious spring sunshine with over a hundred. Families bring kids, dogs are always welcome, and the pace is deliberately leisurely – nobody gets left behind, and there’s always someone ready to slow down and explain UTXOs to a curious newcomer.
Best of all, this isn’t just a London thing. BitcoinWalk chapters are springing up spontaneously in Edinburgh, Lisbon, Austin, Munich, Barcelona, and dozens of other cities. The vision is a global, weekly, decentralised festival of walking and talking Bitcoin – every weekend, everywhere, organised by whoever feels like hosting. No headquarters, no fees, no rulers – just people choosing to move their bodies and their minds toward a better monetary system.
Bitcoin’s adoption curve is relentless and inevitable. The revolution isn’t coming – it’s already walking among us, one Saturday at a time. If you’re in London, come join us. If you’re anywhere else, start your own. Grab some friends, pick a park, set a time, and walk. The monetary renaissance doesn’t need another conference; it needs more footsteps.
Bitcoin is inevitable. The transition is underway, peacefully, cheerfully, one conversation at a time. Get on the right side of history. Put on your shoes and help us walk the world into a Bitcoin future.
See you on the path. ⚡🥾
