The accelerator

Twelve weeks to kill or commit.

Every week opens with a deliverable and closes with a hard question. By week twelve, you know whether you're building a business or holding onto an idea.

Cohort 1 · completed
9 teamsIndia's first Bitcoin accelerator
12 weeksKill or commit
0.1 BTCOn the line at pitch day

How it started

Ten teams, one hard question.

At the Bitplebs Summit in Goa, I watched ten teams pitch real ideas. Most couldn't answer one question: how will this make money? That gap became the accelerator.

The Bitshala BOSS Summit accelerator community in Goa
The Student of Bitcoin accelerator cohort

How it works

Twelve weeks, one deliverable at a time.

Each week opens with a deliverable and closes with an honest update: what worked, what didn't, what's needed. Every team tracks its own North Star. It ends with a pitch day in the Himalayas, real bitcoin on the line.

The cohort

The teams.

Nine teams went through cohort one, in India.

256D

Bitasha

Bitconcierge

CryoBrick

Digital Credit

Epoch Shield

HODL

SwapSo

Treasury OS

Cohort two

Next stop: Africa.

Cohort one proved the format in India: nine teams, twelve weeks, real bitcoin on the line. Cohort two takes the same twelve weeks and the same hard questions to Africa, starting January 2027.

Cohort 2
January 2027When the next cohort starts
AfricaIndia to Africa, the next stop

Get in touch

Talk to me.

If you're building something real, in India or Africa, and wondering where bitcoin fits, or want to hear about cohort two, I'd like to hear from you.