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Coins in the Kingdom

The Bitcoin Conference at the Walt Disney World Resort - October 4-5, 2014

Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology are changing everything for everyone. This is the conference for everyone. Come celebrate the biggest innovation in financial technology with the most innovative minds in the field. October 4th and 5th at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista, Downtown Disney. Ain't no party like a bitcoin party...

Tickets $60

Hotel Rooms $99

http://launch.coinsinthekingdom.com



Anyone interested in Speaking, Exhibiting, Vending, Sponsoring or just getting involved please feel free to contact us at info@coinsinthekingdom.com

lol "magic internet money"  :D

In the Magic Kingdom!

How about coins in Antartica? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=696063.msg7862638#msg7862638

lol very nice. Best of luck with the conference.

Thanks! You guys should exhibit or vend.

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Good luck!

I hope I can make this one.   :)

I may consider going.  I'd like to see what speakers and other events are lined up.  Will there be more details on the website?

Yep, we are in the pre-launch mode right now. When the actual site goes live, it will have a lot more details.

This looks like fun, looking forward to more details.  :)

My wife will be there for the race weekend...hmmm...

I think I have time available.  I just might attend this one.  Are there any discussion panels I can participate on? Is anyone looking for some assistance working an exhibit?

Come on down! We want to have a ton of exhibitors at this conference.

I'm booked in and travel & hotel arranged!  Thanks to everyone who reached out to me and lobbied (not to hard) for me to attend.

I'm coming in Friday afternoon and out Monday -- lots of opps to talk about Charitable Crypto with the recent launch of our non-profit "Strength in Numbers Foundation" our first project is rescuing and re-invigorating Givecoin and funding the research and development around the http://www.idcoins.org concept for a Identity and Reputation coinbase.

I was planning on flying myself down in the Sparrowhawk but I think in the interest of being available for meetings I've booked commercial to get in faster.

On my agenda is selecting an ATM vendor for our launch in Minnesota -- it will need to have support for both on screen advertising as well as ALTS.

Our initial plan after we obtain the necessary money-transmitter license in Minnesota via a new collaborative effort with some other ATM parties will be to begin an "air drop tipping" campaign to put little paper wallets out for tipping waitstaff at restaurants to raise awareness for crypto and the ATM locations.

-dvd

Backed by the sweat of the snow white model and the tears of mickey mouse ultra low payed employee

Difficult to reconcile indirectly funding company I deeply hate. ... .... but the location's relatively convenient for me for somewhere far away, has all SE people I never get to see normally, and the ticket price is fantastic. Plus it's Sean, so maybe the evil & good roughly balance out. I'm expecting to get boned on alcohol, so reserved $75 per day for a few beers. :-X :D

Fwiw, they posted the speaker schedule recently (have to do a bit of browsing to find it): http://bitcoindisney.sched.org/

Thanks for the info.  I'll be there.

Anyone with audio or video from the conference, please post links here.  It'd be nice to hear some of the talks and get a feel for the atmosphere there.

This thread makes me suicidal ideation. Disney is nothing more than marketing taken to a level of science. Aimed at kids?!? And people line up to buy it?!?! Paying thousands. I can't imagine.
Walt was one crack'd genius, though.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2i8dtc/any_new_bitcoin_convention_videos/

Just saw the link about http://www.watchmybit.com

For a reference in case it's put on again in the future (and for any help it might be to Sean)... it was a small conference with a handful of booths and ~30-50 people there (I was only there for a few hours on Saturday), a good few with kids (kids were either allowed to roam around or kept in a smaller quarantine room). The conference didn't offer too much for young kids to do, though -- nothing terribly exciting, anyway. The talks were geared largely toward the beginner and occasionally intermediate crowd, or else were just philosophical. This was strange given the exhibition area was, charities and "causes" excluded, majority-geared toward intermediates and experts who'd be able to recognize what the people were actually doing. That said, I'm sure booth operators would have been willing to have a go at trying to explain.

It was a very calm, relaxed conference and things were on time. It lacked many of the big names and unfortunately, BitcoinTrader had a large center booth. Maybe Sean was being overly-polite or just figured the negatives would outweigh the positives, but it wasn't a terribly encouraging first sight. Charities and "causes" had a significant presence, including the likes of Ian Freeman of FSP (who managed to get me to sign a statement of intent), Stephanie Murphy of Fr33Aid (though I think she was there for LTB -- maybe both), Bitcoins Not Bombs (shirt's surprisingly comfortable and high-quality -- I almost never wear anything but a plaid overshirt with pants but wore it on the drive home), and BungeeBones. The setting had only a couple chairs and no place for informal sit-down meeting (excluding area outside the actual conference area). Though there was strong 4G coverage throughout the conference area, WiFi was apparently spotty in the exhibition area. I had slight difficulty paying some merchants and charities with cash when they didn't bring any kind of change, so I'd end up, say, giving them a $20 and then paying change in bitcoin, which was fine. Beverages were provided freely, but outside the actual lunch room, the conference wasn't large enough in physical size to accommodate refreshment merchants in the exhibition area or something along those lines (the hotel would probably prohibit it anyway). It was a casual atmosphere with only two suits I counted (and given gigavps was one of them...).

Booths were largely non-interactive and generally featured alpha or pre-alpha products (which isn't terribly useful to beginners, I'd guess), BitcoinOutlet being the major exception (which I was very pleased to see and impressed by, though it ended up taking me ~2h to actually get the coins I paid for). Overall, the small attendance and lack of employment or investment opportunities was a bit disappointing for how far out of my way I went, but it was an excellent conference for people looking for a relaxed setting to talk personally to booth operators without much crowding. It also had a good few smaller projects and operations I hadn't heard of but was very pleased to. OpenBazaar, for example, was an engaging and exciting booth to go to.

That will be wow if Disney accepts bitcoin

Yeah, some craziness over in the BitcoinTrader thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=393570.1400 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=393570.1400)

I don't see how wise it is for them to keep showing up at these conferences and events. Even though Michael Brandenburg doesn't show his face, if people's money can't be accessed, one of their PR people could be targeted.

It doesn't seem as though one can watch videos on watchmybit.com unless they have access to the beta.

This is true.  At this time the www.watchmybit.com platform is being developed.  We have a working test net, and are collecting names of content providers.  I did a ton of interviews and will edit those and release them to our platform...and I'll put up a preview on YouTube.

Magic internet money had a go in Disneyland!  ;)

watchmybit looks very promising...
I think this may be the application that will be a game changer. bitcoins most natural target environment is the multimedia
 

Thanks l3sny!  We think it could be a game changer too.  We have a Hollywood connection that has been burned by the studio gatekeepers so many times (check out the Featured Artist page).  This writing team has sold screenplays to Hollywood for 2 decades.
Can you imagine if some huge teeny bopper star released their new video to YouTube...but said that for those who want to see it a week EARLIER, just pay $.31 at www.watchmybit, and 50% of that will go to Breast Cancer awareness, PLUS you will recieve 50 KarmaCoin or GiveCoin or their Artist coin ?  The possibilities are quite amazing.
On the recent Bitcoin Group Andreas posited that the next adoption wave for bitcoin won't be from people wanting bitcoins, it will be from people wanting something that only bitcoins can buy.

It is exactly the point! I  hope you will grow bigger than Silk Road !!  ;)

Actually I think it is one of the best ideas I have came across in bitcoin industry for some time. I will tweet about watchmybit.com from time to time.

Fingers crossed!

Thank you very much!  We have a solid team, and are looking for people who want to help on the viewing side.  Would you be interested in being part of the closed beta?  We would give you access to our testnet and ask that you risk $.15 or $.21 worth of bitcoin to watch various sample videos on our test net (some of them will be exclusive and not seen anywhere else), then report back your experience.  We will most likely return any lost fractions of bitcoins, and may even give a way small fractions of bitcoins to those helping us to spend on our sample videos.
If so, contact me at doug@watchmybit.com, or just sign up at http://www.watchmybit.com/Beta

Can you please start a new thread specifically about watchmybit.com? This thread is about the Coins in the Kingdom conference. Btw, I sent you guys an e-mail at that link, but haven't gotten any response back to beta test.

I think it is a great idea!

Please set up a separate thread so that we could observe the progress

Here are some videos that I've found so far from the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ClAuzjRZlw (Jeffrey Tucker & Andreas M. Antonopoulos)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2aDE0kGeZ0 (Blockchain Wedding - Joyce and David)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1pldylkkxA (Bitcoin for Beginners)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdrNi2ZIiQ8 (BitNation Panel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVxd4m3ZFFw (CounterParty and the Asset Revolution with Chris DeRose)

Looks like a lot more videos from the conference have been posted!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS5t6MLPDMCktYKosWqpvHQ

Doug Scribner has started posting his interviews and they are currently available on his beta site for WatchMyBit at http://beta.watchmybit.com