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Tour de Satoshi

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Created page with "'''Tour de Satoshi''' bitcoin anniversary bike tour from Florence to Frankfurt On January 3rd of 2019 which marks the 10th anniversary of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitc..."
'''Tour de Satoshi'''
bitcoin anniversary bike tour from Florence to Frankfurt

On January 3rd of 2019 which marks the 10th anniversary of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoin] ([https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block Genesis Block]), [http://teamsatoshi.org/index.php/vituszeller Vitus Zeller] started a 10 day bike tour from Florence to Frankfurt. The tour started in Florence, the birthplace of modern banking, in front of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Medici_Riccardi Palazzo Medici Riccardi] and ended in Frankfurt a. M. in front of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank European Central Bank].

It was a 1000 km bike ride with 10,000 meters of altitude with luggage in 10 days in unpredictable cold weather conditions through the Alps. Besides the sportive challenge Vitus' goal was to pay every night’s stay in a hotel with bitcoin. Upon arrival in each destination town, Vitus therefore needed to go from hotel to hotel and try to convince a hotel owner to let him stay a night in return for bitcoin. The final result out of nine nights was: Bitcoin 7:2 Euro.

Prior to starting Vitus published a [http://www.starwings.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/tour_de_satoshi_one_pager.pdf one pager] about Tour de Satoshi and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDytNzo5goM announced] it at a bitcoin meetup in Munich.

Vitus summarized every single day in his [https://medium.com/@vitus.zeller blog on medium] as well as produced a short [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVo-EoHVCA video about Tour de Satoshi].

Here's the single stages:
Florence - Vergato
Vergato - Cremona
Cremona - Lecco
Lecco - St. Moritz
St. Moritz - Chur
Chur - Bregenz
Bregenz - Riedlingen
Riedlingen - Stuttgart
Stuttgart - Heidelberg
Heidelberg - Frankfurt

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