Please join us at 2:00pm for a family friendly meetup with 757BTC for a great question and answer session on all things Bitcoin. Are you curious how to use Bitcoin or why Bitcoin is important, bring your questions to find out how the community can benefit by using it from a local business that accepts it! Come find out how the community is meeting, discussing, and using Bitcoin. There will also be some simple hands on opportunities if you are curious how it all works. As always anything that improves self sovereignty and freedom tech is a worthy discussion that is always welcome.

This month we’re doing something different. Less price talk, more building.

Planning for Bitcoin LARP

Ever wondered what actually happens when you send a transaction? We’re going to find out — by acting it out. Participants will take on roles in the Bitcoin network: nodes, miners, wallets, the mempool. You’ll physically move transactions through the system and see how consensus works with your own eyes (and feet).

This is based on an open source framework from BTC++ designed for community groups to run. No technical background required — that’s the whole point. If you’ve been trying to explain Bitcoin to someone and the whiteboard isn’t cutting it, bring them to this.

We will discuss the materials needed and the date to do the actual LARP. You can check out the existing plan here: https://github.com/base58btc/LARP

Freedom Tech Stack

Short presentation on the layers of freedom tech — what it is, why it matters, and how the tools fit together. We’ll cover how open source software forms the foundation and why that matters for sovereignty.

Vibe Coding & AI Agents

After talking about open source, we’ll show it in action. Live demo of AI-assisted software development (yes, “vibe coding” is what the kids are calling it) and a look at AI agents — what they can do, how to build with them, and why you don’t need to be a developer to start.

Bring a laptop if you want to follow along.

This is a family friendly event. Seating is limited, so if you have a camp chair it may be advisable to bring it.

Please join us at 2:00pm for a family friendly meetup with 757BTC to discuss an upcoming Virginia meetup groups summit. The team will make sure we align on talking points and discuss what we hope to get out of the summit. There will also be discussion on parts, materials, and plans for an upcoming community Bitcoin Live Action Role Play (LARP). BTC++ has put together an open source plan for community groups to run a Bitcoin network where each of the operating components are people! If you are wondering how the Bitcoin network works, there is no better way than actually being part of it physically.

Although it will be Valentines day, we hope the early meetup time will facilitate a quick group meetup before we take our significant others out on dates. We will be meeting at Mile Zero Marine, a small business in downtown Portsmouth run by a local Bitcoiner. Seating is limited, so if you have a camp chair it may be advisable to bring it.

Please join us at 2:00pm for a family friendly meetup with 757BTC to ring in the new year and discuss all things bitcoin & freedom tech. Can you believe that it has be 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block on the Bitcoin blockchain!?

We will discuss all that the meetup has accomplished in 2025 and where we plan to go in 2026!

Some members are bringing food and drink to share. This is not required but much appreciated! We will be meeting at Mile Zero Marine, a small business in downtown Portsmouth run by a local Bitcoiner. Seating is limited, so if you have a camp chair it may be advisable to bring it.

Its that time of year where you need to shop for you last minute Christams gifts. Why not support your local circular Bitcoin economy and get some great gifts. The 757btc and Virginia Beach meetup groups will be hosting a Christmas market with vendors that accept Bitcoin. All interested merchants can register at this link: Bitcoin Market Registration

Join the Hampton Roads Bitcoiners in Virginia Beach for great conversation and fellowship. The meetup will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Bitcoin exchange demonstrations and how to’s for everyone interested no matter what your skill level. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!

The weather is starting to get cold and that can only mean one thing. Time to start generating some heat to stay comfy and warm inside for the fall and upcoming winter. What better way to generate that heat than with a home mining solution! Home miners are just as efficient as any electric space heater or electric coil type of heater except with a Bitcoin miner you also get some sats back for the work! Swing by MZM on Saturday the 8th at 2pm to see some examples of home mining solutions that you can use. Learn what it takes to mine Bitcoin and the benefits that Bitcoin mining brings.

Join the Hampton Roads Bitcoiners in Portsmouth for great conversation and fellowship. The meetup will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Example mining equipment will be demonstrated and discussed. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!

Join the Hampton Roads Bitcoiners in Portsmouth for great conversation and fellowship. The 757btc team had a great time last month going over the value of freedom of speech and how it relates to code is speech with Bitcoin. The team will review this core concept as well as begin to discuss ofther core concepts such as cryptography and what is money.

This meetup will focus on the security of the Bitcoin network and how we can better understand critical scenarios that can lead to forks in the main chain. Cryptography basics will be presented, best practices you should consider while holding and interacting with Bitcoin, and some of the latest research that is focused on identifying critical scenarios that lead to forks within the Bitcoin network.

The meetup will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!

Join the Hampton Roads Bitcoiners in Portsmouth for great conversation and fellowship. The 757btc crew has listened to many locals and people online with respect to some of the concerns of Bitcoins security and viability. To many Bitcoin enthusiasts, a lot of these concerns aren’t a concern because of fundamental properties related to cryptography and freedom of speech.

This has pointed out a pressing topic, one that brings us back to basics and focuses on the fundamentals of Bitcoin that make it the strong and hardest asset we believe to ever exist. Join us as we hone in on the fundamental properties of

• Freedom of speech
• Cryptography
• and What is money

We will discuss how each of these properties are proven through time, how Bitcoin utilizes them, how it will secure the Bitcoin asset and network through time. We as a community need to make sure we are all on the same page and understand how these core concepts build the foundation Bitcoin utilizes so that we understand why it is truly a self sovereign, freedom oriented, secure monetary system and how it will change the world.

The meetup will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!

Join the Hampton Roads Bitcoiners in Portsmouth for great conversation and fellowship. The 757btc crew has deployed their 757btc app for all users and businesses in the 757. We will be demo’ing this service that our group is providing to the local community that includes:

• basic lightning wallet
• point of sale extension
• LndHub extension to control your lightning wallet with the popular Blue wallet
• Split payments extension which allows you to recieve lightning payments to a wallet and automatically split based on percentage to multiple lightning wallets
• Boltz extension which allows you to move sats on and off of lightning to onchain utxo’s
• Nostr wallet connect (NWC) options to enable zaps to notes and other stuff transmitted by relays (NOSTR) apps
• Pay Links extension which allows you to establish persistent lightning address or QR code for tips and lightning payments (This also will allow you to recieve zaps on NOSTR)

The meetup will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!

The Bitcoin crew will be experiencing a local Bitcoin farm market that day and will be utilizing that time for the Bitcoin meetup, reach out if you are interested. We are on Telegram and Nostr: 757btc.org/contacts

757Btc is always pumped to support the local circular economy and the local farmers market is a great place to demonstrate how easy day to day transactions can be with Bitcoin. If you have any questions or are just curious about Bitcoin and how it is beneficial to you and our community, reach out for a conversation and a demo. The market will have plenty of hands on activities for everyone to try. Bring your curious friends and family members and lets build the Bitcoin community. Hope to see you all there!