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Crypto Winter, you say? Well, look pretty sunny at the Bitcoin conference in Miami last week.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Bitcoin believers gathered in Miami for what organizers say is the world's biggest annual

Bitcoin convention, though it was quite a bit smaller than last year, drawing less than half

of the 35,000 attendees that went in 2022. Of course, a lot has happened in the crypto world

since then. A little disaster called FTX, a crypto-friendly bank failure, or two. Not to mention,

the price of Bitcoin has taken a bit of a dive from around $40,000 during last year's event

to about $26,000 this time around. My colleague, Matt Levin, was there to take the pulse. He's a

senior reporter here at Marketplace. So it is mostly like any other convention, which was

somewhat surprising to me. It's a lot of crypto companies, debuting products,

demoing products. There's an exhibit hall. There's a lot of non-cryptocompanies here, real estate

companies, HR software companies, recruiting companies that are just trying to get Bitcoin client

tell. But there are some kind of Bitcoin-specific eccentricities, I would say, that you probably

wouldn't see at other conferences. Like what? Some of the odd or things I've seen. There's a

mechanical bull in the middle of the exhibit hall that you can ride, literally riding the Bitcoin

bull. You can buy a children's board game that's supposed to introduce your kids to the concept of

Bitcoin. You can buy S-Coin wipes. I'm using S to replace an expletive there. Bitcoiners aren't big

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