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This weekend, countless crypto acolytes and financiers have come down on a Bitcoin-themed conference in Miami, a very real, extremely heavily-produced conference sporting crypto stars and actual celebs all on a mission to make waves. Although I am not at the conference in person (panels from its main stage were live-streamed online), I have a lot of invites in my email for afterparties featuring celebrities, open bars and unlimited conversations on the perils of fiat.
In spite of having so much, what they still seem to be doing not have is a tutelary saint. For A Good Read , that was Space, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk who reinforced the currency by pushing Tesla to invest cash on its balance sheet into bitcoin, while also pushing for Tesla to accept bitcoin payments for its cars.
There are lots of celebrities wanting to fill his shoes a current recommendation failed by Soulja Kid was among the more humorous circumstances. Crypto has been no complete stranger to grift of that even the most hardcore crypto grifters can likely agree and I think there's been some agreement that the only leader who can truly preach the gospel is somebody who is already so rich they don't even require more cash.
The very best runner-up at the minute seems one Jack Dorsey, and while like Musk he is also another double-CEO, he is a fair bit different from him in disposition and desire for the spotlight. He was, however, a headline speaker at Miami's Bitcoin conference. Dorsey gathers the most headings for his work at Twitter but it's Square where he is pushing the majority of his crypto interest.