few more things that are banging around in my head recently (about the etf, but also some personal history):
my first ever technical presentation as a "bitcoin dev" was at the Magical Crypto Conference in NYC in May 2019
i was there during consensus, so there was a lot of other stuff happening at the same time. on of those things was a "dragon party" that blockstream was hosting.
this was the trip that i met my first (non-blockstream) famous bitcoiners: i got seated next to luke-jr at a steak dinner, met jack mallers at the party, had to brush off charlie lee in the speakers lounge because i needed some alone time to freak out about my first every public presentation as a 'bitcoin expert'
in this era, jack mallers was talking about hashrate derivatives. a few weeks/months later i'd watch on twitter as he built a mobile app that would grow to be Strike.
i *also* met Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck. He told me he was working on getting a bitcoin etf. i had no idea what this really meant, it seemed like a cool idea. like ok yeah, bitcoin etf!
anyways, it strikes me now that people have been working on this for a very very long time.
the etf might not happen this week, but it does seem rather inevitable (america is a free market still right? right??).
i haven't really been paying much attention up until now and suddenly i'm struck by the thought that hey maybe this will be the week it goes live. seems about as good as any other? guess we'll see.
(in case you're curious about the MCC presentation, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4i5cEI1jnc)
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