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 be 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.

Admission is free. Space is limited.

Apply to attend

Thursday

September

9am to 5pm

September 18

Thursday, 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?

Admission is free. Space is limited.

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Friday

September

9am to 5pm

September 19

Friday, 9am to 5pm

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Evening events

The People We Build For

The foundations of money are broken—in some parts of the world more than others.

For billions of people, a new money system that is neutral, permissionless and predictable represents an order of magnitude improvement in their ability to survive let alone get ahead.

Admission is free.

Reserve your spot

Monday

September

6:30pm to 9pm

September 15

Monday, 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.

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Tuesday

September

6:30pm to 9pm

September 16

Tuesday, 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.

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Wednesday

September

6:30pm to 9pm

September 17

Wednesday, 6:30pm to 9pm

Reserve your spot