CryptoBatesGroup

We work to develop and grow the cryptocurrency eco-system through events, education and projects, we hope to blend cryptocurrencies seamlessly into everyday life. We are no experts, entrepreneurs or influencers just enthusiasts!

Adams first crypto focused business dates back to 2012 and his list of projects and collaborations slowly grew, the resources of all of Adams projects were combined in 2015 and CryptoBatesGroup was born. Under one roof we quickly expanded, holding advisory roles and collaborating with projects all over the world.

Proud to be based in Manchester, UK.

Our Projects

"With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless" - Satoshi Nakamoto



Our Projects

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Our Pizzeria

Following a change of direction for our shop (Coffee Quarter) - We have refurbished and re-opened the shop as a Pizzeria. Serving Authentic Napolitano Pizza and Antipasti. We will soon be accepting BTC for our full menu, first we are training staff and ensuring the BTC payment process integrates into our till system/accounts seamlessly. We will be using the awesome FastBitcoins

Slices For Sats

Check out how much a slice of a Classic Pepperoni pizza costs in Satoshis.

NFT Artwork encoded NFC Rings

A small project encoding NFC rings with NFT artwork. We are collaborating with a group of NFT/Crypto artists to offer range of rings encoded with unique artwork.

Pixel8 - NFT Project

CryptoBatesGroups Pixel-8 NFTs immortalise famous (and infamous!) scenes from our previous CoinFestUK events.

CBG Events - Virtual Events

Visit our dedicated virtual events website at CBGEvents.co.uk where our team has built event space in Decentraland virtual world, this event space houses a speaker hall, exhibition hall, art gallery, VIP area and various projects.

Puzzling NFT

Once purchased users gain access to an image which is encoded a ETH private key, crack the puzzle and claim the private key. Limited to 25 NFTs, with each sale of one of the NFTs, 25% of the funds from the sale goes into the ETH address of the key, increasing the prize fund.
Public Address of the key is: 0x0d362252017a8997f1A0C48aeb52EBd067e686E5

Crypto Arcade

We are developing standalone arcade machines which take crypto payments as credits. Our first tests are using BTC Lightning and are developing further modules to accept a range of coins.

CoinFestUK - Our flagship physical event

Our annual free-to-attend cryptocurrency event based in Manchester, showcasing blockchain projects, hosting workshops, speakers & activities from around the world.

The Crypto Cup - Co-hosting

We are proud to be working with Sportsbet.io (The awesome sponsors behind the Watford FC Bitcoin logo!) and Watford FC on an exciting Crypto event to be hosted at Vicarage Road Stadium. A football tournament, key-note presentations, panel discussion and charity auction! Dates coming soon.

CBE Social/Event Token

Our event token is a socially focused token rewarding attendees who support our events, the token can be earned or gifted with the aim to increase interaction throughout our event between everyone who is part of our events and attendees our events. You will be able to spend the token at our events and online with a range of benefits

Crypto adoption framework

We are currently developing framework for cryptocurrency adoption with merchants across Manchester. We are currently working with a BTC POS system to tie into our back-end system which will auto-covert the crypto into FIAT (At the request of the merchant). The initial roll-out will be insured by CryptoBatesGroup.

The sound of Bitcoin

A project examining the sound of bitcoin through different methods and frequencies. Listen and decode the sounds to claim the free bitcoin. Priv keys are un-encrypted WIF Compressed 52 characters base58.

BitBrighton - Co-hosting

A free-to-attend cryptocurrency event based in Brighton, showcasing crypto projects from around the world

BitBrum - Co-hosting

A free-to-attend cryptocurrency event based in Birmingham, showcasing crypto projects from around the world

CryptoGiveaways

Crypto GiveAways is a complete redesign of the modern day faucet. Visit the site and claim some free crypto-currency including MonetaryUnit, Granite, OKCash, DigiByte, OzzieCoin and soon DOGE

BTC-GBP.co.uk

A simple website displaying (and auto-refreshing) the BTC price in GBP. We have recently added a BTC <--> GBP convector

BTC Registry

A website packed with Bitcoin statistics. You can also go back in time and look at historic Bitcoin statistics

CryptoGrabber

A bitcoin accepting arcade claw machine packed with Crypto apparel!

Manchester Central Foodbank

Along with Blockchain Manchester, we worked with Manchester Central Foodbank to come up with a novel way for tech-savvy Mancunians to donate to the cause of preventing food poverty in the city you can now donate using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum

Crypto Art Events

In 2017 we hosted our first CryptoArt Gallery. A collection of Crypto/Blockchain artwork from around the world including Italy, Australia, Poland and the USA. For future events we are blending our CryptoArt Events into our CoinFestUK event for more exposure for our artists.

QR Generator

A quick tool to generate a custom QR code encoded with your price and crypto address, you can then save and use the QR code. (In testing, use at your own risk!)

POS Test

Testing the pieces which will make up a simplified web-based POS. Enter an amount (In GBP), Order number (Not required) and click BTC, MUE or DGB logo. A price encoded QR code will be generated. (In testing with our own addresses! Use at your own risk!)

KMJ ATM

KMJ ATM is our operating company for a range of BTC (and ALT coin) based ATMs which we will own and manage across several locations around the world (We currently have 3 confirmed sites). We are still in the process of setting up the legal entity to comply with AML/KYC regulations.

BlockChainers

We are happy to become advisers to the BlockChainers organisation and support their drive to promote the awareness and real-life implementation of blockchain technology.

VPS Hosting Services

We host a range of third-party projects via our private hosting platform (Formerly CryptoVPSHosting). The projects range from nodes, block explorers and masternodes.

CryptoCloudHosting

CryptoCloudHosting provides webhosting services via a custom control panel / service which is hosted across two dedicated UK based data centres. We have recently relaunched with our new API system and will be adding new coins to our list of 25 currently accepted coins.

The International Digital Art Festival 2019

CryptoBatesGroup supported the first The International Digital Art Festival on June 26 and June 27 2019 in Manchester at Federation House. The event gave attendees the opportunity to discover the very best in rare digital arts & world class innovation including AR,VR, NFT & blockchain technology.

Coindex Ltd

CryptoBatesGroup are part of the Coindex Ltd team. Coindex Ltd is a UK based Crypto currency Mining Operation

CounterCoin

CryptoBatesGroup are proud to work with the CounterCoin team. The CounterCoin project is a new way of incentivising, recognising & rewarding community action and volunteering.

FAIL Coin

We have followed FAIL coin since it's inception and are part of the team who took over the project when the original developer disappeared. Progress has been slow but perfection takes time! We are failing to FAIL and have alot in the pipeline for the project.

Datacoin Project

We have supported the Datacoin project for quite a few years. A few years ago we built and now host (Via CryptoCloudHosting.org) a one-stop website for all datacoin information, links and guides.

ESL Coin

Adam is a Director at ESL Coin. Helping support the project where possible and use CryptoBatesGroup to help host and promote the project. ESL Coin is the full application of blockchain technology to the ESL (English as a second language) industry. In addition to providing a common means of payment, it will function as a decentralized autonomous database of ESL students, teachers and businesses.

Inflation Coin

The Inflation Coin community reached out to us and asked if we would support their project with a updated website and help them add additional nodes to the network. We now host the main Inflation Coin website and 3 globally distributed nodes

Pool Setup/Config/Tweaking

We have setup several mining pools for various cryptocurrencies. Tweaking each pool to the coins requirements and maintaining the pool afterwards.

Portsmouth Crypto

Portsmouth Crypto are veterans in the crypto world, they provide bitcoin education & workshop solutions adapted and personalised to your use case as an individual or organisation, with ease of use being their top priority.

CryptoBates API Custom System

We have built our own pricing API to power all of our services which require live and accurate pricing data in GBP, USD and EUR. Our API provides pricing for all coins available on the market. We are currently building public access to the API which will include free and paid options to historical data and real-time data

GBP/USD/EUR - Bitcoin Physical Ticker

A physical Bitcoin ticker. Displaying the BTC price in GBP/USD/EUR. Currently being scaled up for installation in Manchester!

BitcoinBadges

A project offering free Bitcoin Badges - Spreading the word!

Bitcoin Encoded Posters

Smart encoded Bitcoin encoded posters. We gave away some of these encoded posters to Twitter users

Crypto Art Work

We have commissioned several pieces of Crypto Art Work which will soon be available for purchase

BTC Twitter Bots

We built two Twitter Bitcoin bots which tweet GBP BTC prices and Bitcoin statistics. Both have now been deactivated for us to focus more time on other projects.

SidewalkBitcoin

We supported the SidewalkBitcoin launch event in Manchester on Sep 8th 2019 via our CryptoArtGallery. We displayed digital artwork from a variety of artists as part of the event.

Cryptocurrency in Action!" - Manchester Science Festival 2018

CryptoBatesGroup was a sponsor of "Cryptocurrency in Action!" which took place at the Manchester Science Festival 2018 on 24th October. The event was centred around bringing cryptocurrency to life for the audience.

Merchant Adoption (Awaiting updates)

Merchant Adoption 2021 - MADP-37 Excel Sheet: Available soon

Merchant Adoption 2021 - MADP-37 Questionnaire: Available here


POS Terminals

POS Terminal testing videos: Vimeo

Pizza Transaction via FastBitcoins Terminal: Vimeo

Photos of FastBitcoins Terminal at Tre Amici: Twitter Post

Transaction receipts from FastBitcoins Terminal and till: Twitter Post


Statistics

2020 Stats from Tre Amici Pizzeria: Twitter Post


Calculator / Satoshi Costing Example

Satoshi Calculator: SatoshiCalc.org

Slices For Satoshis: SlicesForSats.org


Misc

CryptoBates & Tre Amici Bitcoin Pizza Day Voucher: Pizza Day NFT

Crypto Meetups

We will be hosting crypto meetups at our Pizzeria in Bury, Greater Manchester. These meetups will include workshops, guest speakers and testbed events

Past Meetups & Events

October 7th 2019

Our first crypto meetup went well. We had the awesome Greg Walker hosting a workshops on "How Blockchain Works" and SidewalkBitcoin discussing the FastBitcoins terminal.

Upcoming Meetups & Events

None currently scheduled

Some of our favourite Bitcoin quotes

"Heading Down the Cryptocurrency Rabbit Hole"

"Bitcoin isn't a bubble, it's the pin"

"When Gold sleeps, it dreams of Bitcoin"

"HODL!"

"Value your wealth in Satoshi"

"Helping change the financial world, one block at a time"

"Using Bitcoin does to the big banks what e-mail does to the Postal Service"