Should Your Business Take Bitcoin as a New Revenue Stream?

Should Your Business Take Bitcoin as a New Revenue Stream? is a practical panel debate for established business owners who know little or nothing about Bitcoin, weighing up both sides of the case.

With costs rising, margins under pressure and customer acquisition becoming more expensive, this session puts one direct question to the panel: can accepting Bitcoin genuinely help an established business attract new customers, generate additional revenue and grow?

The panel brings together business owners already accepting Bitcoin, the payments infrastructure providers who make it possible, and specialists who understand the Bitcoin customer market - to examine the opportunities, the risks and what implementation looks like.

Why now? Around 4.6 million UK adults - roughly 8% of the population - already own Bitcoin and the FCA's new cryptoasset regulatory regime is due to take full effect from October 2027. In the US, Square began auto-enabling Bitcoin payments for eligible sellers in March 2026 and passed 1 million US merchants accepting Bitcoin within two months. The panel will discuss whether that timeline gives early-moving UK businesses a genuine advantage or whether it's wiser to wait.

This event is free to attend, with breakfast included - but space is limited to 60 seats, so early registration is recommended.

• Explore the commercial relevance of accepting Bitcoin.
• Examine the impact on customer acquisition, revenue, margin and growth.
• Understand how Bitcoin payments work.
• Present a balanced view of volatility, regulation and implementation risks.
• Help you decide whether Bitcoin is right for your business.

Established business owners, founders and senior decision-makers, particularly those with little or no prior knowledge of Bitcoin.

A moderated panel discussion followed by audience Q&A, breakfast and networking.

Moderator

Dr Sheela Sharma
CEO, Portobello Business Centre CIC

Sheela is CEO of Portobello Business Centre CIC (PBC), a social enterprise that has supported entrepreneurs to start, grow and expand businesses for over 30 years. She joined PBC's board as Chair after fourteen years in investment banking and has led the organisation as CEO over the past three years. She recently led PBC to accept Bitcoin donations, exploring it as a new and alternative revenue stream for the organisation.

Panellists

Troy Parker
Business Development, CoinCorner

Troy leads business development at CoinCorner, a global leader in Bitcoin and Lightning services. Founded in the Isle of Man in 2014 with the aim of making Bitcoin accessible to everyone, CoinCorner is trusted by retail consumers and businesses around the world. Troy has spent the past four years helping businesses explore Bitcoin, after building a ten-year career in sales. No two days look the same at CoinCorner. In a single day, the team might help an IT company receive a seven-figure payment from a global client, then help a local pizza shop start accepting Bitcoin and host a meetup, plus everything in between.
Jordan Walker
Co-Founder, The Bitcoin Collective and the Bitcoin Business Network

Jordan is a London-based founder helping UK businesses and individuals engage with Bitcoin. He has built the Bitcoin Collective, a UK Bitcoin media brand spanning a podcast, newsletter and live events, and founded the Bitcoin Business Network, a membership community for UK founders, directors, executives and professionals integrating Bitcoin.
Susie Violet Ward
CEO and Co-Founder, Bitcoin Policy UK

Susie is CEO and Co-Founder of Bitcoin Policy UK and an independent journalist covering Bitcoin, regulation, energy, privacy and the future of money. Her work focuses on how policy and regulation affect Bitcoin adoption, financial freedom and the way Bitcoin is used in practice, and she has written extensively on its relationship with the traditional financial system.

Further panellists to be announced shortly.

• Free
• Breakfast and refreshments provided
• Doors open at 8:25 AM
• Aaccessible lift and facilities

If you have ever wondered whether accepting Bitcoin could make sense for your business, this event is designed to help you find out.

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Workspace is a FTSE-250 listed Real Estate Investment Trust and a member of the European Public Real Estate Association. Established in 1987 and listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1993.

For nearly four decades, Workspace has been taking London buildings and turning them into characterful places that businesses are proud to call their own. Not cookie-cutter offices. Not spaces designed for everyone and no one. Something better: spaces designed with care, run with intention and built around the belief that where you work changes how you work.

Today Workspace offer ambitious SMEs flexible spaces across 50 London locations. Each one unique. Each one with a story to tell. All of them part of a network of diverse businesses and people who are like-minded and driven, doing remarkable things, in buildings that refuse to be forgettable.

Portobello Business Centre CIC (PBC) has been supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses for more than 30 years, helping people turn ideas into sustainable businesses and giving established businesses the practical support they need to grow.

Based in North Kensington, PBC is a not-for-profit social enterprise offering one-to-one business advice, workshops, mentoring, market testing and access to funding, working with businesses across London and beyond on the real challenges they face.

PBC believes that talent, ambition and good ideas should not be limited by background or circumstance. Through partnerships with local authorities, business communities and organisations across London, PBC helps make high-quality business support more accessible - connecting people with the advice, opportunities and networks they need to move forward with confidence.

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