{"id":52705,"date":"2026-06-16T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?p=52705"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:17:53","slug":"invite-only-mita-techtalks-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/invite-only-mita-techtalks-2026","title":{"rendered":"Invite-Only Mita TechTalks 2026 to Unite Bitcoin, AI and Energy Leaders in Punta Mita"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public companies now hold more than 1.2 million Bitcoin \u2014 nearly 6% of the total supply \u2014 and that number is still climbing. Goldman Sachs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldmansachs.com\/insights\/articles\/us-data-center-power-demand-projected-to-double-by-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projects<\/a> U.S. data center power demand will hit 66 gigawatts in 2027, more than double its 2025 level, as AI infrastructure construction accelerates at a pace the grid was never built to handle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin miners and AI hyperscalers are now bidding for the same megawatts, in the same substations, on the same timelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those three storylines \u2014 corporate Bitcoin adoption, AI&#8217;s takeover of financial services, and a power crunch reshaping energy markets \u2014 have been running in parallel for two years. A new event is betting they are now one story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mita TechTalks announced today that its 2026 summit will convene October 25\u201327 in Punta Mita, Mexico. The invite-only gathering caps at 125 guests \u2014 high-net-worth investors, family office allocators, corporate strategists, and builders \u2014 for three days of sessions, private villa workshops, and dinners at the Kupuri Beach Club inside Punta Mita&#8217;s gated community on Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The corporate Bitcoin buildout is accelerating on every front. Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-spends-100-million-1587-bitcoin\">holds<\/a> 846,842 BTC as of June 16, making it the largest single public holder by a wide margin. SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/spacex-officially-join-bitcoin-leaderboard\">disclosed<\/a> 18,712 BTC when it went public, landing immediately at No. 8 on the leaderboard. Strive grew its holdings 30% in a single month and climbed to No. 7.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Treasury adoption grew 73% in 2025 even as Bitcoin was the worst-performing major asset of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile the energy math is getting harder. U.S. data center electricity consumption stands near 180 terawatt-hours today and could reach 400 to 600 TWh by 2030. Marathon Digital and Core Scientific have both <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/markets\/crypto\/articles\/marathon-digital-bets-bitcoin-mining-230225331.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> to convert mining infrastructure into AI data center capacity, treating their existing power contracts as the asset.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies that control cheap, reliable electricity now sit at the center of two industries at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mita TechTalks summit details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programming at Mita TechTalks runs across three tracks \u2014 macro and corporate strategy, energy, and AI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confirmed speakers include Jeff Booth, founding partner of ego death capital and author of The Price of Tomorrow; Lisa Hough, founder of BTM Energy; Sam Callahan, Director of Strategy and Research at OranjeBTC; and Andre Neves, co-founder and CTO of ZBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summit is organized by Lynne Bairstow and Israel Mu\u00f1oz, partners at Base Layer Advisors and co-hosts of the Build With Bitcoin podcast. Bairstow founded MITA Ventures in 2012 after starting her career at Merrill Lynch and has spent two decades backing early-stage technology across Mexico and Latin America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mu\u00f1oz co-founded a cross-border payments startup and helped build out 500 Startups&#8217; Miami operation before shifting focus to Bitcoin infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passes start at $2,750 and rise as tiers sell out. <a href=\"https:\/\/2026.mitatechtalks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration<\/a> is open now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mita TechTalks 2026 will bring together Bitcoin, AI and energy leaders in Punta Mita, Mexico, for an invite-only summit focused on corporate Bitcoin adoption, AI-driven power demand and the growing competition for energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3817,"featured_media":52708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4378],"tags":[414,76,218],"class_list":["post-52705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-bitcoin","tag-events"],"author_data":{"id":3817,"name":"Micah Zimmerman","nicename":"micahzimmerman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micah_Zimmerman_Author_Image.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pics-50.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52707,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52705\/revisions\/52707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}