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Is that Westo? Well, that is Westo. How you doing, man? Yo, man the house. What's up? Good time down to Miami. What'd you get back? Saturday. Okay, yeah, same deal.
Last Saturday, flew. Not too long. It is good to be out. What do you think are quantum?
I mean attendance was less than some of these other crypto conferences, but ultimately I think it gave you a really good time and impactful conversations with the people who were there. So overall, I think it was a value ad for us for sure. I would fully agree with that. I enjoy getting the chance to hang out with you all.
it was definitely a lot quieter than some of the other ones I've been to recently. Yeah, conferences have changed.
the early last year. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. I was that I was at FTX's conference, Crypto Bahamas last year.
I think that was probably a peak conference. I'm sure. They had like Bill Clinton speaking, Tony Blair, Tom Brady.
It was like what? Why is Tom Brady and Bill Clinton talking about crypto? People talk about anything you pay him enough.
accurate. Kathy Woods was cool. I actually enjoyed her. That was just a weird conference and there were so many C5 people there.
I ran into a bunch of bankers who didn't actually think D-Files gonna fly. I bet they're re-evaluating their decisions to put their faith in FTA.
Yes. I did not end well for that.
- Yes, we're still-- - You after parties there were.
The only one I went to was the tarot one. Man, FTX, tarot. Oh, no, no.
I'm not talking about up to Xing, what I'm talking about my end. - Oh, yeah. That's the tarot after event. And then obviously the after events from the actual conference itself.
I feel like last year at that conference, were you there last year at that conference?
No, I heard it was a different vibe. It was a party every night. They all went until like one or two in the morning.
Not, you know, like too crazy, not like, you know, EDM, house music, right out the whole club kind of deals, but
But I mean that was right in the middle of the solidly crazy now that was like everyone was thinking that there was infinite money forever. It's amazing how a year changes everything right? Dude. You can say that again.
a lot has changed in the year that's for sure yeah different playing field a different players yeah everything a lot more serious operators this time around
I'm surprised I still found a few people selling me mildly useless shit. I've got some blockchain consultant in my DMs when I'm talking about how do you mean blockchain consultant?
you have to actually offer me. Are you going to tell me how blockchain is such an interesting tool that I should integrate into my, you know, payment streams or I'm honestly amazed as people are still in business.
Alright guys, so we are still waiting on another speaker to hop in here and I'm trying to get in touch with him and have not been able to as of yet. But I don't want to just hold this up for too long.
Kirk, I see you're on this call. Would you mind reaching out to GMX guys and see if they're still going to be able to join? I know we were sharing the link around earlier, so they should have that, but we'll be able to hop over there real quick and see if you can get in touch with one of them. Yep, no problem.