BTC Prague 2026 with Matyas Kuchar | SLP733

“It's a massive event, 250 speakers. You can see all the big names, Michael Saylor, Jeff Booth, Natalie Brunel for the first time this year, and the list goes on, Jack Mallers. And we have four stages, and the topics are pretty much everything from really basics for beginners to institutional level business topics, freedom, technology. And also this year, it's very exciting for me to say that we have a new track, which is called Bitcoin Living Masterclass.”

“Regarding BTC Prague, I think we want to focus on AI and how it intersects with Bitcoin, because we can see that, for example, Pablo Fernández, the famous Nostra developer, he's using AI with Bitcoin, and the stories what he's been saying, like giving his AI agent a few dollars worth of Bitcoin, and the agent suddenly disappeared and host himself in a sovereign way, is showing us that money, digital money with no border are very important.”

“Last year in May, we just passed this law of no capital gains taxes after holding Bitcoin for three years. And another few very important development happened in Czech Republic and from the hostile territory four years ago. Now I see that we absolutely turned upside down and it's very friendly legislation, which is actually attracting the talent from all around Europe. We have most MECA requests in Czech Republic from all Europe, considering that we are a small country and we have like maybe five times more requests than Germany and our neighbors.”

“In the time of AI and deepfakes, you never know what is true. Maybe now you can still recognize, but in a few years, you won't be able to recognize what is true and what is not. But if you know me, and if you see a fire on the TV that Prague, Prague is under the fire, you don't need to trust and you just pick a phone and call, call me and ask, Matyas, hey, how is Prague? I see it's disaster. And I'll just tell you, hey, come on, it's a deepfake, don't worry, chill out.”

“Well, they know me from high school, some of them even longer. So we are meeting every now and then, talking. So they always knew I'm into Bitcoin. And I offered them the transactions, and I taught them about this, because I'm excited, so I cannot be quiet about Bitcoin. But they never got it, you know? And they kind of thought this normal thing, like it's a bubble, and it's money for that, and it's boiling oceans, all of these classic stories. And I wasn't able to convince them. So I gave up. And then, because they both, they were trading some stocks, so they were buying kind of a regular basket of stocks like Tesla, Google, Microsoft, because they know about inflation. They understand that the money are being devalued over time. And their solution was investing in stocks. And then they saw the micro-strategy, and they start researching it, and they saw it's kind of a Bitcoin stock. And that was the time when first one person and the second one was a little bit later, they came to me, and they apologize, and they start to be curious about Bitcoin itself.”

“Well, I'm a self-custody or collaborative custody maximalist. I think that holding your key is the only way how to move forward in a safe way. And I see the future where Bitcoin is being kind of captured by institutions, but not in a like in a scary way, but we will see some vapor Bitcoin. I think that this is a learning experience as everything in life, you know, CBDCs and I'm still very, very hopeful for the resistance for the new movement, which is happening.”