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Vitalik Buterin
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I've become more appreciative of crypto conference culture. Its value add is: it gives the benefits of cross-org in-person person coordination, serendipitous connections, weak ties, etc, without everyone being gravitationally pulled into NYC and SF. It's maybe the only institution to have successfully done this.
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I think I just self-select the people I end up interacting with? The conference ecosystem has lately been evolving from "one dominant event" to "archipelago of colocated events" which I think has been a very positive change.
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Granted, I'm sure there are low quality things I don't see. But surprisingly enough, I think the colocations themselves seem to self-select by quality! (ie. good events pop up around good events, scam events pop up around scam events)
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I’ve found the 2 I’ve been to pretty overwhelming. Dunno how you guys do it. DevCon and EthDenver both seemed closer to pop-up cities than conferences. Maybe organizers should lean into that vibe. Kinda Venice Biennale or the old World Fairs. A kind of overlay city-on-a-city. Like the China Mieville story.
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EthCC is going in the many-event popup city direction. I think it's the only way to scale to 10k+ people without completely losing quality and going lowest-common-denominator or taking political heat inherent in a single central-event organizer being responsible for controversial decisions in something that large.
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Sounds like a good use case for a decentralized event organization app that’s a cross between poaps and a friendly version of dark forest. Loosely synchronized event graph across space and time that just share a consensus brand. Decentralized franchise.
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I really think a calendar public utility, with encrypted events controlled by wallet IDs would be really useful and powerful
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Is the vision something like a less-centralized (maybe farcaster-based?) implementation of the Devconnect website? A calendar hub for a collection of independently organized events. Spam prevention seems like a hard problem. Devconnect solves that with central curation. How would you do it?
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