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since no one is doing it, I have some how officially became that person.

Here's a write up on the story so far.

I have updated the post http://bitnavigator.info/?p=126, it contains a lot of insider information because I was both an attendee and some how staff of the event. feel free to ask questions.

the gallery has some pictures and the rest of the pictures are on http://twitter.com/bitnavigator


Stephen's Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/justmoon/bitcoinjs-bitcon-new-york-presentation
Jeff's Slides - http://yyz.us/bitcoin/TheStateoftheCoin2011.pdf

"feel free to ask any questions:

What were the big announcements?

Bruce on aug 14:

What were they?

There's going to be future Conferences obviously, so there's gonna be

announcement 1
2012 NYC,
2012, Amsterdam
2012, Thailand (forgot the city)

announcement 2
then in 2013 there's going to be a cruise from Spain to Rio ( 17 days ), a 5 star Bitcoin Cruise since Bruce's friend apparently owns the largest travel agency in the world.

 
I wasn't too shocked about it since it's pretty far in the future, and you know how long that is in bitcoin time.

and oh here's the reddit thread. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/jn6xe/bit_navigator_just_in_time_for_the_nyc_bitcoin/

So Thai Ladyboys are accepting bitcoin now? I suppose that is good news

+1   :o ;D

Iam gonna so be there. :)

Sounds like a plan for the global bitcoin conference  to turn into..  local meetups.


Bruce has a friend who want's to make some money from bitcoiners?   Well I guess it may be fun for those bitcoin entrepreneurs who make a lot of coin by then and feel like having a party with some fellow bitcoiners.


I was surprised at how this whole conference thing seemed to be thrown together at short notice. Was onlyonetv worried someone else would host it and steal their limelight if they didn't go ahead with it immediately?
I do like what onlyonetv does in general...  but they did seem a bit dismissive of people's concerns pre-conference and seem to have rushed it all.
Hardly a snatch of live video when it's run by 'onlyonetv'.. wtf??

I'm disappointed they didn't arrange to have the Bitcoin ATM guy (Todd Bethell) on side and at the show. (was bitbills at least represented?)
Something physical and exciting like that would have been perfect to show the media.. as it is.. what are they going to report on?

Looking forward to more reports from community members anyway..  I'm sure it was a great opportunity to meet and share ideas.
Even if it is just a somewhat hyped meetup.. I'd love to attend some day.

We don't know what media outlets even showed up.

Shoot...

We need a real convention in a convention center. That way the public can enter off the street after saying "wtf is bitcoin?" when they see it on the jumbotron. We need the public to know about this. The more brains, the better.

So far this convention has been a HUGE success!
I have so many amazing conversations with so many amazing people.
After seeing first hand how many intelligent people are this excited and interested in Bitcoins,  I am even more sure that we are changing the world.

BTW,
Bitcoin ATM guy (Todd Bethell) is here and had a booth. 
I've enjoyed some interesting conversations with him, and he is a very sharp guy as well.

His first ATM machines will be live in public locations in about a week.
If you know someone who has a location that can host a Bitcoin ATM,  please contact him!

Is anything happening today or has it fizzled out?

I do a lot of media I was thinking on getting some footage for my radio show and a later to be put together documentary.

I'll be at the onlyoneTV studios today from about 9AM.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/993053/Fixed/BitCon%202011%20Agenda/BitCon%202011%20Agenda%20Published.pdf (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/993053/Fixed/BitCon%202011%20Agenda/BitCon%202011%20Agenda%20Published.pdf)

Please feel free to contact me if you need anything,

Roger Ver
+1-408-313-1853

A Bitcoin Cruise sounds like a more realistic way to get people from many countries together.    Also seems like an amusing movie to be made involving real life pirates raiding the boat only to find that they have to have a computer to redeem their booty.

Would have been nice to have a TED talks kind of deal where the speeches were taped and you could view them somewhere.

You think someone with a damn cell phone and a wordpress blog would have this going for the community by now.  The fact that no larger site is taking this simple task on amazes me.  I know I seen a live feed yesterday, or I thought I did.

All the talks were recorded and OnlyoneTV will be posting them online ASAP.

Good to hear.  I really would have loved to have made it. I am just getting off an all night shoot and I'm in Queens so I don't know if it's possible to make it there since you're only going till 12pm today.  I have a nice 4G streaming setup from a laptop with livestream on http://blackout.com I coulda put up.  Are you guys still going to O'Crepes?  I think I am closer to that.  In any case it seems a lot is happening for bitcoin.  I look forward to seeing some of the interviews and next time getting involved earlier.

- Blackout

I doubt we are going to o'crepes for lunch.
It is kind of far.
Lots of us are still at the onlyoneTV studios and the talks are going strong.
Come on over!

We are having a blast!!!!

The conference is a huge success

It would be great if we had more images posted up!

Maybe  how they handed out these conference badges

http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2011/06/bitcoins-1308261826.jpg
Or perhaps what some of the rooms looked like?

http://www.dyndy.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/genjix_bitcoin_epca11.jpg http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Support/AcadAffairs/delo/NewslettersHTML/Images/June08/ckcc2.jpg

http://static.onemansblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/microsoft-world-wide-partner-conference.jpg

or perhaps some conference advertising!

http://data.memorydealers.com/Pictures/BITCOIN_BILLBOARD.jpg and http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKpmbUykQRl7azj7szrmZs-Y3L-Yd-Tl3GGaFFIrjnf7QZXw5I..

or the conventional miners for your average Joe that were on display....

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQe-zkA8PcjBxc8tsHO8RifWMDDs10O-TCPJXcdl5tytksboJV_Aw

:) well it would be nice.

It took too long for this to reach us, we already sold all our coins :\

None of those are from the conference, the big one is a microsoft conference. I hate you.

Seriously it was great meeting everyone,  Bruce, Roger, Steffan,  everyone...   seriously thanks for the opportunity to meet everyone!  It was well worth the booth and I will be at the next one!

Thailand is on!!!

Who's gonna hire the strippers for the cruise? We will see what we can setup  8)

I hope the Thailand conference will be in Chiang Mai late in the year.  The rest of the country is too close to the equator.  Everyone's bitcoins will melt!

oh sorry mate.  ???

I was hopping to get people to post the NYC photos... Those were just examples that I found on google.

eh, on www.bitnavigator.info and @bitnavigor has a lot of photos from the Conference?

I ended up crashing out. No more energy reserves (three long projects back to back no sleep till Brooklyn).  Thanks for being hospitable though I am sure I will catch up with you guys sooner or later.  I'm definitely rooting for bitcoin and I'm not one of you major players I didn't get on the boat early enough but I just like freedom in general and the entire idea of it.  I'm going to try and do a fun segment and use my humor site to bring bitcoin to my audience in layman's terms it's still currently too geeky for regular people to get it  or use and is mostly adopted by the geek or stock trader crowd. I see this changing though with some modifications to the client and online services and a little less manipulation by the massive coin holders and some more easy tools for 'regs' (regular people) it will really hit the hot seat.

I do various characters and shows on awareness and not being a sheeple, liberty.. but I'm not the Alex Jones type, I'm more a comedian / actor / host / film maker with a production company. I like to bring messages subtly like this

(sorry if you're a mac person)

This was my first test pf my live streaming show from a laptop with a backback:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9yy7i0trQQ

No bitcoin mention in there but as an aside when I was done with the puppet, NO ONE at the apple store new what a bitcoin was....  at the time of this I didn't really know either... but still no apple people I know have any idea what a bitcoin is.

Anyway when do you plan to post all the interviews?

- Blackout

Blackout?? As in "I am 900 years old" ?!

I have been a fan for many years, sir. Fancy meeting you here.

Thanks for the conference update...been waiting to hear something.

LOL!

That's 24 minutes and 42 seconds of my life I'll never get back. I can't believed I watched it twice. Luckily I bookmarked it to watch it again in the future. Truly enjoyed it, Blackout. If you happen to take the time to read all my posts, you should have no problem finding the one where I stated that I used to do sit-down (mining accident) comedy.

Bitcoinrex (.com is available--another $10K+ I gave away today)

Stephen Thomas has send me the slides from the conference on request, thought I'd share here as while as updating the thread on bitcoinnavigator

http://www.slideshare.net/justmoon/bitcoinjs-bitcon-new-york-presentation

Gavin's Slides as requested.

http://skypaint.com/bitcoin/DevDirection.pdf

The name of the prank call is "The Quanicles" and yeah, that's me.  That was when I was a teen. Got a few more toys than I did though now and trying to actually make a legit film for Sundance 2012.  Any of you big bitcoin players wanna invest?  Anyway. glad you are still laughing as I am still making stuff.  if I would have been doing the streams, there would be sound.

I'm gonna make it to the the NYC one but I doubt I'm going to Pattya...

I thought you were going to rip into me but you liked it good I'm glad.  Now what do you mean mining accident?  Real mining accident or bitcoin mining accident? I fail to see how graphics cards could sever one's legs off.... burn them badly perhaps... but disable them?

- Blackout

That was definitely my favorite, but "Take Your Medicine" was a very close second, followed by "Malcolm and the white boys" and "The Rrrrrooksnitchzien Society." Brilliant stuff.

Thank you - if you truly enjoyed the calls - laughter BTC donations are gladly accepted!

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