Technologies such as RGB, E-Cash and Ark were in focus.
The event congregates figures like Adam Back and Martti Malmi.
Baltic Honeybadger is not made for media attention. He is not interested. It does not possess for cameras or makes more noise than necessary. Baltic Honeybadger goes to theirs, True to its principles that are the principles of Bitcoin and the Cypherpunk principles. With a nursing Nietzscheana, he advances without asking permission, summoning all those who have courage to build freedom technologies.
The seventh edition of the conference initiated in 2017 (interrupted between 2020 and 2021 by the restrictions on freedom of movement and meeting of those dystopic years) brought together personalities such as Adam Back, creator of the work test that Bitcoin uses; Marti Malmi (Sirius), the first person to change BTC for Fíat; and Peter Todd, HBO’s Satoshi; For a weekend of pure signal.
For those who attended mass conferences such as Bitcoin 2025 or BTC Prague, Baltic Honeybadger can look as a more modest event. But this is a characteristic, not a bug. Although the main stage seats were not filled in any talk as usually happens before panels of superstars such as Michael Saylor or Jack Mallers, this Petit Committee It also makes the Baltic Honeybadger a more familiar and close event, where all the plebs They live in the same space, without VIP rooms, because what matters is to share and deepen knowledge about Bitcoin.
And so it was. Not only in the stage, but in the workshops and in the halls, both in the rank for coffee, and in the stands of the companies; Everywhere attendees discussed the vertiginous advance of the digital panoptic and the imperative need to build and disseminate privacy tools; on the galloping inflation and the miracle of hard money; about totalitarian experiences and the fragile thread of freedom.
Dartonia knows what losing freedom means. Just review the painful history of the twentieth century to confirm it. Battlefield between the Russian Empire and the German Empire during World War I; Riga Bolshevik occupation in 1919; War of independence that would give them less than two decades of democracy to the coup d’etat of Kārlis Ulmanis in 1934; Soviet invasion in 1940; Nazi invasion in 1941; Second Soviet occupation from 1944 to 1991, to the final fall of the USSR.
During these years, letters not only suffered from a terrible cultural suppression, prohibiting language, censuring literature and promoting Russian culture, with a total restriction of freedom of expression, but its population was decimated in holocausts and mass deportations to Siberia. All countries that live tragedies of this type, They advance with the scar of distrust of the State’s power.
Probably, this explains the focus on the privacy of the Cypherpunk stage in the Baltic Honeybadger. While the main scenario spreads the talks live, on the Cypherpunk stage it is strictly forbidden to make any type of registration.
While it is essential to publicly disseminate Bitcoin so that their benefits can be accessible to those who need it most, there are conversations that are better to keep in pairs, inaccessible to the eye without eyelid of digital surveillance. Only one person, by idiocy or ignorance, was caught by directing his camera on stage and was immediately questioned by former Wallet Wallet, Max Hilbrand.
Thus the days of the Baltic Honeybadger passed, with the focus on technologies of freedom and not in barullos about the volatility of the Fíat with respect to Bitcoin. Talks about Nostr, RGB, ARK, E-CASH, offered a look at the present and future of Bitcoin’s development and how, despite the noise of institutional, corporate and state adoption, Bitcoin is still built by Cypherpunks.
But Baltic Honeybadger is not all seriousness. And if for something it matters to have freedom is to live life, laugh and enjoy friends. The panel All Time High, tradition to close the conference, in which what is high It is not the price, but the drunkenness of the attendees, reinforces the human ties that are woven in this type of conferences. And for the hangover the next day, as shone on a neon sign during the panel, Запой (Zapóy) fix this. Or, as they say in Venezuela, the mouse cures the PEA.
If all this does not sound like enough to attend Baltic Honeybadger, the event ended at a traditional concert called Rockamoto, Where we could see Knut Svanholm on the guitar, Luke of Wolf in the bass, and Giacomo Zucco singing Creep from Radiohead, and then, listen to Mir Liponi’s impressive voice interpreting Zombie of The Cranberries. Unforgettable.
Baltic Honeybadger, organized by Exchange Hodlhodl’s team, meets another year faithful to Bitcoin’s essence: Technologies of freedom, privacy and individual sovereignty.
