Bitcoin Magazine Tampa Bay’s Bitcoin Community Builds Circular Economy Momentum After 1 BTC Windfall

Two years after clinching 1 BTC in a national competition of Bitcoin meetups at Bitcoin 2023, the Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup—now formalized as the nonprofit Bitcoin Bay Foundation—has channeled the prize into a thriving local ecosystem. Valued at roughly $25,000 to $30,000 at the time, that bitcoin has appreciated to over $100,000 amid bitcoin’s bull run, bootstrapping workshops, conferences, and community events that onboard businesses to the Bitcoin standard. The group’s president, Thomas Schlemmer, credits the win with supercharging efforts to create a “Bitcoin circular economy” in the Tampa Bay area.

“The Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup is the longest active running meetup, at least in the U.S

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