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My name is Joshua Sheetz and today I want to talk about Bitcoin.

This past week I have just been in Miami attending the Bitcoin 2022 conference, perhaps the

largest Bitcoin conference in the world at the moment, and it was indeed quite large

to give you a context of scale.

The organizers of the conference said they had 25,000 attendees.

What I found most impressive was simply visiting the exhibit hall, and I've been to a lot

of conferences over the years.

I find conferences a very efficient way to come up to speed quickly on a topic, and so I'll

routinely attend a conference that I'm trying to get a lay of the land.

What I find useful is certainly the speakers, yes, listening to the talks and getting an

idea of the ideas that are presented at the conference.

I find very useful.

Also the people, yes, some of the people you meet at a conference are often leaders in

an industry and it can be a great chance to meet some of the crem de la crem of an organization.

I find the exhibit halls often quite useful, and especially more when I was younger, I would

go to an exhibit hall and I would routinely just simply visit every booth.

Here are people who have paid money to get their message in front of you, and if you

simply go from booth to booth and ask them about their product, about their service, you

can quickly grasp an overview of an industry based upon hearing what people are presenting

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