Crypto City: San Francisco Bay Area Guide

This "Crypto City" guide examines the San Francisco Bay Area's crypto culture, its most notable projects and people, its financial infrastructure, which retailers accept crypto, and where you can find cryptocurrency courses. blockchain training. You could really leave your heart in San Francisco with all the projects in the Bay Area.

Fast facts

City: San Francisco

Country: United States

Population: 887,711

Founded: 1776

Language: English

The San Francisco Bay Area is an area of ​​northern California that spans the city of San Francisco and surrounding counties.

Understanding

While not the most populated part of California or the capital, the San Francisco Bay Area is well known for its iconic cable cars, views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Silicon Valley - both the TV show and the real-life tech hub. Originally a Spanish colony and later part of Mexico before becoming a city in the US state of California, many residents live in buildings over 100 years old.

The Beautiful Ladies in San Francisco. Source: Pexels

San Francisco is known for its proximity to the San Andreas Fault, responsible for some of the most devastating earthquakes in US history, including one in 1906 which caused fires that burned large sections of the city for several days. Another 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area in 1989, damaging the Bay Bridge between downtown and Oakland.

Because many historic buildings and scenic spots have survived earthquakes—and Napa Valley and its nearby vineyards can help—San Francisco attracts many tourists from around the world and was the location for filming of films too numerous to mention, including The Rock, Mrs. Doubtfire and The Matrix Resurrections. The city also includes the oldest Chinatown in North America, the former military base turned Presidio Park, Golden Gate Park and the Mission District.

The neighboring towns are separated by the bay but are connected by a public transport network. Overall, more than 7 million people live in the region between wine country to the north and Silicon Valley to the south. The city faces challenges including one of the largest homeless populations in the nation, rising costs of living, and other issues common to large urban areas in the United States.

Crypto culture

A tech hub long before the advent of cryptocurrency in 2008, the Bay Area was a natural location for one of the first Bitcoin conferences. In San Jose in June 2013, now well-known crypto figures including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Bitcoin educator Andreas Antonopoulos spoke to attendees interested in crypto at a time when the space was considered by many to be marginal.

One of the first Bitcoin Meetups in the Bay Area took place in January 2013, when organizers Ryan S...