As the bear market rages on, the die-hard, evangelists, and Bitcoin believers just keep building. On this week’s episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, reporter Joe Hall spoke with CEOs, key thought leaders and cryptographic visionaries at two of the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) conferences: Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, Florida and BTC Prague in the Czech Republic.
While BTC’s price stubbornly stayed below $30,000 in 2023, the Bitcoin 2023 conference just outside Miami Beach welcomed 15,000 Bitcoin enthusiasts. In June, the first edition of BTC Prague set records as more than 7,000 participants descended on the Czech capital to learn more about and interact with Bitcoin.
Although the event took place on different continents about two weeks apart, the topics and discussion points overlapped. Bitcoiners compared their views on the future of bitcoin inscriptions known as ordinal numbers, and some lamented the rise of “toxic” bitcoin maximalism, but both conferences aimed to meet the goal of greater bitcoin adoption.
While bitcoin and cryptocurrencies continue to represent niche interest for the general public, US presidential candidates, big companies like eToro, and even Stanford professors participating in the discussion at Bitcoin 2023 could all point to the “mainstreamization” of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency space.
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Christian Anders, CEO of BTC.X stated, “It’s so nice to attend a Bitcoin conference because it’s not just a conference. It’s like a big Christmas dinner.”
Ultimately, discussions revolved around how to change the world with arguably better money in the form of bitcoin, but most pro-bitcoin advocates were just excited to be collaborating with like-minded entrepreneurs. Fedimint CEO Obi Nwosu told Cointelegraph:
“Everyone is very energetic, but also easily exhausted. And the reason they’re exhausted is because they’re so busy because there’s so much building; so many things are returning to bitcoin or expanding into bitcoin.”
In fact, the Bitcoin economy in 2023 is one big tent, from CEOs of companies building on Bitcoin with their own tokens, like Muneeb Ali, CEO of Trust Machines and co-founder of Stacks, to Daniel Fogg of IOV Labs and Rootstock .
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Listen to this week’s episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph for a hands-on examination of the brightest minds in the bitcoin space.
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