The lesson

Eleven missions in, you are in a different relationship with money than when you started. You have set up keys, run a node, learned a peer-to-peer trade, looked at jurisdiction, opened a loan quote, watched a miner make blocks, moved a Lightning payment, tested a recovery, walked an exit. The work is yours now. Whether it survives the next decade depends on something the protocol cannot patch.

Bitcoin runs on people. Strangers explaining it to friends at dinner. Builders shipping tools nobody asked for yet. Conferences where the conversation that does not fit into a thread can finally happen face to face. The code stays alive because rooms full of humans keep showing up to keep it alive. Without the rooms, the code is just a file.

The largest of those rooms in Europe runs every June in Prague. Three days, builders, thinkers, and the people who actually moved their lives onto Bitcoin. The first time you walk in, the archive stops being a website and becomes a city of other people doing the same work you have been doing alone. That is the part of the mission no podcast can deliver.

Do this now

Pick the year you go. This year, next year. Pick one. Write the dates on the calendar. Decision is what changes the year, not the trip.
Lock in the BTC Prague ticket with the TGOS code. Open btcprague.com, choose the pass that matches your time, use code TGOS at checkout for 10% off. Three days in the room is what this mission unlocks.
Bring one person who has not bought any sats yet. The surest way to carry the signal is to walk into the room with someone who is one step behind you. The conversation on the train back is what the archive is really for.