Jimmy Kostro

Under 50 days ago, BLC Media had zero views and zero subscribers.

Today it has over 100,000 views and more than 1,300 subscribers.

Just showing up, one video at a time.

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Grassroots efforts in Thailand are accelerating.

Your local Bitcoin community asks people to be reasonable, responsible, and think critically. We should hold ourselves to the same standard.

Here is our September KPI Report.

This month, our content passed 1,000,000 views on Facebook.

That matters because Facebook is where Thai people already spend their time. It reaches roughly 89% of Thai adults.

At this scale, 1 million views can represent roughly 500,000 to 700,000 unique people reached.

None of us saw this coming, a surprise proposal at today’s Bitcoin event. Congratulations to the happy couple!

Looking forward to this!

Bitcoin in the largest lecture room in Northern Thailand today. Chiang Mai University, Thailand 🇹🇭

Sometime between today and tomorrow, our Run for Freedom brand will cross 10 million views within 17 months, becoming our second brand to reach 10 million views.

Northern Thailand 🇹🇭 has developed a unique community of Bitcoiners in the health and longevity space. Twice each month, physicians and health experts lead discussions on how Bitcoin, health, and longevity intersect at the Bitcoin Learning Center.

Team work 😅

Thailand 🇹🇭: The Bitcoin Learning Center is back at Chiang Mai’s leading university this week. As always, we bring in members of the Thai community who are best positioned to communicate Bitcoin clearly and credibly to an academic audience.

In less than two weeks, we’re hosting a free seminar on Bitcoin as freedom money at the planetarium. NARIT only holds 200 seats. Space is limited, so please secure your ticket as soon as possible.

Make Freedom the consequences of your work.

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Today an International Highschool brought their students to the Bitcoin Learning Center, here in Thailand.

Often I can not believe we get to experience all of this.

🇹🇭 Thailand: The network grew by 30 students today.

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สำหรับผู้เข้าแข่งขันในระยะ 50K | 25K ✅ ได้รับคะแนนสะสม ITRA ✅ ได้รับการรับรอง UTMB Index

📍 สถานที่ปล่อยตัว อุทยานดาราศาสตร์สิรินธร เชียงใหม่ (NARIT, Chiang Mai) 🗓 แข่งขันวันที่ 26–27 กันยายน 2569 📌 เปิดรับสมัคร 9 มีนาคม 2569

BITCOIN ULTRA TRAIL 2026 Run For Freedom. This year, we bring you 3 distances. 3 challenges. ⚡ BTC50 ⚡ BTC25 ⚡ BTC10

For runners in the 50K | 25K categories ✅ Official ITRA Points ✅ Certified UTMB Index

📍 Start Location Sirindhorn Astronomical Park, Chiang Mai (NARIT, Chiang Mai) 🗓 Race Dates: 26–27 September 2026

All of this serves one core purpose, to be a meaningful touchpoint in someone’s journey toward discovering sound money.

It is truly an honor to represent freedom on one of the biggest stages in Asia.

Freedom money for Asia keynote 🔥

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Representatives from three major universities, including PhD researchers and professors, visited us today to discuss how they can contribute to advancing digital asset academic research in Thailand.

The level of talent in the room was remarkable, with several having previously competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad. It was an encouraging conversation about bringing serious academic expertise to help institutions, academia and policy makers learn the differences.

One of their key objectives is to form a legitimate Bitcoin Policy Center for Thailand.

Northern Thailand, small bitcoin seminar event (200 people) if you know anyone that will be in the area.

I wonder how many viewers have no idea we’re an actual physical community hub.

Looking forward to discussing the native bitcoin endowment framework we have been working on. AKA Bitcoin Endowment Standard.

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Update to Our Self Custody Education Standard

Bitcoin Learning Center | Chiang Mai, Thailand

Going forward, our self custody curriculum will focus exclusively on multi signature security.

We believe multi signature provides significantly stronger protection against theft, loss, coercion, and single points of failure, helping protect our students, the communities we serve, and the broader Bitcoin ecosystem.

Transparency compounds.

Full July KPI Report ↓

https://bitcoinchiangmai.org/kpi-reports

Will you be in town in two weeks? If so, come join 20 of us for our 10th quarter of BitDevs with Bob Space at the Bitcoin Learning Center. Registration link is in the comments.

Bitcoin offline is very different than bitcoin online.

We have two self custody workshops this July at the Bitcoin Learning Center.

The bitcoin communities in Thailand are relentless in bringing awareness to the broader public.

Every time someone discovers Bitcoin through your example, it gives a Burmese family living under oppression a real chance at freedom.

My Primal is playing music. I can't find where it is coming from but I like it and would like to be able keep it. Any ideas?

"When we choose bitcoin here, we strengthen the escape route they need there."

New screens in the building, serving multiple purposes.

Thailand 🇹🇭 Run for Freedom is making waves in the broader regional running communities.

The credibility of an educational center rests on intellectual honesty. When we take sides in a technical debate, we signal that reaching a preferred outcome matters more than understanding the issue itself.

By operating Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots with BIP 110 side by side at the Bitcoin Learning Center, we demonstrate something far more valuable and increasingly rare, the ability to make room for legitimate differences, help people understand the discussions, what the disagreements are actually about, and let them reach their own conclusions.

https://www.bitcoinchiangmai.org/support-our-friends

All of Asia's major Bitcoin events and their decks, in one place. Visit "Support Our Friends" on our site.

BitDevs by

is returning to the Bitcoin Learning Center for its 10th consecutive quarter. For over two and a half years, this gathering has served as a instrumental bridge connecting builders and technicians across the Southeast Asian region.

Our director just wrapped up a high level meeting with university leadership. Beyond the hardware devices we purchased last month, Trezor came through with additional support that we were able to donate directly to the university.

“In Myanmar the Generals control the banks, the central bank destroys the currency and the people are left with nothing.” 🇲🇲

The best gift is one that guards everything else, give a man a wallet secure him for a lifetime.

Thank you Trezorfor seeing and supporting the work being done for Bitcoin adoption across Asia. Thank you

for building bridges.

Thailand will host the world’s first Bitcoin Ultra this September.

Let’s chat about bitcoin in Asia this week at

One of the most powerful ways to bring people towards bitcoin is simply being yourself.

Fun day in Warsaw. Yo

who’s that guy next to

? Great film 🎥

May was a powerhouse month for our small team at the Bitcoin Learning Center, Thailand.

May was a powerhouse month at the Bitcoin Learning Center Thailand.

Financial control is one of the most powerful tools authoritarian regimes use to silence dissent through frozen bank accounts, blocked payments, currency devaluation, and restricted funding.

This curated guide created by

and the HRF team helps expand access to financial tools that cannot easily be shut down, allowing freedom movements to continue operating under pressure.

https://hrf.org/latest/bitcoin-for-nonprofits-a-guide-to-help-your-movement-achieve-financial-freedom/

Freedom + Ai Devs + Bitcoin = 🏆

Self hosted sovereign tooling is the future of freedom.

A self funded Bitcoin hub. 7 full time team members. Consistently reaching millions across Southeast Asia with financial freedom education. https://blossom.primal.net/cdde614402c84d6fa8e1334621f2820000cefe81c5ad2c2f2fbce81fa6cb00f5.png https://blossom.primal.net/8c87d005308b7fe38b34e965a5de7fc6a0e9a62edf13ec5261f3fe6708ff1f00.png https://blossom.primal.net/d26f74fcce8c0a3bf42d4d0195f336125ab688e50864a09eb0c4e662e8ce31db.png https://blossom.primal.net/0843ad3097c5725336f8cb6b83d5d40b870d5d7072ea936651435111f1492815.png

Such a cool memory from 12 years ago contrasted with the photo on the right, a reminder of what can happen when you take a risk, believe in yourself, and keep building.

🚨 Thailand discusses raising debt ceiling to 75% and issue emergency borrowing decree to fund crisis measures.

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Why is it that once you truly understand Bitcoin, it’s not something you can unsee and no matter how hard you try, your view of the world never goes back to what it was before?

"The war still reaches me through money. Imagine waking up one day and your money is worth 50% less"

A powerful young voice from Myanmar sharing the current state of Burma. https://blossom.primal.net/98dedcc554ae3dbe2231e26a64a5f5ca17d1256395b821b00be6887e10260a59.mp4

A powerful message from

during a modern finance seminar in collaboration with CMRU and Chiang Mai University

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Bitcoin community leaders, professors, and regional voices came together for a multi university event on modern finance across Southeast Asia bringing high signal to students from Myanmar, China, Thailand, and Bhutan.

Catered food will arrive at the Bitcoin Learning Center around 4:00 PM today. Anyone registered for BitDevs is welcome to come early, see what’s new, and explore how we can support you or just network and hang out. Presentations will begin at 6:00 PM on the third floor.

Bitcoin Learning Center - KPI's March 2026

During the month of March, the Bitcoin Learning Center operated across three critical fronts: government, academia, and technical building.

TLDR: Our team of 7 is driving continuous digital and physical Bitcoin initiatives across the region six days per week.

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I’ll be on stage at BTC Prague this year, joining 250+ voices helping push Bitcoin forward.

June 11–13, Prague becomes the center of gravity for everything happening in this space.

If you want signal over noise, this is one to show up for.

Tickets: https://btcprague.com/ code ASIA10 for discount.

Proof of work, early addition.

The Thailand Bitcoin Conference has just been annouced by

and the

team.

The event will be held this November 28th & 29th in Bangkok.

If you are an expat or long term visitor living abroad. You should bring value to the country and community.

Each Wednesday we host a one hour Bitcoin news segment in Thai.

Today at the CMPAO headquarters in Chiang Mai, Bitcoin Chiang Mai met with the Provincial Administrative Organization, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, and one of the region’s most respected universities.

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Today in Northern Thailand, high school students are learning how Bitcoin mining secures the global network.

Bitcoin is for everyone - including Thai monks. Chiang Mai is home to over 300 Buddhist temples (wats). it was invetiable.

The Bitcoin Learning Center is beginning a major initiative to architect our organization around sovereign AI infrastructure.

By building a privacy first, self hosted system that automates workflows and internal operations, we believe a small team can operate with the capabilities of a much larger organization. Our long term goal is to develop a framework that other teams and bitcoin communities can learn from and eventually adopt.

The world’s first Bitcoin Ultra Marathon is taking place in Thailand this year.

For the first time in Asia, multiple universities are uniting around one shared focus: Bitcoin.

Infrastructure for modern finance and financial inclusion.

On April 4th in Chiang Mai, Thailand academics, students, founders, and builders come together to explore how open monetary networks reshape Southeast Asia’s future. This is what real collaboration looks like.

February was a breakout month for the Bitcoin Learning Center.

We deployed agentic AI directly into our core workflows and moved critical intelligence fully in house.

This shift allowed us to launch a completely digital Burmese Financial Freedom division.

Educational content is now researched, built, and distributed into Myanmar through automated systems. No field exposure. No human risk. Fully remote execution.

We are building secure, scalable infrastructure for cross border education.

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Now in our 9th quarter of Bitcoin education in Northern Thailand, our center is welcoming more than 100 unique visitors each month and growing.

Small self custody workshop at the bitcoin building in Asia.

Spending bitcoin in Queenstown, New Zealand this weekend.

The Bitcoin Learning Center is one the most active Bitcoin Hubs in the Eastern Hemispher. Here the latest on this recent podcast. Bitcoin for SE Asia, Burma, Thailand and Beyond.

We build in the real world. Physical spaces, in person events, meetups, seminars, universities, partnerships and tons of weekly media. A lot of people hide behind online presence. The bitcoin learning center does the harder thing. Bitcoin education isn’t glamorous or lucrative, but the mission is bigger than ourselves.

Thai Bitcoiners hosting a seminar at University of Phayao today shows how Bitcoin education is reaching new regions and engaging directly with students in Thailand’s public universities. 🇹🇭

Asia's Bitcoin Learning Center — January 2026 KPI Snapshot

It’s not just about running; it’s about how creativity and community are driving financial inclusion in Asia. These Bitcoin races are already reaching millions and setting a new standard for impact and innovation.

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We have watched Burmese students learn how to secure their own keys not because they want profits, but because they want tomorrow. #Bitcoin

We host some of the largest Bitcoin events you’ve never heard about.

Not bad for a small education center that does not sell a product or service and teaches in a language spoken by less than one percent of the population.

Thailand’s leading Bitcoin educators are teaching at our top university today, a great day for Bitcoin progress in Asian academia. Thank you

&

for your leadership.

https://blossom.primal.net/30090ffcce9d5c6ed086e632d49a777883bf85f2cc3165c49a0b00b7b4430e09.png The Human Rights Foundation support strengthens one of the most active Bitcoin education community hubs in Asia, where open source contributors, developers, students, educators, and communities from across the region come together to learn how Bitcoin can protect freedom, expand opportunity, and restore sovereignty to individuals. We are grateful for your support as we continue to grow a grassroots Bitcoin education movement reaching across Southeast Asia.

We are built to be sustainable, and your partnership has allowed us to extend our reach and accelerate our education driven mission. With

support, we host classes, seminars, university collaborations, on site events, and regular meetups including Bit Dev sessions.

Thank you for your trust and partnership. Together, we are helping more people take their first meaningful steps toward financial freedom. Thank you

and everyone at the Human Rights Foundation 🙏

Thailand will host the world’s first Bitcoin Ultra Marathon in the mountains of Northern Thailand from September 25 to 27, 2026, creating massive exposure and awareness for Bitcoin.

We also recently launched a weekly Thai language live Bitcoin news show to help Thai audiences learn and stay informed every Wednesday at 6pm.

Educating people about Bitcoin in Thailand is still very much a work in progress, it requires sustained, long-term effort. Here we are at the university again this week.

Thailand Bitcoiners built a software tool that lets high schools and universities teach how Bitcoin works by simulating mining blocks, how mining works and how transactions flow. This test-net environment is a powerful demonstration without having to wait or experience fees or fear losses while experimenting and learning.

Adding another merchant in Khun Chang Khian today. Restaurant and accommodation Ba Rung 💪🏼

Powerful grassroots Bitcoin documentary at a small hilltribe community in Northern Thailand, only about 20 km (12 miles) from the Burmese border.

Feeling grateful 🙏

Using Bitcoin in meaningful ways.

Thailand has one of the most active Bitcoin community hubs in the world.