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Immediate feedback today (#996231).
A lot of people told me Vegas Bitcoin 2025 was just for political shills, for shitcoinery, for NFT/ordinals crap.
I saw a lot of that. But I also saw a lot of meaning (hate the overused word "signal" but you know what I mean). Any sufficiently successful movement is gonna have parasites drawn to it!
You can just do good stuff, instead
With the glamor of the Strip itself and its sensory overload, it’d be easy to be dazzled — plus, it was the first time I had left Fort Europa for the land of the free in years, first time in Vegas, and first time at an American Bitcoin event. It’d be easy for me to simply dismiss the haters by paraphrasing Taylor (“haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate…”).
(psst, @realBitcoinDog, I used Taylor again!)
"To make an obvious analogy: The internet is littered with porn, gambling, and cat videos, and it’s the most successful technology in a generation."
Here’s an underappreciated order to the known universe: To each successful movement or phenomenon, parasites and fraudsters are drawn. It’s why the shitcoin guys are around Bitcoin events and why the politicians are pandering to our cause. Vegas itself is the center of gravity for that sort of thing — gambling, nudity, alcohol, prostitution, and other dopamine-inducing stimulants. I first titled this take What Hookers in Vegas Can Teach Us About Politicians at Bitcoin 2025; the simple observation is that fraudsters, grifters, and scammers go to where the value is. Parasites feed off healthy, growing, flourishing organisms.
So yeah: the grifters, the parasites, the politicians, and the financial engineers are here. Good for them. That they’re here is a sign of victory.
Knock me over with a feather, haters.
Tell me I'm wrong, Stackers.