Bitcoin & Sovereignty Conferences 2026–2027: the Verified Calendar
Between June 2026 and July 2027, 15 verified bitcoin conference editions are confirmed or announced worldwide, from BTC Prague (June 2026) to Bitcoin 2027 in Nashville (July 2027). The biggest is BTC Inc's Bitcoin Conference; the most technical are bitcoin++ and TABConf; Baltic Honeybadger remains the cypherpunk benchmark, though its 2026 dates are unannounced.
Published 2026-06-12 · by Jordan Urbs
Search “bitcoin conferences 2026” and you’ll find a dozen listicles copying each other’s dates… most unchecked, some pointing at events that quietly died a year ago.
This page works differently. Every date below was verified against the organizer’s own announcement in June 2026: 19 conference series tracked, 26 editions in the database, 15 of them still ahead.
The live version of this page is the events calendar, which updates as organizers confirm new dates. Treat this guide as the annotated map and that page as the source of record.
(The dormant series are listed too. Knowing what’s not happening saves more flight money than knowing what is.)
The verified calendar: June 2026 through July 2027
Fifteen editions confirmed or announced as of June 12, 2026, in date order. The first one is wrapping up the week this page publishes.
| Dates | Event | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11–13, 2026 | BTC Prague | Prague | Czech Republic |
| Jun 17–19, 2026 | bitcoin++ (works in public) | Nairobi | Kenya |
| Jun 21–28, 2026 | PorcFest | New Hampshire, statewide | USA |
| Jul 22–24, 2026 | bitcoin++ (consensus edition) | Toronto | Canada |
| Oct 1–3, 2026 | bitcoin++ (payments edition) | Berlin | Germany |
| Oct 12–15, 2026 | TABConf 8 | Atlanta | USA |
| Oct 23–24, 2026 | Plan B Forum | Lugano | Switzerland |
| Nov 5–6, 2026 | bitcoin++ (privacy edition) | Seoul | South Korea |
| Nov 5–6, 2026 | Bitcoin Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Nov 29–Dec 1, 2026 | LABITCONF | Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Dec 2–5, 2026 | Africa Bitcoin Conference | Blantyre | Malawi |
| Dec 7–8, 2026 | Bitcoin MENA | Abu Dhabi | UAE |
| Jan 29–30, 2027 | Plan B Forum El Salvador | San Salvador | El Salvador |
| Jul 15–17, 2027 | Bitcoin 2027 | Nashville | USA |
| Dates TBA | Bitcoin Alive | Sydney | Australia |
Three absences worth flagging.
Baltic Honeybadger, the longest-running bitcoin-only conference (Riga every year since 2017, organized by Hodl Hodl), usually lands in August but had no 2026 dates posted when we verified. Same story for SatsConf in São Paulo, which last ran November 7–8, 2025. And Adopting Bitcoin runs irregularly: its Cape Town edition wrapped January 31, 2026, with no next stop announced.
Will all three run again? Probably… each looks like a healthy series, not a dying one. But “probably” doesn’t book flights, so they stay off the table until the organizers speak.
Four kinds of conference, and the tags that sort them
Every event in the directory carries tags, because “bitcoin conference” covers wildly different rooms.
Bitcoin-only. No altcoin programming at all. This is most of the list: BTC Prague, Baltic Honeybadger, TABConf, both Plan B forums, Bitcoin MENA, SatsConf, Bitcoin Alive in Sydney, and the BTC Inc events.
Crypto-broad. LABITCONF is the main one here: Latin America’s longest-running conference (founded 2013 by the nonprofit ONG Bitcoin Argentina) covers bitcoin alongside stablecoins and regional adoption. Broader than purists want, useful if your interest is the whole regional picture.
Developer. bitcoin++ runs several small themed editions a year — 2026 alone covers consensus in Toronto, payments in Berlin, and privacy in Seoul. TABConf in Atlanta uses a village format where around a thousand attendees hack on projects next to core contributors. Adopting Bitcoin sits between developer and grassroots, focused on real-world adoption since its 2021 start in San Salvador.
Freedom-tech. PorcFest is a week-long libertarian camping festival, running in New Hampshire since 2004 (and in 2026 it leaves its longtime campground for a statewide, multi-venue format, June 21–28). The Oslo Freedom Forum is a human-rights conference whose freedom-tech track became a key meeting point for bitcoin and activism; its 2026 edition ran June 1–3. The Network State Conference is adjacent territory, covering startup societies and parallel institutions, with no 2026 edition announced as of mid-June.
Which room you want
First conference, want energy and breadth: BTC Prague, with roughly 10,000 people, a beginner track, and a large expo hall. Or the Africa Bitcoin Conference if you’re on the continent: attendance in the low thousands, affordable tickets, grassroots focus.
You ship code: TABConf or whichever bitcoin++ edition matches your current obsession. Both stay deliberately small and build around workshops rather than keynotes. Neither is beginner territory, and neither pretends to be.
You follow policy and macro: Plan B Forum Lugano or Bitcoin MENA. One caveat the directory flags on both Plan B forums: Tether co-funds them, and sponsor perspective shapes the programming. Worth knowing before you weigh what you hear on stage.
You want cypherpunk signal: Baltic Honeybadger. One to two thousand people, self-custody and privacy programming, zero hype content. When it has dates.
You want to read the industry: the Bitcoin Conference flagship, 30,000+ attendees, headline politicians, a massive expo floor. Useful for sensing where money and policy are flowing, thin on technical depth. Tickets cost real money and the vibe is trade show, which is fine if a trade show is what you came for.
For fellow builders deciding where a limited travel budget goes: one small technical event tends to return more than three expo floors. (The hallway track at a 1,000-person conference is half of what you’re paying for.)
What’s gone quiet
Most conference calendars never delete anything. This one does, and these are the current deletions:
Bitcoin Atlantis is dormant. The 2024 debut in Funchal, Madeira drew about 3,000 attendees and 200 speakers, with strong freedom-tech programming… then nothing. No edition since, and no announced return from organizer FREE Madeira.
Surfin’ Bitcoin pivoted. France’s main bitcoin conference ran from the Casino de Biarritz every August starting in 2020. In 2025 the StackinSat team switched to a touring Tour de France format, and no new Biarritz edition has been confirmed since.
Network State Conference: unannounced. The last edition ran in Singapore on October 3, 2025. As of mid-June 2026, nothing for this year.
None of these count as failures, exactly. Series go quiet, reformat, come back under new names. But a calendar that still lists “Bitcoin Atlantis 2026 (expected)” is guessing with your travel budget.
How to read a conference announcement
The directory uses two statuses, and the difference matters when you’re booking.
Confirmed means the organizer published dates plus a venue or ticket link. TABConf 8 at Georgia Tech, October 12–15, is confirmed.
Announced means the organizer committed publicly but details are thinner. Bitcoin Amsterdam has dates but no venue yet; Bitcoin Alive has a venue but no dates. Real commitments, incomplete information.
What never makes this list: “expected” dates extrapolated from last year’s pattern.
That extrapolation is exactly how rumor calendars work… and rumor calendars are how people book flights to cancelled events. An event that ran in August three years straight tells you about the past three Augusts, and nothing about this one.
So the rule here stays boring on purpose: organizer-confirmed information only, a visible verification date (June 2026 for everything above), and dormant series labeled dormant.
If a date on this page ever disagrees with the live calendar, trust the calendar. That’s the page we update first.