I realized that the "big" bitcoin conference in 2013 was exactly 5 years ago this week, so I dug up some of my pics.
1) Here's @brian_armstrong at the @coinbase booth (all of it):
If there was an active shooter who showed up to a scene where it was all good guys with guns how would they know who was the active shooter after like 30 seconds?
Trump says a lot of dishonest things, but his repeated claim that he is the true champion of DACA recipients after terminating DACA and repeatedly refusing deals that would protect DACA recipients is high on the list.
Bezos owning the Washington Post is the cheapest subtle political insurance that Amazon can buy. $250 Million insures $700 Billion against anti-trust action.
This was the vote on Russian Sanctions:
House: 419-3
Senate: 98-2
Today, Trump said he won't impose the sanctions despite a veto-proof majority.
Congratulations, America. Laws are meaningless now.
FALSE. Bitcoin is a database, nothing more. Some people use its functions to simulate money, but that has nothing to do with its nature. Bitcoin has nothing to do with how anyone "sees it". How you "see it" Krugman, is IRRELEVANT to the facts of what Bitcoin actually is.
By the way, if you're wondering why coverage of the huge marches yesterday seems kind of muted, it's because those hundreds of thousands weren't sitting in diners in small-town America, and therefore don't count. Also many of them were women.
Jeff Bezos: "Those quarterly results were fully baked three years ago. Today I'm working on a quarter that will happen in 2020, not next quarter. Next quarter is done already and it's probably been done for a couple years."