Name: Bitcoin Holiday Party
Start: 2025-12-13T20:00:00.000Z
Location: Gold Bar Whiskey Distillery Tasting Room

**Please note, we are meeting at Stanford University this month and on a Tuesday**! We have our normal Socratic Seminar planned, alongside two presentations:

1) Sean Gilligan - [secp256k1-jdk](https://github.com/bitcoinj/secp256k1-jdk)
2) Tony - [StableChannels](https://stablechannels.com)

This is an event for those interested in learning more about and discussing Bitcoin and related protocols. The event is formatted to foster debate, information sharing, and lively discussion.

Discussion topics from a variety of sources are collated by meetup members in the weeks preceding the event. We'll discuss pull requests in the Bitcoin Core and other relevant repositories, network statistics, research papers, technical blog posts and other relevant content.

Schedule:
6:30pm - Mingling
7:00pm - Seminar
8:00pm - Presentations

SF Bitcoin Devs

Bill Thompson

Sean Gilligan

Evan Winget

Gaurav Shukla

Rick Chan

Will D.

Alex J

Guled Yousuf

Alan Ho

Aaron Wang

Vlad

Sidd Jain

Matthew Wraith

Shayan

yjane

Tony K

Socratic Seminar 64

Stanford University Gates Computer Science Building - Room 403

It's that time of year again! Please join us for our second family-friendly Bitcoin Holiday party in SF.

The event is generously sponsored by the, [Localhost Research](https://lclhost.org/), [Citrine Capital](https://citrinecapitaladvisors.com/), [Presido Bitcoin](https://www.presidiobitcoin.org/), [Pubkey](https://www.pubkey.bar/), Dulce Villarreal, [Roxom Global](https://roxom.com/) and [Viva Bitcoin](https://viva-bitcoin.com/).

Bring your friends, your family, yourself and get in the holiday spirit with your other family… Bitcoiners! [Gold Bar Distillery](https://goldbarwhiskey.com/) is providing the space and making their [Gold Bar Whiskey Bitcoin Collection](https://goldbarwhiskey.com/pages/bitcoin-collection) available to us at a discount. There will be music, light food, a bar, and so much bitcoining! All paid for by our generous sponsors.

While there won't be any kid activities supervised kids are allowed. Please register ahead of time if you are coming so we have a decent head count for the event.

Bay Area Bitcoiners

Billymacdo

Queue

Tracey Kay

Lance Pieper

Sparx 832

Ghaleon

Dennis

Anchit Jain

Fred Strauss

Will

Andrea Soltero

Tino Green

alex

Eric Garrett 

shufina

Krissy Sutton Briscoe

Karen

Mr.  William Michels

Bitcoin Holiday Party

Gold Bar Whiskey Distillery Tasting Room

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