If you're thinking about going to the Vegas Bitcoin conference, remember that the real Bitcoin connections do not happen in stadiums.

They happen in the small moments.

A few months after my first ever bitcoin conference in Miami, there was a Beef Initiative event twenty minutes from my town.

People kept telling me excitedly that nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgqgzx3h was gonna be there. I didn't really know who this dude was, but the next day we were drinking wine at my house and he seemed like a good dude. Figured I might as well check out this dude's podcast.

The Meat Mafia guys were there too.

If you don't know them, they educate about diet and lifestyle.

After meeting them, I decided to change how I ate.

A decade-long gut issue disappeared.

Even smaller moments mattered just as much.

I was standing in line for lunch, feeling awkward, when a guy next to me started talking about his company, a Bitcoin marketplace called Oshi.

One random conversation turned into a friendship that helped me start accepting Bitcoin for my wine in a more serious way and opened my eyes to the burgeoning Bitcoin circular economy.

None of it was planned.

None of it was forced.

Beautiful things just happen when you just show up in the bitcoin world.