I decided to go and look at the list of speakers for Bitcoin 2022, because I wasn't very impressed with the introduction: > Speakers ranged from Jordan Peterso

I decided to go and look at the list of speakers for Bitcoin 2022, because I wasn't very impressed with the introduction: > Speakers ranged from Jordan Peterson, the controversial psychologist and anti-political-correctness firebrand, to NFL quarterback and anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers. It's like sure, pick out the 2 nuttiest people in the list and pretend they're representative. But I looked it up and it's actually quite funny[1], there's a weird number of celebs, but also someone built a time machine and Peter Thiel from 25 years ago appears to be attending (as far as I can tell from that picture. But laying that aside there are a fair few VC guys and a fair few actual technology people attending. Sure, the sports personalities are pretty obviously grifters, but they're not the only ones there. I think the grandma investing the money is the biggest insight into the bitcoin mindset. There's an attitude that people are moving to bitcoin because they view it as a way out of their poverty. They can't keep working like this. I think we have to look at why that is, and the obvious answer is because as wealth inequality has skyrocketed it has pushed the vast majority of ordinary people into a position where they can't imagine living comfortably from their earnings. Given that they can't get to the lifestyle they want through work, they start to look for other more desperate avenues and that's where bitcoin comes in. The problem is that if this is correct it means the next time the economy crashes and people need every penny to live they'll pull out of crypto and it'll fall like a stone. [1]:https://b.tc/conference/speakers https://b.tc/conference/speakers