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This weekend, thousands of crypto acolytes and financiers have actually come down on a Bitcoin-themed conference in Miami, an extremely genuine, very heavily-produced conference sporting crypto celebs and real celebrities all on an objective to make waves. Despite the fact that I am not at the conference personally (panels from its main stage were live-streamed online), I have lots of invites in my email for afterparties including stars, open bars and unlimited discussions on the perils of fiat.
Despite having so much, what they still seem to be lacking is a customer saint. For the longest bout, that was Area, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk who bolstered the currency by pressing Tesla to invest cash on its balance sheet into bitcoin, while also pressing for Tesla to accept bitcoin payments for its cars.
There are plenty of celebs looking to fill his shoes a current recommendation failed by Soulja Young boy was one of the more comical instances. Crypto has been no stranger to grift of that even the most hardcore crypto grifters can likely agree and I believe there's been some agreement that the only leader who can really preach the gospel is somebody who is already so abundant they don't even require more money.
The finest runner-up at the minute seems one Jack Dorsey, and while like Musk he is also another double-CEO, he is rather a bit different from him in temperament and desire for the spotlight. He was, nevertheless, a heading speaker at Miami's Bitcoin conference. Dorsey gathers the most headings for his work at Twitter however it's Square where he is pressing many of his crypto enthusiasm.