Bitcoin meetup Pekanbaru: what to expect

Pekanbaru anchors the Bitcoin community for Riau and the central Sumatra corridor. It is a working city rather than a tourist one, and the sessions are pitched accordingly: practical, short on theory.

Being close to Singapore and Malaysia, cross-border payments and the cost of sending money home come up more often here than in most other cities in the network.

Bitcoin is not just an asset

Bitcoin usually gets discussed from one angle only: the price went up, the price went down. At a meetup we do the opposite. We start at what money actually is, why it loses value over time, and what it means to hold savings nobody else can freeze or inflate away.

This is not about getting rich quickly. It is about understanding the financial system you already live in and taking back some control over your own money. If you want to go deeper afterwards, the free My First Bitcoin Diploma takes you through all of it in four sessions.

Good to know before you come

• Free to attend. Everyone buys their own food and drinks.
• No altcoins, no NFTs, no tokens, no projects. 100% Bitcoin.
• Bitcoin Indonesia is a non-profit. All our education is open-source and free.
• No price talk, no predictions, and nobody managing money for you.

Every Bitcoin Indonesia meetup across the country is listed on the events page.