Bitmela is where that changes. Two days in Jaipur, October 30 to 31, bringing together builders, VCs, family offices, and the next generation of wealth builders.
India has more developers, more mobile-first users and more household gold than almost anywhere on earth. It just hasn't had its own flagship Bitcoin moment yet.
Mobile-first internet users
Global crypto adoption index
Daily UPI transactions
Gold held in Indian homes
Open source, non-custodial, and used by more than two million people. Cake Wallet started in 2018 as the first Monero wallet for iOS and now carries Bitcoin, Lightning and fifteen other assets, with Tor and silent payments built in. The code is MIT licensed and public, and only the person holding the wallet ever holds the keys.
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Maker of the Passport hardware wallet, founded by Zach Herbert and Ken Carpenter, backed by Polychain Capital, Greenfield Capital and Third Prime.
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Maker of the world’s first hardware wallet, shipping the Model One in 2014 and building self custody tools ever since.
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Venture and growth capital for Bitcoin infrastructure, writing pre-seed to Series A cheques worldwide, with Fulgur Asia in Singapore covering Asia Pacific.
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Community custody app built on the open source Fedimint protocol, founded by Obi Nwosu, Eric Sirion and Justin Moon, backed by Ego Death Capital, TBD and Ten31.
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Bitcoin travel company hosting trips across four continents, featured at Adopting Bitcoin, Plan B Network and Bitcoin Medellin.
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Trezor’s free education programme, running in-person beginner courses over three weekly meetups in more than 30 countries.
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Bitcoin education and consulting for businesses across the Middle East and Africa, founded by Sooly Kobayashi, working with clients in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
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Air-gapped self custody from Seoul based Nonce Lab, pairing a watch-only wallet app with an offline vault so private keys never touch a connected device.
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Venture studio building Bitcoin powered organizations, hosting yearly Bitcoin accelerator programs in India and Africa.
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A small team with real operating experience in enterprise sales, operations and building companies from zero.
7+ years in enterprise sales at Microsoft, before opening her own tourism venture and hosting events across four continents.
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A decade in enterprise SaaS, now an angel investor and author helping entrepreneurs use Bitcoin to supercharge real businesses.
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An entrepreneur at heart, taking ideas from zero to one with strong operational execution across multiple industries.
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