Join us for a steak on White Paper Day.
⚡️bitcoin accepted 🥩
You’ll need to book your table with the steakhouse:
To be sat with the group, in the booking ‘comments’ add:
Bitcoin table
10/6/2026, 2 engagements
Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin
Organiser of Things in Bury St Edmunds
We’ve set up a community on
.
Take a look, interact, join!
8/25/2026, 2 engagements
Follow our calendar on
to keep up to date with what’s going on in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
8/19/2026, 2 engagements
See you at our meet-up on Sunday?
Bitcoin meet-up
Sunday 23 August 11am Abbey Gardens
👶family-friendly 🐕 dog-friendly 🥪bring a picnic
///cafe.generally.slip
#burystedmunds #suffolk #bitcoin
Update your NIP-05 with a BSEBTC name:
6/14/2026, 3 engagements
Another big shoutout to the Chestnut Group who have generously donated wine to our bar.
They run a number of pubs and hotels in East Anglia with amazing hospitality.
Use code BSEBTC21 when booking a stay before the summer holidays.
5/21/2026, 1 engagement
Big shout out to Brulo Beer for contributing some of their fantastic beers to our bar for tomorrow evening.
If you’ve already bought your ticket, you’ll have an email coming your way today with a 30% discount code.
Not long to go!
Tickets still available for pizza day in Bury St Edmunds. See you there?
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
5/20/2026, 6 engagements
Have you entered the raffle yet?
£1/ticket
Chance to win 2x weekend passes to Snetterton his weekend, courtesy of Bitcoin Racing.
Tickets available here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
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We’re pleased to announce that artists from
will be exhibiting at our event on Pizza Day.
2140.wtf is dedicated to promoting the tools of freedom.
They are strong supporters of the NOSTR protocol and host the "NOSTRLDN" meetup in London, bringing like-minded individuals together to discuss and explore the possibilities of this innovative technology.
Artists they showcase include:
To learn more about our event, and to buy tickets, head to:
4/17/2026, 8 engagements
5 weeks to go until our day of bitcoin meet-ups and evening sessions takes place!
Join us in Bury St Edmunds for a Bitcoin Pizza Day not to be missed.
Tickets are only £39pp and include pizza and drink.
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
4/17/2026, 1 engagement
Friday 22 May Bury St Edmunds Pizza day
Have you got your tickets yet?
A day of meet-ups followed by an evening event with pizza, bar, pop-up market and a great lineup of speakers.
Tickets currently only £39!
This is not to be missed.
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
3/31/2026, 2 engagements
The Bury Free Press this week features our Pizza Day event and our marketing agent
(ably supported by BHODL CEO,
).
Tickets available here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
3/28/2026, 3 engagements
Have you got your ticket yet?
Lots going on for Pizza Day in Bury St Edmunds!
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3/25/2026, 1 engagement
🍕Friday 22 May 2026 🍕
Start the bank holiday on a bitcoin standard.
With a day of events planned, and more to be announced, join us for our evening event in the historic Guildhall in partnership with BHODL.
Tickets available here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
3/20/2026, 3 engagements
Bury St Edmunds: The Cradle of Liberty – From Magna Carta to Bitcoin’s Self-Sovereign Revolution
Nestled in the Suffolk countryside, Bury St Edmunds is a quiet market town whose medieval abbey ruins whisper one of history’s most profound acts of defiance. On 20 November 1214 – St Edmund’s Day – a group of English barons gathered secretly in the abbey church. They placed the Charter of Liberties of Henry I upon the high altar and swore a solemn oath: if King John refused to grant them their ancient rights, they would withdraw their allegiance and wage war until he confirmed those freedoms by sealed charter.
That oath was no mere feudal squabble. It was the spark that ignited the Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede the following year. The Great Charter limited the king’s arbitrary power over taxation, justice, and property. It declared that no free man could be imprisoned or dispossessed except by the lawful judgment of his peers. In essence, it was the first written assertion in English history that sovereignty does not flow unchecked from the crown downward, but is bounded by the rights of individuals. Bury St Edmunds, therefore, stands not just as a picturesque East Anglian town but as the intellectual and spiritual birthplace of constitutional liberty.
Eight centuries later, that same spirit of self-sovereignty has found its most radical technological expression in Bitcoin. The parallels are striking, and two of Bitcoin’s clearest philosophical voices – Saifedean Ammous and Vijay Selvam – illuminate them with remarkable clarity.
Magna Carta and the Birth of Self-Sovereignty
The barons at Bury were not revolutionaries in the modern sense. They were property owners defending their wealth against a king who treated the realm as his personal treasury. King John’s endless scutage (a feudal tax) and arbitrary seizures mirrored the very monetary predation that Austrian economists would later diagnose as the root of tyranny. The Magna Carta’s Clause 12, for instance, required common counsel for any “scutage or aid,” while Clause 39 enshrined due process. These were early legal firewalls against inflation-by-taxation and confiscation – the very abuses that fiat currencies would later institutionalise on a global scale.
In philosophical terms, the oath on the abbey altar was an act of self-sovereignty: individuals asserting control over their own lives and property against a central authority that claimed divine right over both. The document itself became a proto-constitution, a set of rules that even the sovereign must obey.
Austrian Economics: The Intellectual Bridge
The Austrian School – led by Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Murray Rothbard – took these medieval insights and forged them into a rigorous theory of human action, spontaneous order, and sound money. Austrians argue that free individuals, acting in their own interest (praxeology), generate the most efficient and moral economic order. Central to their critique is the danger of fiat money: when governments control the currency supply, they inevitably inflate it to fund wars, welfare, and patronage, eroding savers’ wealth and destroying time-preference discipline.
Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom warned that monetary centralisation leads to totalitarianism. Mises saw inflation as hidden taxation – precisely the abuse the barons at Bury St Edmunds rose against. Austrian economics is not merely theoretical; it is a moral philosophy of self-sovereignty. Property rights, voluntary exchange, and hard money are the practical expressions of the same principle the Magna Carta first codified: no king (or central bank) may unilaterally rewrite the rules of reality to suit itself.
Bitcoin as the Digital Magna Carta
Enter Bitcoin. Created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, it is the first asset in history whose supply schedule is enforced not by royal decree, papal bull, or parliamentary vote, but by unbreakable cryptographic consensus. Its 21 million cap is as immutable as the laws of mathematics – harder than gold, more portable than any bearer asset, and resistant to censorship or debasement.
Saifedean Ammous, in his seminal work The Bitcoin Standard, explicitly frames Bitcoin through an Austrian lens. He demonstrates that every previous form of sound money (seashells, beads, gold) succeeded because it was scarce and costly to produce. Fiat currencies fail because they are cheap to produce and easy to seize. Bitcoin restores the Austrian ideal of “hard money” at global scale. It eliminates the Cantillon effect (where new money benefits those closest to the printer first) and returns time-preference discipline to individuals. In Ammous’s view, Bitcoin is not merely an investment; it is civilisational upgrade – the technological solution to the problem of government money that has plagued humanity since the first kings debased their coinage.
Vijay Selvam, in his 2025 book Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy, expands this further with a holistic, first-principles approach. A corporate lawyer who witnessed the 2008 financial crisis from Wall Street, Selvam argues that Bitcoin must be understood across four dimensions simultaneously. Technologically, it is peer-to-peer digital cash without trusted third parties. Economically, it enforces scarcity and sound money. Politically, it enacts the “separation of money and state” – the monetary equivalent of the separation of church and state that Enlightenment thinkers celebrated. Philosophically, it upgrades personal values: low time preference, intellectual humility, and radical self-sovereignty.
Selvam writes that Bitcoin is “a vehicle for personal empowerment, a driver of economic sovereignty.” In his framework, holding your own private keys is the modern equivalent of the barons swearing their oath on the abbey altar: an act of declaring independence from any central authority’s monetary whims. Where the Magna Carta required 25 barons to enforce its clauses, Bitcoin’s enforcement is distributed across thousands of nodes and millions of holders worldwide. No single king, regulator, or central bank can alter its rules.
The Eternal Parallel
Bury St Edmunds Abbey was the place where powerful men first dared to say: “The sovereign is not above the law.” Bitcoin’s protocol is the place where ordinary individuals can now live that principle daily. The Magna Carta protected barons from arbitrary feudal payments; Bitcoin protects every holder from arbitrary monetary inflation. The abbey oath was a collective commitment to rule of law; Bitcoin’s consensus rules are an unbreakable commitment to mathematical law.
Both Saifedean Ammous and Vijay Selvam see Bitcoin not as a get-rich-quick scheme but as the fulfilment of the Austrian dream and the Magna Carta spirit in the digital age. Ammous provides the economic and historical foundation; Selvam layers on the political and philosophical depth. Together they show that self-sovereignty is not a new idea – it is an ancient one, reborn through code.
3/15/2026, 2 engagements
Pizza Day in partnership with BHODL.
Held in the historic Bury St Edmunds Guildhall, our evening event includes pizza, drinks, access to a pop-up #bitcoin market, and great speakers discussing bitcoin as a medium exchange. All for £39pp.
Tickets:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
//Partnership announcement
BHODL, a Bitcoin treasury and services company, are partnering with us for our Pizza Day evening event.
CEO
will also be in attendance debating bitcoin as a medium of exchange and the use of the bitcoin lightning network.
In addition, by using the lightning network, we have paid 's AI agent
to create and post social media content promoting the day. Claudia is currently posting on Facebook and Twitter autonomously on our behalf.
Details of what we have planned can be found here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/post/pizza-day-2026
Tickets for the evening are only £39pp.
3/12/2026, 3 engagements
3/11/2026, 3 engagements
Join us in Bury St Edmunds on the last Sunday of the month.
#suffolk #bitcoin #burystedmunds
3/11/2026, 1 engagement
Celebrate Pizza Day and a bank holiday weekend in the historic Bury St Edmunds.
A day of meet-ups with an evening of debates and pizza from the Mobile Pizza Co.
Tickets available for the evening event here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
2/26/2026, 1 engagement
🟠🟠 Bitcoin meet-up🟠🟠
22 Feb 11am Edmundo Lounge BURY ST EDMUNDS
RSVP via our website: bsebtc.co.uk/ourevents
Or on
Friday 22 May 26 PIZZA DAY
Join us in Bury St Edmunds for a day of bitcoin meet-ups you won’t want to miss.
Read our blog post for all the details and to buy tickets for the evening debates (ticket includes pizza and drinks)
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/post/pizza-day-2026
2/10/2026, 2 engagements
Friday 22 May 26 PIZZA DAY
Join us in Bury St Edmunds for a day of bitcoin meet-ups you won’t want to miss.
Read our blog post for all the details and to buy tickets for the evening debates.
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/post/pizza-day-2026
2/3/2026, 3 engagements
1/23/2026, 1 engagement
🗓️ Events in Bury St Edmunds this year:
Fri 22 May: Pizza Day
Sat 12 Sep: Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics.
More details and tickets on our website:
Anytime you zap our notes we add those sats to the treasury we are building.
Our aim is to showcase Bitcoin by supporting good causes in our local community and offering free Bitcoin education.
You can read more on our website, zap this note, or zap our treasury address directly: [email protected]
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/campaign
1/12/2026, 1 engagement
Sunday 25th January 11am ProcopiosPantry (find via
) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Informal conversation; bitcoin only.
Join the chat on
https://app.cluborange.org/SXbK8TXz
1/11/2026, 6 engagements
Pizza Day Friday 22 May Bury St Edmunds
We’re pleased to reveal the line for our evening event.
We will be holding debates on the theme of ‘Bitcoin as a medium of exchange’.
Tickets start from £39 and include food and drink.
Links in comments below ⬇️
1/9/2026, 13 engagements
Join us for Pizza Day in Bury St Edmunds!
A day of: 🧡 meet-ups ⚡️ spending sats 🗣️ debates 🍕 and pizza!
Want to run a workshop or meet-up during the day? DM us now & we’ll add you to the schedule of events.
Day-time events are free.
Evening event requires a ticket (available on our website).
1/7/2026, 3 engagements
Is 2026 the year you finally get around to completing this list:
- Self-custody
- Running a node
- Contributing Hash
Head to TheSoloMiningCo to get your node and home-miner today!
https://www.thesolomining.co/aff/32/
⚡️⚡️⚡️Discounts when paying with sats.
By using our referral link you will also be supporting our community campaign.
A commission from each sale will land in our Bitcoin treasury ready to help local community projects.
You can read more here:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/campaign
And donate here:
1/2/2026, 8 engagements
12/27/2025, 3 engagements
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/campaign
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The Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin Treasury Campaign
We turn donations into community support and bitcoin education opportunities.
Read more below or on our website:
BSEBTC.co.uk/campaign
Or check out our dashboard:
https://coinstats.app/p/iWwHGlLbcID6hSa
Zap us:
12/18/2025, 2 engagements
🍕Pizza Day 2026 📍Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
A day of bitcoin meet-ups, spending sats and an evening debate with all-inclusive pizza and bar!
Tickets for the evening event are available via our website (Bitcoin-only).
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-pizza-day-thing
12/5/2025, 1 engagement
Friday 22nd May 2026
Capping off a day of living on a bitcoin standard will be a ticketed evening event to celebrate 'Bitcoin Pizza Day' at an iconic venue - free pizza, free bar, panel discussions and Bitcoin vendors.
Read more and get your tickets:
https://bsebtc.co.uk/so/91PheoJYR
12/4/2025, 9 engagements
Today, 20 Nov, is St Edmund’s Day. In 869 the King of East Anglia was martyred by Vikings for refusing to renounce Christ.
Shot with arrows and beheaded, he became England’s original patron saint. His shrine at Bury St Edmunds was once one of England’s greatest pilgrimage sites.
11/20/2025, 1 engagement
Another good reason to join us for a steak ahead of the Bury Town Vs Real Bedford game next week, it’s Texas Tuesday!
#bitcoin accepted here ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Hit the link to help the kitchen out with an RSVP.
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/bury-town-pre-match-bitcoin-meet-up
: app.cluborange.org/MFPVLGVp
11/15/2025, 5 engagements
Launching the Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin Treasury Campaign
We’re stacking ₿ to build a community fund that grows in £ value each year.
Donations → converted to #Bitcoin → treasury compounds → 20% donated annually to local causes.
Read more & donate: BSEBTC.co.uk/campaign
“Bitcoin doesn’t fix things: people do.”
Our campaign will support local good causes and charities by donating 20% of the treasury each year.
Free education will be offered alongside each donation.
Every sat raised supports a local good cause.
All our events will contribute to the campaign.
Attending BSE26 and other Things in Bury St Edmunds will help the local community.
Using the Lightning Network, we can leverage global support for local impact.
Tues 18th November
Two weeks to go until Real Bedford are in town to play Bury Town FC.
Join us before the game for a bitcoin chat over steak.
The venue accepts sats ⚡️⚡️⚡️
🍽️🥩: 1700-1900
⚽️: 1945
RSVP to help the kitchen: 🎟️ https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/bury-town-pre-match-bitcoin-meet-up
cc:
🍕Pizza Day 2026
📍Bury St Edmunds
A day on a bitcoin standard followed by an evening event not to be missed, you’ll want to make sure you make a note in the diary!
A big thanks to
for supporting our Things in Bury at Edmunds.
and
have both recently walked away with a £10 card thanks to them.
Today’s giveaway was a ‘guess the block height’ competition.
10/26/2025, 1 engagement
Have you joined our mailing list yet?
No noise. Just signal.
Advanced warnings of upcoming events and maybe even some ‘early bird’ tickets…
10/22/2025, 1 engagement
By popular demand, we’ve decided to do a Thing on the last Sunday of each month in Bury St Edmunds.
We’ll look at doing other Things during the year, too, but our next Thing will be Sunday 26th October.
1100: meet at Alema 1300: steak!
RSVP:
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/the-thing-on-sunday
10/20/2025, 2 engagements
Save the date.
Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics. is coming back.
12 Sep 26
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pHi1_ReieiA
🎥 @8d5ba92c8cca3d5c7392f0393ab15bd0fc6f634325b451541e0f7c9ac6c3ecd5
10/10/2025, 3 engagements
10/7/2025, 1 engagement
We’ve revamped the website and added some new events.
Join the mailing list to keep updated on what’s happening in Bury St Edmunds.
10/7/2025, 4 engagements
Fancy a steak?
When: Tuesday 18th Nov, 1700-1900
Where: Meat & Greet (bitcoin accepted)
Why? Bury Town host Real Bedford at Cotton Lane at 1945
RSVP via our website to help the kitchen.
https://www.bsebtc.co.uk/event-details/bury-town-pre-match-bitcoin-meet-up
10/2/2025, 1 engagement
Arriving by car tomorrow?
Park at Ram Meadow Long Stay Cotton Ln, IP33 1XT
And walk through the Abbey Gardens.
⚡️⚡️There is no second best walk to a Bitcoin conference.
9/19/2025, 5 engagements
Did you know?
There will be a WORLD’s FIRST at Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics on Saturday! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
We have integrated
into our panel discussions allowing the audience to submit questions and comments to the moderator in real time!
Attendees will be given free sats upon arrival ⚡️⚡️⚡️
9/18/2025, 3 engagements
🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠⚫️⚫️⚫️
3 days to go until:
Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics.
Load up those lightning wallets and spend the day on a Bitcoin standard.
Which panel/workshop are you most looking forward to?
🤙 NOSTR 📙 Education 📊 BTCTCs 🎶 v4v 🎨 Creatives 🤷♂️ What’s the problem? ❓Something else?
9/17/2025, 6 engagements
🗓️ 4 weeks to go!
⚡️Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics.⚡️
We have three days of events planned in Bury St Edmunds including:
⚡️ Bitcoin meet-up ⚡️ Pop-up bitcoin market place ⚡️ Live music ⚡️ Bitcoin walk ⚡️ and an amazing line up of speakers.
It all starts Friday 19th Sept!
Tickets available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bse-bitcoin-sovereignty-economics-tickets-1369608077629
📣 Introducing the third Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin Folkmoot!
🗓️ Friday 11th July 🕣 From 1730 📍 Edmundo Lounge
An informal assembly of folks interested in #bitcoin and its many related subjects in the historic #burystedmunds #suffolk
7/7/2025, 1 engagement
After the success of the Joe Bryan 'Eat & Meet' event in March we go again with a summer event at the same pub - Weeping Willow in Barrow (just outside Bury St Edmunds).
The aim of the evening is simple; good food, good conversation and an interesting guest that people will want to meet and speak to.
There aren't speeches or presentations, it's a chilled but invigorating early week meet up with a unique vibe.
For Summer 2025 we bring you
, CEO and Co Founder of
. Susie works tirelessly for Bitcoin advocacy in the UK and yet has still found time to come and meet Bitcoiners in Bury St Edmunds!
It's a BITCOIN ONLY event but that doesn't mean you have to know anything about Bitcoin - if you're curious and looking to speak to Bitcoiners it's a very safe space, and if you're further into your Bitcoin journey you'll find like minded people to have great conversations with.
Feedback from the last event - attendees commented on what a great pub and space it was last time and many have been back since. The area that was more difficult for attendees and pub staff was the food situation - people mingled between groups and tables which made it hard for the team to take orders and resulted in attendees going to the bar to order the food themselves (time away from the conversations, something us Bitcoiners hate!).
We've taken the feedback on board and this time we will be charging for the tickets to cover the cost of food on the evening. The food will be individual portions on sharing platters - things like beef sliders, chicken sliders, halloumi burgers, fries etc. It will be served between 6:30 and 7:30 to allow people to continue mingling between groups as the food is served. We think this will be easier for attendees and easier for the pub waiting staff and kitchen.
All you'll need to do on the evening is sort out your drinks, and with it being July hopefully some of the conversations will spill out into the amazing pub garden, too.
The Weeping Willow also has 7 fantastic lodges; if you're coming from further afield and would like to stay over then if you email [email protected] then we might be able to help out with a preferential rate...
We hope to see loads of you there, ahead of other great events going on in and around Bury St Edmunds - see bsetbtc.co.uk for more details.
Tickets available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eat-meet-susie-violet-ward-tickets-1419366727089
6/19/2025, 1 engagement
🗓️ 14 weeks to go!
Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics. an event by
.
📍The Athenaeum 🗓️Saturday 20th September 🧭Bury St Edmunds.
Secure your ticket today! Fiat accepted, Bitcoin preferred.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bse-bitcoin-sovereignty-economics-tickets-1369608077629
🗓️ 15 weeks to go!
Have you got your ticket yet?
Bitcoin. Sovereignty. Economics.
📍The Athenaeum 🗓️Saturday 20th September 🧭Bury St Edmunds.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bse-bitcoin-sovereignty-economics-tickets-1369608077629
📣 Introducing the second Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin Folkmoot!
🗓️ Friday 13th June 🕣 From 1730 📍 Edmundo Lounge
An informal assembly of folks interested in #bitcoin and its many related subjects in the historic #burystedmunds #suffolk
6/1/2025, 5 engagements