Portuguese Bitcoin Week at the Villa Junceira Citadel

This Bitcoin Citadel in March 2025 consists of 2 days of real Bitcoin events at Villa Junceira and local tourist highlights.

Conserve Bitcoin-Akademie and Bitcoin Bootcamps have jointly developed a programme for a Bitcoin Citadel Week in Portugal: The exclusive program consists of two days of the highest content Bitcoin events at Villa Junceira near Óbidos. This highlight frames a local tourist accompanying programme on the Portuguese Silver Coast with visits to exciting places such as the surfing hotspot Nazaré, UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as Alcobaça and the medieval castle citadel Óbidos or just play golf in one of the Silvercoast's great courses like Westcliffs, Royal Óbidos or Praia del Rei.

As the core of the Citadel programme, we have scheduled a one day-long Bitcoin practice workshop with Jörg Hermsdorf's Conserve consultancy on Wednesday March 5th, as well as a Portuguese-German Bitcoin Meetup with important minds from the Lisbon Bitcoin scene (such as Joseph Hall from Cointelegraph, or Lisbon Crypto lawyer Martinho Lucas Pires and of course Jörg Hermsdorf) on Thursday March 6th.

Around the two days a complete one-week stay of a week in the time of February-April 2025 at the villa with programme and excursions on the Portuguese Silver Coast (Nazaré, Tomar, Peniche etc.) can be booked. The Citadel week includes meals (half board) and lodging at Villa Junceira - choice of single/double or shared room and transfers to Lisbon airport. Flights must be booked separately, arrival March 1st by 1 pm and departure March 8th from 11 am.

Planned programme (we are flexible on the time of the flights depending on the weather):

Saturday, March 8th: Arrival of the guests at the Citadel with pick-up from the airport at noon / afternoon.

Sunday, March 9th: First immersion in the surroundings: visit to the medieval castle of Obidos and sundowner on the Atlantic in Foz do Arelho.

Monday, March 10th: Cultural highlight tour to the three UNESCO World Heritage Sites Tomar, Batalha and Alcobaca.

Thursday, March 11th: Chill-out day, free programme like excursion to Nazare for big-wave watching.

Core-Event with Day-Workshop and Bitcoin-Meetup.

Wednesday, March 12th: Conserve Oneday Bitcoin Workshop in German with hardware wallet setup and concrete exercises on handling Bitcoin and wallets.

Thursday, March 13th: Portuguese-German Bitcoin Maximalist Meetup 2-6pm: Possible speakers: Joseph Hall (Cointelegraph), Martinho Lucas Pires (Crypto-Lawyer), John Carvalho and others, Jörg Hermsdorf, moderated by Ulf Heyden.

Evening programme from 6 pm with carnivore barbecue from the wood-fired oven.

Friday, March 14th: Chill-out day e.g. for golfing or free programme like excursions to Lisbon, Peniche or Ericeira.

Saturday, March 15th: Departure to the airport for Citadel guests in the morning at 8 a.m.

Voices on the last Bitcoin Bootcamps 2020 in Hamburg and 2021 in Zurich:

Harald R. Fortmann (Executive Partner, five14): "The range of topics, the quality of the speakers and, above all, their ability to make the points understandable for any level of knowledge of this complex yet so important subject was impressive. The event had a quality that I otherwise only know from the DLD Conference."

Dr. Oliver Bohl (Director Digital Channels, KfW Bankengruppe): "A very intensive day with absolutely competent and clear lecturers and practical sessions - for me there were important basics and I was also able to think along with more specific topics. The whole thing also thrives on the very open exchange between the participants."