From Newsroom.co.nz….
Last weekend saw Miami host the Bitcoin 2021 conference. While we don’t know the exact numbers of attendees, more than 12,000 tickets were sold. The queue to get in on the first day stretched for over a mile. Not bad for a conference, especially in the time of Covid-19.
Crypto/blockchain conferences have traditionally been the preserve of young enthusiastic tee-shirt wearing males, with the occasional grey beard and a handful of women. However, as crypto becomes increasingly mainstream, audiences are changing, and this conference was no exception. Wall Street financiers and others from traditional finance backgrounds were also notably in attendance.
Attitudes from the traditional financial world towards bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have certainly shifted in recent years, thus large numbers at a crypto conference are not unexpected.
In September 2017, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, said he would ‘fire a trader in a second’ for trading in bitcoin.
