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This weekend, thousands of crypto acolytes and investors have actually descended on a Bitcoin-themed conference in Miami, a very real, extremely heavily-produced conference sporting crypto celebs and real celebrities all on a mission to make waves. Although I am not at the conference face to face (panels from its primary stage were live-streamed online), I have plenty of welcomes in my email for afterparties featuring stars, open bars and endless conversations on the dangers of fiat.
Regardless of having a lot, what they still appear to be doing not have is a tutelary saint. For the longest bout, that was Space, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk who bolstered the currency by pushing Tesla to invest money on its balance sheet into bitcoin, while also pushing for Tesla to accept bitcoin payments for its vehicles.
There are plenty of celebs seeking to fill his shoes a current recommendation gone wrong by Soulja Kid was one of the more comical instances. Crypto has been no stranger to grift of that even the most hardcore crypto grifters can likely agree and I think there's been some contract that the only leader who can genuinely preach the gospel is somebody who is currently so abundant they don't even need more cash.
The very best runner-up at the minute seems one Jack Dorsey, and while like Musk he is also another double-CEO, he is quite a bit various from him in behavior and desire for the spotlight. He was, nevertheless, a heading speaker at Miami's Bitcoin conference. Dorsey gathers the most headings for his work at Twitter but it's Square where he is pressing the majority of his crypto enthusiasm.