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Jeff Booth, Oliver Velez, and Bitcoin Beach Founder Mike Peterson to Speak at Bitcoin Medellín 2026
The second Edition of the Bitcoin Medellin Conference is coming. The small but high signal conference is set in the City of Eternal Spring, Medellin, a tourism hot spot for the Latin American countries, featuring rich food, landscapes, music, and culture, famous for the charisma and beauty of its people. Medelling also hosts a large international community with a strong entrepreneurship and start-up culture. The Bitcoin Medellin conference will take place on January 16- 17, 2026, in Plaza Mayor, a large event conference space near the heart of the city. The conference will feature international grade speakers like Jeff Booth, Venture Capitalist and author of The Price Of Tomorrow, Oliver Velez, Wall Street Veteran, author and educator, Mike Peterson, Founder and Director of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, Frank Corva, Bitcoin Journalist, among many other Colombian and international Bitcoin entrepreneurs.
The conference will feature two days of talks on various dimensions of Bitcoin, such as mining, finance, self-custody, investment strategy, and so on. It will feature talks in Spanish and English.
There are two tiers of tickets, General and Premium, that give attendees access to speeches and the event hall or access to VIP spaces and side events. Both tiers have a massive discount for Colombian residents, encouraging evangelism and attendance from locals, a common model in Latin America.The VIP Speakers mixer access dinner was a highlight of the conference last year, hosted at a 5-star Argentinian restaurant with an all-star attendance.
Colombia is an under-appreciated Bitcoin and crypto hub, with a double digit percentage of its imports from China paid in stablecoins a long standing Bitcoin and crypto community that has deep peer to peer and OTC market, if you are shopping for conferences next year, this is one you’ll want to have a look at.
This post Jeff Booth, Oliver Velez, and Bitcoin Beach Founder Mike Peterson to Speak at Bitcoin Medellín 2026 first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Juan Galt.
