I'm watching the distressed investing panel, and I realize that my own biases prevent me from getting as much out of a discussion as I might otherwise. Every time one of these Wall Street guys uses the word "crypto" I automatically discard anything they say.

Open Source stage, the only legit thing about this whole shitcoin conference.

So I got a day off today. Naturally, I spent the whole day playing Tears of the Kingdom, but I did leave the conference livestream on in the background and paid some attention to it when I'm not busy fighting a moblin or a construct. A few thoughts:

• oh the shitcoinery... I thought it was a bitcoin conference?
• too many politicians, wtf? I don't believe mass adoption will occur through politicians or nation state adoptions. Mass adoption will only occur through education and people truly understanding bitcoin.
• I like Saylor's 10 rules. Those are good advices, easier said than done though. But definitely worth mentioning to young people, or actually other people in general.
• is Mallers trying to imitate Apple? All those UI redesigns and even the slides seem very Apple like... either way, good to see another entrepreneur trying to grow their business. Personally, I don't really care about custodial services and KYC services. Let the free market decide, over the long run, if Strike is worthy or not.
• oh man, they didn't fight when talking about ordinals and inscriptions. I was looking forward to some action. Should have got Max Keiser on there, much better chance of seeing him throw some punches at those kids.
• TOTK is such a great game and I'm glad my main focus of the day was on TOTK and not the conference...

What's the plan for tonight folks? Any stacker.news parties in Miami?

My take on this so called Bitcoin conference...My take on this so called Bitcoin conference...

1. Important and interesting things happen on the secondary stage, the open source stage. The main stage is full of bullshit propaganda and people that have no idea what is Bitcoin and why they are there.
2. Bringing politicians and especially presidential candidates on the stage is a BIG mistake. You practically make their political game. These people are NOT there to help you, are there to GET THE POWER over you. You are fooled if you believe that politicians care about you and your bitcoins. Especially RFK, he was put in that presidential race EXACTLY to fool you, to give you false hope, to move your attention from more important things. He will never win any elections, no matter what you will think. He was pushed and trained "to be with bitcoiners" so later can be demolished in the campaign, is just a puppet. The whole political game is rigged and people still do not realize that.
3. Bitcoiners don't need any "right" to run their nodes. THEY JUST RUN THEM! Honeybadger doesn't care about any cheap political promise. I don't need anybody to give me any "right" to use Bitcoin. I just use it and I don't give a shit about any politician. Is not their damn business what am I doing with my own money.
4. STOP following false idols and figures! Stop giving them a stage where they can manipulate the weak minds with false political speeches.

Here I also explained how I would like to see these conferences: #180224

I will repeat this over and over until more people will understand it: Bitcoin adoption will happen only when people will learn to be sovereign individuals, not with politicians "help" and speeches.

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https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-bitcoin-will-save-the-world

What's the best bitcoin conference? I've never been to one and curious to know if I am missing out on stuff.

I realised, after a few years watching the conference and watching it live now.... its a conference that isnt for any hodler of 1+ year into Bitcoin but its only for newbies (very useful)

sorry guys ... dont want to hear the same old thing that we all know about banks, regulatory clarity, bla bla bla :)

There is the show (which I don't share inviting candidates, other shitcoins, etc.) and there is the dev side (which we don't listen too much like lighting Splice, Mempool Acelerator, etc. The conference should invite politicians who are actually at power and announcing real decisions (like they did with Bukele as president announcing bitcoin as legal tender). They must also focus on devs and adoption.

i.e. it would be a very good presentation to invite MicroStrategy and make a report of the outcomes of their workshop recently organized with other companies inviting them to work with lightning network.

Another important thing is to attract AAA game developers and Microsoft/Sony/Valve to allow bitcoin on their platforms.

Pledditors reaction here is perfect. That slide is so meaningless. Like it was AI generated.

I have only watched a little of today's program, but Alex Leishman from River Financial really impressed me during the panel hosted by Stephan Livera.

I'll be hanging out around open source stage tomorrow and Saturday. Also anyone wants to grab a beer in the evening? 🍺

Anyone knows if it is possible to watch the other stages apart from the main stage as well?

Tulsi is one of the few tolerable politicians

Ty for the link Great help

Lol I was listening to today's panel on media censorship on the youtube live stream, and youtube just cut it off! Youtube censored the anti-censorship panel of btc 2023!

Any drama yet?

Some people I know are there and they say that the presentation of https://lightningsplice.com/ was mindblowing. You can do onchine/lightning transactions without closing the channel. The evolution between L1 and L2 is coming.

zaplife.lol was the star of the show but today somebody found a way to spoof zaps and took the 4h count to 124B sats. good times.

The Ordinals discussion is happening right now, would be curious to know from people in Miami what the audience size is for this panel.

What has been the most popular panel so far?

looking forward to the clown show

The biggest bitcoin conference on the face of earth now is live 🧡🧡🧡

huge news with strike now being headquartered in El Salvador and opening up to 65 countries around the world

Caitlin Long dropping some banking & bitcoin knowledge to kick off the event right now.

She just said Custodia will soon be in the Bitcoin custody business in Wyoming.

the schedule looks packed with solid speakers, but i’m specifically excited for two panels.

• Will AI Dream of Electric Bitcoin?
• Building Lightning-Native Companies

I hate panels and fireside chats... so let's see if this conference changes my opinion

Is @k00b giving a talk on SN? Or is this a pure marketing-speak conference where everyone is changing the world through blah blah blah?

Brink is making an announcement today at 4:40, any guesses on what they might reveal?

Perfekt

Woow!!! Will definitely connect

Can someone tell me what the Canaan guy said?

What i have seen from the conference so far make me think it is a complete shitshow

I must join this conference

Love to see all the excitement even with lower attendees and the bear market.

I would have liked to be at that conference, the next one catches me closer is in Prague from 8-10 June

Pics of the bitcoin babes please!

probably what is being shared is something most people are familiar with

was there anything new so far worth reporting?

another panel on bitcoin & the banking crisis underway now, proof of reserves getting a shout out