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Anything but a Bitcoin Conference 2025

Brutal.

Yikes.

WTF?!

Hahaha, what a shit show!

My sarcasometer is rising.

Agreed. Fuck that conference

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The Bitcoin Conference has always been a shitcoin conference.

Las Vegas was exhausting. I’m recovering by going to a national park.

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Zero desire to attend this year or next.

Having a bitcoin conference in a CASINO is such a joke.

Lol goteem

😂 spot on except the Venetian requires at least two events

Hooray. We’re saved. Finally. We can all relax

I see what you did there.

so basically, all the same stuff that has happened every year at the bitcoin convention. Thanks bitcoin mag. You're doing a great job.

We need #BitcoinMaxi2026

Bitcoin is okay?

9. Costs San insane amount of money for one ticket.

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☑️ 🤣 😵‍💫 Clever post, spiced with just the right amount of Sarc. Message received ... loud and clear.

The more it is adopted by the politicians with ulterior motives, I more skeptical I get despite the technology. The technology might be super but human nature is worse in equal proportions to offset whatever good that can come out of it.

9. We name it StableCon next year.

Haha great read. At 1. I was like "hold up who tf is this guy intruding on my feed" At 2. I was like "oh." And kept reading with renewed interest 😁

These are conferences for normies😂

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Brutal.

Thanks for the recap. So glad this nonsense gathering is over.

I am glad that I was in @bff25 which was pure signal instead of Vegas which sounds like just noise. 🤯

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Cool post

Bitcoin doesnt care. 💜 MORE P2P, LESS HODL.

Seemed very suity and scammy … Ride or die will keep fighting then 🤙🏽

If stablexoin is future, then BTC becomes useless, no attraction raise value

Would love to chat about your list Dr Jeff 💫

glad I didn't go

@Lyn Alden, @jack mallers, & @Ross Ulbricht (so fucking powerful!) were the rare exceptions I saw in the main live feed they ran - the degen madness coming seems inevitable.

I saw too many suits at that conference

Yes, it was very painful to hear politicians who have just learned that they had better get behind ‘crypto’ reading inane speeches as though they were addressing a town hall at their local retirement home. Nevertheless, kudos to the genuine ones who have put a lot of work and political capital over the years to move things in the right direction.

Although this is in general true I've got value form Lyn, Saifedean and Hayes talks! I haven't watched everything jet. But probably Adam Back is also worth watching!!!

Here's the problem. Beyond a certain scale, you need lots of money to run these things. Like many millions of dollars. And you're not getting that much from plebs or Bitcoin-only companies, so they have to bring in the people that are willing to pay, like altcoiners, bankers, governments and other scammers. And they want to see politicians and other people that they get along with. In other words, beyond a certain size, these events are funded by fiat money. True Bitcoin-only conferences rarely scale this much. View quoted note →

Sucks. How about no conference

I did cringe when the moon landing was referenced as a reason Ohio is so great

IT was WAY too big and way to segregated. Half of it was roped off to people with "lesser" tickets. -At one point, I was sitting on a couch in front of the Nakamoto stage. I looked back to see people standing behind me blocking the view of the other 4000+ people sitting. I got up, and never came back. -The booths on the main floor were the best place to be, chatting with all the people who are doing things. -Bitcoin magazine is now doing a fabulous job of putting most all the stage talks on video. - The place was packed with hedge fund vultures from new york, doing all their "rounds" that they intend to sell to the public at a 1000% profit in 17 months.. -I will never go back. It's just too big for me. But, it's a good thing. It's means we are winning.

Takeaway should be don't trust politicians. Don't get distracted by noise. Work, STACK SATS, relax, and enjoy nature. Repeat. View quoted note →

They can keep their fiat money, blockchain and ideas in the most fiat place. The only thing that will be tokanized in history is their ability to burn themselves and anyone else that follows them. Stablecoins are just another way to print money. @Bitcoin Magazine you should be ashamed, but you can't be, because you're controlled opposition to co-opt the movement. Funny how it's always the media being used to control the message. Every movement or idea has these types of people that will come as wolves in sheep's clothing.

In my experience, no matter what industry you’re in, the conference itself is fluff. The real value is in the conversations at the dinners or bars after. That being said, think they should change the name of the conference to not lead people on 😂

Watching the suits take over bitcoin because yall voted for this like 🍿

I was there for the 3rd year in a row. Personally I love seeing the energy and passion there, and also seeing so many bitcoiners in one spot. It’s fun for me

Fuck Bitcoin Magazine. Their support for Bitcoin is as diengenuous as #RogerVer reserving bitcoin.com for his treacherous Bitcoin Cash SCoin

...an addendum: some are trying to transfer the domain the power on Bitcoin ...from Sats Gang to the some their authorities ...here is a tip: Bitcoin will remain in the same inefficients incompetents hands (oh they get be inefficient & incompetent even when something is for them) #losers #PoorSatsGang ...type: Sats (their invention) didnt work!

they don’t get it

Fucking gross.

I heard a rumor about free tickets for next year?

Seems we’re past, first they fight you… to the part where they try and extract anything they can from you

💯 So much of the conference was a joke

I did an informal survey of who is running and using a node at this year’s conference. NOT A ONE did I find. 😕

In my onion: Never trust politicians. Bitcoin, not blockchain. Bitcoin, not crypto.

Whoring and gambling go together like bankers and Wall Streeters.

Bitcoin is not crypto 🤷‍♂️ Politicians are not welcome. We haven't believed him for years

Stablecoins == Fiatcoins

I saw all those things. But more importantly, I saw a real cypherpunk culture around the open source stage that inspired me. There’s hope despite all the noise.

Hmm I don't like any of those. Just keep doing Bitcoin only self custody and run knots!

Another one: cows can dance!!

It seems the degens of this cycle are nation states and institutions. Remember when you realised that you could long bitcoin and simultaneously short fiat. You thought crypto degens are reckless? Prepare for a leverage loop like never before and don’t hold paper bitcoin.

So much 2020… Join us in 2025 in BTC Prague, no bullshit like this.

This is how someone who never truly believed in Bitcoin or nostr sounds. "Stablecoins are the future"?🙄 #bitcoin #nostr

So, they're still a joke. Good to know. I'll keep avoiding them like the plague.

Just watched the main acts. 100% accurate description.