Open House #24 - With the Bitcoin Veterans

Date: *Wednesday, March 19th 2025*
Doors open: 4:30p CT
Meetup starts: 5:30p CT

Open House, a monthly bitcoin community meetup focused on actionable discussions and as always, the opportunity to meet other Bitcoin curious/focused folks in the community.

Topic: A discussion with members from the Bitcoin Veterans group

Initial Speakers:

• Travis West, Cadre Member of Bitcoin Veterans, Operations at Swan Bitcoin. Travis is a former Army Infantry Officer. He is also a former law enforcement officer who served as a cybercrime detective. He does workshops, trainings, and speaking events on various topics, including on Bitcoin and privacy.

• Randy Kelley, Chief Intelligence Officer for Bitcoin Veterans. He is responsible for the Daily Bitcoin Intelligence Breifing (DIB) released daily through social media and email. Randy is a former Navy SEAL Sniper, entrepreneur, business mentor, and survival instructor. His background in economics, warfare and geopolitics give a nuanced perspective on the rise of bitcoin and coming battles for freedom and privacy.

• Jordan Gambrell, CEO (Chief Entertainment Officer), Bitcoin Veterans
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• Kevin and his wife Keri met while serving in the U.S. Air Force and have a combined 34 years of military experience. They have four teenagers and a Catahoula Shepherd.

From 1998-2022 Kevin served in the U.S. Air Force. He spent most of that time as a chaplain supporting conventional and unconventional forces. Additionally, he has experience in—or with—airfield operations, acquisitions, non-medical case management (DHA Warrior Care), and Human Performance Optimization. During his time of service he has deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Kevin is passionate about family, faith, community, freedom, and personal responsibility.

He currently serves on the Operation Bitcoin Board of Directors.

He is also a co-founder Return To Duty (RTD). RTD assists Special Operations Forces with neck and spine injuries.

• Econoalchemist: freedom tech advocate, POD256 co-host, & 256 Foundation co-founder.

Please RSVP as space will be limited.

If this is your first time at one of our meetups, we have a few simple guidelines to enhance everyone’s experience:

• our meetups and events have a simple and singular focus: Bitcoin. All of our topics and discussions will be centered around Bitcoin, the global monetary network, and bitcoin, the reserve asset. If you are interested in crypto tokens, stocks, blockchains, altcoins, alternative investing, NFTs, etc. that is completely fine. There are a number of other meetups to join. This meetup however is just focused on Bitcoin
• please *no photos* unless everyone agrees and there are not any other folks in the background. We respect everyone’s privacy and want everyone to feel comfortable as they participate
• while the group discussion is going, please keep side conversations to *none.* With the acoustics of the room and the number of people we expect, any conversations will echo and be a distraction for those who are trying to listen many of whom have traveled a long way to participate
• please pick up after yourself
• please do not park in the church parking lot. Feel free to park anywhere else

For those unable to attend: panels (no Q&A), where participants have opted in, will be recorded and published to the Bitcoin Park podcast. Consider subscribing to the podcast feed and stay up to date here:

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