devcon

DEFCON 😁
https://defcon.org/html/defcon-32/dc-32-index.html

Been going since 2002. Had a blast as always.

weekdays: bringing the Ethereum community together at one place with /devcon 🦄
weekends: creating coffee ceramics ☕️



They're both incredible events and basically the only big conferences I go to anymore.

Hacking culture has maybe a 40+ year lore, so DEFCON is full of people in their 60s who started in this shit as teens and are still at it. This means that older people exist, though even kids that are like, 10 give talks. Wider age ranges than Devcon for sure.

The contests are a fairly unique part of DEFCON. Anyone can create them, so there's maybe 50 major ones going on, and at the end, a handful of the most interesting contests get selected such that their contest winners receive "black badges" which grant them free DEFCON access for life.

BadgeLife is also big. DEFCON pioneered electronic conference badges, but now basically every party/event/contest/village/club etc makes their own electronic badges, and a ton of Indy artists making them as well to give, trade, sell, or hand to contest winners.

Still, DEFCON doesn't quite have the insane buidl energy as Devcon, and the optimistic mindset at Devcon is unmatched 🦄

awesome! How does it compare to Ethereum Devcon? 😄