Bitcoin 2022 Conference

[OmegaStarScream]

See this interview with the Director of Marketing (see 9:38)[1]. Apparently, there are quite a few things to be excited about.

Any guesses on the country adopting bitcoin as a legal tender next? It doesn't look like it's going to be Honduras[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgOwwJqlww&t=705s
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5390695.msg59620688#msg59620688

[Wind_FURY]

Pretty much nothing related to other cryptocurrencies or the smart-contract market. Not even about NFTs.

The only connect with real world applications that i see is about Options and derivatives and "Future of Financial Forecasting". Whatever that implies for Bitcoin is beyond me so it should be interesting.

While the lineup is definitely impressive, this does seem like old wine in a new bottle. There should at least be an exclusive session regarding the ETF rejections and SECs role, rather than the usual belligerence about "Is fiat money worth it".

The Lightning Network has real world applications too. It's the biggest real world application that's built on Bitcoin right now, and it could be more than just be an off-chain layer for "cheaper/faster transactions". Its development since boot-strapping is slow though. The exchanges need to support it, and Bitcoin companies should form a Lightning business development team to work with it.

From the topics, it seems clear that the organizers are not betting on a mixed future of Bitcoin plus smart-contract based applications. I am not sure if that is pragmatic or just sort of cultist.

You will like Paul Sztorc's talk.

[fillippone]

Today is the day!
The conference is kicking off today with a tight agenda.
You can follow the livestreams from here:

	Main Stage (Nakamoto Stage)	Mining Stage

[aysg76]

This biggest bitcoin confrence has been the sparkling event and in spotlight from many months and finally the day has arrived when it's going to kick off with first warm welcome on Nakamoto stage in respect to the person who has made it possible to connect all of us through bitcoin.The advertising was very well in Miami and this could be only possible if you have crypto friendly Mayor like Francis who wants to make it bitcoin hub.

Was seeing some banners in Subway stations with actually having deep meaning to tell the people reality about bitcoin like you could see in this one :



See you could buy bitcoin in fraction which many people ignore like stacking sats is not possible and invest in shitcoins so they need to check out it.

Speaking of the conference in Miami then it's better that each segment is already managed over particular days with so many influential people to have discussion with like Saylor and Cathie Wood who will present the actual picture to the world.

FUN ACTIVITIES

Apart from these discussions there are plenty of other things that are associated with this Miami confrence like on 10^th there is Music show event for the music lovers

Although the conference itself concludes on the 9th, Bitcoin 2022 Miami isn’t quite over. On the 10th, conference-goers can also attend Sound Money Fest – a BTC-centric music festival with performances by Steve Aoki, Logic, Run The Jewels, Deadmau5, and many more.

The Bitcoin Bazaar is a peer-to-peer marketplace that is 100% powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Over 40 different merchants will sell antiques, home goods, books, comics, clothing, art, jewelry, electronics, watches, and more. There is also an eSports arena, and the venue will have a Bitcoin 2022 Miami Volcano sponsored by Cash App.

Check out here for more details

I’m really interested to see what, if any, positive news comes from Jack Mallers on April 7th.
Last year he announced that El Salvador were to become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, through Strike & the Lightning Network. I do wonder & hole that something similar is revealed next week. Rumours going round are that Honduras will follow & become the second country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. There are also whispers that Apple will use bitcoin as payment in the App Store. Jack has even been teasing by wearing an Apple cap lately.

Have eyes on all the things that will kick off some new whisper in the market after this conference in Miami and yes Jack might be announcing something good as his strike app is now being officially used in El Salvador with LN integration.The president is also there who will tell how well the country is going after adopting btc as legal tender and don't give a fuck about the supressing policies of IMF.

Maybe Bukele also announced the exact date for the issuance of bitcoin bonds for the bitcoin city in El Salvador as recently it was delayed due to some internal discrepancies of goverment.

[cheezcarls]

Can’t afford to go there now. But hopefully next year if I’m lucky enough to have a big portfolio. It’s one of my goals and dreams to attend a Bitcoin Conference to be honest in order to meet some of the best of the best personalities and speakers in the crypto space.

[fillippone]

FUN ACTIVITIES
 

What about riding a bull and winning a bitcoin?



Confirmed by my spies on the ground.


Credits Cryptolorenzo

[noormcs5]

Would be interesting to find out if the planned conference is more than a publicity program to attract more Bitcoin users to their platform.

The motive aside however, it could be agteaf way for more people to learn about Bitcoin and how it actually works, there are some speakers listed there who I personally follow on social media and who spread credible content related to cryptocurrencies and not just hype to get followers excited.

Bitcoin 2022 Conference would be an exciting event and those who will attend it live at Miami will be lucky ones.
I heard a few of the crypto youtubers saying that because of this conference from APR 6 to 9, there could be a lot of volatility in bitcoin prices. Since this conference will have a positive impact on bitcoin, we can say that this bitcoin volatility will only be in the upward direction. We can long bitcoin from here with 5 to 10x leverage safely ?

[fillippone]

You can follow live updates and coverage trough my friends at bitcoinitaliapodcast.it (in English too, of course, if you can’t speak 🤌ðŸ�»).

[fillippone]

Sadly, president Bukele won’t be able to be present at the conference



Here the full letter:

[padrino]

It’s been a while since I last signed on but will be at the conference this week, looking at catching up with some old colleagues and meeting many more for the first time… Its crazy to see how things have grown over the years…

[famososMuertos]

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a real pity, it was exciting to know that a speaker from the region and one of the most anticipated speakers was  Bukelee, perhaps the main one, if you will allow me with the forgiveness of the other great posters that are announced.

This is practically a last minute suspension, the news is barely reflected in some media.

Edit:
maybe schedule video conference...

[fillippone]

This is practically a last minute suspension, the news is barely reflected in some media.

Hey! This is a thread of mine! Only timely informations and insiders from the ground! Top notch quality! 😉

It’s been a while since I last signed on but will be at the conference this week, looking at catching up with some old colleagues and meeting many more for the first time… Its crazy to see how things have grown over the years…

Well, if you have some “behind the scene material! Happy to hear from you!”

[Zlantann]

Although I am not in the conference but I am receiving live updates. President's Bukele's sudden suspension of his appearance is very disappointing because he was indeed the main keynote speaker. His address would have been a cryto lecture for other nations that are nursing the vision of adopting Bitcoin. He would have shamed and disproved all those economists and financial analysts that predicted that Venezuela would collapse because of his radical and innovative decision.

Nevertheless, his letter was brief but powerful. He emphasized on the goals of Bitcoin with is freedom and decentralization. Bukele's also informed us that we fight for freedom, hence every Bitcoin supporter must become a freedom fighter. Hopefully, by next year I will attend and I predict that 5 presidents would be our keynote speakers. Please enjoy the conference.

[fillippone]

I have a thing with that bitcoin bull:
That is the top chart.

I think it is quite an easy feat for a professional bull rider!

[fillippone]

Finally, we got to the conference big event.

Jack Mallers announced his King's Gambit:


Jack Mallers’ Strike Announces Shopify Integration for Bitcoin Lightning Payments

MIAMI — Strike CEO Jack Mallers unveiled a litany of high-powered partnerships for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami on Thursday – including an integration with ecommerce giant Shopify.
“You’re gonna be able to walk into” millions of American storefronts that plug into the payments stalwarts and pay across the Lightning Network.
Mallers said Strike partnered with NCR (NCR), the world’s largest point-of-sale (POS) supplier, and payments firm Blackhawk.

Here's the video:

[Zlantann]

Some highlights of the conference

Speakers/Comments

Declaring the Bitcoin Conference open Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced that his vision for bitcoin is to spread its adoption. He also stated that the next President of US should be a bitcoin supporter.  Mike Novogratz, Galaxy Digital's CEO made the first bitcoin price prediction of the conference. He predicted that it would go to $1 million. He also mentioned that bitcoin's is acceptability around the world is increasing and it serves as a reliable store of value.

Peter Thiel the cofounder of Paypal started his speech by throwing a few dollar bills into the crowd. When someone picked the dollar bills, he felt disappointed and stated that he taught everyone in the conference is supposed to be bitcoin maximalists. He predicted that bitcoin would replace gold and that price will rise 100X. He called Warren Buffet an enemy number and a sociopathic grandpa.

The CEO of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor who recently purchased a $190 million worth of cryptocurrencies stated that the US government new executive order on cryptocurrencies amounted to giving the green light to bitcoin. This is inline with my post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5389308.msg59495447#. His main message was don't sell your bitcoin. Dave Portnoy the founder of Barstool Sports unveiled that he holds 29 bitcoins and has no plan to sell them.

Four billionaires ( Dan Tapiero, Ricardo Salinas, Orlando Bravo and Marcle Claude) from the conference's Billionaire Capital Allocators Panel hosted by Greg Foss agreed that bitcoin is the best way to maintain wealth and its going to be a global reserve asset replacing the dollars. But before the interview started Foss warned his panelist that bitcoin is not shitcoin, therefore no other cryptocurrencies should be discussed.

Some international sports stars like Aaron Rodgers, Serena Williams and Odell Beckham were panelists in a section coordinated by Mikes Suter who is the CEO of the 12.3 Billion dollars worth Cash App. Aaron Rodgers the Green Bay Packers quarterback who invested $22.4 million on cryptocurrencies unveiled that the best defence against inflation is bitcoin. While Odell Beckham Jr. disclosed that there is still much to learn from the bitcoin industry and he advised future investors to grab the opportunities bitcoin offers.

News on Nation-state adopting Bitcoin.

The President of the autonomous region of Madeira in Portugal stated that he believes in the future and the future is bitcoin. While the President of Prospera in Honduras declared that bitcoin will become a legal tender on the island. Senator Indira Kempis predicted that bitcoin would soon become a legal tender in Mexico.


https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bitcoin-2022-news-live-btc-price-crypto-b2050336.html

[fillippone]

A live report from a fellow “WOer” about the conference.
If you have similar experience, please share it!

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Today I was at the Bitcoin 2022 conference!  

I'll summarize some of my experiences, I just got home.  I woke up early and drove over since I had no idea how the parking situation (etc.) would be.  At 7:15 in the morning, the parking garage across the street from the MB Convention Center was mostly vacant (they do have lots of conferences and conventions there).  Doors opened at 8:00 AM, and the lines moved pretty quickly.  They gave each of us a Swag Bag, one item in there (discussed below, second item) turned out to be a really nice gift.

• I was mostly interested in hardware wallets, I picked up a BitBox02 (BTC Only Edition) and a Trezor Model T (Trezor tossed in a t-shirt).  I went ahead and bought them there so I would not appear on any HACKED mailing lists...
• In the swag bag, it turned out that there was a FREE Arculus hardware wallet, although I did not note that at first.  When I dropped by their booth, they told me that yes, it was free for the first 25,000 who had registered for the show.  So, lucky me.  I asked them about one doubt I had (3FA), as I have next-to-no fingerprints (which amused TSA to no end when I applied for "Trusted Traveler" airline status), and they told me that in Settings facial picture and fingerprints can be turned off.
• I also went by BitPay's booth to ask them some questions.  They told me about their rollout of Lightning, but (maybe I didn't understand correctly) that it would be months to a year or so before it was ready for use.  BitPay kindly gave me a 1 oz silver coin!  It has the BTC logo and all, says .999 silver and in small writing along the rim mentions BitPay.  I signed on with BitPay about Nov 2020 as they had just released a debit card which allowed me to sell some BTC should I want (but I joined Gemini in Jan 2021 to be able to sell moar).  Hey!  That silver coin is worth a bit over $24, so I think that was pretty decent of them...
• There were a LOT of financial this-and-that companies, which didn't interest me as I am not involved with any institutions, but there is a lot of activity in those sectors
• There were also a lot of mining-related companies including mining machines, Bitmain's new high-powered miners, also Bitmain has their own new technology using a [different] kind of cooling systems (not immersion) that allows 210 or so miners into their 20' container next to a similar sized cooling tower...
• I did not get a chance to go see any speakers, as I only had today, tomorrow we are traveling.  Nor did I catch any of the "Announcements" so I don't know at the moment if anything important was, well, announced.  Trezor has some kind of announcement tomorrow (maybe their upcoming chip?), but their man at their booth did not know what the announcement would be, or perhaps wouldn't say...
• Over at Bobby Lee's Ballet booth, they gave me a free book by him (The Promise of Bitcoin) which he graciously autographed for me, I believe Saifedean Ammous was signing his book as well, but the line was very long and I didn't have all that much time.
• I also visited Wasabi Wallet's booth, actually that was my first stop.  The man (not nopara73) gave me some of their rationale re their decision not to accept "certain" UTXOs in their CoinJoin service.  It sounded plausible, in that it looks like it will be for a very limited number of cases (announced thefts of BTC and so on).  Plausible, I did not feel like grilling him.

Miami is just starting get warm in early April.  It's probably worthwhile for many HODLers to find their way to one of these conferences (tickets are expensive, but there was a $300 discount for payment by BTC).  They do have parties (and loud music outside) for all you young 'uns.

I missed last year's show, but I had gone to a couple of BTC shows in Miami a few years ago.  As you would expect, it's a much larger deal now.  For those employed in BTC-related jobs, it's a must going.


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[mildmanneredsuffering]

I hope someone with a level head at the conference discusses the fact that bitcoin was made as an answer to the disgusting organized crime of the central banks.  Founders of USA knew that central bankers like hyenas could not help themselves from destroying nation by devastating cycles of inflation and deflation

Well America and many western ( WHITE ) nations were taken over by jewish organized crime viai an unlawful central bank.

So Bitcoin was to be the answer. But Bitcoin too is wrecking people with its massive booms and busts that are the tool of organized banking criminals.

IF bitcoin is going to have a place in the future it can not be a tool for jews to rob people. IF it continues to be a tool for secret socieites and jewish organized crime to rob the masses, it is just as evil as their central bank scam.

Our countries are being destroyed by jewish organized crime and their courts and central banks., they are opening our borders to hordes of monsterous third worlers, destroying our economies and way of life to enrich the jews at the expense of white people.

Bitcoin must be shut down if it is a tool for crime against white nations

[darkv0rt3x]

I was happy to see yesterday the governor of autonomous region of Madeira (which is part of Portugal) to embrace the hype and make it clear that Madeira will make things attractive to Bitcoin, Bitcoiners and businesses that want to host their operations there. He said that profits from Bitcoin aren't and won't be taxed which is a very good incentive! Also they have one of the lowest corporate tax in Europe zone!

Only thing missing is also a legal tender. heheh

[fillippone]

My friend at Bitcoinitaliapodcast.it made a series of interview a few suprises here I cannot speak about, yet at the conference.
Here the first one: