Bitcoin meatups are pretty addictive though.
You go to 1 & have a great time.
Pretty soon you're going to them monthly, driving hours to go to major ones & finding smaller ones to visit. The need to connect to all the nodes is great.
You go from feeling weird & lonely to being very busy with your new tribes. Integrity, authenticity & intellectual honesty are highly underrated & rare outside of these spaces.
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How many have you been to?
I don't have enough fingers.
I go to a big multi day one 3 times a year (Bitcoin bush bash). A local meetup (an hour away) once a month & I helped start a smaller local one (we've had 3 so far) that's much closer.
We held a Bitcoiner camping trip earlier this year which was awesome. The next camping one looks to be around harvesting & processing animals (to be held on a farm).
I've always been drawn more to the social layer of Bitcoin for some reason. Connecting nyms to people's faces is hard at first but it gets easier over time. Most Bitcoiners are pretty bad at remembering names, so don't ever feel bad about asking them again.
Yes same here. the local Meetup went to a meet up in middle Georgia, two hours away. It really expanded our connections and we met others who live in a different version of The matrix.
Aren't you afraid of doxing yourself? As a crook, I'd go to a meetup to fimd my next victims...
Injust read these days that the numbers of victims to robbery due to doxing have gone immensely up in Sweden...
And you’ll be met with force and possibly death if you choose to target bitcoiners. We tend to be an armed crowd ;)
Less so with time, but at first I was.
Most Bitcoiners know me only as Brisket.
I've found that the further you travel, the less risky it becomes. The more PoW to get there, the less likely scammers will show up.
In time as this thing becomes more popular, I imagine that I'll reduce the number of new unknown nodes that I'll accept connections with.
Most scammers/theives play a numbers game & I live pretty remotely. You've gotta have some balls & knowledge to come up my long driveway uninvited.
Living in Europe is probably just not the same with regard to self-defense...
But driving a long way to go to a meetup might just be a thought worth considering
Maybe nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq could arrange one in some obscure Bavarian Forest 😂
