Bitfest 2026 — The UK's Largest Bitcoin Festival
THE PROGRAMME
Four days, eleven rooms — 19–22 November 2026, Manchester. Talks, workshops, music, film and the socials, all in one place.
Programme subject to change.
Rooms and times are still being finalised, so this agenda will keep moving up to the event. Check back here rather than relying on a screenshot.
Thursday 19 November5 sessions
17:30
Samurai Short
Bitflix · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
17:45
1st Bitcoin Miner
Alex Waltz · Bitflix · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
18:00
Six Billion Dollar Man Intro
Nils Melzer · Bitflix · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
18:05
The Six Billion Dollar Man
Bitflix · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
20:00
Bitflix After-party & Nostrshire Pre-party
Bitflix · The Tap House
Friday 20 November24 sessions
10:00
Welcome to Nostrshire!
Nathan Day, AJ, Tanja · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:05
Napstr and why piracy must exist
Ben Arc · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:25
Agentic Reputations
Avi Burra · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:45
Taking Nostr for a ride
Tom Dwyer · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:05
Bitcoin, Nostr and the Future of Digital Commerce
Shortfiat · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:25
ForgeSworn
The Crypto Donkey · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:25
code collaboration without github: ngit, grasp & gitworkshop
DanConwayDev · Nostrshire · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
11:45
EINUNDZWANZIG: A Nostr life.
El Presidento Benito · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
12:05
ContextBTC
karliatto · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
13:30
Owning Your Community with Concord Protocol
Derek Ross · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
13:50
BAO.MARKETS
Pablo Denver · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
13:50
Nostr for Merchants; Free Webshops & Decentralised Inventory
Yojimble · Nostrshire · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
14:00
Freedom Tech Friday
QnA, Derek Ross · Freedom Fest · Conference Room 5 - Podcasts
14:10
Digital Commons on Nostr: The Why, the How, and What Becomes Possible
Râu Cao · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
14:30
Is Nostr culture dead?
Avi Burra, Dan Prince, Aaron of Essex, BitPopArt · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
14:50
Tools for Sovereign Humans — and Agents
Martti Malmi · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:10
Onosendai - Building cyberspace (remote)
Arkinox · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:30
Building Fountain.fm
Oscar Merry · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:50
What the FIPS?!
Zaza · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
16:10
Pakstr and Trakstr
AJ · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
16:30
Nostr is a verb
Constant · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
16:50
GM Fiatjaf!
Ben Arc, Constant · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
17:10
Closing
Nathan Day · Nostrshire · Pendulum - Main Stage
18:30
nPub Dub
nPub Dub · The Shack - Room 1
Saturday 21 November65 sessions
10:00
Welcome to Bitfest!
Joe Nakamoto · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:00
Welcome to Freedom Fest
Lady A · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
10:05
Privacy is NOT a Crime - #FREESAMOURAI
Rick · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:05
Human Rights Foundation CBDC Tracker — Nicholas Anthony
Nicholas Anthony · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
10:25
Fix the Money, Fix the Culture
Rebel Money · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:25
Build your own BTClock
Djuri · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
10:25
Why Nostr
Ben Arc · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
10:30
Seed phrase treasure hunt
Kids · Pioneer - Kids Zone
10:40
Creative Stage Welcome
CryptoRaptor · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
10:45
What can the history of banking teach us about Bitcoin?
Jan-Willem Burgers · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
10:45
Goatpocalypse - how fiat money destroyed Africa
Ian Foster · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
10:45
Proof of Work Magazine Panel
Proof of Work Magazine, AJ, Petra, Tanja · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
11:05
Beyond Adoption: Building Bitcoin Institutions Across Francophone Africa — Nzonda Fotsing
Nzonda Fotsing · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:05
Noderunners Radio & lightning powered Jukebox. The first Bitcoin-only internet radio station where the crowd is the DJ!
Noderunners Radio · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
11:05
Rain - when the cloud lands on your roof (Digital independence)
Oscar Pacey · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
11:05
Bitmap — Bitoshi Blockamoto
Bitoshi Blockamoto · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
11:10
Bitcoin board games
Kids · Pioneer - Kids Zone
11:25
Building Bitcoin Communities Panel
metamick, Jake, Dan Prince, Noderunners Radio · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:25
SeedSigner Workshop
Nathan Day, Ben Weeks · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
11:25
Human Authority Hardware
QnA · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
11:25
The Beautiful Balance of Bitcoin
Roger9000, Avi Burra · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
11:45
Bitcoin as a Flexible Energy Consumer: Turning Renewable Curtailment into Value
Ross Edwards · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
11:45
Censorship-resistant news with AI and Nostr
Peter Yared · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
11:45
Socratic Seminar: A manifesto for global governance reform
Nils Melzer · Freedom Fest · Adamson - Freedom Fest Workshops
11:45
$BLEEP - Drawing The Signal
Fzero, Proof of Work Magazine · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
11:50
Video game competition
Kids · Pioneer - Kids Zone
12:05
Bitcoin Forks: From Bcash to eCash
Vlad Costea · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
12:05
BIP54 - Consensus Cleanup
BitRoot · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
12:05
Archipelago - Become The Internet
Zaza · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
13:30
Bitcoin's biggest problem is Bitcoiners
Samantha de Waal · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
13:30
Circular Grants: Micro-lending but on a Bitcoin standard
metamick · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
13:30
Open source: decentralised in theory, hosted by Microsoft in practice
DanConwayDev · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
13:30
Omarchy workshop
Nathan Day, Derek Ross · Freedom Fest · Adamson - Freedom Fest Workshops
13:30
Cacao making with Roger9000
Roger9000 · Kids · Pioneer - Kids Zone
13:40
Poems by AJ
AJ · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
13:50
Who was the 1st Bitcoin Miner?
Alex Waltz · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
13:50
Lightning Piggy Workshop
Jake · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
13:50
Kindred.software - Family Freedom Tech
Decented/Morgs · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
13:50
Wedding Cake - a hash indexing library suitable to replace levelDb in core? - Kitchen Mishap
Nigel Sharp · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
14:10
Angor and capital allocation
Dan Gershony · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
14:10
Protecting your smartphone and building a private and secure mobile OS
Amber · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
14:10
Ordinals: Why on-chain still matters
Bitoshi Blockamoto, Rebel Money, Toby, Jim Crane · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
14:30
Fiat is dead, long live fiat - Gary Smith
Gary Smith · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
14:30
Interactive BTCPay Server Workshop + Branta to prevent man in the middle attacks 👾
Sondre / Satoshi Consult Inc. 🔑 · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
14:30
Six Billion Dollar Man - Q&A
Nils Melzer · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
14:30
GrapheneOS Workshop
Nathan Day, Amber, Pablo Denver · Freedom Fest · Adamson - Freedom Fest Workshops
14:30
Beyond the Collectible: Building with On-Chain Data Through Xtrata OR What If a Song Was Software? Building Music On-Chain with Audionals
Jim Crane · Creative · Pioneer - Creative Stage
14:30
Arts & crafts
Kids · Pioneer - Kids Zone
14:50
Suitfest Panel - Where's institutional adoption at today?
Toby · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
14:50
Handshake: The Foundation Of A Decentralized Internet
Tendo · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
15:10
Your Data Shadow: What HMRC Will Know About Your Bitcoin
Robin Thatcher · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:10
Home Mining Panel
Robin Smith, Nathan Day, Pavel Grachev · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
15:10
A Guide to Building a Sovereign Plan-B
David Daly · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
15:30
Bitcoin Beyond the West: What Africa Is Teaching the World About Money
Halima Abba · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:30
Hardware! LNpos, FOSSA ATM, Bowser HWW, BitcoinSwitch & LNbitsBox
Ben Arc · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
15:30
Free Cities: The Global Movement to Build Freer Societies
Tim · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
15:50
The State of Merchant Adoption Panel
Nathan Day, Dan Prince, David, Patrick van der Meijde, Endo · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
15:50
The Freedom Guild - Announcement
Philip Charter · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
16:10
Orange, Black, and Red
Ben de Waal · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
16:10
NoNostr Syndrome — AJ
AJ · Bitfest · Momentum - Hack Zone Stage
16:10
If Your Money Needs Permission, Are You Really Free? (remote)
Susie V Ward · Freedom Fest · Cotton Theatre - Freedom Stage
16:30
The Humans of Bitcoin - Mastering communications, outreach, and community building
Philip Charter · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
16:50
New Music Economy Panel
Aaron of Essex · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
17:10
What is a Mars Bar?
Peter · Bitfest · Pendulum - Main Stage
18:00
New Music Economy
New Music Economy · The Shack - Room 1
Sunday 22 November2 sessions
10:30
Bitcoin Walk Manchester: Rebels and Radicals
Endo · Sunday Social · Manchester
13:00
Sunday Social
Sunday Social · Sandbar
Updated automatically. Times can still move before the event.