He Snuck Into BTC Prague Last Year. This Year He Opened the Main Stage.
Conviction got Brandon Keys onto the BTC Prague main stage. What kept him there was six years of failing on YouTube in public. A profile on why, in Bitcoin, conviction...
Writing
I bridge technology and business. Field reports from cybersecurity and infrastructure conferences, long-form interviews with builders, industry analysis. Published in four languages.
Swiss Cyber AI. Prime Time Was Global. Sovereignty Starts In Production.
Lugano, 14 April. 500 people, agentic AI in cybersecurity. Who builds, who sells, who buys. Global vendors took the morning stage. Swiss names got the afternoon. A field report from Swiss Cyber AI.
International Humanoid Forum: The Blue Ocean Nobody Sees
If AI is eating software engineering, where do the builders go? Three stories from the International Humanoid Forum in Biel - a spin-off, a rental fleet, and a hospital mission - point to the answer.
International Humanoid Forum: Between the Prototype and the Production.
Where humanoid robotics actually stands in 2026. Safety, uptime, dexterity, cost. What the engineers at IHF in Biel said about the gap between demo and deployment.
Swiss Cyber Security Days. Where The Builders Actually Are.
The exhibition floor at SCSD 2026. European alternatives in hosting, identity, security and engineering are not abstract. They exist, they ship, and they sell into real markets.
Swiss Cyber Security Days. The New Frontier Is Infrastructure.
What actually mattered at SCSD 2026 in Bern. Digital sovereignty, European cloud concentration, and why conferences do not change markets but contracts do.
Bull Bitcoin: the work behind opening a new market
Lui on expanding Bull Bitcoin in Latin America, the limits a mission puts on growth, and making self-custody usable.
Bitcoin MedellÃn: making room for the local audience
Rainier Nanquil on volunteering for Bitcoin MedellÃn, returning speakers and bringing more Colombian participants into the conversation.
Cadena: a banker rethinks who holds the Bitcoin
Kevin Bell on the custody problem behind Cadena, a year spent building, and what his banking background brought to the project.
Satlantis: finding the people behind the posts
Jordi on building an events app for a specific community, making identity portable and helping people meet in person.
Adopting Bitcoin: three months to bring a community together
Kemal on organising the first Adopting Bitcoin, learning from everyday payments and setting limits on sponsorship.
Boltz: the side project that became the business
Kilian Rausch on a failed exchange, the tool that survived it, and building a Bitcoin infrastructure company without venture funding.
Bitcoin Coast: the work of becoming part of a community
Charlie on joining Salvadoran communities, building beyond the initial excitement, and the faith behind his work.
Relai and the hard work of making Bitcoin easy
Adem Bilican on the customers who changed Relai, the demands of regulation, and the Lightning feature the team had to withdraw.
PPQ.ai: AI access without another subscription
Matt on the payment problem behind PPQ.ai, the Bitcoin traders who shaped his thinking, and finding his first customers.
Conferences
Adopting Bitcoin (El Salvador), Bitcoin MedellÃn, BTC Prague, Warsaw Bitcoin Film Fest, PlanB Forum (Lugano and El Salvador). I go where things ship and where they break.