Tour de Satoshi

A bitcoin anniversary bike tour from Florence to Frankfurt

Start in Florence (IT) at Palazzo Medici Riccardi: January 3rd

Finish in Frankfurt (DE) at ECB: January 12th

Backstory

On January 3rd of 2019 which marks the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin (Genesis Block), 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 Palazzo Medici Riccardi and ended in Frankfurt a.M. in front of the European Central Bank (ECB).

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. Additionally Vitus was able to pay every Hotel stay paid in bitcoin with donations from fellow bitcoiners.

Prior to starting Vitus published a one pager about Tour de Satoshi and announced it at a bitcoin meetup in Munich. One day before the start of Tour de Satoshi, while Vitus sitting in the train to Florence, he published a story on why he is doing this bike tour.

Vitus summarized every single day in his blog on medium as well as produced a short video about Tour de Satoshi.