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music is my jam-events are my bag-if it’s not decentralized why are we doing this?

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@morganisawizard And if you really couldn’t afford that bike but you reallly wanted it so you talked shit instead

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@cryptochica_arg To be fair they did same thing at same club at Bitcoin Miami is 2017 (i was there). Not a good look but not new by any means.

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@TheDesertLynx Sad but true. Where is the line? Is there no line?

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Not on my 2026 bingo card that US gov is running nodes

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: THE U.S. MILITARY JUST REVEALED THEY ARE RUNNING A #BITCOIN NODE

"THIS PROTOCOL IS HERE TO STAY"

WILD TIMES 🔥

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@mooselovedoteth @TrustlessState The Beatles were not a live band. To be the best band of all time you have to be good in concert

[Jonas @jonaasw1]

The IRL connection economy is a $400B+ market.

And companies are racing to own it.

In the last 6 months, $800M+ in capital was deployed on "IRL" bets.

@Tinder invested $60M into a new Events feature for connecting matches in-person. They're pivoting to IRL and offering experiences such as speakeasies, raves, and pottery classes.

@222place: raised a $10.1M Series A to curate blind social experiences for Gen Z. Personality-matched groups sent to hyperlocal nightlife events.

@JagermeisterUSA launched BestNightsVC - the only venture fund in the world dedicated solely to nightlife and IRL connection. 16 portfolio companies across 4 continents.

@timeleft: dinner with 5 strangers, every Wednesday. €18M ARR. 6,500 dinners/week across 200+ cities.

Dion: members-only social app where the first move is buying someone a real drink, redeemed IRL. 10K members, 30K+ on the waitlist founded by @revekkapal.

Pie: Bonobos founder @dunn built an IRL friendship app. $24M raised. 130K+ MAU.

@weroad_official: group trips for 20-30 year olds who don't know each other beforehand. $150M valuation.

Matchbox: is an algorithm-powered matching platform for IRL events and has powered over 100,000 connections. founded by @liamjmcgregor (prev @MarriagePact)

New dating apps like Known @Celesteamadon, Cerca @MylesCerca, and Ditto @AllenWangzian are aiming to improve connection amongst young people.

Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads:
- @AnthropicAI: Marketing Events Manager ($255k)
- @tryramp: Community Manager ($223k)
- @tryramp: Events & Culture Manager ($181k)
- @duolingo: Senior Community Manager ($193k)
- @NotionHQ: Community Programs Lead

Everyone knows the more time we spend online, the more valuable real-life connection becomes.

The question isn't whether IRL wins.

It's who facilitates it best.

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@TrustlessState Awful take. There are some absolute Brent gems

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@notthreadguy 😂 he doesn’t get it. Maybe they should be paying in your illiquid shit coin.

Liquidity is everything

Show me another digital asset with similar volume and liquidity

[Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams]

People might accuse me of grave dancing for saying it

But we have to stop letting centralized things call themselves DeFi

Admin key can drain all funds? CeFi

Otherwise DeFi means nothing and it’s brand is destroyed

No admin key can drain any version of Uniswap for a reason

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

My core beliefs haven't changed:

You should earn the yield on your money – not the bank.
They make 5%, you get 1%, and call it “savings.”

You should have the right to custody your own assets.

No one should be able to freeze your funds.

You should be free to transact – privately and globally.

None of that should require permission.

Somehow, we’ve started cheering as governments take more control and championed legislation that could tighten the noose.

What are we actually sacrificing for that “permission?”

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

First bank to do a bitcoin ETF (unthinkable couple yrs ago). But not just any bank, a big boy bank w the largest network of financial advisors. 16k advisors managing $6.2T (that’s double Merrill, Goldman, JPM).

[Venice @AskVenice]

Venice AI just released End-to-End Encryption

Verifiable by any external party

Vires in numeris

Here's how it works 🧵

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@willyogo @AskVenice

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@TheCryptoDog Bobs been a hater for a year now. CT hornets got to him. He needs to touch grass and stop being heads down in bitcoin… cause it’s driving him insane. His tone from 2019 videos to now is polar opposite

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[DylanΞGra₿owski @GrabowskiDylan]

Shoutout to @owocki and the entire @ethereumboulder team, EthBoulder reminded me what conferences are supposed to do.

Somewhere along the way, crypto gatherings started to feel like performance art. You fly in, do the circuit, shake hands, scan badges, bounce between happy hours, and leave with a phone full of contacts you'll never speak to again.

Everyone's "building relationships," but most conversations are transactional by default: polite, shallow, optimized for future optionality.

EthBoulder was a reset from that template.

Not because it was louder or flashier. It was the opposite. Intentionally small. Walkable. Designed in a way that made real conversations more likely than rehearsed ones.

About 200 people attended. This was a size that still allowed for surprise, but not so large that attendees became faces in a crowd. Colorado locals mixed with builders who traveled in because they actually wanted to be there, with those people.

The venues were all within a couple of blocks of each other, which meant you'd see the same faces five times in a day. That repetition is how rapport actually gets built.

The breakout sessions had the same anti-convention feel: chairs around a screen, a presenter with an idea, and a group ready to learn from it. Less spectacle, more substance.

The conference wasn't the point. The moments were.

<<<Boulder felt local and globally connected at the same time.>>>

The @ethereumfndn was in attendance. The @EFetheverywhere team was on the ground. There was a sense that people shaping Ethereum culture were paying attention to what's happening here.

I even heard a rumor - extreme emphasis on rumor - that Ethereum Everywhere has considered opening a more permanent hub in the Boulder area.

Colorado is increasingly being seen as more than a flyover state for crypto. The talent is here. The builders are here. And the connective tissue to the global scene is getting stronger.

<<<The dominant signal of the weekend: AI isn't a topic anymore. It's the baseline.>>>

The AI talk of the weekend wasn’t the usual speculative, forward-looking, hand-wavy talk: "agents are coming," "LLMs will change everything someday,” or “AI tokens are the next wave.” This felt different.

EthBoulder had rooms full of builders who've already internalized the new reality: the tools are here, they're powerful, and they're already changing how work gets done.

Developers described running Claude-driven processes that handle discrete tasks: drafting scaffolds, generating tests, exploring edge cases, and refactoring components.

The point wasn't that AI could "help." It was that it:
> Compresses timelines. > Multiplies throughput. > Shifts where attention goes.
AI isn't a tool you occasionally consult. It's becoming an always-on collaborator.
And that's where the dichotomy hit me.

<<<The excitement is real. But, so is the fear.>>>

Developers talked about AI replacing chunks of junior-level output. And, not in a doom-and-gloom way, but in a concrete, operational way. Tasks that used to require a human with a certain level of experience are now handled by a tool, along with someone who knows how to steer it.

That's exhilarating because it lowers the cost of building, makes small teams feel bigger, and makes experimentation cheap.

However, it’s also unsettling.

If the bottom rungs of the ladder are changing, how do people climb? How does mentorship work when "easy tasks" get offloaded to agents instead of delegated to newcomers? How do developers build intuition if they're skipping the stage where fundamentals get internalized through repetition?

We're moving faster than our social systems can adapt. Faster than our institutions. Faster than our cultural norms.

But that also means someone can learn to leverage these tools and leapfrog their experience if they’re serious about building a new skill set.

<<<A conference can still be a hard reset.>>>

By the end of EthBoulder, my main takeaway wasn't a single talk or announcement. It was the feeling of being somewhere that made the ‘right kinds of interactions’ possible.

Conferences don't need to be bigger. They need to be better designed for human connection.

EthBoulder proved you can host a local event, keep it intimate, and still capture global relevance. If there's a follow-up in 2027, I hope they keep the same spirit.

In an industry that often confuses motion for progress, it was nice to spend a weekend where the signal felt clear.

#EthBoulder2027 LFG.

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[Tomasz K. Stańczak @tkstanczak]

Congrats to @ethereumboulder organizers - a great forum for sharing ideas, really good vibes. Top speakers and discussions.

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Unconference with a view

[EthBoulder @ethereumboulder]

Collaborative dialogue.
Collective problem solving.
Systems design in the open.

Where mountains meet machine,
and people meet protocol.

This is EthBoulder 💠

[🇦​ 🇩​ 🇦​ 🇲​ 🇼​ 🇴​ 🇿​ 🇳​ 🇪​ 🇾 @AdamDeanWozney]

Guys, @ethereumboulder was fantastic.

It gave off strong 2017-18 vibes. I miss crypto events like these ones.

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@EFDevcon Mumbai is first one I’m skipping since 2018

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@Nebraskangooner While traders and speculative investors are an important part of the ecosystem. They are the first to return when liquidity and volatility return. The same cannot be set for VC’s, builders and founders. Much more important group team.. guessing your timeline is traders

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@Nebraskangooner *Large amount of Traders… certainly not a large amount of builders and founders. I think it’s pretty important to separate the two