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Connect: launch of the Dutch Bitcoin Embassy
- Date
- Thursday 15 January 2026, 10:30
- Block
- 932.363
- Location
- Paviljoen de Witte
The Hague
This event is over and is in the archive.
On 15 January 2026 the Dutch Bitcoin Embassy formally launched at Paviljoen de Witte in The Hague. Connect brought together leaders in finance, Bitcoin, entrepreneurship, real estate and exponential technologies.
The programme: talks and panels in Dutch, a startup pitch, art on the Bitcoin blockchain and a closing keynote by Jeff Booth. The day began with a walking lunch and ended with a matching dinner. Most seats were by invitation; the event was sold out.
Each ticket automatically included six months of free Business Club membership.
Program
- 10:30Input and Registration
- 11:00Opening and launching Dutch Bitcoin Embassy by Dirk Taat, plus "How Bitcoin changed my life" by Marc van Versendaal
- 11:20Jeroen Blokland presentation: scarcity and a Bitcoin fund
- 11:50Panel: Entrepreneurship in a Bitcoin world, with Mike Lelieveld (Bitcoin Alpha) and Jos Lazet (Blockrise), moderated by Pieter Voogt
- 12:15The Dutch Bitcoin Embassy
- 12:45Network climbing
- 13:30Startup pitch: Bitcoin Safeguard (Advanced Self-Custody)
- 13:45Panel: Bitcoin-based investments, with Khing Oei (Treasury) and Nelis van de Wiel (Jan3 Finance), moderated by Marc van Versendaal
- 14:15Fireside chat: Bram Kanstein and Boris van de Ven
- 14:45Art on the Bitcoin Blockchain (Maarten Smakman)
- 15:15Coffee break and networking
- 16:00Closing keynote (Remote): Jeff Booth
- 16:45Q&A
- 17:00The inclusion
- 17:30Networked
- 18:30Matching dinner, three corridors
Speakers
- Jeff BoothEntrepreneur, author, general partner
- Khing OeiFounder and CEO
- Jeroen BloklandFounder and Manager of Blokland Smart Multi-Asset Fund
- Bram KansteinCo-founder Dutch Bitcoin Embassy, host Bitcoin for Millennials podcast
- MVMorris VerdonkFounder
- Mike LelieveldAnalyst and co-owned
- NWNelis van de WielHead of Jan3 Finance
- Maarten SmakmanArtist of Exponential Technologies, Project Copernicus
- Jos LazetFounder and CEO
- Marc van VersendaalCo-founder Dutch Bitcoin Embassy, founder Bitcoin Economics Unseen
- Pieter VoogtCo-founder Dutch Bitcoin Embassy, entrepreneur (Bitcoin, golf and business)
- Dirk TaatCEO of Titaan Development
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