Hello Everyone,

My name is Ryan and I am excited to announce that I will be organizing the Mastercoin meetups for three major US west coast cities.

If you are a Mastercoin enthusiast, developer, merchant, or consumer in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego, I urge you to join one of our meetups and partake in some seriously awesome networking events. I intend for these meetups to be a local platform where everyone's voice is heard surrounding relevant topics to the Mastercoin community. As of right now everything is still in its planning stages. It is my hope that during the month of December each of these three meetups will begin to fill with members. I am aiming for the first actual in-person meetups to begin in early January.

Join us to create the future of Mastercoin while having fun and meeting new lifelong friends! Details for each city are below.

San Francisco & Silicon Valley Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-San-Francisco-Silicon-Valley-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

I am hoping to get 20+ masterminds to attend this first meetup in the Bay Area. I am taking all suggestions on venues that would best accommodate a group of that size along with deciding on a geographical location that benefits everyone looking to attend. If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. In the past three years, I have lived in both San Mateo and Mountain View. I have attended quite a few networking events and meetups while also attending Draper University (a school for entrepreneurs). I feel like a great meetup is one in which everyone's voice is heard and that also has an optional social hour after the meetup.

Los Angeles Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-Los-Angeles-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 11th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

I am hoping to get 20+ masterminds to attend this first meetup in the greater Los Angeles area. It would be great to gauge how many of you will be coming from the city and how many from the Silicon Beach area. What are some great venues for these types of networking events? What are the best areas of the city that are easiest to access for everyone? If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. Everyone will have a voice at this meetup surrounding topics that we choose together.

San Diego Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-San-Diego-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

San Diego is where I currently reside. Although it is a smaller tech community as compared to the Bay Area and Los Angeles, I am hoping at least 10 or more masterminds attend this first meetup. I figured Filter Coffee House in Hillcrest would be a great central location for everyone to meet at. If there are any objections to this, please voice them. If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. Everyone will have a voice at this meetup surrounding topics that we choose together.

Not in one of these three cities?
No problem! Contact me (my information is below) and let's discuss getting your own chapter started. Since Mastercoin meetups are just starting, there is room for everyone to become involved in a major way! If you are a future-minded Mastercoin adopter and do not want your city to get left in the dust, let's join forces and make sure starting your own local chapter is a breeze.

Thanks Everyone!

My contact information:

Ryan@livelyfeed.com
Skype: ryan.keenan.11

Hello Everyone,

My name is Ryan and I am excited to announce that I will be organizing the Mastercoin meetups for three major US west coast cities.
("What is Mastercoin?": http://www.newfination.com/2013/11/25/what-is-mastercoin-a-talk-with-executive-director-ron-gross/4982/)

If you are a Mastercoin enthusiast, developer, merchant, or consumer in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, or San Diego, I urge you to join one of our meetups and partake in some seriously awesome networking events. I intend for these meetups to be a local platform where everyone's voice is heard surrounding relevant topics to the Mastercoin community. As of right now everything is still in its planning stages. It is my hope that during the month of December each of these three meetups will begin to fill with members. I am aiming for the first actual in-person meetups to begin in early January.

Join us to create the future of Mastercoin while having fun and meeting new lifelong friends! Details for each city are below.

San Francisco & Silicon Valley Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-San-Francisco-Silicon-Valley-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

I am hoping to get 20+ masterminds to attend this first meetup in the Bay Area. I am taking all suggestions on venues that would best accommodate a group of that size along with deciding on a geographical location that benefits everyone looking to attend. If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. In the past three years, I have lived in both San Mateo and Mountain View. I have attended quite a few networking events and meetups while also attending Draper University (a school for entrepreneurs). I feel like a great meetup is one in which everyone's voice is heard and that also has an optional social hour after the meetup.

Los Angeles Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-Los-Angeles-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 11th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

I am hoping to get 20+ masterminds to attend this first meetup in the greater Los Angeles area. It would be great to gauge how many of you will be coming from the city and how many from the Silicon Beach area. What are some great venues for these types of networking events? What are the best areas of the city that are easiest to access for everyone? If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. Everyone will have a voice at this meetup surrounding topics that we choose together.

San Diego Mastercoin Meetup
Link: http://www.meetup.com/Mastercoin-San-Diego-Meetup/
First Scheduled Meetup: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 ; 2PM-4PM

San Diego is where I currently reside. Although it is a smaller tech community as compared to the Bay Area and Los Angeles, I am hoping at least 10 or more masterminds attend this first meetup. I figured Filter Coffee House in Hillcrest would be a great central location for everyone to meet at. If there are any objections to this, please voice them. If you are planning to join us, please feel free to suggest topics of discussion that you would like addressed. Everyone will have a voice at this meetup surrounding topics that we choose together.

Not in one of these three cities?
No problem! Contact me (my information is below) and let's discuss getting your own chapter started. Since Mastercoin meetups are just starting, there is room for everyone to become involved in a major way! If you are a future-minded Mastercoin adopter and do not want your city to get left in the dust, let's join forces and make sure starting your own local chapter is a breeze.

Thanks Everyone!

My contact information:

Ryan@livelyfeed.com
Skype: ryan.keenan.11

Hello! I am organizing Mastercoin meetups on the west coast of the US and hopefully eventually managing them around the World. I am here on the forums to help others and spread information that I think may be of interest to the Bitcoin community along with share news that has not already been brought here.

Thank You!
Ryan Keenan
Skype: ryan.keenan.11

Ha very true! I would love to buy a new Model S in Bitcoin! What a great feeling that would be!

Please add me on Skype. I would love to suggest a few ideas. ryan.keenan.11 - Legit guy here. http://www.linkedin.com/in/rykeenan/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-06/bitcoin-meets-tesla-in-california-dealership-model-s-transaction.html

So now that Bitcoin has been used officially for the purchase of a new Tesla Model S (how futuristic does that sentence sound?), do you think other brands will follow suit? Is Bitcoin still too volatile for these types of transactions to be occuring already? I certainly hope the Tesla dealer sold their Bitcoins they received before the market crashed a bit! Is this just a PR stunt? I notice Baidu and now Tesla accepting bitcoins has created quite the PR rush leading to many others taking notice. Who has backed both of these companies and is likely heavily invested into Bitcoin? Tim Draper.

I think this is the beginning of very great things to come. Bitcoin is here to stay whether Chinese banks want to admit it or not.

~MCRyan