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August 25, 2015, 07:55:16 AM
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Have you guys ever attended any bitcoin meetup? What do you usually discuss about?

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August 25, 2015, 08:37:24 AM
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Yes. I recently helped organize our first meetup in my city in southern Spain. Since it was only our first meetup we mostly introduced ourselves and got to know everyone's journey into Bitcoin (and crypto in general). The group was small, but very diverse - just like the Bitcoin community.

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August 25, 2015, 08:58:57 AM
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yes, i have attended meetup.
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August 25, 2015, 09:18:29 AM
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Never been to an actual meetup but I've been in a skype conference call about bitcoin for many times now. As of this moment, we're planning to hold one on the 15th of September, but I'm not sure whether it will take place or not because some of the prominent members of our group do have some affairs at that time.

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August 25, 2015, 09:31:06 AM
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Have you guys ever attended any bitcoin meetup? What do you usually discuss about?
No, I haven't and will not.
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August 25, 2015, 12:57:59 PM
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yes, once in europe. never again

it was a room infested with damn wannabe yuppies. i wish was more underground / hackish / fuck the system
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August 25, 2015, 01:00:45 PM
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I wasn't in a bitcoin meetup yet. But I was once in room 77 in Berlin, chill place and few bitcoin folks there. I wished there were bigger bitcoin meetups/conferences in Germany.
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August 25, 2015, 01:10:32 PM
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It is not so easy, BTC users are from all the world, how can they meet ? Mostly from USA, by the way  Grin
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August 25, 2015, 01:13:13 PM
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It is not so easy, BTC users are from all the world, how can they meet ? Mostly from USA, by the way  Grin

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August 25, 2015, 01:14:29 PM
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I've been to a couple of meet ups here in Melbourne. Didn't really talk about anything though because both were for bitcoin documentary launches. I had a good time.
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August 25, 2015, 01:15:30 PM
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If you don't live in bigger cities like London, Paris, New York, these meet-ups are waste of time in my opinion. You can't have big and quality speakers, so this means nobody will come from the audience.

I have never been in one such event. There are none close to where I live. And I would only wanna go to the major ones anyways.
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August 25, 2015, 01:15:36 PM
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It is not so easy, BTC users are from all the world, how can they meet ? Mostly from USA, by the way  Grin

You can organize a  meetup on meetup.com. But the difficult part is to find a location to host the actually meetup, you may need some money to buy food and drinks and other important stuff for a meetup.
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August 25, 2015, 01:24:22 PM
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If you don't live in bigger cities like London, Paris, New York, these meet-ups are waste of time in my opinion. You can't have big and quality speakers, so this means nobody will come from the audience.

I have never been in one such event. There are none close to where I live. And I would only wanna go to the major ones anyways.

I don't disagree, but they aren't a complete waste of time. Linking up with other Bitcoiners in your area is good for local trading among other things.

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August 25, 2015, 01:33:24 PM
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Not only have I been to a couple meetup in my area I volunteered to be a speaker at an upcoming Denver meetup and I just joined the new Boulder area meetup.

Colorado Bitcoin Society Monthly Meetup
Monday, September 14, 2015
6:00 PM
Southern Hospitality, 1433 17th Street, Denver
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http://www.burtw.com/speaking-schedule--new-.html

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We expect the talk to lead into an extensive question and answer session and the discussion of the subjects:  Bitcoins, localbitcoins.com, law enforcement tactics, the law, licenses, civil asset forfeiture, the prison system, the justice system, homeland security, the patriot act, surveillance, etc.  All of which happened to him personally.

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August 25, 2015, 02:58:02 PM
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Nope, but I would love to go to one.
But I doubt that in my country, the meet ups happen or not. BTW I'm from India.
Don't think that meet ups happen here because in my friend circle, only one person knows about Bitcoin, so it's a long way to go.

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August 25, 2015, 04:08:58 PM
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Nope, but I would love to go to one.
But I doubt that in my country, the meet ups happen or not. BTW I'm from India.
Don't think that meet ups happen here because in my friend circle, only one person knows about Bitcoin, so it's a long way to go.

http://www.meetup.com/IndiaBitcoin/

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August 25, 2015, 09:11:58 PM
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Yes, I went to one meetup. It wasn't very interesting, though. There were some people very supportive of BTC in the assistance, but the speaker was much more of a critic. I still think of meetups as a good idea, they're certainly useful, but don't go there as I did only because it's a BTC meetup. Check what will be the subject(s), and who will speak.

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August 25, 2015, 11:32:47 PM
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No and I don't think I would. Every time adults gather around a common interest things tend to get a bit weird.
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August 25, 2015, 11:45:08 PM
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Have you guys ever attended any bitcoin meetup? What do you usually discuss about?
I did not, its too much hastle. Bitcoin "live" in internet, we can discuss it and collaborate in internet only Smiley.
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August 26, 2015, 12:25:17 AM
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I haven't yet because the nearest ones are 6 hrs away by bus and ferry. I believe there was one in my town year or two ago but had dissapointing turn out.
My town has pretentions as a tech hub but it's also got a hippy tradition, so while there are a good number of tech savvy people here they still manage to be anti-technocracy. Microsoft came and opened a hub here a few years ago and wound up shuttering the operation inside 6 months. You can't force tech hub on a place, you just have to find where the hub already is and then go there.
That place is 6 hours away.
That said, I occasionally visit that city. I'm on their mailing list. They have regular monthly meet ups and they always look pretty cool. There is a lot of btc activity and interest there.
I intend to try and attend next time I visit. The bitcoiners I have met in my town are so apathetic, it would be nice to meet some enthusiastic bitcoiners for a change
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