What happens when Bitcoin and Basic Income meet?

by Peter Knight | Sep 23, 2026 | News |

Bitcoin and Basic Income come from different traditions, but share important ideas about individual freedom, economic autonomy and a more open financial system.

Bitcoin enables people to hold and transfer value without relying on traditional financial intermediaries. Basic Income asks a different question: what if everyone had a basic level of economic security, paid directly to them?

One open conversation.

A new way of thinking about how income can reach people directly.

This event brings together people from the Bitcoin and Basic Income communities to explore where these ideas meet, and how they can strengthen each other.

We will discuss:

Introduction to Bitcoin

Doing Basic Income the bitcoin way – individual permissionless financial freedom with a floor to stand on.

• Bitcoin as infrastructure for direct income
• Basic Income and individual financial autonomy
• The “last mile” of delivering income directly to people
• What Bitcoin can learn from Basic Income
• What Basic Income can learn from Bitcoin
• Practical experiments combining the two approaches

The discussion will also introduce our upcoming 6-month pre-pilot, which will explore whether the Bitcoin ecosystem is ready to support a community-based Basic Income scheme — with the longer-term goal of an 18-month pilot.

Speakers:

– Håkon Sandbakken, Chair of the Bitcoin Policy Institute Norway (BPI). He works as a senior advisor at Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi.

– Hilde Latour, Co-founder of Mission Possible 2030. She is former Deputy Chair of BIEN

– Anja Askeland will chair the meeting

The event will be held in English

Free entrance

To register, click here.