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Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

Co-founder of TABConf, the Atlanta Bitcoin Conference, and SVP of Engineering at Bitcoin gaming/payments firm ZBD (Zebedee).

Sep 30, 2026

Tangents with Rod Roudi

Tangents with Rod Roudi

Freedom Tech in Practice: AI Agents, Bitcoin & the Final TABConf | Tangents

Sep 30 · 59m

Rod Roudi
Rod RoudiHOST
44:21
You built this, what, eight years ago? Was it eight years ago or ten years ago?
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:26
So Tab started in 2016, and then the meetup grew really large.
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:30
So then we started the conference in 2018.
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:34
And I mean, we were, the meetups were almost a full-time job.
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:38
We were doing weekly events and some of these events were like four or 500 people, especially during the 2018 craze and the run up to 20K.
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:47
We're getting like 750 RSVP and we're getting like 15, 20 sponsors per meetup.
Michael Tidwell
Michael TidwellGUEST
44:54
So we're packing it out.
Rod Roudi
Rod RoudiHOST
48:17
just besides the price, like what aspect of it were you worried about?

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