Bitcoiners build an outpost in Nashville

Bitcoiners from New Orleans, Virginia, Chicago and California joined locals in Hillsboro Village this month for one of the country’s biggest meetups. It was one in a series of monthly gatherings that have turned into weeklong junkets featuring workshops, social hours, celebrity speakers and panels. Attendees typically number in the hundreds and have made Nashville a leading international destination for a tightly knit, fiercely loyal and mostly digital community.

“Nashville is competing for the title of best bitcoin city,” a man named Rockstar said at a happy hour during the August meetup. “It is doing a very good job.”

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