Welcome to Consensus Conversations 2022, The Wrap Up. Hi, I'm Michelle Muso, producer here at Coindesk.

And I have with me our very own features and opinion managing editor Ben Schiller,

Chief Insight columnist David Z. Morris and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zach Seward.

Hi guys, how's it going?

Hello.

Are we're good? Hey.

And now it's a total week after consensus. I know we're all kind of regrouping, but

how do you feel looking back now? Now we're not

in all the craziness and the excitement. What's the good and the bad? I can start off there.

I mean, I thought it was a tremendous conference, probably the best ever conference in crypto

ever been to. And I'm not just saying that because it was our conference. 20,000 people there

was such a rich variety of topics and subject matters and we had a lot of

music and we had a lot of diverse people.

So that was really encouraging.

I think there is a kind of interesting kind of lag between what was going on in consensus

and the kind of reality of the market today that we're maybe touched on in the minute.

But it was kind of noticeable

that the kind of sponsorship dollars and all the kind of energy that people had put into the

conference was maybe six months ago. So there was maybe a bit of a lag time in terms of, you know,

that difference between the market and, you know, the show floor. So it was kind of an interesting

contrast. Yeah. And then obviously things went further south immediately after the end of the conference,

which we'll talk about more in a bit.

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