Hello, and welcome to Mind of Micah.

Today on Mind of Micah, it's Part 2 of Micah's Read of the Weach entitled Welcome to the

Church of Bitcoin.

We are on to Part 2 in a moment, but first a reminder that Monday I dropped.

In 52 of Micah's Read of the Weak the Newsler, go listen or go read it, the subscription

link is in the description to this podcast.

We will continue now with Part 2.

If you came to Bitcoin 2021 expecting this sort of straight-laced, yuppie affair typical

of a modern-day tech conference, you would have either been deeply disappointed or extremely

pleased depending on your opinion of straight-laced tech conferences.

Mondays have been addressed in an advice in an email I should cite to quote, dress casual,

shorts, t-shirts, bathing suits, tanks, all acceptable.

This injunction is taken heart by several men who, by mid-afternoon the first day, stroll

around the conference shirtless.

This isn't your snobby, high-brow business professional crypto event.

The email continued.

Just to be clear, I really don't want to go anywhere but a pool maybe that where people

are wearing shorts, t-shirts, and bathing suits and tanks.

Maybe the beach, but I probably don't even want to be around people that are doing that,

but I'll continue.

Indeed, the crowd in attendance is, well, mostly regular people, or for the sake of accuracy,

regular men, a fact highlighted by the ever-present 20-person deep-queue leading to up to the

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