Sunday, June 28, 2026 — Banff National Park, Alberta
Bitcoin Survival Workshop
Escape Financial Repression — Master the Security & Privacy Tools That Keep Your Stack Untouchable
Small group — spots strictly limited
Cold Card hardware wallet included
If you’re reading this, you already know: the fiat system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed, against you. Frozen bank accounts. Seized donations. Deplatformed payments. From Canada’s trucker crackdown to Nigeria’s locked accounts to China’s social credit grid, financial censorship is a global vice grip — and it is tightening in real time.
Bitcoin is your escape hatch. But owning Bitcoin isn’t enough. If you can’t secure it, move it privately, and acquire it without leaving a trail — you’re still one government memo away from losing everything.
This workshop exists because knowing Bitcoin in theory and wielding it in practice are two very different things. In one day, you will leave with the skills, the tools, and the hardware to operate like a true sovereign — with no gaps in your armor.
We’ve distilled hard-earned lessons from attacks on dissidents and freedom fighters worldwide into a hands-on, scenario-based masterclass. This isn’t a lecture — it’s a working session. You’ll leave with every tool configured, every technique practiced, and zero gaps in your defense.
The curriculum
What you’ll master
Every session builds on the last — from cold storage foundation to peer-to-peer trading, you’ll have the full sovereignty stack covered by end of day.
Section 1
Secure it
Part 1 — Cold storage foundation
Lock it down from the ground up
Set up BitChat for encrypted Bluetooth communication — off the surveillance grid before we even begin. Initialize your Cold Card hardware wallet, then pair it seamlessly with the Bull Bitcoin mobile wallet. This is your sovereign foundation: air-gapped, self-custodied, and built to outlast any system trying to confiscate it.
Part 2 — Bulletproof backup and recovery
The backup strategy most Bitcoiners never get right
A wallet you can’t recover is a time bomb. Learn to use Seed Vault and BIP-85 to create a recoverable, hierarchically derived seed structure — so your wallet is both ironclad in security and resilient against loss. This alone is worth the price of admission.
Section 2
Move it
Part 1 — Layer 2s and swaps
Swift, stealthy, and sovereign
Execute Lightning and Liquid transactions, and swap fluidly between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid. Understand when to use each layer and how to move value across them without friction — or a trace. Bitcoin’s second layers aren’t optional extras; they’re your tactical advantage.
Part 2 — Advanced transactions
Break chain analysis cold
Go deep on pay join transactions using the Bull wallet and push transactions using the Cold Card. These are the techniques that shatter chain surveillance and give your on-chain activity the privacy it deserves. The blockchain is public — but it doesn’t have to tell your story.
Section 3
Spend it
No fiat. No banks. No permission. You’ll purchase a Silent Link eSIM — a mobile number with no identity attached — and set up a Mullvad VPN, both paid entirely in Bitcoin. This is what living on a Bitcoin Standard actually looks like. Not theoretical. Not someday. Today, in this room, with your own hands. You’ll walk out with a fully private communications stack, funded without touching a single dirty dollar.
Section 4
Peer-to-peer exchange
The final frontier: buy and sell Bitcoin without handing your identity to any exchange. Live demonstration of HODL HODL — the peer-to-peer marketplace where you trade directly with counterparties. No KYC gatekeepers. No surveillance. No middlemen. Walk out knowing exactly how to acquire and offload sats on your own terms, any time, from anywhere in the world.
Your Sunday in Banff
The full day experience
This isn’t a seminar you sit through. It’s an immersive day — rigorous training followed by mountain air, good food, and the kind of conversations you can’t have anywhere else.
Make a week of it
The Bitcoin pilgrimage
The workshop is one day — but the week around it is something special. Western Canada’s Bitcoin community is converging on Calgary and Banff. Don’t just attend the workshop. Make it a trip.
Wed, June 24
The SAT Market
4:00 – 9:00 PM at Platform Innovation Center, Calgary. Buy goods and services for Bitcoin directly from local vendors — no fiat required.
Thu–Fri, June 25–26
Bitcoin Rodeo 2026
Western Canada’s premier Bitcoin conference at The GRAND Theatre, Calgary. Noon–7pm both days. Nathan and Ben are both on stage.
Sat, June 27
Early arrival — Banff
Come up Saturday. Ben, Nathan, and other attendees will be there. Expect a welcome cocktail social and a first taste of the Kenrick. Preferred pricing available.
Mon, June 29+
Extend your stay
Want more Banff? Stay Monday or beyond. We’ll arrange preferred pricing at the Kenrick so you can keep breathing the mountain air.
Your hosts
Led by the best in the game
Ben Perrin
The #1 Bitcoin educator in the world
BTC Sessions
Podcast host
Nathan Fitzsimons
Bitcoin educator & workshop host
Bitcoin educator
Podcast host
Both Nathan and Ben are speaking at the Bitcoin Rodeo the week prior. This is a rare chance to learn directly from two of the most respected Bitcoin educators in Canada — including the man widely recognized as the world’s #1 Bitcoin educator — in a small, intimate setting where you get real, personalized attention. Not a stage. A workshop.
Everything included
What’s in the package
For less than a standard luxury retreat, you’re investing in a lifetime of financial sovereignty — and walking away with hardware, skills, and connections you can’t put a price on.
One-night stay at the Kenrick Hotel, Banff
Gourmet breakfast to start the day
Working lunch served in the workshop room
Dinner at a historic Banff restaurant
Brand new Cold Card hardware wallet
Tunnel Mountain hike and/or pool access
Late-night whiskey and cigars social
Small group — personalized attention throughout
Who this is for
Is this you?
The rebel entrepreneur
Done kowtowing to financial gatekeepers and payment processors
The privacy maverick
Fed up with surveillance capitalism tracking every cent you move
The Bitcoin newbie
Ready to go beyond buying and actually wield your stack
The HODL veteran
Eager to plug the gaps and operate with surgical precision
Warning: this isn’t for the “I’ll figure it out later” crowd. If you’re not ready to take your Bitcoin sovereignty seriously, step aside. But if you’re done being a pawn — if you’re ready to secure, move, and spend your wealth like a sovereign — then your spot is waiting.
P.S. The world’s financial tyrants aren’t slowing down. Neither should you. The SAT Market, Bitcoin Rodeo, and the Banff workshop are all within one week — make the trip count.
