robertfett0 on Nostr: It’s crazy how little BTC Inc seems to care about keeping its conference ...

It’s crazy how little BTC Inc seems to care about keeping its conference Bitcoin-focused (never mind Bitcoin only).

It would be one thing if they were making the typical profit-motivated tradeoffs (e.g. “we’ll take money from any sponsor, but you have to talk about bitcoin onstage”). Reputationally, they could get away with having a lot of crypto speakers if the moderators at least were bitcoiners. That could even be kind of interesting.

But no. Far from recruiting bitcoiner moderators and MCs, they haven’t even told the people they did get that they have to focus on bitcoin.

The MC is a Dubai crypto influencer. The moderators are crypto reporters (at best) who’ve never demonstrated understanding of bitcoin. It’s a free-for-all. Stablecoins, memecoins, even tokenization.

This goes way beyond sheepishly making some ethical tradeoffs for profit.

If they truly care as little as it seems, just who is it that we’ve made into the world’s biggest bitcoin media outlet?