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>Bitcoin 2023 conference loses half its attendees

Our reporters attended this year’s event in-person. The energy level crashed as soon as we walked up to the entrance. Gone was Miami’s Charging Bull as well as half the attendees. The conference venue had an uncomfortable amount of empty space — even though the entire north wing had been closed off.

An “ordinals” art gallery claimed that the same pump-and-dump style NFT collections that Bitcoiners ridiculed on Ethereum were somehow good because they minted on Bitcoin.

References to El Salvador, which continues to lose money on its bitcoin holdings, were sparse this year. The animatronic volcano advertising El Salvador’s doomed Volcano Bonds was gone. Government spokesperson Max Keiser awkwardly forced off-topic praises of the country’s dictator into Bitcoin Magazine’s YouTube channel during intermissions. From the main stage, Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that Salvadoran crime was “down 99%” since the country adopted bitcoin as legal tender yet, conveniently, failed to mention the extralegal mass incarceration of 2% of the adult male population as the cause.

Two years later, there are still no other countries that have adopted bitcoin as legal tender (the Central African Republic briefly attempted and then repealed its law).

From the main ‘Nakamoto’ stage, no one mentioned Michael Saylor’s tax fraud lawsuit, the 99% decline in MiamiCoin, the cancelation of Bitcoin City, nor the mass incarcerations in El Salvador.

Instead, platitudes and bullish price predictions for BTC filled airtime.

Gone were pontifications about Bitcoin’s morality and inevitable price appreciation. Politics, mining, and calls for regulatory changes faded into a sea of bikinis, top shelf alcohol, and shimmering lights.

https://protos.com/bitcoin-2023-miami-has-had-enough-and-so-have-we/

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