Nicholas Dickinson bought his first significant Bitcoin stack on the all-time high. Three months later he was 40% underwater. He didn't panic. He read more books and bought more.

Nicholas is a hotelier with 40 years in the industry — currently running a 50-acre country house hotel in Norfolk. He's also one of the newest, and arguably fastest-moving, members of the Bitcoin Business Network. In just nine months he's thinking in Bitcoin, buying at what the power law tells him is a 50% discount, and working out how to bring Bitcoin into a 40-year hospitality business without losing his board.

🇬🇧 Find out more about the Bitcoin Business Network: https://bitcoincollective.co/bbn/

In this episode, Jordan and Nicholas get into:

- How The Price of Tomorrow started it all — before Nicholas even knew he was looking for Bitcoin

- Why the power law gave him more conviction than anything else he'd read

- The internal challenge of getting fellow stakeholders and a spouse on board

- Why he thinks most people know the system is broken — but can't believe the fix could be this simple

- What accepting Bitcoin at the hotel actually looks like as a first step

- Why storing business cash reserves in Bitcoin is, to Nicholas, just common sense.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro — "The problem's too big. Yes, there is a simple solution."

01:00 Welcome and Nicholas's background in hospitality

04:00 How Congham Hall came out of administration and became his longest-ever project

06:00 What makes Congham Hall different — 50 acres, spa, orchard cabins

08:00 The realities of running a profitable hotel in the UK

10:00 100 local staff and why that's almost unheard of in hospitality

15:00 The Snail Racing World Championships — a Guinness World Record

20:00 Where did Bitcoin first come up? From drug dealers to deep curiosity

21:00 The Price of Tomorrow, What's the Problem, and the lightbulb moment

24:00 Pete Matthew, The Bitcoin Advisor, and getting properly into the rabbit hole

28:00 Buying at the all-time high and what happened next

31:00 The power law — why it gave Nicholas more conviction than anything else

38:00 Thinking in sats, DCA strategy and filtering out the noise

44:00 How Bitcoin changed his outlook on his kids' futures

47:00 The challenge of getting stakeholders and a spouse on board

51:00 "The problem's too big to be solved this simply" — and why that's wrong

57:00 Accepting Bitcoin at the hotel — the vision and the baby steps

CONTACT JORDAN:

X: https://x.com/JayW132

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-walker-293955106/

Email: hello@bitcoincollective.co

CONTACT NICHOLAS:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdickinson/

Congham Hall - https://www.conghamhallhotel.co.uk

Email😉 - info@conghamhallhotel.co.uk

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EDITED BY JAMES PEARCE

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This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.