As someone who's been to many conferences, you know the main benefits are:
  1. networking
    • important if you have a mission and want to find other people who share it
  2. learning including things you wouldn't have learned in a self-directed way
    • important if you want to understand the bleeding edge and zeitgeist
These also apply to bitcoin conferences. If the goal is camaraderie, then meetups are probably a more efficient route.
Yeah, I just need to start/attend a local meetup regardless of the conference attendance. Meetups are awesome.
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