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Title: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on March 03, 2012, 06:41:21 PM
Tickets Available:€70 each
Contact Amir (aka genjix), tickets selling fast already so don't wait. (genjix@bitcoin2012.com?subject=tickets)


ANNOUNCEMENT


Tier 2 sponsorship available

  • Roller banner at event 800x2065mm (banner,stand,printing included)
  • A PowerPoint slide on main screen(looped) between talks.
  • Your logo included in the final production video of event.
  • The ability to say you are a sponsor of this conference

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BITCOIN2012 - www.bitcoin2012.com
After weeks of planning we are glad to announce we will be holding the Bitcoin Conference in London, hosted by the Bitcoin Consultancy. The first conference was held by Mitchell Bourne in association with us. He set an amazing standard, showed us the ropes and bestowed us with considerable experience. This year he will be taking a diminished role as we take over the chariot. We hope to live up to the high standard he set last year.

We plan this conference to be the hub for bitcoiners wishing to learn, meet, do business and expand their minds. This will bring bitcoin to a global financial centre, and be a turning point bringing bitcoin to the fore of the mainstream. It is here that bitcoin will leave its perilous infancy, as the new world briefly meets the old before displacing it.

Bitcoin Consultancy will be applying their resources and previous experience to deliver the event. We are an organisation of 5 members based in the UK. For this project, we have divided up the roles according to our various talents.

- James McCarthy (nefario), Community Manager. Our liason and public face of the community. As a long term member of the forums, we are glad to have recently taken him on board. His role as a moderator and then his conscientious relinquishing it in moral protest, together with his involvement with several projects including GLBSE, the bitcoin stock exchange demonstrate a high ethical and trustworthy standard we demand.

- Donald Norman, Finances and Sponsors. As the director for the Bitcoin Consultancy, Donald has been in constant contact with business people and authorities regarding bitcoin. Before even enterning university, Donald was already sucessful in business.

- Amir Taaki (genjix), Organiser. Last year, Amir was responsible for designing the schedule and finding speakers. His high involvement in all areas of bitcoin have given him a deep insight to the multiple diverse aspects of bitcoin. As such, he knows exactly the format and way to design this year's program.


Additionally we will see:

- Martin Dittus (martind), Moderator. Martin (http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/User:Martind) is a trustee for the London Hackspace (https://london.hackspace.org.uk/), a UK non-profit community run space in central London where people go to share tools and knowledge. Last year Martin and Amir organised the London Bitcoin Weekend (http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:Bitcoin/Bitcoin_Weekend_2011) where we saw Martin's capability as a moderator and leader of events. We have requested Martin for this conference and he gracefully accepted. He has a gentle guiding manner with people and is a perfect match for this event. Currently he is doing his Master's on the role of technology in urban spaces and has a keen interest in decentralising technology.

- Mitchell Bourne (worldly), Advisor. His passion for bitcoin made last years European Bitcoin Conference, which he led. He has been involved in various businesses and entrepreneurial activities for a long time. His involvement managing logistics and organising last year's conference means he has the direct applicable experience and practice which will be lent to creating an excellent conference this year.



We want to make something for all parts of the community by having very in depth talks from experts about Bitcoin in the following areas:
- Development
- Economics
- Law
- Finance
- Social
- Ethics

We also will have talks on non-bitcoin related projects and about tangential 'new-economy' topics like peer-production and distributed patronage.

Rick Falkvinge at Bitcoin2011 Prague (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmuPqkVwWc)

We want it to be a place to share ideas where people already involved can learn at a high level. We want to include and focus on merchants who are doing novel things that play on bitcoin's strengths. Instead of a merchant who sells a good or a commodity like one would sell for dollars, a merchant who is using microtransactions, merchants whose business could not survive without irreversible electronic and fast payments as is only possible in bitcoin. What can we do with this new technology that is not just cheaper but fundamentally different, what new markets are enabled by bitcoin.

Stefan Thomas at Bitcoin2011 Prague (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpeZ01H_Bk)

The most important part of making this conference a success is the community getting behind it. If you would like to show your support, this is what I ask of the community:
- Provide feedback in what you would like to see at the conference, we love ideas.
- Constructive criticism welcome
- If you have something interesting in the works and would like to do a talk on, please submit your ideas.
- If you have some interesting technology you would like to assist in any aspect of the conference please get in touch.
- Any other assistance you would like to offer that doesn’t fit into the above points please let us know.
- Register on the site as early as you can so we have more time to organise logistics(when we have it up).

If we can get community support on the above points then we can focus on marketing the conference to a wider audience. Our aim is to bring in Business People, Entrepreneurs and the Media that bitcoin needs for public adoption.

London 2012
The previous conference was held in Prague as a lower cost option because we were unsure how sucessful the event would become. This year we have a good idea how the conference will proceed, and are expecting well over 300 attendees. In London, we will be able to guarantee Bitcoin2012 receives a considerable amount of exposure outside the community in the mainstream press.


London is the financial heart of the world and the home of Bitcoin Consultancy. We formed this consultancy as a collaborative effort to take bitcoin out of the world of tech geeks and hobbyists into the real world. London is THE venue for doing that.

We have links with journalists from all major news organisations. By holding it in London, we increase the level of exposure for the event from mainstream media.

Many of the speakers we've invited & wish to invite are based in London, and by holding it here means we get higher quality speakers. Higher quality speakers means we can build a great event.

As a transport hub London has several international airports at Gatwick, Stansted, Heathrow, London City and Luton. Making it the top travel hub in the world.

Venue
Imperial, Russell Square, London, UK

Date - 15th and 16th of September, price - first 100 tickets Euro 40. Currently taking registration and accepting sponsors.

Speakers:
- Max Keiser (confirmed) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser)- Denis Roio (confirmed) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaromil)
Looking forward to seeing you in London,
James McCarthy and Bitcoin Consultancy
Join us on Freenode IRC in #bitcoinconsultancy

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Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: molecular on March 03, 2012, 06:50:44 PM
Awesome! I will definitely attend and watch this thread ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: cypherdoc on March 03, 2012, 06:59:38 PM
Good choice.  Congratulations.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 03, 2012, 07:01:49 PM
subbadubdubbed.



This time around, get some press passes ready for people and don't make them pay just to advertise your convention :P


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: farfiman on March 03, 2012, 07:27:39 PM
I suggest having a game with prizes.

It's called "The Hunt for DoubleIcaras"


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on March 03, 2012, 07:31:22 PM
I will attend and I can speak if you'd like me to.

My recommendation is to have it at least 1 month after the Olympics. I lived in Atlanta in 1996 and it took that long for things to get back to normal.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: matsh on March 03, 2012, 07:49:55 PM
When? I tried to see a date, couldn't find one. Perhaps I read sloppy?

Mats


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Nefario on March 03, 2012, 07:58:16 PM
When? I tried to see a date, couldn't find one. Perhaps I read sloppy?

Mats


Date not confirmed, most likely late November/early December.

So shortly after the Olympics is a no go due to venue availability.

Nefario


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: marked on March 03, 2012, 07:59:02 PM
When? I tried to see a date, couldn't find one. Perhaps I read sloppy?

From OP, inbetween Venue and Speakers, Max Keiser:
Quote
Date, price and website to be finalised. We will not be taking registrations until we have confirmed the date. We are aiming either for September or December depending on several factors.

marked


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 03, 2012, 08:01:07 PM
Looking forward to it. It will be almost 2013 though  ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Nefario on March 03, 2012, 08:10:15 PM
Looking forward to it. It will be almost 2013 though  ;)

That just means we get to cover all the cool stuff that happened over the year and the plan for the next cool things to get done for the next year.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Keyur @ Camp BX on March 03, 2012, 10:32:03 PM

Sounds good - subscribing to the thread!



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: bulanula on March 03, 2012, 10:42:52 PM
I suggest having a game with prizes.

It's called "The Hunt for DoubleIcaras"

What is the story behind this ?

Did he disappear with the Bitcoin London activity thing ???


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: da2ce7 on March 04, 2012, 12:23:18 AM
I will love to come!  ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 04, 2012, 12:37:33 AM
I will be there and would love to speak and sponsor!


My recommendation is to have it at least 1 month after the Olympics. I lived in Atlanta in 1996 and it took that long for things to get back to normal.

I agree!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Killdozer on March 04, 2012, 08:59:47 AM
Shouldn't this be called Bitcon 2012?
All other conferences are called *con. Word bitcoin refers to the currency, not an event about the currency.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: tosaki on March 04, 2012, 09:14:18 AM
I must be blind. What is the exact date?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Killdozer on March 04, 2012, 09:23:50 AM
Quote
I must be blind. What is the exact date?

Cmon people learn to read or at least Ctrl+F "date".

The exact date isn't set yet.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: finway on March 04, 2012, 02:20:06 PM
Watching.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 04, 2012, 02:41:45 PM
Ugh... cause London in December is some place I want to go.  If you want a larger attendance, I suggest moving the venue to someplace that has decent weather that time of year.

I don't want to fly from one deary place to another dreary place, jeez!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 04, 2012, 03:20:44 PM
Ugh... cause London in December is some place I want to go.  If you want a larger attendance, I suggest moving the venue to someplace that has decent weather that time of year.

I don't want to fly from one deary place to another dreary place, jeez!

Is weather really a consideration for a short conference? Most if not all of Europe is cold in December... at least cold by my standards.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 04, 2012, 04:58:42 PM
It is for me. I definitely will not attend due to weather. Not about to fly 12 hours and spend 1000 bucks to go to London in Dec!

If it were some place nice, I would likely attend.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 04, 2012, 05:01:10 PM
I thought the overwhelming majority wanted Berlin from the other thread?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 04, 2012, 05:03:31 PM
I thought the overwhelming majority wanted Berlin from the other thread?

We did. It's clear that the powers at be have their reasons to ignore it though.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 04, 2012, 05:05:26 PM
Berlin would be awesome.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 04, 2012, 05:16:03 PM
Berlin would be awesome.

+1

If I have to go somewhere in Europe dead of winter, Berlin is more appealing. London is very dreary and all of Europe is cold but at least Berlin they embrace it!

Its also MUCH cheaper in Berlin.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 04, 2012, 05:17:23 PM
Absolutely. I would attend even in December if it were in Berlin.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: ribuck on March 04, 2012, 05:27:50 PM
I would attend in December if it were in the Canary Islands. They're in Spain, so they're almost part of Europe.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 04, 2012, 05:32:56 PM
Fuck, I'd speak at the conference if it's in Berlin. I'd speak in German at that.

"Du bist schwul."


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 04, 2012, 05:35:55 PM
Absolutely. I would attend even in December if it were in Berlin.



I know both London and Berlin well and it beats me that you think weather in Berlin is good in December, while London weather is a deal-breaker. Not that it makes any sense to me at all, and I was raised in tropical weather.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 04, 2012, 05:40:21 PM
I would attend in December if it were in the Canary Islands. They're in Spain, so they're almost part of Europe.

Spain is Europe, but the Canary Islands are African territories and a long flight away from most of Europe.

Seriously would you take the conference down to the Canaries because of the weather?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: jamesg on March 04, 2012, 05:43:40 PM
Subscribing. It's always hot in Orlando so I don't mind traveling to see some cold!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Technomage on March 04, 2012, 05:57:04 PM
I will very likely attend this conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 04, 2012, 06:01:06 PM
I would fly for good weather, yes.

I have been to London plenty of times and it holds no interest as a destination for me, so if the weather is crappy it has zero appeal. If it were in london in late spring/early summer i would be inclined to go so that i could see more of the UK... but I am not driving around the country in Dec. Whereas I have never been to Berlin, and while my preference is for a warmer climate that time of year, I would be far more willing to suffer the cold to see Berlin.

All things being equal, the Canary islands would be awesome.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 04, 2012, 07:03:56 PM
Subscribing. It's always hot in Orlando so I don't mind traveling to see some cold!

Jerk  ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Nefario on March 04, 2012, 10:20:41 PM
I would fly for good weather, yes.

I have been to London plenty of times and it holds no interest as a destination for me, so if the weather is crappy it has zero appeal. If it were in london in late spring/early summer i would be inclined to go so that i could see more of the UK... but I am not driving around the country in Dec. Whereas I have never been to Berlin, and while my preference is for a warmer climate that time of year, I would be far more willing to suffer the cold to see Berlin.

All things being equal, the Canary islands would be awesome.

We're planning a conference, not a group holiday, if you want sun then go for the Costa Del Sol, the last time someone tried for a sunny place for a bitcoin conference we almost ended up with Bruce Wagners Pattaya.

London is the financial hub of the world (larger than the rest of the EU's financial sectors combined), a world travel hub, packed with media, and where the majority of our speakers are based.




Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: molecular on March 04, 2012, 11:56:28 PM
Looking forward to it. It will be almost 2013 though  ;)

coinciding with the mining incentive reduction ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: molecular on March 04, 2012, 11:58:29 PM
I will love to come!  ;D

Cool. Will you update us on open transactions?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Raoul Duke on March 05, 2012, 12:11:19 AM
Don't you mean Bitcoin Lisbon 2012? It's happening in June - July...  ::)





PS: It's just a joke for the one's complaining about the weather. It may also be a suggestion if someone is willing to take it ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: bitprotection on March 05, 2012, 01:15:58 AM
beautiful  ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: disclaimer201 on March 05, 2012, 02:58:13 AM
Who simply decided for London just now? I thought it'd be in Berlin this year? November/December is quite late. The only reason to do it then is b/c of the location and the olympics. London is too expensive if you're not a member of the Rothschild family or in a position of mainstream economics. I thought bitcoin was for everyman/woman?

What if we will have the problem with those tainted coins and a huge mess on who is accepting what percentage of taintedness long before the bitcoin community can discuss it in person? Perhaps December will be too late then? There are some urgent questions that need to be discussed rather sooner than later, on a wider base of members if possible.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on March 05, 2012, 03:44:29 AM
James,

we are interested in sponsoring the conference and speaking as well.  did you get my email?

Tony



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Nefario on March 05, 2012, 05:01:08 AM
James,

we are interested in sponsoring the conference and speaking as well.  did you get my email?

Tony



Hey Tony, got the mail (found it in spam), replied.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 05, 2012, 08:28:04 AM
Who simply decided for London just now? I thought it'd be in Berlin this year? November/December is quite late. The only reason to do it then is b/c of the location and the olympics. London is too expensive if you're not a member of the Rothschild family or in a position of mainstream economics. I thought bitcoin was for everyman/woman

At the end of the day it's the speakers who make this decision. I guess you can organise another conference in Berlin, but maybe the speakers who are going to talk in London won't do both.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: flix on March 05, 2012, 08:38:21 AM
London is great.

Please give some indication about the date.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: disclaimer201 on March 05, 2012, 08:43:26 AM
Who simply decided for London just now? I thought it'd be in Berlin this year? November/December is quite late. The only reason to do it then is b/c of the location and the olympics. London is too expensive if you're not a member of the Rothschild family or in a position of mainstream economics. I thought bitcoin was for everyman/woman

At the end of the day it's the speakers who make this decision. I guess you can organise another conference in Berlin, but maybe the speakers who are going to talk in London won't do both.

Good point. Speakers are more important than audience.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Raoul Duke on March 05, 2012, 08:47:07 AM
Who simply decided for London just now? I thought it'd be in Berlin this year? November/December is quite late. The only reason to do it then is b/c of the location and the olympics. London is too expensive if you're not a member of the Rothschild family or in a position of mainstream economics. I thought bitcoin was for everyman/woman

At the end of the day it's the speakers who make this decision. I guess you can organise another conference in Berlin, but maybe the speakers who are going to talk in London won't do both.

Good point. Speakers are more important than audience.

Is my sarcasm detector broken?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: willphase on March 05, 2012, 10:46:05 AM
Interested. Subscribing to the thread. Keen to hear a rough date as soon as possible.

Will


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: realnowhereman on March 05, 2012, 12:55:43 PM
Can I suggest getting in touch with the Adam Smith Institute.  They are certainly a libertarian organisation; but concentrate on the economic side (as you would guess given their title).

Their blog posts suggest they are always involved in some sort of small meeting or other.  Getting them involved (maybe even getting someone to speak) might also get you some good publicity with the London free-market crowd.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 05, 2012, 01:38:52 PM
We're planning a conference, not a group holiday, if you want sun then go for the Costa Del Sol, the last time someone tried for a sunny place for a bitcoin conference we almost ended up with Bruce Wagners Pattaya.

London is the financial hub of the world (larger than the rest of the EU's financial sectors combined), a world travel hub, packed with media, and where the majority of our speakers are based.

Yeah, good work.  Why not alienate a portion of your attending audience.  That's the way to win acceptance! 

So the last time someone tried for a sunny place they fucked up and couldn't get their shit together, so that's the reason to hold it in travel destination that no one wants to go to due to the time of year.  Right... silly me.

There's a reason many, many big conferences have their destination in places that people want to go to: increased attendance.  You'd do well to take a lesson from the most successful conferences and not just do your own thing because you *think* doesn't matter.  Learn from other peoples experience instead.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: genjix on March 05, 2012, 02:07:27 PM
We are in London = higher quality conference. That's all that matters to me. Build the highest quality schedule and topics. Bring together the best and brightest.

Our organisation's (Bitcoin Consultancy) mission statement is:
"In April 2011, we formed this consultancy as a collaborative effort to take bitcoin outside the world of tech geeks and hobbyists into the real world."

This conference's mandate is:
"To bring bitcoin to a global financial centre, and be a turning point bringing bitcoin to the fore of the mainstream. It is here that bitcoin will leave its perilous infancy, as the new world briefly meets the old before displacing it."

If you notice the actions of our group, everything is aligned with these statements. From our outreach (Bitcoin Media), to the exchange (Intersango to spread BTC) and our development (libbitcoin to enable people to build lots of bitcoin applications). This conference will be no different, and you will see it designed accordingly. We want to grow bitcoin through the vehicle of this conference. It will be a serious pensive arrangement with deep discussions, not a fun-community weekend piss-up.

London is our avenue for doing that. For building the best conference, we are here and have our support network here. It is where we can best perform. Berlin is foreign unfamiliar non-English speaking territory for us. It's not like to create a conference you just rent out a church hall and throw some plastic chairs in. There is a lot of micromanagement and behind the scenes organisation.

And saying you boycott us until you get a sunnier location of your choosing, when this is our highest quality offering is simply childish and ungrateful. I'm not getting paid working 14 hour days, and the rest of my group is also overworked and underpaid. We are in this because we are lovers of bitcoin (and opensource in my case :)). And you want to punish us? Come on, I know you're above that as a human being.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: disclaimer201 on March 05, 2012, 02:32:49 PM
We are in London = higher quality conference. That's all that matters to me. Build the highest quality schedule and topics. Bring together the best and brightest.

Our organisation's (Bitcoin Consultancy) mission statement is:
"In April 2011, we formed this consultancy as a collaborative effort to take bitcoin outside the world of tech geeks and hobbyists into the real world."

This conference's mandate is:
"To bring bitcoin to a global financial centre, and be a turning point bringing bitcoin to the fore of the mainstream. It is here that bitcoin will leave its perilous infancy, as the new world briefly meets the old before displacing it."

If you notice the actions of our group, everything is aligned with these statements. From our outreach (Bitcoin Media), to the exchange (Intersango to spread BTC) and our development (libbitcoin to enable people to build lots of bitcoin applications). This conference will be no different, and you will see it designed accordingly. We want to grow bitcoin through the vehicle of this conference. It will be a serious pensive arrangement with deep discussions, not a fun-community weekend piss-up.

London is our avenue for doing that. For building the best conference, we are here and have our support network here. It is where we can best perform. Berlin is foreign unfamiliar non-English speaking territory for us. It's not like to create a conference you just rent out a church hall and throw some plastic chairs in. There is a lot of micromanagement and behind the scenes organisation.

And saying you want to punish us with a boycott until you get a sunnier location of your choosing, when this is our highest quality offering is simply childish and ungrateful. I'm not getting paid working 14 hour days, and the rest of my group is also overworked and underpaid. We are in this because we are lovers of bitcoin (and opensource in my case :)).

Did I miss something? When did Bitcoin become highjacked by self-proclaimed consultants that seem to know what's best for BTC's promotion?

Your mandate sounds a bit deterministic, even dogmatic. You admit that it is doability and not other factors that limit your venue location to London. Most people in Berlin speak fluent English, let alone many other languages. I don't buy the altruistic reasoning of unpaid volunatary service to the community, neither from you nor anyone.

And punishment? If people cannot attend for obvious financial reasons you have more or less limited the audience to an elite. It's not about punishment, it's about not being able to attend. Some places are more easily attendable than others.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Technomage on March 05, 2012, 02:36:16 PM
I really don't understand what the problem is with the location, I preferred Berlin but London is almost as good. Any significantly more southern location would increase costs, not decrease them. Flight cost goes way up from any central or northern European location. I live in Finland so flying to either London or Berlin is cheap and when we're talking about a weekend visit that is usually the largest cost. Flying to London is actually cheaper because Ryanair doesn't fly from Finland to Berlin.

London is a major business hub and apparently it's a better location for many of the speakers so it makes sense. Anyone coming from the US will also find it easier to come to London than basically anywhere else in Europe.

I'm not coming there to enjoy the weather, I can go south for a longer vacation if I want warm weather. In that case the higher cost for flight tickets is also acceptable because I'm there for a few weeks. In this case we're talking about a Bitcoin enthusiast/business meeting which is one weekend, I certainly don't want to fly to Canary Islands because the flight cost goes significantly up.

Taking everything into account I would probably prefer southern Spain, southern Italy or Greece or Malta for a European winter conference but I understand the business side of things. Comparing London/Berlin weather is useless, they are very similar. Overall I'm completely fine with it, it's a serious conference not a vacation event so London is fine.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: molecular on March 05, 2012, 02:39:45 PM
Who simply decided for London just now? I thought it'd be in Berlin this year? November/December is quite late. The only reason to do it then is b/c of the location and the olympics. London is too expensive if you're not a member of the Rothschild family or in a position of mainstream economics. I thought bitcoin was for everyman/woman?

What if we will have the problem with those tainted coins and a huge mess on who is accepting what percentage of taintedness long before the bitcoin community can discuss it in person? Perhaps December will be too late then? There are some urgent questions that need to be discussed rather sooner than later, on a wider base of members if possible.

The organizers don't have a monopoly on bitcoin conferences. Anyone could organize an earlier conference at some different place, maybe with a different angle and better weather ;). Put enough time between them, invite other speakers, no harm done.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 05, 2012, 03:03:45 PM
Can we all stop hating on Genjix and his team.

They chose London, its gonna be an awesome conference, if you don't like it don't go!

I would have liked Berlin, but who cares, we don't get everything we want in life.

Looking forward!!!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Inaba on March 05, 2012, 03:14:35 PM
While I realize my little tiny vote doesn't count, but yes, I will not attend in London in December.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.  

Regardless, when people are going to travel, if they can combine a business trip with a vacation, you'll get a much larger uptake on attendance.  It's why large medical conferences (the ones I'm most familiar with) are held in tropical locations - you can take a vacation and write it off. I mean, I know a 2000+ attendee conferences are small peanuts compared to a Bitcoin conference, but what can you do.  With the Bitcoin conference in London in December, I would not classify that as a vacation under any circumstance, so if I were to want to take  a vacation a the end of the year, like I am planning, it sure as hell isn't going to be there, which means I have to decide between the two.  I can guarantee you Hawaii, Costa Del Sol, Monaco, etc... are going to be far, far higher on my list than London in December, haha.

I'm sure one of those places will have a medical or IT conference sometime around the end of the year, and I can use that as the tax write off instead of a Bitcoin trip.

I'm not hating on anyone BTW, except for perhaps Nefarious' tone, but other than that, I'm merely stating that at least for me, I won't be attending due to location and time of year.  I have no problem with it being in London, I have a problem with it being in London in December.  I would be all over it if it were in late spring or early summer in London. Even probably late summer, but I realize the Olympics puts a dent in that plan.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 05, 2012, 03:15:58 PM
Both London and Berlin are excellent locations to hold the conference and there are many people on both sides arguing for London and Berlin.

In London, December's average LOW temperature is HIGHER then Berlin's Daily Mean. London's average HIGH is almost 2x that of Berlin's (wikipedia Climate charts for the cities)

Obviously we can pick only one city. Obviously we cannot throw a conference in both locations as to throw a quality conference takes a huge amount of effort. After long thorough thought we realized London was the by far best place we could throw the best conference.

We can guarantee a much wider audience which will make it a much more successful event (last year's conference, while being a great conference was a financial loss to us and while we love our projects we cannot continue at a loss - we still have free projects like libbitcoin which are a huge cost in terms of opportunity cost). In London, we can certainly bring a much better quality of speakers also which of course will increase attendance and of course the quality. We can organize things in a lot more of an economic way because we are based out of London.

Even for those traveling cheaply we are looking to provide low cost options in London. While we don't have anything concrete yet, we are looking at the ability for a venue (most likely not the conference venue) to allow for people to stay overnight at incredibly affordable rates.

We are hoping for a conference date earlier than December however venue costs will be our largest overhead cost (aside from our team's man hours for the next few months) and we must take venue costs into consideration. However, all things being equal (or close to equal) we will have the conference as earliest as possible.

We understand that if we have the conference in London some people who prefer Berlin will not be able to join us. We also realize if the conference is in Berlin there are many people who live in the UK or would travel to the UK that would not attend in Berlin. While making a choice like this is hard, the aforementioned variables make a London conference better quality and value for the majority of people. We hope to have information in the next 2 months as to if we can arrange for more affordable accommodations in London (something we will likely be able to arrange.)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: rjk on March 05, 2012, 03:42:49 PM
Both London and Berlin are excellent locations to hold the conference and there are many people on both sides arguing for London and Berlin.

In London, December's average LOW temperature is HIGHER then Berlin's Daily Mean. London's average HIGH is almost 2x that of Berlin's (wikipedia Climate charts for the cities)

It is possible for a city to be cold (Berlin) while not being dreary and wet and clammy (London). In any case, good luck with the conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 05, 2012, 04:55:53 PM
Why don't the Berliners organise something else earlier? I'd go to that as well. Actually I plan to visit Berlin anyway, and I live in London.

It's not like you guys can't have talks and conferences in Berlin just because this particular event will happen in London.

BTW, I missed the hackspace talk :(


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: wareen on March 05, 2012, 04:57:17 PM
Can we all stop hating on Genjix and his team.

They chose London, its gonna be an awesome conference, if you don't like it don't go!

I would have liked Berlin, but who cares, we don't get everything we want in life.

Looking forward!!!

+1 for each line!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: btc-e.com on March 05, 2012, 05:41:03 PM
I will be there and would love to speak and sponsor!  ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: smoothie on March 05, 2012, 06:28:38 PM
Awesome we got Max Keiser. Now all we need as speakers are Alex Jones, Gerald Celente, and Mike Maloney. That would be a trip. ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on March 05, 2012, 06:30:10 PM
Awesome we got Max Keiser. Now all we need as speakers are Alex Jones, Gerald Celente, and Mike Maloney. That would be a trip. ;D

Gerald Celente and Mike Maloney

YES!!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: minorman on March 06, 2012, 06:10:07 AM
I'll probably go to this conference. Sounds great.

Regarding topics and speakers I'd love some meaningfull discussion of debt-money in relation to bitcoin. In particular, because of the recent tend of exchanges offering redeemable codes (i.e. promise-to-pay bitcoin) -supposedly backed by real bitcoins (for now).

The parallels between this and the early gold standard strike me as highly problematic. For instance, the bitcoin protocol might limit the bitcoins to 21 million, but there is no limit to the amount of promise-to-pay codes issued on top of the real bitcoins. (fractional reserve)

Why is this good -or bad- and how will this effect the future of bitcoin?



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: worldly on March 06, 2012, 07:42:14 AM
Hats off the genjix and team for organising the conference, It makes complete sense to do it in your hometown, and Im sure a weekend in London in December will work fine.

London can be done on the cheap, there are loads of backpackers and cheap places to eat and drink.  Its also very cheap to pop down to Costa Del Sol if you need to thaw out afterwards.

The coming months are going to be very busy for the guys, there is never any chance of pleasing everyone so lets just move on and support them in organising the conference.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 08, 2012, 11:21:41 PM
We should be releasing details for our preliminary sponsorship options in the next couple of days


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: bc on March 08, 2012, 11:41:58 PM
I'll probably go to this conference. Sounds great.

Regarding topics and speakers I'd love some meaningfull discussion of debt-money in relation to bitcoin. In particular, because of the recent tend of exchanges offering redeemable codes (i.e. promise-to-pay bitcoin) -supposedly backed by real bitcoins (for now).

The parallels between this and the early gold standard strike me as highly problematic. For instance, the bitcoin protocol might limit the bitcoins to 21 million, but there is no limit to the amount of promise-to-pay codes issued on top of the real bitcoins. (fractional reserve)

Why is this good -or bad- and how will this effect the future of bitcoin?

I would think fractional reserve is possible with any currency - as soon as you have banks which hold them. The key, to me, is the check of sound money, and the lack of tender laws (to some degree).


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: apetersson on March 08, 2012, 11:53:44 PM
will definately attend again!

has anyone an overview of the hackspace infrastructure in london?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: muyuu on March 08, 2012, 11:57:44 PM
will definately attend again!

has anyone an overview of the hackspace infrastructure in london?

Almost positive they wil rent a venue elsewhere. Hackspace is too small for an event like this.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: apetersson on March 09, 2012, 12:01:29 AM
Almost positive they wil rent a venue elsewhere. Hackspace is too small for an event like this.
yes, i had that assumption as well. but for the days before/afterwards a hackspace would be nice to hang around..


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 12:05:51 AM
will definately attend again!

has anyone an overview of the hackspace infrastructure in london?

Almost positive they wil rent a venue elsewhere. Hackspace is too small for an event like this.

No this is not going to be based in the London hackspace, this isn't a meetup, we're going to be having up 400 people. We're getting a full size venue to allow this.

Although the idea of having a meetup in the hackspace before and after the event is a pretty good one.

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: genjix on March 09, 2012, 01:01:18 AM
I want to make a week long hackathon of intense coding! I mean if all these cool people fly from the US, it would a waste for them not to stick around! Anyway, we'll have to see and this is something I'll try to setup nearer the date in my spare time (not part of the official conference). Maybe we could pool funds together to rent out a hall and throw down sleeping bags or something. I'll also check with LHS once we confirm the date for the conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London
Post by: Cosbycoin on March 09, 2012, 02:41:15 AM
This conference will occur around the time the bitcoin block reward halves. ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 10:37:41 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT - SEE OP (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67199)

Tier 1 sponsorship- Limited.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 11:04:37 PM
First 3 spots gone, 7 of the discounted ones remaining.

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on March 09, 2012, 11:08:40 PM
I emailed you, we will take 1


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 11:15:51 PM
First 6 spots gone already, 4 remaining.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 11:19:47 PM
3 spots remaining.

Like hotcakes.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Jon on March 09, 2012, 11:30:54 PM
I will confirm that I am coming. I will attempt to bring a friend or two as well.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 09, 2012, 11:53:35 PM
Two spots left.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Jon on March 09, 2012, 11:54:35 PM
You should raise the prices, Nefario. Get your money's worth.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 09, 2012, 11:55:46 PM
You should raise the prices, Nefario. Get your money's worth.

It's called a first tier for a reason, newb.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Jon on March 09, 2012, 11:56:49 PM
You should raise the prices, Nefario. Get your money's worth.

It's called a first tier for a reason, newb.
Heh, I still stand by my point. First-tier or not, they're selling too quickly.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 09, 2012, 11:58:25 PM
You should raise the prices, Nefario. Get your money's worth.

It's called a first tier for a reason, newb.
Heh, I still stand by my point. First-tier or not, they're selling too quickly.

Too quickly for...?

Your own personal, uninvolved preferences?

Moving on...


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Jon on March 09, 2012, 11:59:28 PM
You should raise the prices, Nefario. Get your money's worth.

It's called a first tier for a reason, newb.
Heh, I still stand by my point. First-tier or not, they're selling too quickly.

Too quickly for...?

Your own personal, uninvolved preferences?

Moving on...

Matthew, let go. Breathe. There's no need to be so angsty.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 10, 2012, 12:06:06 AM
1 remaining at 4BTC.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: c0ffer on March 10, 2012, 01:45:20 AM
I'll take the last one ;D




Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 10, 2012, 02:18:51 AM
I'll take the last one ;D




Last 4BTC tier 1 slot gone.

Tier 1 slots are still available but at 9BTC, congradulations to the fast movers.

I'll be getting in touch over the details.

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on March 10, 2012, 08:44:11 PM
Yeah, Atlas is right. These are too cheap. I would buy 3 and put overly comical narcissistic slogans about myself on them.

But this isn't my area :p so I won't get involved or push it


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 10, 2012, 09:33:27 PM
All tier 1 sponsors have been contacted for payment.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 11, 2012, 09:10:28 AM
We've added another two people to our tier 1 sponsors.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 11, 2012, 09:15:19 AM
genjix is unaware that someone with multiple bitcoin related activities actually did buy a couple slots. Just an fyi to make sure his post isn't misread to imply any sly commentary.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: francong on March 11, 2012, 01:35:01 PM
When will this be happened? I will go to London during Semtemper. :)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: txcoin on March 11, 2012, 07:38:59 PM
if a tier 1 sponsor place is left, I'd take that :)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 11, 2012, 11:24:38 PM
A total of 11 places for tier 1 sponsors are remaining. Places are secured once payment is made (this means that failing to make the payment will lose you your spot).

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 12, 2012, 12:22:40 AM
A total of 11 places for tier 1 sponsors are remaining. Places are secured once payment is made (this means that failing to make the payment will lose you your spot).

Nefario.

Is this a real sponsorship? I feel like 9BTC (about $45) isn't much for a conference of this magnitude, kind of feels cheap.

I want to be a top tier sponsor, should I be waiting for you guys to release the rest of the sponsorship opportunities?

Honestly in terms of the standard of running a conference, this isnt the way to do things.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 12, 2012, 01:24:10 AM
A total of 11 places for tier 1 sponsors are remaining. Places are secured once payment is made (this means that failing to make the payment will lose you your spot).

Nefario.

Is this a real sponsorship? I feel like 9BTC (about $45) isn't much for a conference of this magnitude, kind of feels cheap.

I want to be a top tier sponsor, should I be waiting for you guys to release the rest of the sponsorship opportunities?

Honestly in terms of the standard of running a conference, this isnt the way to do things.


Bear in mind this is the first tier of sponsorship(meaning more to follow), we want it to be accessible to everyone who wants to be a part of it. Also an update on that last post, there are no limits for the numbers of tier 1 sponsors(my mistake).

When we have the details of our next tier available we'll announce it.

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 12, 2012, 02:32:46 AM
A total of 11 places for tier 1 sponsors are remaining. Places are secured once payment is made (this means that failing to make the payment will lose you your spot).

Nefario.

Is this a real sponsorship? I feel like 9BTC (about $45) isn't much for a conference of this magnitude, kind of feels cheap.

I want to be a top tier sponsor, should I be waiting for you guys to release the rest of the sponsorship opportunities?

Honestly in terms of the standard of running a conference, this isnt the way to do things.


Bear in mind this is the first tier of sponsorship(meaning more to follow), we want it to be accessible to everyone who wants to be a part of it. Also an update on that last post, there are no limits for the numbers of tier 1 sponsors(my mistake).

When we have the details of our next tier available we'll announce it.

Nefario.

Why not just have Silver, Gold, Platinum like everyone else does?

It makes it so much easier.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on March 12, 2012, 02:45:55 AM
Why not just have Silver, Gold, Platinum like everyone else does?

It makes it so much easier.

Hah! You must be poor. I only use Diamond class.  8)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 12, 2012, 02:49:47 AM

Why not just have Silver, Gold, Platinum like everyone else does?

It makes it so much easier.

http://photos8.socializr.com/82/11/54/821154791m.gif


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 12, 2012, 03:21:52 AM

Why not just have Silver, Gold, Platinum like everyone else does?

It makes it so much easier.

http://photos8.socializr.com/82/11/54/821154791m.gif

I hear you, Im not trying to come off as condescending. I just had lunch with Patrick last week and I had nothing but praise for the conference.

My point is, if I do this 9BTC sponsorship, whats to say you dont come out with a higher tier next week? I want to be your title sponsor, but I need to know that my spot is solid and it seems like 9btc is a little low.

Why not come out with all the available spots from the get go?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 12, 2012, 03:43:21 AM

Why not just have Silver, Gold, Platinum like everyone else does?

It makes it so much easier.

http://photos8.socializr.com/82/11/54/821154791m.gif

I hear you, Im not trying to come off as condescending. I just had lunch with Patrick last week and I had nothing but praise for the conference.

My point is, if I do this 9BTC sponsorship, whats to say you dont come out with a higher tier next week? I want to be your title sponsor, but I need to know that my spot is solid and it seems like 9btc is a little low.

Why not come out with all the available spots from the get go?

OK I know what you mean, and this is something that we were talking about before releasing this. So we don't plan to include lower tiers in higher tiers. Tier 2 will no include tier 1. So people will get to pick and choose what kind of sponsorship they like.

Nefario.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 12, 2012, 06:46:34 AM
Part of the reason we will not release all sponsorship plans at once is because we are still looking into prices of certain things and what types of sponsorship we will guarantee. There is no cut off point for the sponsorship and people/companies can be a tier 1 sponsor without being a tier 2 sponsor and visa versa (tier 2 without being tier 1). You could also sign up for tier 1 sponsorship a month before the conference and that wouldn't be a problem.

A very basic example of this is that, until we have the venue booked, we will not know the physical limitations (we may allow for displays) or limitations which the venue operator may have in place. There are also other similar variables we have to work out which will hopefully resolve themselves once we find a venue.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on March 12, 2012, 01:25:56 PM
Part of the reason we will not release all sponsorship plans at once is because we are still looking into prices of certain things and what types of sponsorship we will guarantee. There is no cut off point for the sponsorship and people/companies can be a tier 1 sponsor without being a tier 2 sponsor and visa versa (tier 2 without being tier 1). You could also sign up for tier 1 sponsorship a month before the conference and that wouldn't be a problem.

A very basic example of this is that, until we have the venue booked, we will not know the physical limitations (we may allow for displays) or limitations which the venue operator may have in place. There are also other similar variables we have to work out which will hopefully resolve themselves once we find a venue.

Gotcha! Thanks for clearing it up  ;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: maaku on March 12, 2012, 05:15:08 PM
I recommend timing the conference to be around the same time as the 25BTC reward reduction. Either shortly before so people can talk preparation, or shortly after (better, IMHO) so people can talk lessons learned.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: muyuu on March 12, 2012, 05:40:52 PM
I recommend timing the conference to be around the same time as the 25BTC reward reduction. Either shortly before so people can talk preparation, or shortly after (better, IMHO) so people can talk lessons learned.

This is London, so "lessons learnt"  ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Sergey (imcex.com) on March 12, 2012, 09:17:53 PM
Someone, please, send me a postcard from the conference :) I guess I won't have an opportunity to be there.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 14, 2012, 12:15:16 AM
Our plan is to have a venue and date confirmed in 2 weeks time (hopefully sooner)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Donald_Norman on March 16, 2012, 06:56:46 AM
We have made progress in looking for a venue but want to check out all possible venues to be sure we pick the best place. We had identified about 50 venues at least to look at. Hopefully we will have a confirmation by the end of the month. There is also some negotiation taking place.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on March 16, 2012, 10:11:19 AM
We have made progress in looking for a venue but want to check out all possible venues to be sure we pick the best place. We had identified about 50 venues at least to look at. Hopefully we will have a confirmation by the end of the month. There is also some negotiation taking place.

We found a trendy upscale loft which looked cool :D but not so much of a conference venue, more for private parties for celebrities.

We want to get a place for 500, but it's difficult finding for that range. Most venues are 200, then a few 300, a huge gap and then places for 2000+ (big warehouses). Still gotta keeps searching and find somewhere nice.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 21, 2012, 04:53:45 AM
Conference site is up: www.bitcoin2012.com


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Killdozer on March 21, 2012, 12:20:09 PM
Doesn't seem that complete, for example logos on the first page link to... image files of those logos...


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Raoul Duke on March 21, 2012, 12:22:10 PM
Doesn't seem that complete, for example logos on the first page link to... image files of those logos...

Not all of them. The one from Intersango links to Intersango.com ;)
They are probably working on it.
Can't talk for the other sponsors, but I've given Nefario the URL where he should link the logo to :P


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 21, 2012, 02:06:54 PM
Doesn't seem that complete, for example logos on the first page link to... image files of those logos...

Not all of them. The one from Intersango links to Intersango.com ;)
They are probably working on it.
Can't talk for the other sponsors, but I've given Nefario the URL where he should link the logo to :P

Thats pretty much it, I lost my internet connection until fairly late in the evening yesterday, so it wasn't until 5:30AM that I'd finished, thought I'd leave the links until the next day.

Nefario


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 22, 2012, 03:04:36 AM
All sponsors who've sent in their logo are now up, with links to their site.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Jon on March 22, 2012, 03:14:20 AM
I just want to state that, yes, http://bitkoin.su is a proud sponsor of the London Bitcoin Conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Coinabul on March 22, 2012, 04:00:49 AM
All sponsors who've sent in their logo are now up, with links to their site.
Thanks Doctor!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Kaos on March 22, 2012, 02:24:17 PM
Best of luck chaps, let us know ASAP when you have dates fixed...

In the mean time are there any weekly/monthly meetups in London area?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 22, 2012, 02:58:43 PM
Best of luck chaps, let us know ASAP when you have dates fixed...

In the mean time are there any weekly/monthly meetups in London area?

I'll be in the london hacker space on Monday for a bit :p

Meetup there


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Kaos on March 22, 2012, 04:17:34 PM
Best of luck chaps, let us know ASAP when you have dates fixed...

In the mean time are there any weekly/monthly meetups in London area?

I'll be in the london hacker space on Monday for a bit :p

Meetup there

I've sent you a PM....


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 24, 2012, 11:13:46 AM
Confirming Birgitta Jónsdóttir as a speaker for Bitcoin2012 - London

Birgitta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_J%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir), a member of the Icelandic parliament and spokeswoman for Icelandic Modern Media Initiative(IMMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Modern_Media_Initiative)) and has acted as spokeswoman for Wikileaks playing a major role in the release of the Collateral Murder video from Iraq.





Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: molecular on March 25, 2012, 11:27:51 PM
Confirming Birgitta Jónsdóttir as a speaker for Bitcoin2012 - London

Birgitta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitta_J%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir), a member of the Icelandic parliament and spokeswoman for Icelandic Modern Media Initiative(IMMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Modern_Media_Initiative)) and has acted as spokeswoman for Wikileaks playing a major role in the release of the Collateral Murder video from Iraq.


holy sh.t, that's pretty tremendous. Wonder what she will talk about?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on March 31, 2012, 01:51:20 AM
You can now see our sponsors in OP

Also we've almost got our venue lined up, and it's looking like we'll be able to have Bitcoin2012 this September, in a central London location!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Vladimir on April 05, 2012, 10:25:12 PM
I suddenly got an urge to sign up as a sponsor, to request a press pass, and to do a presentation/talk. Seriosuly. Will be in touch, at least some of those things I mentioned might be of interest.




Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on April 05, 2012, 10:42:14 PM
I suddenly got an urge to sign up as a sponsor, to request a press pass, and to do a presentation/talk. Seriosuly. Will be in touch, at least some of those things I mentioned might be of interest.




Great stuff, looking forward to it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Forp on April 07, 2012, 09:42:54 PM
Confirming Birgitta Jónsdóttir

Attending !


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: R- on April 08, 2012, 09:53:42 AM
I am attending.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on April 17, 2012, 12:29:28 AM
I'm happy to announce that Pieter Wuille (Sipa), core bitcoin developer will be speaking at Bitcion2012

From Belgium, he discovered bitcoin while a PhD student, he began trying to get the reference client to export and import private keys.

After some patches, he was asked by Gavin to join the team in May 2011, and since then spent a lot of time improving the client.

He's been involved in:
  • refactoring and cleaning up the code
  • key import/export
  • wallet encryption
  • message signing
  • compressed public keys
  • BIP30
  • blockchain download speedups
  • bugfixes


Currently working on:
  • deterministic wallets
  • IPv6 support

Apart from client development he also runs bitcoin.sipa.be (http://bitcoin.sipa.be), the hashrate monitoring site which also acts as a DNS seed for the bitcoin client.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: a63ntsm1th on June 16, 2012, 03:02:20 AM
Has anything happened further with this event? I have not seen any dates as of yet, and nothing listed on the website.

Am I missing another source of information for this event?

Would love to attend but need dates etc.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: molecular on June 16, 2012, 11:40:35 PM
Has anything happened further with this event? I have not seen any dates as of yet, and nothing listed on the website.

Am I missing another source of information for this event?

Would love to attend but need dates etc.

I discovered today it says 15-16 september on http://bitcoin2012.com/


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: muyuu on June 17, 2012, 01:35:14 AM
Has anything happened further with this event? I have not seen any dates as of yet, and nothing listed on the website.

Am I missing another source of information for this event?

Would love to attend but need dates etc.

I discovered today it says 15-16 september on http://bitcoin2012.com/


Wow really? it was December last I heard here... why isn't that being announced?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on June 17, 2012, 10:50:31 AM
Has anything happened further with this event? I have not seen any dates as of yet, and nothing listed on the website.

Am I missing another source of information for this event?

Would love to attend but need dates etc.

I discovered today it says 15-16 september on http://bitcoin2012.com/


Wow really? it was December last I heard here... why isn't that being announced?

Bitcoinica issue is delaying the organisation of this. Until Bitcoinica payouts have been made (which should hopefully be within a month).


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: flower1024 on June 17, 2012, 11:33:56 AM
Has anything happened further with this event? I have not seen any dates as of yet, and nothing listed on the website.

Am I missing another source of information for this event?

Would love to attend but need dates etc.

I discovered today it says 15-16 september on http://bitcoin2012.com/


Wow really? it was December last I heard here... why isn't that being announced?

Bitcoinica issue is delaying the organisation of this. Until Bitcoinica payouts have been made (which should hopefully be within a month).

lol?
i have to go to THIS thread to get a statement when you plan to make payouts?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: a63ntsm1th on June 17, 2012, 11:22:55 PM
Although the official site does list those dates (Sep 15-16), they are assumed to be tentative as per the Tickets page on that same site:

Quote
Date and price  are still to be finalised. We will not be taking registrations until we have confirmed the date.

We are aiming either for September or December depending on several factors.

In any case for those arranging international travel, time is getting short for confirmation of venue, dates, and tickets.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on June 17, 2012, 11:27:27 PM
Although the official site does list those dates (Sep 15-16), they are assumed to be tentative as per the Tickets page on that same site:

Quote
Date and price  are still to be finalised. We will not be taking registrations until we have confirmed the date.

We are aiming either for September or December depending on several factors.

In any case for those arranging international travel, time is getting short for confirmation of venue, dates, and tickets.

Sorry, I've updated this info. The dates are final as the venue and everything have been booked. We were just about to announce the conference before this Bitcoinica debacle.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on July 13, 2012, 11:12:19 AM
I'm biased, because the dates of 15-16 Sep are really bad for me, I don't know if I'll be able to make it then, and I wish a different date will be chosen.

But I think that if other events are standing in the way of organizing the conference properly, you should really consider trying to cancel the arrangements you've made for those dates. Choose a more realistic date and make the required preparations, better to have a delayed conference than stressing out over trying to do too much in too little time and ending up with a flop.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: muyuu on July 13, 2012, 02:38:45 PM
So is this going ahead despite the Bitcoinica fiasco?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on July 13, 2012, 07:10:12 PM
So is this going ahead despite the Bitcoinica fiasco?

Yes, we'll be kicking things off fairly soon for this.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on July 18, 2012, 12:50:24 PM
I applied to be a speaker, and here is a poll to determine what I'd be talking about:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93940.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93940.0)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on July 18, 2012, 12:54:43 PM
Call for papers is open. Email genjix@bitcoin2012.com with your proposals. Accepted papers announced at the end of August.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: finway on July 19, 2012, 01:15:08 AM
I don't think Bitcoinica "Bitcoin Consultancy" should be the sponsor of this Conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: Nefario on July 19, 2012, 05:43:32 AM
I don't think Bitcoinica "Bitcoin Consultancy" should be the sponsor of this Conference.

They're not, they are the organisers which they should be, they ran an excellent conference last year in Prague, this one is going to be an absolute blast, have you not seen the list of speakers?

One word - Awesome.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: ribuck on July 19, 2012, 08:14:19 AM
... have you not seen the list of speakers?
Richard Stallman and Max Keiser in the one place? Awesome indeed!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: finway on July 19, 2012, 09:23:28 AM
I don't think Bitcoinica "Bitcoin Consultancy" should be the sponsor of this Conference.

They're not, they are the organisers which they should be, they ran an excellent conference last year in Prague, this one is going to be an absolute blast, have you not seen the list of speakers?

One word - Awesome.

Richard Stallman ? This rocks.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: DublinBrian on July 19, 2012, 04:45:20 PM
... have you not seen the list of speakers?
Richard Stallman and Max Keiser in the one place? Awesome indeed!
Why should Max Keiser be invited? He has not supported bitcoin much since the initial topic on his tv show, back in 2011.

His crowdsourcing website piratemyfilm.com still uses paypal and does not accept bitcoin.

Nor does he accept bitcoin payments for his standup shows when he goes on tour.

He should be dis-invited.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: rjk on July 19, 2012, 04:49:30 PM
His crowdsourcing website piratemyfilm.com still uses paypal and does not accept bitcoin.
I'm pretty sure it does, you just can't have both within one funding - it's one or the other. Screw Banks was funded on his platform. http://screwbanks.net/


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: genjix on July 19, 2012, 05:04:09 PM
And yet he's willing to pay his own flight ticket, accommodation and speak for free. He also draws a good crowd that brings attention to lesser known developers. He's definitely good for Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on July 19, 2012, 05:39:05 PM
And yet he's willing to pay his own flight ticket, accommodation and speak for free. He also draws a good crowd that brings attention to lesser known developers. He's definitely good for Bitcoin.
Also, he understands Bitcoin (low transaction costs & getting rid of banksters).


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on July 22, 2012, 12:25:34 PM
Hey,

I added details of the venue, places to stay and directions:

http://www.bitcoin2012.com/venue

I'll put up the schedule soon.

For tickets, email genjix@bitcoin2012.com. First 100 tickets are €40.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on July 23, 2012, 04:35:00 PM
I put up the schedule, http://www.bitcoin2012.com/schedule


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on July 24, 2012, 12:30:27 PM
Joerg Platzer of Room77 is now on the speaker list.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 01, 2012, 12:25:59 PM
Confirmed James McCarthy (nefario) of GLBSE and Jeremias (kangasbros) of AcceptBit, LocalBitcoins as speakers.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Stephen Gornick on August 01, 2012, 09:05:58 PM
FYI, there is now a "Meetups" board for events.  There is no post there for this.  Or perhaps move this thread there.

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=86.0


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: BitBuster on August 01, 2012, 09:18:42 PM
Confirmed James McCarthy (nefario) of GLBSE and Jeremias (kangasbros) of AcceptBit, LocalBitcoins as speakers.
HEY
Dont you have more important stuff to do? Whats the status on the Bitcoinica returns??
1. why are the claims gone? are they backed up safely?
2. will the return process continue as soon as Zhou sent the funds?
Surely, it is unteneble for individuals who are most probably engaged with or subject of bitcoin-related legal cases in several jurisdictions, to be organising and administrating this event?

Are all of the guest speakers aware that their hosts have reputations which are at best under severe community and legal scrutiny?

Surely there is also a risk that disgruntled Bitcoinica customers will attend the event and disrupt it in an attempt to gain refunds to which they believe they are rightfully and legally entitled?

Perhaps it would be best to transfer "ownership" and organisation duties to some neutral, knowledgeable and senior members of the community? For the sake of saving this event and future ones from jeopardy and damaged reputation? All of this without prejudice to those currently in post, of course.


BB.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: sarpar on August 01, 2012, 09:32:25 PM
Confirmed James McCarthy (nefario) of GLBSE and Jeremias (kangasbros) of AcceptBit, LocalBitcoins as speakers.
HEY
Dont you have more important stuff to do? Whats the status on the Bitcoinica returns??
1. why are the claims gone? are they backed up safely?
2. will the return process continue as soon as Zhou sent the funds?
Surely, it is unteneble for individuals who are most probably engaged with or subject of bitcoin-related legal cases in several jurisdictions, to be organising and administrating this event?

Are all of the guest speakers aware that their hosts have reputations which are at best under severe community and legal scrutiny?

Surely there is also a risk that disgruntled Bitcoinica customers will attend the event and disrupt it in an attempt to gain refunds to which they believe they are rightfully and legally entitled?

Perhaps it would be best to transfer "ownership" and organisation duties to some neutral, knowledgeable and senior members of the community? For the sake of saving this event and future ones from jeopardy and damaged reputation? All of this without prejudice to those currently in post, of course.


BB.
+1 Wisely spoken


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: btcprophet on August 02, 2012, 02:23:49 AM
Perhaps the speakers should be contacted by someone reputable and informed that the organizers are crooks...


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: flower1024 on August 02, 2012, 05:54:04 AM
Perhaps the speakers should be contacted by someone reputable and informed that the organizers are crooks...

they are no crooks
they just prefer not to answer any mails or to do any action as soon as it gets compilicated.

^^ good to know if you want to do businness with them


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nefario on August 02, 2012, 09:41:16 AM
Excuse me, as one of the organisers (who is not involved with bitcoinica in any way) I take considerable offence to this, I and others (who are also not involved in the bitcoinica saga) have put a huge amount of time, effort, energy and our own funds into the organising of this event, and you want to ruin what is to be not just a great conference for everyone involved in bitcoin, but what is surely to be a historic event(700 people).

You'd cut off your own nose to spite your face? Attempt to ruin something for hundreds of other people (who have paid for tickets, accomadation and transport, and the number of small bitcoin startups who've already sponsored the event). Do you realise you would be doing nothing to further your own agenda by taking such a route, but only fucking the whole thing up for everyone else?

And what about the media, you think it wouldn't refect badly on bitcoin because that's what this conference is about, bitcoin and bringing it to the world, how do you think it would look to the rest of the world when they read (in the back of a paper for certain) about bitcoin conference ruined by a small group of protesters who lost their funds on a bitcoin service.

It will be about bitcoin being a wild west, a place for thieves, unreliable. You want that kind of media attention?

I'd thank you to stop your juvenile talk of protests and keep anything bitcoinica related off my thread.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: flower1024 on August 02, 2012, 09:46:57 AM
Excuse me, as one of the organisers (who is not involved with bitcoinica in any way) I take considerable offence to this, I and others (who are also not involved in the bitcoinica saga) have put a huge amount of time, effort, energy and our own funds into the organising of this event, and you want to ruin what is to be not just a great conference for everyone involved in bitcoin, but what is surely to be a historic event(700 people).

You'd cut off your own nose to spite your face? Attempt to ruin something for hundreds of other people (who have paid for tickets, accomadation and transport, and the number of small bitcoin startups who've already sponsored the event). Do you realise you would be doing nothing to further your own agenda by taking such a route, but only fucking the whole thing up for everyone else?

And what about the media, you think it wouldn't refect badly on bitcoin because that's what this conference is about, bitcoin and bringing it to the world, how do you think it would look to the rest of the world when they read (in the back of a paper for certain) about bitcoin conference ruined by a small group of protesters who lost their funds on a bitcoin service.

It will be about bitcoin being a wild west, a place for thieves, unreliable. You want that kind of media attention?

I'd thank you to stop your juvenile talk of protests and keep anything bitcoinica related off my thread.

i can totally understand you and i (i can only speak for myself) dont want to hurt this conference.

but you should be aware that this people are not good for bitcoin anymore. and i can imagine that only because they are involved many people are scared away.

i wont post anything bitcoinica<->intersango related at bitcointalk any more (and i beg others to do the same) - at this point its only bad press and nothing more.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: BitBuster on August 02, 2012, 02:12:56 PM
Nefario, I sympathise with you. However:
It will be about bitcoin being a wild west, a place for thieves, unreliable. You want that kind of media attention?
Is exactly how many Bitcoinica victims feel. There have been many exchange "hacks" and thefts. The only way we will be able to shake this reputation and scurge is if we persue and undermine those who practice such dispicable acts.

You and the rest of the Bitcoin conference should be embarrassed to be associated (which you are, whether intentional or not) with theives and suspected crooks at Intersango/Bitcoinica consultancy, and should be scrabbling around to remove them and all references/connections to them from the conference and the respectable side of bitcoin which you are trying to cultivate.


BB.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 02, 2012, 03:14:25 PM
Excuse me, as one of the organisers (who is not involved with bitcoinica in any way) I take considerable offence to this, I and others (who are also not involved in the bitcoinica saga) have put a huge amount of time, effort, energy and our own funds into the organising of this event, and you want to ruin what is to be not just a great conference for everyone involved in bitcoin, but what is surely to be a historic event(700 people).

You'd cut off your own nose to spite your face? Attempt to ruin something for hundreds of other people (who have paid for tickets, accomadation and transport, and the number of small bitcoin startups who've already sponsored the event). Do you realise you would be doing nothing to further your own agenda by taking such a route, but only fucking the whole thing up for everyone else?

And what about the media, you think it wouldn't refect badly on bitcoin because that's what this conference is about, bitcoin and bringing it to the world, how do you think it would look to the rest of the world when they read (in the back of a paper for certain) about bitcoin conference ruined by a small group of protesters who lost their funds on a bitcoin service.

It will be about bitcoin being a wild west, a place for thieves, unreliable. You want that kind of media attention?

I'd thank you to stop your juvenile talk of protests and keep anything bitcoinica related off my thread.


Cross-referenced quote from: BitBuster in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97272.80

Quote

Quote from: disclaimer201 on Today at 02:27:27 PM

Since the conference will probably be co-sponsored by Intersango, this is not going to happen. And this why the conference will fall under a bad light because they cannot afford to lose sponsors I'm sure.


If as many expect, the Intersango trio are eventually proven to be liable/culpable, it could be argued that the whole conference was sponsored by thieves with stolen money.

BB.


Do you want to be offended? So be it. Cutting of ones own nose doesn't make a difference anymore if the rest of your body has been infected with terminal cancer. If I remember correctly, the majority of the people never voted for London to begin with! The organizers chose to ignore that because of pragmatic reasons months ago and I fear they will ignore it again for the same pragmatic reason. You will get no sympathy from me for your conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on August 02, 2012, 03:26:59 PM
Sorry, I agree with Nefario here. Keep Bitcoinica issues out of Bitcoin Conference thread. They are completely off-topic.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: jgarzik on August 02, 2012, 03:30:37 PM
Sorry, I agree with Nefario here. Keep Bitcoinica issues out of Bitcoin Conference thread. They are completely off-topic.

+1, agreed


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 02, 2012, 03:36:27 PM
Sorry, I agree with Nefario here. Keep Bitcoinica issues out of Bitcoin Conference thread. They are completely off-topic.

Are they really? Is this how you deal with criticism, marking it as off-topic? If Intersango is indeed a co-sponsor you will have to deal with the fact that people get upset.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: muyuu on August 02, 2012, 03:40:03 PM
I plan to go, but I'm a bit worried that the Bitcoinica fiasco may affect it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: N12 on August 02, 2012, 04:32:57 PM
Just because a few idiots stored too much with a website built in 4 days by a 17yo that was already hacked 3 times before this, doesn't mean they have the right to play butthurt and go on everybody's nerves everywhere.

It's getting ridiculous, get over it, as if your lynch mobbing uninvolved people will do anything productive.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 02, 2012, 04:45:18 PM
guys, let's just have a nice conference, can we? There's awesome speakers coming and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: sarpar on August 02, 2012, 05:00:43 PM
Just because a few idiots stored too much with a website built in 4 days by a 17yo that was already hacked 3 times before this, doesn't mean they have the right to play butthurt and go on everybody's nerves everywhere.

It's getting ridiculous, get over it, as if your lynch mobbing uninvolved people will do anything productive.
Indeed ridiculous!

Just because you are financing your kindergarten summer festival by irresponsibly subjects who have loads of more important issues to work on than organizing musical chairs for you, doesn't mean you have the right to be miffed if your favourite kindergartner is asked to stay home.

...as if I am interested in having such despicable beings involved. btw.: your friends didn't show their productivity when needed.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: cst on August 02, 2012, 07:39:59 PM
guys, let's just have a nice conference, can we? There's awesome speakers coming and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone.

Yeah! True dat.


Everyone else can come in just to tell them face to face how much they fucked up ;)



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on August 02, 2012, 07:42:12 PM
guys, let's just have a nice conference, can we? There's awesome speakers coming and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone.

Yeah! True dat.


Everyone else can come in just to tell them face to face how much they fucked up ;)



Yep. Personally, I'm gonna be wearing a horse mask when I speak. No one will ever guess it's me.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: World on August 02, 2012, 09:58:36 PM
Yep. Personally, I'm gonna be wearing a horse mask when I speak. No one will ever guess it's me.
;D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: riX on August 02, 2012, 11:19:04 PM
guys, let's just have a nice conference, can we? There's awesome speakers coming and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone.
Yeah! True dat.

Everyone else can come in just to tell them face to face how much they fucked up ;)

+1
^(my first +1 ever)

Let's just have a nice conference, I don't want to be disturbed by someones butt hurt whether it's justified or not, choose another time and place for that.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 02, 2012, 11:28:20 PM
guys, let's just have a nice conference, can we? There's awesome speakers coming and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone.
Yeah! True dat.

Everyone else can come in just to tell them face to face how much they fucked up ;)

+1
^(my first +1 ever)

Let's just have a nice conference, I don't want to be disturbed by someones butt hurt whether it's justified or not, choose another time and place for that.

That's exactly what I'd be worried about. Perhaps you like vivid discussions.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 14, 2012, 01:28:10 PM
I found a nice space for the hackathon:

LARC (London Action Resource Centre) has been confirmed and booked as the location for the pre-conference hackathon. They are a self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change with suitable facilities for a Bitcoin hackathon.

http://www.londonarc.org/

I've also added more information like accommodation and the address of the conference to the venue page:

http://www.bitcoin2012.com/venue


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: BitBuster on August 14, 2012, 03:36:58 PM
So despite key players definitely now being subject of at least one legal investigation, they are still allowed the priviledge of administrating the conference? What goes around comes around, the conference will be brought into disrepute over this.


BB.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 14, 2012, 05:59:27 PM
So despite key players definitely now being subject of at least one legal investigation, they are still allowed the priviledge of administrating the conference? What goes around comes around, the conference will be brought into disrepute over this.


BB.

oh fuck off. Name me one instance where I lied, or conducted myself improperly. Point them to me. It was me who made public all the emails, released publically all the documents/agreements, released the sourcecode and pushed for communications from zhou's first announcement (everyone told me to be quiet). Your thinly veiled threat is pathetic and petty.

We should never have touched the funds in the first place.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 14, 2012, 06:45:36 PM
So despite key players definitely now being subject of at least one legal investigation, they are still allowed the priviledge of administrating the conference? What goes around comes around, the conference will be brought into disrepute over this.


BB.

oh fuck off. Name me one instance where I lied, or conducted myself improperly. Point them to me. It was me who made public all the emails*, released publically all the documents/agreements, released the sourcecode* and pushed for communications from zhou's first announcement (everyone told me to be quiet). Your thinly veiled threat is pathetic and petty.

Bitcoinica has gone into receivership and is being handled by the owners (Bitcoinica LP). We should never have touched the funds in the first place.
You disappeared at the worst of time for months, leaving thousand of creditors in the dark, then you come back with a 4 line reply claiming you've done nothing wrong and we should be grateful for these 2 things you claim you did ?

*That was all the emails ? Really ?

*Should we applaud you for releasing the source code ? (How did that help other than allowing the 40kBTC heist of users money?)
Quote
"We should never have touched the funds in the first place."
What has changed from the time you were processing refund to the time you released your mtGox password in the source code ?  
Being at 0% paid back, this is something I'd like a clear statement about.  

What will you do about the funds you already gave away Vs. those accurate claims who got nothing back ?

Ps: Did you just say "Fuck off" ? We were somehow expecting it, but wish you could have said it publicly much earlier.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: jgarzik on August 14, 2012, 07:37:32 PM

Please move this off-topic discussion to the dozen other threads covering the situation.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 14, 2012, 07:49:24 PM
Please move this off-topic discussion to the dozen other threads covering the situation.
When reading about the conference I tend to listen to what organizers says (Genjix) and reply accordingly.

So you claim the organizers involvement in Bitcoinica should not affect the conference ?  To each his opinion.

It seems like not everyone agree that Amir has handled the problem as he should have had and that a significant risk remain that the conference will be used as a tribune on this matter.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 14, 2012, 08:00:10 PM
It seems like not everyone agree that Amir has handled the problem as he should have had and that there remain a significant risk that the the conference will be used as a tribune on this matter.

Transisto, before Bitcoinica, I had no problems with you and thought you a good person (I still do and don't blame you for being upset over it). But what should I have done differently? You do realise that I have no control over anything.

If I don't organise the conference, then it won't happen. It is my experience and knowledge of this opensource-world, conferences and organising other events that means I know how to create a conference. You're essentially saying that there should be no conference because Bitcoinica lost money and I was affiliated with Bitcoinica? That seems pointless. I'm essentially doing this for free anyway.

Bitcoinica is all in the hands of business people and lawyers now. The reason I took a long hiatus is because it was seriously effecting my mental health. Several people started to tell me to take time out, but I wouldn't listen to them. Eventually it got too much, and I took their advice. I would've been a broken person unable to do anything otherwise.

It did get pretty heavy at one point, but what carried me through was random emails/PMs (reddit, forum, irc) of kindness and support. I never had something like that happen in my life before and it was very touching. Like random strangers on the internet. That was something else. There was one guy even who we exchanged long emails back and forth.

For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more. What really gets me are the people who sent messages like "help! I invested all my money and now i'm borrowing to survive." That's really soul crushing. money is just numbers and w/e. But when it hurts someone physically, that's totally unacceptable to me.

EDIT: My choice of words was poor:

I feel much more for the guy who has lost all of his already small net worth that is paying for his next meal and this month's housing than the guy who has lost a fraction of his already large net worth and has legal recourse available to him.

The absolute numbers don't mean much. It's the effect it has on the person's life.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 14, 2012, 08:13:40 PM
It seems like not everyone agree that Amir has handled the problem as he should have had and that there remain a significant risk that the the conference will be used as a tribune on this matter.

Transisto, before Bitcoinica, I had no problems with you and thought you a good person (I still do and don't blame you for being upset over it). But what should I have done differently? You do realise that I have no control over anything.

If I don't organise the conference, then it won't happen. It is my experience and knowledge of this opensource-world, conferences and organising other events that means I know how to create a conference. You're essentially saying that there should be no conference because Bitcoinica lost money and I was affiliated with Bitcoinica? That seems pointless. I'm essentially doing this for free anyway.

Bitcoinica is all in the hands of business people and lawyers now. The reason I took a long hiatus is because it was seriously effecting my mental health. Several people started to tell me to take time out, but I wouldn't listen to them. Eventually it got too much, and I took their advice. I would've been a broken person unable to do anything otherwise. ...

Not willing to follow you on an argument about Bitcoinica "here",  I'm not saying "that there should be no conference" but that the risk of it being a issue is real and should not be sent to off-topic.  I think it would be a necessity for you to make well though of post summarizing your involvement in Bitcoinica BEFORE the conference, It has gotten very tiresome to hear from all sides "I' ve nothing to do with it" maybe telling us who does would ease the pain. I know, you just did, but here was not the place and your words don't seems well chosen given what we are going through.

Here, a post I made 2 weeks ago replying to a boycott suggestion, (obviously, left in the dark, didn't take into account your lack of possible involvement) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97272.msg1074453#msg1074453


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 14, 2012, 08:18:32 PM
My personal role (not the Consultancy or anyone else's):

- Design a new hedging algorithm for Bitcoinica because the existing one was losing Tihan a lot of money for the last few months.

More here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93319.msg1038189#msg1038189


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 14, 2012, 08:25:39 PM
My personal role (not the Consultancy or anyone else's):

- Design a new hedging algorithm for Bitcoinica because the existing one was losing Tihan a lot of money for the last few months.
Among others things, you have taken onto your shoulder to be Intersango's spoke person on the matter of [Payout Updates] and the hacks.

And I think you definitely failed at this and having anyone at Intersango to give meaningful updates.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84042.0


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: DarkEmi on August 14, 2012, 09:01:28 PM


It did get pretty heavy at one point, but what carried me through was random emails/PMs (reddit, forum, irc) of kindness and support. I never had something like that happen in my life before and it was very touching. Like random strangers on the internet. That was something else. There was one guy even who we exchanged long emails back and forth.

And yet you did not even respond to one of my mails. Was I not depressed enough for you ?

For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more. What really gets me are the people who sent messages like "help! I invested all my money and now i'm borrowing to survive." That's really soul crushing. money is just numbers and w/e. But when it hurts someone physically, that's totally unacceptable to me.


This is really disrespectful. "This guy has more money so who cares if he lost some".
Do you know they are people living in the world with much less than you have ? Still how would you feel if someone took you half your money ?

Money is just number is an easier position to hold when you are not the one loosing the money. Do you know what MINE money feel to me ?
For me money is not just "some number". It is sweat and hard work, my hard work.

You seems to feel no guilt for the release of the database that preceded the hack.

I wanted to go to the conference. Do you know how I feel now sending you 40e now that I have lost 60k ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: MemoryDealers on August 14, 2012, 09:11:37 PM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

Amir,  I look forward to karma coming back to get you.
Believe it or not,  losing 24,000 BTC because of an idiot like you, HAS HAD A BIG BIG IMPACT ON MY LIFE!
People with attitudes like yours give a bad reputation to our entire movement.

Do the world a favor and quit your involvement with Bitcoin.

Sincerely,
Roger Ver


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 14, 2012, 09:46:07 PM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

Amir,  I look forward to karma coming back to get you.
Believe it or not,  losing 24,000 BTC because of an idiot like you, HAS HAD A BIG BIG IMPACT ON MY LIFE!
People with attitudes like yours give a bad reputation to our entire movement.

Do the world a favor and quit your involvement with Bitcoin.

Sincerely,
Roger Ver

Amir,

I've refrained from getting involved at this point, but how dare you say something like this.

For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

Do you know how much damn work Roger has done to get where he is today? Do you know how many sacrifices he has made for Bitcoin?

Wait...you don't. Know why?

BECAUSE YOU RELEASED THE GODDAMN SOURCE CODE OF BITCOINICA WHICH HAD THE MTGOX API IN IT WHICH LED TO THE THEFT OF ANOTHER 40K BTC AND WHO KNOWS HOW MANY USD.

Your fault! No one elses! How dare you say "Oh, I need time off." Please, I've heard that bullshit before.

Oh, and next time you trash and break a Segway in Vienna that Alex paid for because some fat girl offers you a hug...DONT RUN AWAY AND LEAVE THE SEGWAY IN THE STREET!!!!!! (true story for whoever wants to know. Roger, Erik and myself were there)

-Charlie



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: evoorhees on August 14, 2012, 09:52:19 PM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

Appalling.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: muyuu on August 14, 2012, 10:06:07 PM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

I take it you had another temporal insanity moment when you wrote this, because it is appalling. You could care less that a client lost a lot of money because he has more? Nuts.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: CleverMiner on August 14, 2012, 10:43:37 PM
Ok, Back on topic.

Since payments for tickets are to be sent to Intersango LTD will you be offering free ticket to your creditors ?
I was to come but it would feel too odd to give Intersango another 70€

Thanks for the consideration.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: ninjarobot on August 14, 2012, 10:49:04 PM
oh fuck off. Name me one instance where I lied, or conducted myself improperly. Point them to me. It was me who made public all the emails, released publically all the documents/agreements, released the sourcecode and pushed for communications from zhou's first announcement (everyone told me to be quiet). Your thinly veiled threat is pathetic and petty.

No need. You just pointed them out yourself: The release of private correspondence and the leaking of company's proprietary source code do most certainly violate any contracts you had with Bitcoinica LP. I'd hardly call that 'conducting yourself properly'. In addition the leaked source seems to be the direct cause of the MtGox compromise leading to a further loss of USD $350K of customer funds.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: proudhon on August 14, 2012, 11:41:43 PM
This is...I don't even know what to say.   :o


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 14, 2012, 11:49:53 PM
That fat girl is a person you know. Why would you insult her when she's an innocent bystander?

I'm not saying I'm happy Roger Ver lost money, but simply that his life is not really impacted in a huge way compared to someone who barely has enough money to survive or eat because they lost it in Bitcoinica. I seem to recall in Vienna that you were talking about renting out an aeroplane. That's a level of extravagance that goes way way over my head. You probably live far more comfortably than the majority of people do including myself. Don't tell me that 25k out of 50k is more of a loss than $200 of $600. That's the difference between homeless and starving, vs surviving.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 15, 2012, 12:20:37 AM
That fat girl is a person you know. Why would you insult her when she's an innocent bystander?

I'm not saying I'm happy Roger Ver lost money, but simply that his life is not really impacted in a huge way compared to someone who barely has enough money to survive or eat because they lost it in Bitcoinica. I seem to recall in Vienna that you were talking about renting out an aeroplane. That's a level of extravagance that goes way way over my head. You probably live far more comfortably than the majority of people do including myself. Don't tell me that 25k out of 50k is more of a loss than $200 of $600. That's the difference between homeless and starving, vs surviving.
Please, stop feeding the shit-storm.

This remind me of your Kangaroo court / McDonald coffee analogy,  Beyond irrelevant.

The part people want a response to is everything but this, One of them being why are you proud of having leaked "released" the source code ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: btcx on August 15, 2012, 12:37:55 AM
That fat girl is a person you know. Why would you insult her when she's an innocent bystander?

I'm not saying I'm happy Roger Ver lost money, but simply that his life is not really impacted in a huge way compared to someone who barely has enough money to survive or eat because they lost it in Bitcoinica. I seem to recall in Vienna that you were talking about renting out an aeroplane. That's a level of extravagance that goes way way over my head. You probably live far more comfortably than the majority of people do including myself. Don't tell me that 25k out of 50k is more of a loss than $200 of $600. That's the difference between homeless and starving, vs surviving.

Not happy, but you don't give a shit.  Hell, if you could steal from a rich guy to help a poorer guy, you should do it, right?

You don't know what Roger's financial situation is, where that money came from, what it means to him, how many years of his life it represents or how its loss will impact him.  For all you know, Roger had deposited that money on behalf of his poorer friends and family.  Roger has done so much for Bitcoin with his own money that any loss he suffers is surely a loss for the whole Bitcoin community.  Roger would have invested that money in more Bitcoin businesses, used it to fly around the world to evangelize Bitcoin, paid for more radio ads.  That is a lot of money that Roger no longer has to give away in an effort to expand Bitcoin's growth and adoption, which would benefit everyone.

Having a high net worth doesn't mean that you can easily afford to take an unexpected 24,000 BTC loss.  I do pretty well but after a few months went by and Bitcoinica still had not returned my funds, I stopped paying my mortgage so I could continue to pay my employees.  I couldn't make the charitable contribution that I'd promised to the local arts center, which has impacted their programming.  The timing was just about as bad is it could possibly have been.  The problem is that most of my assets are illiquid, and you stole my liquidity, which created a cascade of much more expensive problems that affected a lot more people than just myself.  The amount of money missing for me is not the biggest problem--it's the not having it when I expected to have it.

Your statements just prove further that you should never have been in charge of anyone's money.  I don't know what else to say.  I'm appalled.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Herodes on August 15, 2012, 12:43:46 AM
Hm. contemplating if I should go to London again anyway, perhaps you could set up a cage fight ?

Stallmann could be the judge.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Shadow383 on August 15, 2012, 12:56:24 AM
I found a nice space for the hackathon:

LARC (London Action Resource Centre) has been confirmed and booked as the location for the pre-conference hackathon.
Will this hackathon include the ceremonial quarterly hack and theft of large quantities of Bitcoinica funds?

Hm. contemplating if I should go to London again anyway, perhaps you could set up a cage fight ?

Stallmann could be the judge.
For the good of the conference, I think the intersango guys should just not show up.

I mean hell, if they were currently holding >$300000 of my money, I'd turn up just to confront them over it.

If there's to be any hope of the London conference being remotely normal and civilised, they can't really be there.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 15, 2012, 01:02:24 AM
Not surprised of the examples given by Amir. He is a very political person, which is usually good but not when you're in charge of a financial service provider. He should not be involved in anything money- or free market related. Very interesting to see what happens in the real world if people with "a lot of money" lose it. Many people suffer! Everything is interconnected. Amir should be sued to compensate for the latest MtGox hack personally and pay up for the rest of his life.

Oh, and fuck your useless conference!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: proudhon on August 15, 2012, 01:30:16 AM
Seriously, this just seems awkward.  The way the bitcoinica thing has been handled, I couldn't support anything organized by anyone who (mis)managed that mess.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: LoupGaroux on August 15, 2012, 01:54:50 AM
Not only cannot support it, but sure as hell would not send a single satoshi to them for ticket fees? Wonder what the over/under line is for a hack just before the conference that makes all the ticket fees disappear? This is the clown car full of knuckleheads who have suffered three such hacks and still haven't secured anything.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Bitcoin Oz on August 15, 2012, 02:00:46 AM
That fat girl is a person you know. Why would you insult her when she's an innocent bystander?

I'm not saying I'm happy Roger Ver lost money, but simply that his life is not really impacted in a huge way compared to someone who barely has enough money to survive or eat because they lost it in Bitcoinica. I seem to recall in Vienna that you were talking about renting out an aeroplane. That's a level of extravagance that goes way way over my head. You probably live far more comfortably than the majority of people do including myself. Don't tell me that 25k out of 50k is more of a loss than $200 of $600. That's the difference between homeless and starving, vs surviving.
So when did you join Occupy London ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: osmosis on August 15, 2012, 02:11:01 AM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

Appalling.

Indeed. I hope someone else from Intersango has some professionalism and can step forward to salvage the reputation.
Amir should publicly apologize for his remarks.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: SgtSpike on August 15, 2012, 02:11:50 AM
That fat girl is a person you know. Why would you insult her when she's an innocent bystander?

I'm not saying I'm happy Roger Ver lost money, but simply that his life is not really impacted in a huge way compared to someone who barely has enough money to survive or eat because they lost it in Bitcoinica. I seem to recall in Vienna that you were talking about renting out an aeroplane. That's a level of extravagance that goes way way over my head. You probably live far more comfortably than the majority of people do including myself. Don't tell me that 25k out of 50k is more of a loss than $200 of $600. That's the difference between homeless and starving, vs surviving.
Wow, just wow.  You make me sick.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: osmosis on August 15, 2012, 02:13:36 AM
For me tbh, I could care less about people like Roger Ver who have a lot of money lost because they have lots more.

People with attitudes like yours give a bad reputation to our entire movement.

+1


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nefario on August 15, 2012, 02:32:25 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: btcx on August 15, 2012, 02:33:10 AM
Very interesting to see what happens in the real world if people with "a lot of money" lose it. Many people suffer! Everything is interconnected.

Yep:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal#The_Innocence_Project


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Transisto on August 15, 2012, 02:36:31 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.
More than 3/4 of the new comments are about the future of your conference !

For god sake, what's your point again ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: btcprophet on August 15, 2012, 02:39:50 AM
But what should I have done differently?

How about not abandoning ship and sticking with the claims process? Sadly it sounds like fucking off at the first sign of trouble is your MO.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: btcprophet on August 15, 2012, 02:42:44 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.

I suggest the untainted conference organizers publicly sever all ties with the Bitcoinica trio as soon as possible. This is only going to get worse.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 15, 2012, 03:34:00 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.

I suggest the untainted conference organizers publicly sever all ties with the Bitcoinica trio as soon as possible. This is only going to get worse.

Nefario,

I agree with this, your a stand up guy with a good reputation.

Your working super hard to do this conference, are you willing to take all this hate to keep the others on board?

-Charlie


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: genjix on August 15, 2012, 04:01:03 AM
You're all not listening to what I'm saying. I am sorry this happened, but not because a large amount of money went missing but because it affected people in personal ways. Affected them personally.

My choice of words was poor:

I feel far much more for the guy who has lost all of his already small net worth that is paying for his next meal and this month's housing than the guy who has lost a fraction of his already large net worth and has legal recourse available to him.

The absolute numbers don't mean much. It's the effect it has on the person's life.

What do you say to someone when they email you a desperate plea for help because they might not make next week? I remember one guy in particular. I lost his email because I was being flooded with tons of emails. That was really devastating and hard to deal with.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: c_k on August 15, 2012, 04:11:56 AM
It has gotten very tiresome to hear from all sides "I' ve nothing to do with it" maybe telling us who does would ease the pain

Maybe this guy?

http://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/3715077/shareholdings (http://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/3715077/shareholdings)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: jed on August 15, 2012, 05:16:38 AM
genjix:
Quote
You're all not listening to what I'm saying. I am sorry this happened,
How can you say you are sorry? You didn't do *anything* to help the situation. You 3 are either complete lying thieves or incredibly stupid. We offered to take over bitcoinica and pay everyone back 100% of their claims but instead you assholes twiddled your thumbs, hid and allowed even *more* money to be stolen and now it is all going to be pissed away in receivership. All you had to do was simply give control back to tihan but that was too much trouble for you worthless...
 


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: MemoryDealers on August 15, 2012, 05:20:31 AM
We offered to take over bitcoinica and pay everyone back 100% of their claims but instead you assholes twiddled your thumbs, hid and allowed even *more* money to be stolen and now it is all going to be pissed away in receivership. All you had to do was simply give control back to tihan but that was too much trouble for you worthless...

This is true.  Had the Intersango trio lifted even one finger,  likely everyone would already have %100 of their money back with the exception of the four plaintives listed on the lawsuit.   (This was our offer to Intersango)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Herodes on August 15, 2012, 05:30:58 AM
We offered to take over bitcoinica and pay everyone back 100% of their claims but instead you assholes twiddled your thumbs, hid and allowed even *more* money to be stolen and now it is all going to be pissed away in receivership. All you had to do was simply give control back to tihan but that was too much trouble for you worthless...

This is true.  Had the Intersango trio lifted even one finger,  likely everyone would already have %100 of their money back with the exception of the four plaintives listed on the lawsuit.   (This was our offer to Intersango)

This is a very interesting question. Donald, Patrick, and Genjix ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: LightRider on August 15, 2012, 06:27:39 AM
money is just numbers and w/e. But when it hurts someone physically, that's totally unacceptable to me.

Everybody is hurt when they play the money game.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on August 15, 2012, 07:11:15 AM
money is just numbers and w/e. But when it hurts someone physically, that's totally unacceptable to me.

Everybody is hurt when they play the money game.

Even Zhou himself pretty much acknowledged that.

Quote from: Zhou
Bitcoinica did create a place for people to trade more efficiently and provide liquidity to the market. However, speculation is a zero-sum game (or negative-sum, strictly saying). I know there can be many justifications for Bitcoinica's value, but all of them are against my intuition and values.

Of course it's easy to take an ethical stance against something after you've already profited from it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 15, 2012, 07:36:21 AM
You're all not listening to what I'm saying. I am sorry this happened, but not because a large amount of money went missing but because it affected people in personal ways. Affected them personally.

My choice of words was poor:

I feel far much more for the guy who has lost all of his already small net worth that is paying for his next meal and this month's housing than the guy who has lost a fraction of his already large net worth and has legal recourse available to him.

The absolute numbers don't mean much. It's the effect it has on the person's life.

What do you say to someone when they email you a desperate plea for help because they might not make next week? I remember one guy in particular. I lost his email because I was being flooded with tons of emails. That was really devastating and hard to deal with.

Nobody asked you for a judgement. Your judgement has already proven to be worthless. So keep your ideas of who is most to be pitied to yourself. Your are not listening to what people are telling you about the consequences of anyone losing money - big or small, it's not your choice of words that is poor. Your logic is flawed because all the people that are suffering due to a big player losing money won't even have email to tell you their stories. Your narcissism and self-righteousness is the actual misery here. Who the fuck do you think you are to believe you can judge over all the consequences of someone being robbed? One reason why liquidators pay back the big fish first is precisely because they know many jobs and existences are on the line, not just a few individuals crying for help. Someone that loses their life savings because he invested it all in a risky business is far more responsible than someone losing their job for no reason because their employer just lost thousands of dollars. What are you? A Marxist trying to decide who's more worthy of the funds? Reconsider your believes of what is right and what is wrong because your logic is fundamentalist.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: SgtSpike on August 15, 2012, 07:37:25 AM
You're all not listening to what I'm saying. I am sorry this happened, but not because a large amount of money went missing but because it affected people in personal ways. Affected them personally.

My choice of words was poor:

I feel far much more for the guy who has lost all of his already small net worth that is paying for his next meal and this month's housing than the guy who has lost a fraction of his already large net worth and has legal recourse available to him.

The absolute numbers don't mean much. It's the effect it has on the person's life.

What do you say to someone when they email you a desperate plea for help because they might not make next week? I remember one guy in particular. I lost his email because I was being flooded with tons of emails. That was really devastating and hard to deal with.
And how do you know that Roger's 25,000 missing BTC hasn't affected him personally?  How do you know that it's only a "fraction" of an "already large net worth"?  How do you know that that wasn't Roger's life savings that he had worked his a** off over the last 30 years to accumulate?  How do you know that those people claiming that they are on their last meal are telling the truth?  Why are you in a position of any kind to judge who is in the worst position as a result of your actions?  And frankly, why does it matter to you?  Would you rather have divvied up the money based on who needs it the most?  A modern day robin hood, screwing the pooch with regards to fairness of who actually deserves what?

No one is going to feel sorry for you for emails you found hard to deal with, by the way.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: muyuu on August 15, 2012, 07:40:33 AM
You're all not listening to what I'm saying. I am sorry this happened, but not because a large amount of money went missing but because it affected people in personal ways. Affected them personally.

That's the problem. You should also be sorry that a large amount of money went missing. Also, you should know better than saying to a client that you could care less about the large amount he lost because he can still make ends meet. Even if you thought so, which is bad enough, you should know better than to speak it out.

I'm confused about why didn't you hand it over to someone with liquidity to cover losses.

This is going to sound like "hindsight is always 20/20" but I was worried since the very moment you guys got involved in Bitcoinica and pulled all my funds from both Bitcoinica and Intersango (thank ****). You are 3 young lads running an exchange, which I used by the way. Why would you get involved in a margin trading tool that had been hacked a number of times before? didn't you have enough trouble with the exchange? got bored? even with a conference coming up in months?

This kind of reckless and unprofessional attitude doesn't belong in finance and it's commonplace in the Bitcoin community (no need to even point fingers at anyone). Mainly because it's run by kids. The community needs to mature ASAP and you guys should hand over your business to people like Roger Ver before you end up in jail. We need more people like Roger and fewer like you, the chinese teen and the emo guy who's involved in 200 projects and delivered none to a decent standard.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nemesis on August 15, 2012, 07:51:01 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.

Shut up, let ppl speak for themselves.

Amir, you made me sick. You're lucky i'm thousands miles from London.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Bitcoin Oz on August 15, 2012, 07:52:19 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.

Shut up, let ppl speak for themselves.

Amir, you made me sick. You're lucky i'm not thousands miles from London.


Whats that supposed to mean ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nemesis on August 15, 2012, 07:57:37 AM
For god sakes people, another thread, one of any of the other dozen or so threads, PLEASE.

Shut up, let ppl speak for themselves.

Amir, you made me sick. You're lucky i'm not thousands miles from London.


Whats that supposed to mean ?

typo due to rage....

Cant believe ppl let worthless shiet like him to organize the conference. Get the fck off bitcoin community already.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on August 15, 2012, 08:47:14 AM
...the emo guy who's involved in 200 projects and delivered none to a decent standard.

You've just described every self-styled "entrepreneur", "visionary", and "ideas person" I've ever met.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on August 15, 2012, 09:54:37 AM
Even though I am also awaiting a refund from Bitcoinica, I would like to make this debate more balanced.

You need to realise that Amir, Patrick and Donald are three individuals. They are not the same person. What bad did Amir do? He blabbers a lot, has strong opinions about issues and he released confidential documents. For Bitcoinica's creditors, the first two are irrelevant. The last one is to a large extent an internal issue between him and Bitcoinica. What remains is the (presumably inadvertent) release of the password within the confidential documents that lead to a theft of some funds, of which a large proportion has been recovered in the meantime. But this is as well an internal issue of Bitcoinica.

Amir (based on available information) did not have access to Bitcoinica's funds, and if I recall right from his posts, his suggestions about the refund process were rejected (by Patrick, presumably).

In summary, the creditors have no logical reason to be angry with Amir, even though they have plenty of emotional reasons.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: DeaDTerra on August 15, 2012, 09:58:09 AM
Please redirect all rage,FUD and witch burning to some other thread!
There are plenty of them
//DeaDTerra


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: MemoryDealers on August 15, 2012, 10:06:49 AM
In summary, the creditors have no logical reason to be angry with Amir, even though they have plenty of emotional reasons.

1. Amir is directly responsible for allowing the theft of what is currently worth more than $500,000 worth of customer funds.
2. Amir is directly responsible for the destruction of the only asset that Bitcoinica had, that could have been sold to pay off the creditors. (The proprietary Bitcoinica code)
3. Amir is directly responsible for delaying the return of funds to creditors by refusing to relinquish his control of Bitcoinica.


I think the creditors have plenty of rational reasons to be super angry with Amir. (Genjix)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on August 15, 2012, 11:38:28 AM
1. Amir is directly responsible for allowing the theft of what is currently worth more than $500,000 worth of customer funds.
The theft is an internal issue of Bitcoinica. Yes, it's a bad security practice, yes, it could be a contract violation. But it's not our (creditors') problem.

2. Amir is directly responsible for the destruction of the only asset that Bitcoinica had, that could have been sold to pay off the creditors. (The proprietary Bitcoinica code)
Amir did not destroy it, he published it. This does not invalidate the copyright claim of Bitcoinica so it cannot be used by a competitor directly without approval. Furthermore, the hedging algorithm (which is the only thing that can hypothetically be considered valuable, everything else is glue and UI) wasn't performing well and was supposed to be changed anyway. I looked at the the source code, and the hedging algorithm appears to be very simple (I wrote and ran an arbitrage bot between Mt. Gox and Tradehill in the past so I know a bit about it). It appears to me that it just sets up a single order in the "underhedged" sum per job run and then leaves the position open until it either executes or the available reserves go to zero and then it cancels all open orders. That's not exactly rocket science.

3. Amir is directly responsible for delaying the return of funds to creditors by refusing to relinquish his control of Bitcoinica.
I don't know the exact contents of your negotiations, but since he did not appear to have much control in the first place, it probably would have had very little practical effect if he agreed.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: MemoryDealers on August 15, 2012, 12:04:07 PM
1. Amir is directly responsible for allowing the theft of what is currently worth more than $500,000 worth of customer funds.
The theft is an internal issue of Bitcoinica. Yes, it's a bad security practice, yes, it could be a contract violation. But it's not our (creditors') problem.

2. Amir is directly responsible for the destruction of the only asset that Bitcoinica had, that could have been sold to pay off the creditors. (The proprietary Bitcoinica code)
Amir did not destroy it, he published it. This does not invalidate the copyright claim of Bitcoinica so it cannot be used by a competitor directly without approval. Furthermore, the hedging algorithm (which is the only thing that can hypothetically be considered valuable, everything else is glue and UI) wasn't performing well and was supposed to be changed anyway. I looked at the the source code, and the hedging algorithm appears to be very simple (I wrote and ran an arbitrage bot between Mt. Gox and Tradehill in the past so I know a bit about it). It appears to me that it just sets up a single order in the "underhedged" sum per job run and then leaves the position open until it either executes or the available reserves go to zero and then it cancels all open orders. That's not exactly rocket science.

3. Amir is directly responsible for delaying the return of funds to creditors by refusing to relinquish his control of Bitcoinica.
I don't know the exact contents of your negotiations, but since he did not appear to have much control in the first place, it probably would have had very little practical effect if he agreed.

1.  It is my problem because it was my money that was stolen.

2. There was a deal in the works for Bitcoinica to be sold for enough money to cover the entire shortfall for returning customer funds. That deal fell apart because Amir open sourced the code. Open sourcing it destroyed most of its value in the eyes of the potential buyers.

3.  Between Amir, Patrick, and Donald, they had total control.  All we needed was for two of the three to cooperate and every creditor would be much better off today, and likely have %100 of their money back.  Instead Patrick lied to me via email, and again right to my face when I met him in SF. Amir and Donald refused to even reply to emails.

The best thing they the three of them can do for Bitcoin is to leave forever!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on August 15, 2012, 01:07:46 PM
1.  It is my problem because it was my money that was stolen.
The problem is Bitcoinica refusing refunds, not money being stolen. Money being stolen is an internal Bitcoinica issue. If anything, the loss of the database was much more influential than the loss of funds.

2. There was a deal in the works for Bitcoinica to be sold for enough money to cover the entire shortfall for returning customer funds. That deal fell apart because Amir open sourced the code. Open sourcing it destroyed most of its value in the eyes of the potential buyers.
I would not value the source code for more than 10k, that's how much I estimate it would cost to pay a developer to write it from scratch. The value of Bitcoinica, in my opinion, was in its market share and alleged regulatory compliance. The value of infrastructure, security and business processes is zero as it was a total disaster.

Also he did not "open source" it, that's not the correct legal term.

It is sad that the deal fell apart, but again this is an internal Bitcoinica issue. Even if you were involved in the process, you're not the owner of Bitcoinica and this did not violate a contract between you and Amir, nor your property rights.

3.  Between Amir, Patrick, and Donald, they had total control.  All we needed was for two of the three to cooperate and every creditor would be much better off today, and likely have %100 of their money back.  Instead Patrick lied to me via email, and again right to my face when I met him in SF. Amir and Donald refused to even reply to emails.
Amir != Patrick and Amir != Donald.

Amir is a hacker (in the original sense) and an activist. He's not a businessman and has, in my opinion, a poor business judgement. But with respect to the objections brought here against him, even when they are in a causal connection with the fiasco, the relationship is either weak or not legally relevant for the creditors.

To the extent where he violated contracts and/or property rights, he can be sued, in particular the Wendon group (and now Bitcoinica represented by the receiver/liquidator) probably has a strong claim. Other than that, simply don't entrust him with confidential information and larger amounts of money. There is no reason for hostilities.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 15, 2012, 01:11:54 PM
2. There was a deal in the works for Bitcoinica to be sold for enough money to cover the entire shortfall for returning customer funds. That deal fell apart because Amir open sourced the code. Open sourcing it destroyed most of its value in the eyes of the potential buyers.
I would not value the source code for more than 10k, that's how much I estimate it would cost to pay a developer to write it from scratch. The value of Bitcoinica, in my opinion, was in its market share and alleged regulatory compliance. The value of infrastructure, security and business processes is zero as it was a total disaster.

Also he did not "open source" it, that's not the correct legal term.

It is sad that the deal fell apart, but again this is an internal Bitcoinica issue. Even if you were involved in the process, you're not the owner of Bitcoinica and this did not violate a contract between you and Amir, nor your property rights.



The MtGox API Key was inside the source code that Amir released!!!!

All the hacker had to do was open the file and read the code.

He had no legal right to do that, nor a moral right. It's stupid negligence.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 15, 2012, 01:42:03 PM
does _EVERY_ fucking thread have to either be about pirate or bitcoinica?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on August 15, 2012, 01:53:37 PM
The MtGox API Key was inside the source code that Amir released!!!!
If I understand that correctly, this API key has long been revoked. But the key was also used as a password for an entirely unrelated lastpass account. Even though this has not been said explicitly, Amir probably had no way of knowing that this is the case. Allegedly, it was Tihan who set the password, and Patrick who left it unchanged. Are you going to blame Tihan too with the same ferocity?

The developers should not have access to live system credentials anyway. That being said, if I was doing the leak, I would have sanitised the config files, even if they only contained references to testing environment access.

All the hacker had to do was open the file and read the code.
The hacker had to understand it as well, and realise that the key is reused in a different system.

He had no legal right to do that, nor a moral right. It's stupid negligence.
Releasing the code may have violated the contractual obligations he had with Bitcoinica. I even agree with you it was stupid and to the extent the config files were not sanitised, negligent.

But you need to view it from the perspective of Amir's hacker-type personality. Confidential arrangements are simply not suitable for him. He should have realised this himself before getting involved in Bitcoinica and explained that he can only get involved if he is not required to compromise his ideals. It might sound silly, but that's the way it is.

For past transgressions, this of course should have no effect on the responsibilities and/or punishment. But the future is what I'm worried about. People who are different should not be condemned for all eternity. Rather, their qualities and peculiarities should be assessed impartially and not hinder mutually beneficial arrangements, as I believe the conference can be.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 15, 2012, 03:39:48 PM
Several pages of arguing about Amir's involvement and responsibility instead of just kicking him out of conference planning? This won't end well.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Herodes on August 15, 2012, 05:57:22 PM
I'm picturing the head lines in 'The Sun' now:

"Silkroad induced cryptocurrency roid rage ensues!"


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: BitBuster on August 15, 2012, 06:10:21 PM
Its quite simple really, EVERY PERSON involved or connected to Bitcoinica, its operation and ownership should NOT be involved in the operation or ownership of ANY other bitcoin-related venture because their reputation has been tainted (whether guilty or not) and will therefore taint anything they're involved with.

The bitcoin conference must be spared the controversy, or become a victim of it.


BB.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: SgtSpike on August 15, 2012, 06:52:11 PM
But you need to view it from the perspective of Amir's hacker-type personality. Confidential arrangements are simply not suitable for him. He should have realised this himself before getting involved in Bitcoinica and explained that he can only get involved if he is not required to compromise his ideals. It might sound silly, but that's the way it is.

For past transgressions, this of course should have no effect on the responsibilities and/or punishment. But the future is what I'm worried about. People who are different should not be condemned for all eternity. Rather, their qualities and peculiarities should be assessed impartially and not hinder mutually beneficial arrangements, as I believe the conference can be.
Lol, is that like saying murderers are ok to murder because that's their personality type?

Putting the legalities of what Amir did aside, he DID violate his ethical obligations to Bitcoinica's customers by releasing the source code and by refusing to relinquish his control of Bitcoinica.  I don't think anyone here is questioning the legality of Amir's actions - that'll all get figured out in court.  But they have every reason to be upset at him for his actions because of the delay and potential reduction of the refunds they will now be getting as a direct result of his actions.  And those sorts of actions can't be passed off as a "personality" type.

He absolutely should be condemned by those attending the conference (and he should step out of it too).  You wouldn't sit down for lunch with a criminal after prosecuting him in the courtroom minutes earlier, so why do you expect those who are owed so much money by Amir to act cordially around him and the other Intersango guys as if they don't still owe them hundreds of thousands of dollars?

If I was in his position, I would definitely fear for my life, and wouldn't set foot anywhere near a Bitcoin gathering of any kind until the situation was resolved.  I don't know why he is so anxious to put his life in danger.  People have been killed over much smaller things.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: jgarzik on August 15, 2012, 07:43:23 PM
Perhaps we should request that Nefario lock this thread, and create a new one.

There are already many Bitcoinica threads...  please use those.

No matter your position on this issue, you are spamming this thread with off-topic content.  Yes, even you, genjix :)



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on August 15, 2012, 07:50:16 PM
Perhaps we should request that Nefario lock this thread, and create a new one.

There are already many Bitcoinica threads...  please use those.

No matter your position on this issue, you are spamming this thread with off-topic content.  Yes, even you, genjix :)



I sent a report to the mods asking them to split the thread when the derail first happened.  As they didn't do so (and it would have been easy to do it a few posts in), I'm guessing that they don't regard the posts as off-topic.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on August 15, 2012, 08:37:42 PM

The MtGox API Key was inside the source code that Amir released!!!!

All the hacker had to do was open the file and read the code.

He had no legal right to do that, nor a moral right. It's stupid negligence.

With due respect, although the posting of the source code is a possible means by which someone gained the information needed to breach the MtGox account, it is not the most likely or credible explanation for how the MtGox thief obtained those credentials.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 15, 2012, 09:29:44 PM

The MtGox API Key was inside the source code that Amir released!!!!

All the hacker had to do was open the file and read the code.

He had no legal right to do that, nor a moral right. It's stupid negligence.

With due respect, although the posting of the source code is a possible means by which someone gained the information needed to breach the MtGox account, it is not the most likely or credible explanation for how the MtGox thief obtained those credentials.

From what I understand, it is.

The MtGox API Key was inside the source code that Amir released!!!!
If I understand that correctly, this API key has long been revoked. But the key was also used as a password for an entirely unrelated lastpass account. Even though this has not been said explicitly, Amir probably had no way of knowing that this is the case. Allegedly, it was Tihan who set the password, and Patrick who left it unchanged. Are you going to blame Tihan too with the same ferocity?

The developers should not have access to live system credentials anyway. That being said, if I was doing the leak, I would have sanitised the config files, even if they only contained references to testing environment access.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 15, 2012, 10:29:26 PM
Several pages of arguing about Amir's involvement and responsibility instead of just kicking him out of conference planning? This won't end well.

kicking him out? what the fuck, man! the conference wouldn't even exist without him. Anyone can organize a conference, it's a free market for bitcoin conferences, dude. Don't like this one? Roll your onw. Shut up or put up!


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 15, 2012, 10:31:38 PM
Perhaps we should request that Nefario lock this thread, and create a new one.

There are already many Bitcoinica threads...  please use those.

No matter your position on this issue, you are spamming this thread with off-topic content.  Yes, even you, genjix :)

I'm guilty, too. Too easy to get dragged in.

Back on topic: where are you guys staying... can't seem to find an affordable place. Let's start the berlin vs. london discussion again while we're off-topic? ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on August 15, 2012, 11:04:01 PM
Lol, is that like saying murderers are ok to murder because that's their personality type?
It seems to me that Amir's involvement and level of culpability are grossly exaggerated, just like here bringing up the murder. Why not take out the big guns and bring up the Hitler analogy, shall we?

Whatever his transgressions might have been, they were outside of his area of expertise. He should be held accountable for them, but I see no reason why he shouldn't be useful to the Bitcoin community in other capacity. Calling for revenge is emotional and counterproductive.

Putting the legalities of what Amir did aside, he DID violate his ethical obligations to Bitcoinica's customers by releasing the source code and by refusing to relinquish his control of Bitcoinica.
Amir was under no obligation towards Bitcoinica's customers to keep the source code confidential. That is an internal Bitcoinica issue. And since he did not appear to have had much control over Bitcoinica in the first place, I don't see how refusing to relinquish said control could have had much effect on anything.

If I was in his position, I would definitely fear for my life, and wouldn't set foot anywhere near a Bitcoin gathering of any kind until the situation was resolved.  I don't know why he is so anxious to put his life in danger.  People have been killed over much smaller things.
If anything, this says much more about the people who wish him unwell than about Amir himself.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: muyuu on August 15, 2012, 11:04:13 PM
...the emo guy who's involved in 200 projects and delivered none to a decent standard.

You've just described every self-styled "entrepreneur", "visionary", and "ideas person" I've ever met.

That's because you've only met failures then.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on August 15, 2012, 11:24:18 PM

From what I understand, it is.


It's the explanation which fits the narrative offered by Zhou.  That by no means validates its truth.  As Amir pointed out just after the discovery of the MtGox intrusion, whoever perpetrated the Rackspace hack gained access to the information required to breach the MtGox account. 

Given the friction which existed at camp Bitcoinica following the Rackspace hack, it's also entirely possible that while bitching to other people about one another's perceived failings, one of the insiders inadvertently disclosed critical information to an outsider.



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: muyuu on August 15, 2012, 11:24:40 PM
2. There was a deal in the works for Bitcoinica to be sold for enough money to cover the entire shortfall for returning customer funds. That deal fell apart because Amir open sourced the code. Open sourcing it destroyed most of its value in the eyes of the potential buyers.
I would not value the source code for more than 10k, that's how much I estimate it would cost to pay a developer to write it from scratch. The value of Bitcoinica, in my opinion, was in its market share and alleged regulatory compliance. The value of infrastructure, security and business processes is zero as it was a total disaster.

You've brought this point a few times and it's total nonsense.

Nobody cares what you value the source code. The fact here is someone was willing to pay a lot of money, and releasing the source was the direct cause that they pulled back the offer. So it costed the IP valuation of whatever remains of Bitcoinica a substantial amount of money, of which whoever released the code is liable.

Perhaps because people were overestimating the quality of the code, perhaps because of the "brand name" Bitcoinica once had (also severely damaged by the release), perhaps because it wasn't worth it and the release just proved it. Or simply because it made it trivial to make a clone that people would immediately recognise as equivalent. If doesn't f***ing matter. It also doesn't matter what you would pay a developer to do it from scratch, if it was secret nobody would know if there was something really unique and unbeatable in that code that wouldn't be doable within that budget. Your hindsight reasoning simply doesn't matter.

It was a mistake with serious implications for everybody affected. And that's not even touching the issue about the MtGox key working as password in lastpass.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: aq on August 16, 2012, 12:01:20 AM
I am really amazed by lonelyminer.
Lonelyminer stays calm, professional, rational while everyone else is blinded by emotions rage and trying to show off their worst side.
The Bitcoin community should be glad to have him.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 16, 2012, 12:05:26 AM
I am really amazed by lonelyminer.
Lonelyminer stays calm, professional, rational while everyone else is blinded by emotions rage and trying to show off their worst side.
The Bitcoin community should be glad to have him.

oh man, +1 this. The other "man of reason" notable is Joelkatz.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: disclaimer201 on August 16, 2012, 12:08:39 AM
I am really amazed by lonelyminer.
Lonelyminer stays calm, professional, rational while everyone else is blinded by emotions rage and trying to show off their worst side.
The Bitcoin community should be glad to have him.

If you keep someone like Amir in a central position of responsibility, it surprises you that people get a little emotional?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 16, 2012, 12:14:30 AM
I am really amazed by lonelyminer.
Lonelyminer stays calm, professional, rational while everyone else is blinded by emotions rage and trying to show off their worst side.
The Bitcoin community should be glad to have him.

If you keep someone like Amir in a central position of responsibility, it surprises you that people get a little emotional?

no


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: mistfpga on August 16, 2012, 01:28:13 AM
Right,

So, where are we at?  I am flying back to london in a bit (from australia) and really want to attend this conf and the two day hackathon before hand.  I might even be able to put a few bitcoiners up for a few nights. (I have a couple of spare rooms if I turn my rigs off) london is still overpriced from the olympics, and will be for a couple more months yet - then we get to the xmas holiday gouge.

Myself and the mistfpga team have developed some new hardware we wanted to work on with the community to get extended functionality into security modules (ideally, from people with hot wallets) and saw this as an ideal time to do this.

We aim to  provide Hardware Security Modules complete with antitamper, for under £1k - (prototyping is done on a rasberry pi, although the final product will be an fpga solution. - but the prototypes, and rasberry pi code will all be open sourced) the mist team has been working on HSM's and Datacryptors for over 20 years (combined).

Is there going to be a boycott?  if so, will people attend the hackathon beforehand? or is that tainted too?

edit: oh yeah, and I want to try to get some people onboard for the bitcoin testing project...

Cheers guys.

Steve


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nefario on August 20, 2012, 08:39:34 PM
Announcing more sponsorship opportunities tomorrow.

I'll be in London from September 1st for the whole month for anyone who is around.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Tachikoma on August 20, 2012, 09:03:19 PM
Any of the tickets left?

Quote from: genjix
We sold 10% of the 700 tickets available so far. I'm about to close the issuing of the first 100 tickets.

I would say, yes! :)

(Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96604.msg1068120#msg1068120 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96604.msg1068120#msg1068120))


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: cst on August 20, 2012, 09:27:05 PM
My bad, got the TL:DR bug and didn't see the site link. Guess 'why does it expect me to pay using paypal' has already been asked.

I think you can still email genjix to pay with BTC, that's how I got my ticket.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Matthew N. Wright on August 20, 2012, 09:30:40 PM
Just so you all know, there will be horseheads involved.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nefario on August 20, 2012, 09:31:08 PM
Any of the tickets left?

Quote from: genjix
We sold 10% of the 700 tickets available so far. I'm about to close the issuing of the first 100 tickets.

I would say, yes! :)

(Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96604.msg1068120#msg1068120 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96604.msg1068120#msg1068120))

See here for tickets, payable in BTC, I think over 200 have been sold at this point so the place is going to be buzzing.
http://www.bitcoin2012.com/tickets


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Nefario on August 20, 2012, 09:33:31 PM
Just so you all know, there will be horseheads involved.

???  ???


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: molecular on August 24, 2012, 07:49:22 AM
Amir asked me (and others) wether we would resell Conference Tickets.
(Amir or some other organizer, can you please confirm this to increase trust in the tickets I'm selling being valid and official)

I decided to auction some off at bitmit, starting at BTC 0.01:

  • Bitcoin Conference 2012 Ticket

    https://i.imgur.com/cX9hK.png (https://www.bitmit.net/de/trade/i/5287-london-bitcoin-conference-ticket/description)

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Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Otoh on August 24, 2012, 01:18:29 PM
The OP states the venue as The Imperial (Hotel) but the main site lists the Royal National (Hotel), Russell Square - could someone please confirm which it is if they aren't the same & the exact address, Bedford Way? - Woburn Place? Many thanks.

Edit - seems that they are next door to each other with the main entrance on Woburn Place & secondary entries on Bedford Way, near Russell Square - so np I'll find it


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: dissipate on August 27, 2012, 04:41:24 AM
Did anyone notice that bitdaytrade is still listed as a sponsor even though their site got hacked to hell and was shut down?  :o


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: LoupGaroux on August 27, 2012, 02:03:33 PM
Did anyone notice that intersango, the second most successful criminally incompetent boobs in the history of bitcoin is still printed on the face of the tickets as a sponsoring supporter?

Caveat emptor... if you participate in this conference you are buying in to the belief that bitcoin users are your personal pool of fools and dupes to take advantage of, and supporting those who would take advantage of them.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 03, 2012, 11:59:14 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: First 5 for £230!

Two days, over 30 speakers, 400+ people, and buckets of press.


Tier 2 sponsorship available

  • Roller banner at event 800x2065mm (banner,stand,printing included)
  • A PowerPoint slide on main screen(looped) between talks.
  • Your logo included in the final production video of event.
  • The ability to say you are a sponsor of this conference

NORMAL PRICE:£300 for a tier 2 slot.
DISCOUNT PRICE:£230 for the first 5 slots, HURRY!

Email:james@bitcoin2012.com (james@bitcoin2012.com)

Please see here for more details (http://www.bitcoin2012.com/sponsorship)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: repentance on September 04, 2012, 01:36:34 AM
Did anyone notice that intersango, the second most successful criminally incompetent boobs in the history of bitcoin is still printed on the face of the tickets as a sponsoring supporter?

The fact that Patrick Strateman is still a guest speaker at the conference speaks volumes about the extent to which it's a personal, pet project. 

They should invite Trendon Shavers to give a presentation, just for good measure.

It's disingenuous to promote the event to potential sponsors using the "700 people" line, too.  There's little reason to believe that another 500 people are going to buy tickets in the next 11 days.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT tickets available
Post by: Shadow383 on September 04, 2012, 01:55:23 AM
Did anyone notice that intersango, the second most successful criminally incompetent boobs in the history of bitcoin is still printed on the face of the tickets as a sponsoring supporter?

The fact that Patrick Strateman is still a guest speaker at the conference speaks volumes about the extent to which it's a personal, pet project. 

They should invite Trendon Shavers to give a presentation, just for good measure.

It's disingenuous to promote the event to potential sponsors using the "700 people" line, too.  There's little reason to believe that another 500 people are going to buy tickets in the next 11 days.

Might as well, they should invite Zhou Tong and the guy that ran Mybitcoin too, get the whole scammer contingent together.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: apetersson on September 04, 2012, 06:47:01 AM
NORMAL PRICE:£300 for a tier 2 slot.
DISCOUNT PRICE:£230 for the first 5 slots, HURRY!
what is that in bitcoins?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 04, 2012, 11:49:07 AM
NORMAL PRICE:£300 for a tier 2 slot.
DISCOUNT PRICE:£230 for the first 5 slots, HURRY!
what is that in bitcoins?

Payable in bitcoins, whatever the market rate is at the time of paying.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 04, 2012, 11:58:47 AM
First spot gone already.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: BitBuster on September 07, 2012, 08:00:43 PM
Let me guess.. Namecoin (Zhou) is now a sponsor?

This is hilarious beyond words. Lets work out the net total of the thefts conducted by/with the explicit help of these "sponsors" and "distinguished guests"...?

This conference will do a great job at further entrenching the undesirable stereotype bitcoin has (as a community infested with criminals and idiots).


BB.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 07, 2012, 09:34:25 PM
Well over 200 tickets sold already, and the rate of sales is increasing.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 08, 2012, 03:57:02 AM
Deadline for Tier 2 artwork is this Tuesday.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 08, 2012, 03:58:24 AM
Also any Tier 1 sponsorship after this time (i.e. now) will not include printing on the event guide as printing has already begun.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Bitcoin Oz on September 08, 2012, 04:05:20 AM
Let me guess.. Namecoin (Zhou) is now a sponsor?

This is hilarious beyond words. Lets work out the net total of the thefts conducted by/with the explicit help of these "sponsors" and "distinguished guests"...?

This conference will do a great job at further entrenching the undesirable stereotype bitcoin has (as a community infested with criminals and idiots).


BB.

The only one missing is Bruce Wagner.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 08, 2012, 04:01:26 PM
Let me guess.. Namecoin (Zhou) is now a sponsor?

This is hilarious beyond words. Lets work out the net total of the thefts conducted by/with the explicit help of these "sponsors" and "distinguished guests"...?

This conference will do a great job at further entrenching the undesirable stereotype bitcoin has (as a community infested with criminals and idiots).


BB.

The only one missing is Bruce Wagner.

No no, he's our mystery guest speaker.

2 tier 2 places left with the discount and Tuesday graphics deadline.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 10, 2012, 09:28:31 AM
Maybe useful web link
http://twtvite.com (http://twtvite.com)
http://twtvite.com/home/search/London (http://twtvite.com/home/search/London)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Shadow383 on September 10, 2012, 10:04:17 AM
Now that Matthew has been labelled a scammer, I presume you guys have invited him to speak in London?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Herodes on September 10, 2012, 04:41:47 PM
Now that Matthew has been labelled a scammer, I presume you guys have invited him to speak in London?

Yes, he and Patrick will do 'Rævkrok' on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRTAJ3fdY-w

Direct translation to english would be: "Ass hook".


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: bullioner on September 10, 2012, 09:25:34 PM
Now that Matthew has been labelled a scammer, I presume you guys have invited him to speak in London?

Correct, he is listed at https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers (https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers).

I am actually attending this conference, but am feeling increasingly uncomfortable about it.

Quote
Matthew N. Wright is a serial entrepreneur living in South Korea, and quit all non-Bitcoin related work to found the Digital Commerce Advancement Organization, the largest Bitcoin business incubator. He co-founded DialCoin, Bitcoin Magazine, BeyondBanks, Safebit, BitcoinMall, ElletSys, and the Bitcoin Association of Korea, offering bi-lingual informational, business integration and translation services. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: MaxSan on September 10, 2012, 09:26:57 PM
He wont be there. Someone else will be there to represent the magazine now he is no longer a part of it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: SgtSpike on September 10, 2012, 09:28:42 PM
He wont be there. Someone else will be there to represent the magazine now he is no longer a part of it.
He may be there, but he won't be representing the magazine.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Otoh on September 10, 2012, 09:34:43 PM
Now that Matthew has been labelled a scammer, I presume you guys have invited him to speak in London?

Correct, he is listed at https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers (https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers).

I am actually attending this conference, but am feeling increasingly uncomfortable about it.

Quote
Matthew N. Wright is a serial entrepreneur living in South Korea, and quit all non-Bitcoin related work to found the Digital Commerce Advancement Organization, the largest Bitcoin business incubator. He co-founded DialCoin, Bitcoin Magazine, BeyondBanks, Safebit, BitcoinMall, ElletSys, and the Bitcoin Association of Korea, offering bi-lingual informational, business integration and translation services. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine.

I'm setting up a stall (http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4383) :P


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 10, 2012, 09:43:21 PM
Now that Matthew has been labelled a scammer, I presume you guys have invited him to speak in London?

Correct, he is listed at https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers (https://sites.google.com/a/bitcoin2012.com/homepage/speakers).

I am actually attending this conference, but am feeling increasingly uncomfortable about it.

Quote
Matthew N. Wright is a serial entrepreneur living in South Korea, and quit all non-Bitcoin related work to found the Digital Commerce Advancement Organization, the largest Bitcoin business incubator. He co-founded DialCoin, Bitcoin Magazine, BeyondBanks, Safebit, BitcoinMall, ElletSys, and the Bitcoin Association of Korea, offering bi-lingual informational, business integration and translation services. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine.

He's still listed on the page (I'll fix that now) but he's not speaking.

Also I don't know why someone said Zhou was sponsoring, thats not true AFAIK.

So lay off the hyperbole and enjoy this, it's going to be absolutely awesome, turns out there is going to be a lot more press there than we originally thought.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Technomage on September 10, 2012, 09:46:45 PM
I'm really looking forward to the conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: cst on September 10, 2012, 10:00:30 PM
I'm really looking forward to the conference.

Yeah, me too. Only 4 days, can't wait :)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 10, 2012, 10:18:54 PM
I'm really looking forward to the conference.

Yeah, me too. Only 4 days, can't wait :)

Actually the hackathon starts tomorrow. So it's already kind of begun.

This really is going to be just fantastic, as there isn't just the conference itself, but so many after events as well.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 11, 2012, 12:09:34 AM
Can you record a videos like last time from Prague 2011?
Addition live stream and chat will be available ?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on September 11, 2012, 02:37:13 AM
Can you record a videos like last time from Prague 2011?
Addition live stream and chat will be available ?

I was also wondering about this.  Given that there are three rooms and several presentations taking place in parallel...many of us would like to see them all...will all presentations be recorded and available for viewing later (for attendees, at least)?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: molecular on September 11, 2012, 01:47:14 PM
Can you record a videos like last time from Prague 2011?
Addition live stream and chat will be available ?

I'm bringing my cam and will set it up in one of the rooms. Anyone got a tripod?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 11, 2012, 09:23:30 PM
Something should go here about BTC
http://live.theverge.com/ (http://live.theverge.com/)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Stephen Gornick on September 11, 2012, 09:53:00 PM
What are the details of this?


Quote
Dilemma of PayPal: 70% of tickets sold were via PayPal, our account is locked, and the fees are outrageous.

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245462853975412736


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: muyuu on September 11, 2012, 10:14:50 PM
What are the details of this?


Quote
Dilemma of PayPal: 70% of tickets sold were via PayPal, our account is locked, and the fees are outrageous.

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245462853975412736

That's pretty fucked up.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 12, 2012, 12:06:12 AM
What are the details of this?


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Dilemma of PayPal: 70% of tickets sold were via PayPal, our account is locked, and the fees are outrageous.

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245462853975412736

That's pretty fucked up.

PayPal, Amount received:
£932.35 GBP
Fee amount:
-£31.90 GBP
Net amount:
£900.45 GBP
http://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245471390319378432 (http://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245471390319378432)

Quote
Austrian TV station has booked 4th conf room for interviews


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Raoul Duke on September 12, 2012, 12:39:31 AM
What are the details of this?


Quote
Dilemma of PayPal: 70% of tickets sold were via PayPal, our account is locked, and the fees are outrageous.

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245462853975412736

Someone should tell those guys about Bitcoin... ::)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: muyuu on September 12, 2012, 07:21:08 AM
What are the details of this?


Quote
Dilemma of PayPal: 70% of tickets sold were via PayPal, our account is locked, and the fees are outrageous.

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245462853975412736

That's pretty fucked up.

PayPal, Amount received:
£932.35 GBP
Fee amount:
-£31.90 GBP
Net amount:
£900.45 GBP
http://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245471390319378432 (http://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/245471390319378432)

Quote
Austrian TV station has booked 4th conf room for interviews

That doesn't add up. 70% of the tickets cannot be so little, even at cheapest prices that wouldn't add up to 30 tickets.

If 70% of the full amount is 932.35 GBP, the whole is ~1332 GBP (1666 euros). At 70 euros each, 23.7 tickets.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: MaxSan on September 12, 2012, 07:30:45 AM
for starters the first 100 tickets were sold at 40EUR and secondly, that is obviously not accurate lol.

Who cares I am well looking forward to this. Should be excellent.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: muyuu on September 12, 2012, 07:35:27 AM
for starters the first 100 tickets were sold at 40EUR and secondly, that is obviously not accurate lol.

Who cares I am well looking forward to this. Should be excellent.

Only the first 100 tickets would be 4000 EUR. Just wondering what they meant because it doesn't make any sense.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: molecular on September 12, 2012, 01:43:39 PM
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Austrian TV station has booked 4th conf room for interviews

The austrian population isn't as stupid and lulled in as other populations when it comes to money... they still use their shilling in stores as an alternative to the euro (albeit at fixed exchange rate and the shilling is of course also fiat, but it shows they have a mind more open to monetary issues than most, also, of course, it's AUSTRIAN economics ;-).


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 12, 2012, 09:57:53 PM
Early arrivers have finally arrived and we've met up, the venue is awesome, already some of the talk that has gone down is IMO ground breaking or going to prove to be groundbreaking.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: molecular on September 13, 2012, 06:37:23 AM
look at this google maps shot of russell square... I will ask a question afterwards:



https://i.imgur.com/epVYBl.jpg



Did you see the airplane?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: DeanC on September 13, 2012, 10:51:02 AM
1) Is there any chance to buy "Physical Bitcoins" in London? :)



Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Technomage on September 13, 2012, 12:30:26 PM
1) Is there any chance to buy "Physical Bitcoins" in London? :)

There certainly will be. I will be bringing some coins and a lot of other people will be bringing some too.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: DeaDTerra on September 13, 2012, 03:22:16 PM
1) Is there any chance to buy "Physical Bitcoins" in London? :)

There certainly will be. I will be bringing some coins and a lot of other people will be bringing some too.
I will be brininging several copies of 1,10 and 25 BTC coins :)
I can also bring a 100 BTC if you contact me a head of time.
//DeaDTerra


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Tachikoma on September 13, 2012, 03:39:53 PM
Anybody selling a BTC10[/btc] silver round with gold-plated b? Still considering buying one and not having to pay shipping might just push me over the edge ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Inaba on September 13, 2012, 04:50:56 PM
Is anyone meeting up tonight?  I would like to meet a few people or whatever.  I've got a few things to take care of before the evening, but I'd definitely like to meet and greet anyone who's come early.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Fluttershy on September 13, 2012, 05:06:00 PM
look at this google maps shot of russell square... I will ask a question afterwards:



https://i.imgur.com/epVYBl.jpg



Did you see the airplane?
You have to fly over it, duh.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: SgtSpike on September 13, 2012, 05:17:44 PM
look at this google maps shot of russell square... I will ask a question afterwards:



https://i.imgur.com/epVYBl.jpg



Did you see the airplane?
It's a plane taking a picture of the plane flying over the plane that probably used to have plains.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Deafboy on September 13, 2012, 06:37:47 PM
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14th, Friday - conference opening at Antalya restaurant.
Someone know the time?


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Technomage on September 13, 2012, 06:38:46 PM
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14th, Friday - conference opening at Antalya restaurant.
Someone know the time?

As far as I know the opening starts 18:00 which is 6 PM for the US people. ;)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 13, 2012, 06:58:26 PM
Is anyone meeting up tonight?  I would like to meet a few people or whatever.  I've got a few things to take care of before the evening, but I'd definitely like to meet and greet anyone who's come early.


I've just arrived back home but could head out again for a little bit, if you want to meet up for a while thats cool.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 13, 2012, 07:43:26 PM
Is anyone meeting up tonight?  I would like to meet a few people or whatever.  I've got a few things to take care of before the evening, but I'd definitely like to meet and greet anyone who's come early.


I've just arrived back home but could head out again for a little bit, if you want to meet up for a while thats cool.
Give a small public speaking & presentation about BitForce SC Jalapeno,BitForce SC Single,BitForce SC Mini Rig  :D


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: molecular on September 14, 2012, 12:13:13 PM
some unknown people at the "hackathon" in 22 cranbourn street (2nd floor of a cafe, ask for the bitcoin geeks)

https://i.imgur.com/FI9m4.png


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: greyhawk on September 14, 2012, 12:14:47 PM
Should have done this with pirate heads.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: molecular on September 14, 2012, 03:43:54 PM
Should have done this with pirate heads.

mew


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Otoh on September 14, 2012, 08:32:10 PM
The OP states the venue as The Imperial (Hotel) but the main site lists the Royal National (Hotel), Russell Square - could someone please confirm which it is if they aren't the same & the exact address, Bedford Way? - Woburn Place? Many thanks.

Edit - seems that they are next door to each other with the main entrance on Woburn Place & secondary entries on Bedford Way, near Russell Square - so np I'll find it

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

I went to LARC way over in east London for 6pm but it was all shuttered up, I then went to The Royal National Hotel back where I'd left near by from & they know nothing of any Bitcoin event tonight or over the weekend - I looked around anyway & no sign of anything, I check my ticket & it says The Imperial Russell Square, so I go there & they say it's not being held there either but quite a few ppl have been in asking for it, they say it is at The National because they checked earlier for these other ppl, they try again to check for me if there's anything going on tonight or if it starts there tomorrow, the conference bar managers office is closed which they say means it's not happening tonight - is it just me or have there been experts in conference organisation at work here?

Edit: Whilst outside The National I also tried phoning molecular for info on his mobile (my Spanish to his German) but he didn't pick up.


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Post by: Stephen Gornick on September 14, 2012, 09:11:13 PM
The OP states the venue as The Imperial (Hotel) but the main site lists the Royal National (Hotel), Russell Square - could someone please confirm which it is if they aren't the same & the exact address, Bedford Way? - Woburn Place? Many thanks.


18:00 (6PM) at Antalya Restaurant. Directions: http://goo.gl/maps/P4hcb  Schedule: http://www.bitcoin2012.com/schedule

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/246370424743673857


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Otoh on September 14, 2012, 09:44:32 PM
The OP states the venue as The Imperial (Hotel) but the main site lists the Royal National (Hotel), Russell Square - could someone please confirm which it is if they aren't the same & the exact address, Bedford Way? - Woburn Place? Many thanks.


18:00 (6PM) at Antalya Restaurant. Directions: http://goo.gl/maps/P4hcb  Schedule: http://www.bitcoin2012.com/schedule

 - https://twitter.com/BitcoinConf2012/status/246370424743673857

I don't use twitter, I don't have a smart phone & the schedule has been changed since I looked at it & printed it out before traveling & I don't have much internet access atm - it would have been helpful if any of the threads had mentioned that the schedule was dynamic, I saw some references to some ppl meeting up at the Antalya Restaurant some time in the threads but assumed this was just a minority thing & that they were meeting to have an Indian not that it was the whole Friday evening venue.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: ydenys on September 14, 2012, 10:39:57 PM
Well, i had asked both genjix and nefario for a ticket when it still was £30. (just one, for myself). Amir, I assumed just to be shy, being bogged down with the Bitcoinica’s issues and me being quite vocal ex-customer, as he did not sell me one, (while actively trying to flog tickets via auctions/through other members with better reputations). Nefario simply ignored my request to sell/ask Amir to.

I’m local (Essex) and a retail business owner through my family since 1966. My wife has two hairdressing/beauty salons, one of which is in London. I’m both invested and interested in Bitcoin as a technology and a concept, supporting it as much as i can.

I’m certainly underwhelmed and can only hope I’ll be alone in that with next year’s London conference being better organised and have no such issues with the organisers themselves. I do not want London to take a hit as a venue place because of a few plonkers/criminals and some unrelated kerfuffle.

Also look forward to meeting some of the folks informally after the conference.


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: World on September 14, 2012, 10:47:30 PM
update  :D
Tony Gallippi CEO of BitPay speaking
http://twitter.com/BitcoinByte/status/246723539548381184/photo/1/large (http://twitter.com/BitcoinByte/status/246723539548381184/photo/1/large)

Josh of Butterfly Labs talks
http://twitter.com/BitcoinByte/status/246725359876337666 (http://twitter.com/BitcoinByte/status/246725359876337666)


Title: Re: Bitcoin Conference 2012- London 15-16 Sept | ANNOUNCEMENT sponsorship available!
Post by: Nefario on September 14, 2012, 10:51:29 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.

We had the evening meetup, and like 100 people came, probably more, the place was packed and the atmosphere was great.

Tomorrow is going to be fantastic.

ydenys, none of that is intentional if I didn't get back to you it's by accident, I get a lot of email and I don't always deal with them quickly.


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Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on September 14, 2012, 11:03:16 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).


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Post by: Nefario on September 14, 2012, 11:13:13 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).

Yeah, and there was a bitcoin cake. The cake is most certainly NOT a lie  :D


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Post by: SgtSpike on September 14, 2012, 11:24:19 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).

Yeah, and there was a bitcoin cake. The cake is most certainly NOT a lie  :D
They should have hidden a private key in it somewhere.


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Post by: Nefario on September 14, 2012, 11:26:37 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).

Yeah, and there was a bitcoin cake. The cake is most certainly NOT a lie  :D
They should have hidden a private key in it somewhere.

Hmm, an actual physical key with the private key etched on it.... what could go wrong?


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Post by: greyhawk on September 14, 2012, 11:40:41 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).

Yeah, and there was a bitcoin cake. The cake is most certainly NOT a lie  :D
They should have hidden a private key in it somewhere.

Hmm, an actual physical key with the private key etched on it.... what could go wrong?

I don't know. Are you going to take pictures of it? Because I certainly hope so.


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Post by: Nefario on September 14, 2012, 11:57:32 PM
Sorry for any miss understanding on locations some parts were not organised too well, but this is going to be awesome.
Definitely, awesome. More people than last year in Prague. Nice meeting you Nefario, also Michael Parsons (the guy who made the linked pictures, I was sitting right next to him).

Yeah, and there was a bitcoin cake. The cake is most certainly NOT a lie  :D
They should have hidden a private key in it somewhere.

Hmm, an actual physical key with the private key etched on it.... what could go wrong?

I don't know. Are you going to take pictures of it? Because I certainly hope so.

Of course not!

1) Taking a pic of the private key would....make it not so private
2) The cake is gone (went really fast)


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Post by: Timo Y on September 15, 2012, 12:39:27 AM
Great speech, Amir!


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Post by: Inaba on September 15, 2012, 01:08:19 AM
Just to remind everyone BFL will be having a drawing for one of our Bitforce Singles on Sunday as well as an auction for a prototype unreleased SuperSingle and a fully functional Mini-Rig. 

Stop by the BFL table to put your name into the hat for the drawing, but bring your bitcoins if you want to go home with shiny new Minirig or SuperSingle on Sunday!







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Post by: willphase on September 15, 2012, 11:17:07 AM
Good talks this morning especially by Mike on the future of bitcoin.

I'm buying bitcoin for cash if anyone wants to sell just pm me. :)

Will


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Post by: minorman on September 15, 2012, 12:09:40 PM
Good talks this morning especially by Mike on the future of bitcoin.

I'm buying bitcoin for cash if anyone wants to sell jus :)t pm me. :)

Will

Yep - mike's talk was great. Too bad for the bitcoiners who aren't in london...


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Post by: Nefario on September 15, 2012, 08:57:48 PM
Good talks this morning especially by Mike on the future of bitcoin.

I'm buying bitcoin for cash if anyone wants to sell jus :)t pm me. :)

Will

Yep - mike's talk was great. Too bad for the bitcoiners who aren't in london...

They really are missing out, really you can't put a price on this, it's not even the talks (which are mostly great) but being able to talk realtime, face to face with others. It's so efficient.


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Post by: lenny_ on September 16, 2012, 10:19:03 PM
I just got back home (I live 120miles away from London). Head still full of new future ideas and thoughts. This was fantastic conference and definitely I'm going to next one. BTW Friday social night (with Bitcoin cake!:P) in restaurant was the best ;)
Thanks for all of you to be there, it was pleasure to meet you people face to face.


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Post by: lonelyminer (Peter Šurda) on September 16, 2012, 11:04:27 PM
Mindblowing, inspirational and humbling to be in the presence of so many great minds. Thank you everyone!

Slightly offtopic: I asked Stallman if it's still GNU/Linux if I use busybox and uclibc (which are GPL/LGPL but not GNU), like my distro, shurdix. It looked like I managed to annoy him, but I'll remember the moment forever.


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Post by: greyhawk on September 16, 2012, 11:22:42 PM
Mindblowing, inspirational and humbling to be in the presence of so many great minds. Thank you everyone!

Slightly offtopic: I asked Stallman if it's still GNU/Linux if I use busybox and uclibc (which are GPL/LGPL but not GNU), like my distro, shurdix. It looked like I managed to annoy him, but I'll remember the moment forever.

Did he rip off and eat skin off his feet again?


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Post by: cst on September 16, 2012, 11:24:34 PM
Third! ;)

I personally had loads of fun during the whole weekend:) Already can't wait for next year.


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Post by: Inaba on September 17, 2012, 06:04:33 PM
I sat next to RMS for for several hours and overheard a few of his interactions with people.  I've never seen him before or attended any of his talks, but now I never plan to.  The guy is just a right dick.  Plain and simple, he is rude, obnoxious and so full of himself I wanted to tell him to stuff it up his ass and he wasn't even talking to me.  He has absolutely no social graces at all.


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Post by: lenny_ on September 17, 2012, 06:33:19 PM
I don't care if is he rude to people or not. I do care what he did already for our world.


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Post by: DeaDTerra on September 17, 2012, 06:52:06 PM
I sat next to RMS for for several hours and overheard a few of his interactions with people.  I've never seen him before or attended any of his talks, but now I never plan to.  The guy is just a right dick.  Plain and simple, he is rude, obnoxious and so full of himself I wanted to tell him to stuff it up his ass and he wasn't even talking to me.  He has absolutely no social graces at all.

Naw, I didn't know you where there :(
Otherwise I would have said hi :)
//DeaDTerra


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Post by: Inaba on September 17, 2012, 07:15:05 PM
Damn, you should have!  I had a great time and met a ton of interesting and awesome people. 


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Post by: HDSolar on September 17, 2012, 07:34:20 PM
Is anyone meeting up tonight?  I would like to meet a few people or whatever.  I've got a few things to take care of before the evening, but I'd definitely like to meet and greet anyone who's come early.


I've just arrived back home but could head out again for a little bit, if you want to meet up for a while thats cool.
Give a small public speaking & presentation about BitForce SC Jalapeno,BitForce SC Single,BitForce SC Mini Rig  :D

Did they give out sample coins :)  I hear they taste better then the old ones  :P


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Post by: 1455 on September 17, 2012, 09:13:09 PM
I sat next to RMS for for several hours and overheard a few of his interactions with people.  I've never seen him before or attended any of his talks, but now I never plan to.  The guy is just a right dick.  Plain and simple, he is rude, obnoxious and so full of himself I wanted to tell him to stuff it up his ass and he wasn't even talking to me.  He has absolutely no social graces at all.


Yeah, he behaved quite bad and had bad manners. Didn't like his appearance. But his speech and ideas were great, even though he probably held this speech a thousand times and you could find similar speeches of him in the internet. Even though I wouldn't like to hang out with this arrogant guy, it was good that he held his speech though.


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Post by: Nefario on September 17, 2012, 09:23:49 PM
RMS is getting old though, and judging by that tumor he calls a belly, won't be with us much longer.


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Post by: Nefario on September 17, 2012, 10:13:05 PM
... judging by that ... belly
It struck me during the conference how few overweight people were present. Despite presumably sitting at computers all day.

Too poor, can't buy food with bitcoin, we were all starving.


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Post by: c0ffer on September 17, 2012, 10:19:48 PM
Are there copies of any printed materials that have logos from sponsors printed on them available for those sponsors?

I hope my Tier 1 sponsorship exposure was worth my BTC ;)



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Post by: Nefario on September 17, 2012, 10:24:00 PM
Are there copies of any printed materials that have logos from sponsors printed on them available for those sponsors?

I hope my Tier 1 sponsorship exposure was worth my BTC ;)



A schedule was given out to eveyone who attended which had the logo's on the back.


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Post by: c0ffer on September 17, 2012, 11:21:44 PM
Are there any available for those of us who were only there in spirit? (To be sent by mail?)




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Post by: Nefario on September 17, 2012, 11:32:01 PM
Are there any available for those of us who were only there in spirit? (To be sent by mail?)

Heh, we didn't keep them. But maybe someone can upload a pic of one they have.


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Post by: Nefario on September 18, 2012, 01:46:51 AM
Interesting article already up, I think we're going to start seeing media trickle out now.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/printable-guns-grey-matters-and-masked-hackers


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Post by: molecular on September 18, 2012, 12:44:48 PM
... judging by that ... belly
It struck me during the conference how few overweight people were present. Despite presumably sitting at computers all day.

Too poor, can't buy food with bitcoin, we were all starving.

dude, just come to vladimirs garden, we're discussing economics and luxs is perparing awesome food on the grill ;)

https://i.imgur.com/GJZLDl.jpg (http://imgur.com/GJZLD)

(the lobster is still moving everytime someone mentions keynesian economics)


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Post by: apetersson on September 18, 2012, 12:46:30 PM
(the lobster is still moving everytime someone mentions keynesian economics)
do you give him a stimulus package?


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Post by: lumos on September 18, 2012, 02:18:04 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BDKUpvBWY8c/T1jxqbwwk4I/AAAAAAAABfc/dWd6J6EXbTc/s1600/pictures-of-flowers-09.jpg


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Post by: Nefario on September 18, 2012, 03:20:40 PM

YOURE BACK HAHAHAHA!!!!


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Post by: lumos on September 18, 2012, 05:34:41 PM
haha, i realised that back in the day you had actually asked me to do a logo for you :)


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Post by: Nefario on September 18, 2012, 05:58:49 PM
haha, i realised that back in the day you had actually asked me to do a logo for you :)

Too late, that ship has sailed.


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Post by: Grouver (BtcBalance) on September 18, 2012, 06:09:50 PM
I guess the first video that comes out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcr9ewg99LA

Oh and sorry for the VVS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA).


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Post by: Nefario on September 18, 2012, 06:40:11 PM
Just on the videos, we're going going to be looking at about a week to a week and 1/2 for the post production. Sound and video quality is pretty good.


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Post by: lenny_ on September 18, 2012, 06:40:59 PM
Great! Can't wait to see them.

Another video - Josh from BFL @ friday social night, Antalya restaurant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-smMzg54k


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Post by: molecular on September 18, 2012, 09:56:23 PM
I was going to post "CONFERENCE RALLY" to one of the rally!!!!!!-threads... but they're all locked :(


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Post by: Mushroomized on September 30, 2012, 12:49:16 AM
2013, do it in dc so I can come ;_;


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Post by: SaltySpitoon on September 30, 2012, 12:51:40 AM
2013, do it in dc so I can come ;_;

+1

Washington D.C is the location for BTC Conference 2013, pass it around.


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Post by: BitcoinINV on September 30, 2012, 01:00:03 AM
Yup everyone should start planing lol


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Post by: molecular on September 30, 2012, 04:59:00 PM
2013, do it in dc so I can come ;_;

+1

Washington D.C is the location for BTC Conference 2013, pass it around.

I like Helsinki better.


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Post by: Vladimir on September 30, 2012, 06:17:01 PM
Helsinki makes sense to me. I would prefer to fly to country whose politicians declare Bitcoin legal as opposed to "the land of ..." well... whatever that land is of now.



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Post by: muyuu on September 30, 2012, 06:37:22 PM
I don't see why would an American conference compete with a European one, provided there's some leeway between them. Bitcoin businesses would probably send someone to each. Asia should join too.


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Post by: jgarzik on September 30, 2012, 07:13:05 PM
I don't see why would an American conference compete with a European one, provided there's some leeway between them. Bitcoin businesses would probably send someone to each. Asia should join too.

+1

Would love to see a conference in China, or Hong Kong.



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Post by: Mushroomized on October 01, 2012, 01:29:52 AM
I don't see why would an American conference compete with a European one, provided there's some leeway between them. Bitcoin businesses would probably send someone to each. Asia should join too.

+1

Would love to see a conference in China, or Hong Kong.


Mitebcool. I only suggest dc jokingly, since I live so close.


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Post by: lenny_ on October 01, 2012, 08:51:29 AM
I don't see why would an American conference compete with a European one, provided there's some leeway between them. Bitcoin businesses would probably send someone to each. Asia should join too.

+1

Would love to see a conference in China, or Hong Kong.



+1

Maybe we can create pool, to choose - at first - continent - where conference should be?


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Post by: molecular on October 01, 2012, 09:34:35 AM
I don't see why would an American conference compete with a European one, provided there's some leeway between them. Bitcoin businesses would probably send someone to each. Asia should join too.

+1

Would love to see a conference in China, or Hong Kong.



+1

Maybe we can create pool, to choose - at first - continent - where conference should be?

I think the European Bitcoin Conference should be somewhere close to Europe.


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Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on October 01, 2012, 06:47:06 PM
Top places for a Bitcoin conference:

Second Life.
Sealand.
McKinney, TX.
Somalia.
Yap Island.
On a cruise ship, on international waters. (More serious on this one, lots of organizations charter cruises for themed conferences, only problem might be a higher ticket price but that should not be an issue for any of us once BTC price gets to $100+).


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Post by: Inaba on October 01, 2012, 06:48:34 PM
I vote McKinney TX... I hear there are a lot of bitcoins in those parts.


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Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on October 01, 2012, 06:52:46 PM
I vote McKinney TX... I hear there are a lot of bitcoins in those parts.

Oops I forgot to list Kansas City, MO, the historical birthplace for many future Bitcoins ;)


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Post by: World on October 02, 2012, 04:28:37 PM
Helsinki Finland made sense to me


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Post by: World on October 08, 2012, 01:47:48 PM
or Vienna Austria


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Post by: apetersson on October 08, 2012, 01:57:50 PM
hopefully we will have some discussion+info on possible locations in a few weeks. it is a bit early yet to promise anything. hold your horses please.


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Post by: deeplink on October 08, 2012, 02:00:41 PM
Nefario will probably have enough time to organize it after he's finished with the GLBSE-aftermath (unless he is in jail).

I'm sure the Intersango team will also be glad to help out again (unless someone killed them).


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Post by: LoupGaroux on October 08, 2012, 02:20:21 PM
How about the visitor's lounge at a neighborhood maximum security prison, since that is where most of the people behind the London Conference belong?


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Post by: deeplink on October 08, 2012, 02:22:40 PM
How about the visitor's lounge at a neighborhood maximum security prison, since that is where most of the people behind the London Conference belong?

Good to see I am not the only one with this strange kind of humor (or am I serious?).

I find it vaguely funny that many of the organisers of the last Bitcoin conference are now considered scammers by the community and are not communicating any more.

TBF is headed the same way imo


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Post by: LoupGaroux on October 08, 2012, 05:10:02 PM
Some of us thought they were scammers long before this conference. Some of us were appalled that Amir would be invited to speak at this event, and that intersango was permitted to continue to be such a high profile sponsor and integral part of this conference.

We were shouted down because it just wasn't fair or nice to the hardworking types who had invested so much time effort and stolen money into making such a swell gathering of the criminal minds.

Guess its just par for this particular crooked course that we now see that it was really just a den of thieves getting together to have a laugh on everybody else's nickel, and share trade secrets on how to fuck over the bitcoin community that much more efficiently.


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Post by: lumos on October 11, 2012, 07:42:33 PM
Some of us thought they were scammers long before this conference. Some of us were appalled that Amir would be invited to speak at this event, and that intersango was permitted to continue to be such a high profile sponsor and integral part of this conference.

We were shouted down because it just wasn't fair or nice to the hardworking types who had invested so much time effort and stolen money into making such a swell gathering of the criminal minds.

Guess its just par for this particular crooked course that we now see that it was really just a den of thieves getting together to have a laugh on everybody else's nickel, and share trade secrets on how to fuck over the bitcoin community that much more efficiently.

lol you retard, intersango organised the event and people chose to go


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Post by: LoupGaroux on October 11, 2012, 09:13:54 PM
Some of us thought they were scammers long before this conference. Some of us were appalled that Amir would be invited to speak at this event, and that intersango was permitted to continue to be such a high profile sponsor and integral part of this conference.

We were shouted down because it just wasn't fair or nice to the hardworking types who had invested so much time effort and stolen money into making such a swell gathering of the criminal minds.

Guess its just par for this particular crooked course that we now see that it was really just a den of thieves getting together to have a laugh on everybody else's nickel, and share trade secrets on how to fuck over the bitcoin community that much more efficiently.

lol you retard, intersango organised the event and people chose to go

Hey numbnuts! They didn't organize it, they donated money to it, and remained on the speaker's list after they fucked people out of a whole lot of money. Do a little study before you open up your pie hole and shove your feet into it. And "retard" is just so third grade, could you try a little harder if you want to sit at the big people's table?


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Post by: muyuu on October 11, 2012, 09:38:25 PM
Actually they did organise it.


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Post by: LoupGaroux on October 11, 2012, 10:26:11 PM
Well I guess I'm learning something new every day... from the amount that James nefario claimed credit for all the planning I assumed that he was the organizer. If it was the intersango jag bags, then I stand corrected, and am even more shocked that anybody attended this gathering of Ali Baba and his 40 thieves.


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Post by: muyuu on October 11, 2012, 10:34:37 PM
Well I guess I'm learning something new every day... from the amount that James nefario claimed credit for all the planning I assumed that he was the organizer. If it was the intersango jag bags, then I stand corrected, and am even more shocked that anybody attended this gathering of Ali Baba and his 40 thieves.

James used to work for Intersango as community manager (in his linkedin page he's still listed as such).


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Post by: lenny_ on October 12, 2012, 10:02:48 PM
Anyone knows about HD video recording which was taking place during conference? I found just one on GLBSE Blog, with Nefario. But what about others? There was couple of cameras out there, at least one camera-man was during ALL talks. Recording were published somewhere, maybe you guys know?


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Post by: deeplink on October 13, 2012, 02:43:07 PM
Anyone knows about HD video recording which was taking place during conference? I found just one on GLBSE Blog, with Nefario. But what about others? There was couple of cameras out there, at least one camera-man was during ALL talks. Recording were published somewhere, maybe you guys know?

Dunno about HD, but there is some video here

http://pinterest.com/existingkiwi/bitcoin2012/


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Post by: lenny_ on October 13, 2012, 09:38:49 PM
Anyone knows about HD video recording which was taking place during conference? I found just one on GLBSE Blog, with Nefario. But what about others? There was couple of cameras out there, at least one camera-man was during ALL talks. Recording were published somewhere, maybe you guys know?

Dunno about HD, but there is some video here

http://pinterest.com/existingkiwi/bitcoin2012/


Thanks!


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Post by: molecular on October 17, 2012, 10:45:08 AM
Anyone knows about HD video recording which was taking place during conference? I found just one on GLBSE Blog, with Nefario. But what about others? There was couple of cameras out there, at least one camera-man was during ALL talks. Recording were published somewhere, maybe you guys know?

I recorded most of the talks in the small room. I'm waiting for the TASCAM audio, because what my microphone picked up is unusable (back of room). My raw material is 720p.

Also, here's some releases from the other guys I found on youtube:

  • Bitcoin capital markets Nefario bitcoin conference 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPD_YSQ--k)
  • Bitcoin 2012 London: Juri Mattila (legal aspects of Bitcoin) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJdkHt3VQY)
  • Bitcoin 2012 London: Max Keiser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEHIOi8iXqE)
  • Bitcoin 2012 London: Mike Hearn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA)
  • Bitcoin 2012 London: Richard Stallman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM)
  • Jeff Garzik 'State of the Coin 2012' Bitcoin 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llKedWKdvU8)
  • Marek Palatinus (slush): The Future of pooled mining Bitcoin conference 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7POTBsvETWE)
  • Eli Sklar "Bitcoin as a stepping stone for the moneyless society" Bitcoin conference 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pDgQ7pv-cvg)

great work, guys!


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Post by: MPOE-PR on October 29, 2012, 10:19:30 PM
Well I guess I'm learning something new every day... from the amount that James nefario claimed credit for all the planning I assumed that he was the organizer. If it was the intersango jag bags, then I stand corrected, and am even more shocked that anybody attended this gathering of Ali Baba and his 40 thieves.

Someone actually went?!