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There's a good chance I'll be going to the London conference, and my main motivation to do so will be to meet in person people I've known from the forums. The more the merrier.

As a resource to both myself and other people who want to know if the trip is worthwhile and who to look for, I'm inviting everyone who thinks he may attend to post in this thread.

Update: I'll attend and stay at the Royal National hotel.

I will be attending as I'm one of the organisers and a speaker, looking forward to seeing all of you there.

Nefario.

I'll be attending and if my paper is accepted I will also be one of the speakers.

I'll be there!

I'll be there!

I'll be there !
I have a technical slot to go over what I have been doing with MultiBit over the summer.

Gary Rowe I know is coming too.

Mike Hearn is also speaking so unless he is using a fancy Google telepresence robot will also be there.

Yeah thats going to be weird, my wife still has trouble accepting that I do something legit and it's bitcoin that pays the bills. I think she's expecting the police to show up any moment.

Enterprising Psychology PhD students should set up a booth to evaluate attendees for effects of early adopter syndrome. There's a great dissertation waiting to be written using this community as subjects.

More seriously, after all the accusations and bad blood on these boards arising from the Bitcoinica fallout and Pirate controversy, it should be therapueutic and good for people to actually interact as real human beings, hopefully revealing that not everyone's a scammer and the majority of early Bitcoin adopters are in fact honest, bright, and hardworking individuals.  Hopefully.

Maybe we can arrange a cagefight or something?

Great marketing idea, do a jointly sponsored Bitcoin/MMA conference, lots of great matchups, guaranteed complete sell-out. 

Or get going a rumour going that Zhou Tong will be attending and doing a Q&A session, presenting further evidence in an attempt to to clear his name...many would travel great distances to see and participate in that.

Actually maybe that second one could actually be done and I suspect he'd be up for it, you might wanna propose it to him.  Over Skype, not in person, as I'd be afraid of a lynch mob trying to take the law into their own hands if they get physical access to him.

i will be there and at least 3 other austrians who i know personally will come too.

I will be attending as a speaker and part of the official coverage. No one will recognize me though as I will be wearing a horse head mask.

It is more than likely that I won't be there, but it seems like it could be a golden networking opportunity in addition to being around competent people that don't think Bitcoin itself is a Ponzi... I'm going to try!

this should be a great networking opportunity

Having other commitments right through to 2013 I didn't imagine that I could attend, but suddenly things changed & I find that I will need to be in London for a week around that time anyway so why not, flight & accommodation booked - should be fun :)

I'll be there and give a talk on BitcoinSpinner.

I will be there :-)
 // DeaDTerra

Awesome! I've got this on my phone.

Sadly, I don't think I can get a visa in time (or airfare for that matter)

Off topic, but just a question.

Now I mean no disrespect. I'm honestly just curious, nothing more.

Nefario -- is that an alpaca? llama? your avatar needs a haircut.

Chances are, I am coming, too

I will be coming as well...

I'll be there as part of Bitcoin Magazine team.

It's confirmed, I will be there. 2 people from the Bittiraha.fi team will be there representing the Finnish Bitcoin scene.

I recommend checking out Juri Mattila's (also a Finn) presentation on Bitcoin and legal challenges.

I will be attending (Tony)

I assume that the events planned for the evening of Friday the 14th are to take place at LARC, I shall be there for those - checking out what's on at the Whitechapel art gallery first & maybe an Indian in Brick lane after :P

http://www.whatpoll.com/brick-lane-curry-house

Bitcoin2012 update

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67199.msg1157994#msg1157994

I will be there. Looking forward to meeting people.

I have a limited number of the rare Silver Keiser coins, both the 1 oz and the 1/10 ounce dime, if anyone wants to buy one.  I also have some Casascius coins that I can bring, as well as the "load your own" Casascius coins.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/tonygal/2E26B4EC-BFB2-4D48-9316-B9DB05D053B5-5183-0000073CFF108C52.jpg

how many casascius coins will you bring? we are looking to get about ~150 there for a reasonable "bulk" rate.

cool, I'll buy one or more of the 1/10th depending on price.

you're tony, right?

I'm also bringing casascius (rare series with spelling error) but not the amount requested in previous post ;/.

I could bring some casascius coins as well... maybe we can come up with enough of them :D

i wanted to go there but i don't want to meet phantomcircuit.
too much anger ;(

don't bring too many, that kills the price ;)

Where will you people stay? The Prague conference had an agreement with a hotel, this one does not seem to have made any agreement, but the site does mention this hotel: http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/
Apparently it's close to the conference venue.

www.imperialhotels.co.uk covers a number of hotels in the area. I booked at the one called President (Russell Square, London, WC1N 1DB), which is very close to the venue.

Oh, thanks for clarifying. So those names are not just room categories, but different hotels, and the closest one to the conference is the Royal National whose single rooms are at 81 pounds per night, that's it?

Why did you book in the President and not the Royal National if you don't mind me asking?

Meh, don't remember. Had to pick something. I'll only use it for storing my underwear and a little sleep  ;D

There is a wide range of options for accommodation within walking distance of the conference premises. See on http://booking.com . I picked Wardonia Hotel.

Bitcoin Magazine team will be staying in Imperial.

Check out their weekend deal. As far as I remember for 150£ you get two nights, can extend to 3rd night for 50£ and this includes a bunch of perks like some free drinks and some free dinners. It is what we've booked.

Word of warning, this is London, and you should not expect much of quality for this money.

We chose this hotel, which is cheap but should be good value. It's walking distance from the conference venue.

http://www.tunehotels.com/our-hotels/kings-cross-london

me and 3 other people booked in a 6-bed dorm in a hostel called "Smart Russel Square". Quite affordable (GBP 25 per night I think), don't expect any luxury. http://www.smartbackpackers.com/ (be careful, they have different locations).

We booked separately. If you put "Bitcoin" into comment, maybe you'll get booked into our room.

PM me for more info.

I booked through the excellent www.airbnb.com & found a cool place about 10 minutes walk away for well under £500 (including fees) for 8 nights.

PM sent.

I'll be there. Arriving late friday so will probably only attend saturday+sunday.

I'm selling tickets for €60 in bitcoins via PM. You pay first unless I know you or I can put it on bitmit.net if you want escrow.

I'm a b1tc01n n00b but I'll be there! (Just as long as I'm not stupid enough to miss the train I've booked on Friday.)

Slightly dark-skinned with very dark brown eyes and well over 6' tall, I'm not too inconspicuous.  ;D

Looking forward to interacting with or listening to peeps who know where this ship's headed! (If anyone really does know.)

I will be there... bit of a small fry compared to some of you longer term forum members and Bitcoin adopters, but I will be there representing www.ppcointalk.org and happy to meet some fellow bitcoin users :)

Hope everyone has a great convention and enjoy :)

We had the first day of the hackathon, although we didn't really do any hacking, spending most of it talking about bitcoin policy and then a nice curry.

Pretty much everybody on the speakers list will be there, at least, including me :)

About to board my BOS->London flight right now...

Bon voyage! :)

Any body got any plans for today? I'd love to meet some other early arrivers. I guess I'll head down to Leiceter square (again) and join the hackathon people. Unless something more exciting comes along ;)

Well I was there at the pre-show tonight at Antalya. Not too shabby. Surprisingly busy and jam-packed: easily at least 70 attendees in that little resto space! Maybe nigh on 100?

Not sure who from the forum I met, though (Amir aside). At times one could barely hear oneself think but it was a good starter course! :) Roll on tomorrow.

I'd say there was 100-130 people there. Was so busy we waited 1 and 1/2 hours for food, I was starving by the time I got it. I'm really enthused if this is how many show up in the pre-event.

How ironic.

LOL +1 to astute Wifey & lets hope that it's only the polies that show up if he doesn't get a move on & send the issuers their client info.

Nefario's wife: smarter than he is, yet still dumb enough to marry him.