Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Bitcoin is here.

It is internet-native.
It is consequential.
It is resilient.
But it needs more design love.
More of a design lens.

Bitcoin needs to far simpler.

It needs more beauty.
It needs to be made human.

Without thoughtful design, bitcoin won’t become what it could be–everyday money for the whole world.

But design here isn’t easy. It’s challenging. Because bitcoin is trust-minimized. Decentralized. Adversarial by design. Everything is more complex and nuanced.

Design thrives in resolving tensions.

We can and must find ways to balance security, privacy, trustlessness with the kind of simple, beautiful digital product experience the world has become accustomed to. The kind of experience we know is possible.

It’s time to bring design craft to shaping bitcoin.

An invitation to leading Silicon Valley designers

Join us at Presidio Bitcoin from September 15 to 19 for one or more days of learning, thinking, and workshopping around Designing Future Money.

We’ll dig into the biggest design challenges in bitcoin today, see how to build creative new experiences that use bitcoin, look at bitcoin-powered payments, come together to helpfully critique some real bitcoin products and explore the opportunities for remixing bitcoin with big tech.

Participation is free but application-only. Do you want to be part of a group of selected individuals who will together shape the future of money? This is going to be a small, high-calibre affair.

If you’d like to join us, see the agenda below and RSVP for the evening sessions, and apply to attend one or both of the all-day events.

All-day events

—Deep Dive: The Grand Challenges of Bitcoin Design

Designing for bitcoin is notoriously hard.

Decentralization. Self-sovereignty. Resilience. Adversarial thinking. Trust minimization.

These features, deeply embedded into bitcoin’s technical architecture as well as its ethos, form the central design constraints we work within. Can we design products and experiences that bring bitcoin to billions of users: while staying true to these values? while delivering on the promise of what this future money can be? while remaining as simple as possible?

Admission is free. Space is limited.

Thursday
September 18
9am to 5pm

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—Deep Dive: Redesigning Silicon Valley with Bitcoin

The big tech products of Silicon Valley largely shape our modern digital lives at massive scale.

Now let’s hit the fast-forward button.

What happens when we add bitcoin to the mix?

How might these products change? How would they look and feel? How would they behave? What new possibilities present themselves when borderless, permission-less value transfer is at every user’s fingertips? At every AI agent's fingertips?

Admission is free. Space is limited.

Friday
September 19
9am to 5pm

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Evening events

—Who uses Bitcoin & Why

While we design payment flows for coffee purchases, billions of people need financial tools just to survive—and tonight you'll meet the users whose freedom depends on the technology we build. From journalists in authoritarian regimes who need censorship-resistant payments to families in hyperinflationary economies protecting their life savings, you'll discover how your design decisions can literally change lives.

Admission is free.

Monday
September 15
6:30pm to 9pm

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—Designing Future Payments: Stablecoins vs Bitcoin

The future of money is inextricably tied to the future of payments.

So will the future of payments be bitcoin? Or will it be stablecoins?

Two divergent futures present themselves.

How do each improve upon fiat payment rails? What are their relative trust assumptions? Fee considerations? User experience implications?

Admission is free.

Tuesday
September 16
6:30pm to 9pm

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—Vibe Coding with Bitcoin

Vibe coding has changed everything. Including design.

Suddenly it’s now possible for anyone to build anything using nothing more than natural language.

And now that includes building with bitcoin—future money that is permissionless, borderless and programmable.

Admission is free.

Wednesday
September 17
6:30pm to 9pm

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