I will never understand the appeal of conferences. We know, Bitcoin is good. We get it.

Sep 25, 2026 · 2:19 AM UTC

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Replying to @Vikingobitcoin9
I can’t ever get my normie friends to talk bitcoin (I don’t even try anymore), so it’s fun to have people to commiserate with and enjoy a beefsteak or whatever
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Hmm ok still don’t want
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its a good way to meet up and ask questions in person, have a libation and laughs.
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Not for me
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Clout chasing
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Conferences are peak opportunity manifestation engines.
In 2010 at the @MAPS conference, during a lunch, I grabbed any empty chair at a 4 seat table and ate with Nick Sand (legendary LSD chemist who made Orange Sunshine), John Perry Barlow (Grateful Dead lyricist and early internet pioneer, founded EFF), and Paul Daley (Sasha Shulgins research asst.) 16 years later, still seems surreal. Also got to give Sasha an art piece that details his 25-step LSD synthesis from TIHKAL. Conferences are cool.
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It’s different for you as that is where you make money. I am talking about people who are only losing money by going.
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Grifting
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Lots of cases for sure
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Meeting people in person.
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they exist to spawn all the side events
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I made bitcoin while I was at the conference 🤷
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before I went to a conf, I never met a 'real bitcoiner' irl. It was cool to talk & chill with em. I went to 21' & 22' but the confs got old pretty fast. Can't imagine going to one (or more) every year for years.
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I never understood it.
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Yea, I never understood the appeal. Pay a lot to be surrounded by shitcoining. I am no social butterfly neither...
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they're just for the geeks who cant meet people in real life.
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people enjoy a good circle jerk with a cover fee for some reason. my advise, never meet your bitcoin heroes.
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I HATED going to the 2025 and 2026 bitcoin conference. Never again
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Extraverts got to vert.
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