Some thoughts / observations out of Nashville

HEADLINERS MORE TROUBLE THAN THEY ARE WORTH

The addition of Trump and Kennedy added the very visible presence of heavily kitted state jackboots. The resident spooks, bootlickers, and jingoists in our midst may have loved this and felt like it was a throbbing, thick veined expression of American Strength™️ To me it was a little strange, like aren’t these the same guy that’ll tear gas you and kick in protestors heads and shoot your dog and sTeP oN yOuR sNeK and such? Anyways, if I had a security kink, I would have just stayed in Beijing…

Also this created an annoying physical barrier to a lot of the content. I consider myself a RealBitcoiner™️ so of course I said f*ck that and just hung out in the pit. I feel like the structure this year and the hours long security gating it required catered only to newcoiners and tourists and hero worshippers - all of whom don’t understand that if nothing else, the social layer of bitcoining rest immovably atop huitzilopochtli’s wheel, a constant and unending cycle of seeing your hero’s slain in near sport-like public spectacle fashion.

Hopefully next years conference will have less high profile politicians or people requiring heavy security (since it will be off cycle so they’ll have no incentive to pretend that we are some new and coveted voting block - which I’m not AT ALL convinced that we are). And even if it does, with 2025 planned for Vegas, if the main stage is rekt then just go gamble or chill at a pool somewhere with your homies.

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