Riga Bitcoin Week Unites Privacy Developers and the Baltic Honeybadger Community
Riga Bitcoin Week brought together the Bitcoin++ Privacy Edition and Baltic Honeybadger conference in Latvia, creating several days of concentrated technical and cultural discussion around Bitcoin privacy, Lightning, self-custody, Nostr and freedom technology.
Beginning August 7, 2025, Riga became the center of a multi-day Bitcoin gathering built around two complementary events. Bitcoin++ held a two-day Privacy Edition at the National Library of Latvia on August 7 and 8, followed by the Baltic Honeybadger conference on August 9 and 10. The surrounding Riga Bitcoin Week also included workshops, socials and related community events.
Bitcoin++ concentrated on the technical privacy problem. Its agenda included sessions on the state of Bitcoin and Lightning privacy, network-level privacy, Cashu, peer-to-peer exchange, privacy stacks and open-source development, along with a hackathon. Baltic Honeybadger widened the conversation to Bitcoin, Nostr, freedom technology and the social and political questions surrounding censorship resistance and self-sovereignty.
The week mattered because it joined the development and cultural sides of Bitcoin in one place. Privacy in Bitcoin is not simply a software feature: the transparent nature of the ledger creates persistent tradeoffs among auditability, user privacy, surveillance resistance and regulatory pressure. Riga provided a forum where builders, researchers and users could address those issues at both protocol and community levels.
The coordinated week joined two distinct but complementary parts of Bitcoin culture: technically focused privacy work and a broader community gathering centered on Bitcoin, Nostr, freedom technology, and self-sovereignty. Holding the events back-to-back in Riga created a concentrated forum in which protocol-level privacy questions and the social consequences of surveillance resistance were discussed in the same place.