Bitcoin conference coverage by Smoothie

[chsados]

One other thing that I forgot to mention is there appears to be a slew of non "bitcoiner" type people at this conference.

For example: as I was passing one of the booths a guy pulled out a gold foil covered chocolate bitcoin and proceeded to indicate that that was a bitcoin. And I responded politely no that's just chocolate covered in gold foil shaped liked a physical bitcoin.

We have new people. Very healthy thing for bitcoin.

They were giving these out at another booth. I took one.

It's true. There are a ton of new people. More importantly there are actually women now- indeed many booths have bitcoin companies with diverse team members and many conference attendee's are also women. Very good sign things are in a good direction.

Now if only the men there would stop insisting that there need to be prostitutes, strippers and show girls in order to be "complete", this conference might not be a total flop.

Well technically I only heard 1 man do this.

Yea I know, but having worked with a lot of the guys running booths there for 2 years now, I'm actually surprised there wasn't already a "Bitcoin beauty pageant" in the lineup.

Wait, weren't you the one who convinced some korean chick to post pics for bitcoins a while back? 

[tvbcof]

More people need to write their forum handles on their name tags.

I did, and I will tomorrow as well.

[cypherdoc]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year. 

[smoothie]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year.  

You here at the conference?

[odolvlobo]

I was expecting that some crazy person would start ranting and raving about government conspiracies or something during a Q&A at a developer session.

I was not disappointed. Mike Hearn was too patient.


Then there was someone that asked in two different sessions about what would happen if there were a bug in the protocol, and bitcoin collapsed, and the world came to an end, and, and, and, ...
Gavin's response was "You worry too much!"

[smoothie]

I was expecting that some crazy person would start ranting and raving about government conspiracies or something during a Q&A at a developer session.

I was not disappointed. Mike Hearn was too patient.


Then there was someone that asked in two different sessions about what would happen if there were a bug in the protocol, and bitcoin collapsed, and the world came to an end, and, and, and, ...
Gavin's response was "You worry too much!"

I was there for both of those. The first was a guy sitting in the front row. The second was an Asian guy on the mic.

[cypherdoc]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year.  

You here at the conference?

yep.  got my handle on my badge.

[smoothie]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year.  

You here at the conference?

yep.  got my handle on my badge.

Cool. Let me know if you wanna meet up.

My username is on front and back of my shirt. 

[cypherdoc]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year.  

You here at the conference?

yep.  got my handle on my badge.

Cool. Let me know if you wanna meet up.

My username is on front and back of my shirt. 

Well, it's not like anyone would want to meet the forum's Master Troll.

I mean, I might have to punch you in the nose.

But otoh,

I... Can't... Help... Myself...

PM sent!

[smoothie]

Day two was awesome.

Tons of topics and information. It's so big you can't attend all sessions.

What I keep having to be reminded is that bitcoin is an experiment and nothing is a sure thing.

Many of what is going on is uncharted waters. A roller coaster if you will.

Doing things right the first time is a good approach. Jeff G mentioned the development of bitcoin is extremely slow given it affects so many even with simple changes to the code.

smoothie, where u at boy?

i keep lookin' over my shoulder for a little fruit drink to poke me in the ass, much like over the last year.  

You here at the conference?

yep.  got my handle on my badge.

Cool. Let me know if you wanna meet up.

My username is on front and back of my shirt.  

Well, it's not like anyone would want to meet the forum's Master Troll.

I mean, I might have to punch you in the nose.

But otoh,

I... Can't... Help... Myself...

PM sent!

Lol get ready to join the dark side mahahahaha...j/k  

Reply sent!

[Jobe7]

One other thing that I forgot to mention is there appears to be a slew of non "bitcoiner" type people at this conference.

For example: as I was passing one of the booths a guy pulled out a gold foil covered chocolate bitcoin and proceeded to indicate that that was a bitcoin. And I responded politely no that's just chocolate covered in gold foil shaped liked a physical bitcoin.

We have new people. Very healthy thing for bitcoin.

They were giving these out at another booth. I took one.

hahahahaha

Excellent updates, thanks OP You get a +1 karma point

[kevcoins]

Did anyone see Josh and ask him about the butterfly miners or Yifu on his Avalon Chip shipment?

[crazy_rabbit]

Did anyone see Josh and ask him about the butterfly miners or Yifu on his Avalon Chip shipment?

Yep. They are pretty humble about how things turns out. Avalon labs guy is here too. Pretty funny guy, just casually taking over the world. :-)

[cypherdoc]

So I walk into the tech session looking for the guy with turquoise shirt. You have two choices:

1. A short, wimpy, nerdy guy with a beard and thick black glasses. Classic geek.
2. A big, thick  handsome guy with a great tan and someone you wouldn't dare punch in the nose.

Which do you choose as smoothie?

[batcoin]

So I walk into the tech session looking for the guy with turquoise shirt. You have two choices:

1. A short, wimpy, nerdy guy with a beard and thick black glasses. Classic geek.
2. A big handsome guy with a great tan and someone you wouldn't dare punch in the nose.

Which do you choose as smoothie?

Shouldn't this be a poll?

Edit: But my guess would be a big fat number two!

[cypherdoc]

So I walk into the tech session looking for the guy with turquoise shirt. You have two choices:

1. A short, wimpy, nerdy guy with a beard and thick black glasses. Classic geek.
2. A big handsome guy with a great tan and someone you wouldn't dare punch in the nose.

Which do you choose as smoothie?

Shouldn't this be a poll?

Build one and they will come.

Since it is smoothie after all .

[simonk83]

Does anyone have a youtube of Gavin's speech?

I'd love to see some pictures of forum users as well (especially Smoothie ).  Always good to put a face to the name.

[smoothie]

Indeed I would be curious of the results of a poll lol

[smoothie]

Alt chain panel was interesting:

Crazy rabbit and Coblee in my opinion did great. The FRC and ripple reps in my view did not. Lots of unanswered questions on their "currency" of choice.

FRC coin supply is in the hands of a few. Same for ripple.

Ripple is a company. It has a booth here at the conference. It claims it is decentralized and soon to be open sourced.

My main question to ripple supporters is what is to stop a government from going to their office(s) and shutting their system down?

[wumpus]

Ripple is a company. It has a booth here at the conference. It claims it is decentralized and soon to be open sourced.

They have been 'soon to be open sourced' since the beginning, I wonder for how long they can still convincingly use that statement.