With millions of active Bitcoin users and millions more interested in the ancillary industry of altcoins that claims its roots in Bitcoin, the mainstream attention made sense.
Panel after panel of principled, level-headed and thoughtful developers, open-source enthusiasts and designers spoke clearly about where we’ve been, where we are now and where we are going.
Keith Mukai cleverly compared Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade to changing Bitcoin from a train on rails to the “Google transit tab” where you could choose to use the train or you could “walk a mile, take a bus and then hop on the train to get to your destination.” Olaoluwa Osuntokun brought the house down with his keynote when he outlined the technical specifications of the Taro protocol in record speed while holding a bag of taro chips.
Although these open-source speakers work in the open, publishing everything they do to GitHub or to mailing lists, their words aren’t usually heard widely.
We’re told to find the signal among the noise if we want to be effective investors.
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