The Death of the 'Middleman': Survival Strategies for the 2026 Bitcoin Broker
Bitcoin was supposed to kill the middleman. Instead, the middleman is posting record revenues. So who got the theory wrong — the economists or the idealists? Drawing on real operating data from Europe's fastest-growing Bitcoin brokerage, this talk dissects the unit economics and survival strategies of the 2026 Bitcoin broker. As we enter 2026, we face a paradox: the more decentralized the network becomes, the more the market demands sophisticated intermediaries. The middleman isn't dead. He just stacks sats now.