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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: MktDirector on March 10, 2014, 06:15:22 pm
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I've been talking to a lot of potential leaders to come speak in Vegas this July at Beyond Bitcoin. The key theme of the event is any technology or idea that is a 'next generation' use of the Bitcoin technology, decentralized businesses, etc. So it wont just be our team talking. I'd like to get a solid group of speakers together but could use some help.
One thing I'm noticing with these events we go to is rarely are the speakers very good at, well, speaking! So let me make a short list of criteria for what kind of person we should invite to this event:
1) First, I'd like to find people who are engaging, passionate and actually hold a crowd's attention. There aren't many of these in our industry. A great example would be Stefan Molyneux. I just saw him give a talk in Texas and the crowd loved him. You wont fall asleep listening to him, he has his own show online so he's comfortable shooting from the hip, and anything but boring. He's on my short list. Let's find people who can speak.
2) Secondly, we're looking for experts. Someone who can deliver on a topic with authority. Andreas Antonopoulos is a great example. He always packs a room and commands respect when he speaks. He friggin KNOWS his stuff. He's not just a great at number 1, he also fits number 2.
3) Third, let's think outside the box. I'd like to hear from people who may have never before been to a Bitcoin event. Mabye they're an expert in a related industry or they've been talking about these technologies for a while but just not yet at events. An example of someone like this would be Max Keiser. He has a large following, he loves our concepts, and he'd pull a crowd all by himself.
Those are really my only criteria. They can't be boring, they have to have solid content, and let's think of some new options from the normal list we see all the time (with a few exceptions). Also, at this point, we're looking for people who won't charge a fee. This may limit us, but as of now we have to go with unpaid speakers, as most events are doing, in order to cover expenses. In following years perhaps we'll be able to afford to pay big fees for celebrity speakers. The interest level is high enough right now that the least of my concerns is getting enough speakers, rather just narrowing it down to the very best. There won't be a boatload of speakers at our event, likely under 20, and only one speaking track, so we need to make it count.
With all that said, who would YOU love to see speak? Who do you currently listen to (notice I didn't say read). Who have you seen in person or on video/audio who's a frickin rock star and needs to be at this event?
Go...
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I agree with you about Andreas Antonopoulos, and he would be my first choice.
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Stefan Molyneux !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs6F91dFYCs
I love him and his show
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@Brian
I haven't heard Tuur Demeester speak, but I know that he has a paid subscription investing newsletter and would bring the attention of a sizable number of cryptocoin-savvy investors from multiple countries with him. I first met him at the 2012 Bitcoin Conference in London where he was a regular attendant. He has progressed since then to a speaker at events and a guest on Max Keiser.
I gather that he spoke at the Texas Bitcoin Conference. Did you hear him? How is his delivery?
I also think he would make a good "sharktank" judge.
Tuur Demeester
Founder, Adamant Research
Tuur Demeester is owner of Adamant Research, a research firm focused on how to invest and live a free life in the new world. His subscription based newsletter MacroTrends was the first in the world to consistently recommend Bitcoin as an investment, from january 2012 at $5. He's also an investor in the Austin based Bitcoin Mining company CoinTerra.
After reading Ludwig von Mises' Human Action as a student, Tuur decided to drop out of university and pursue his studies in a self-directed manner. He co-founded the Murray Rothbard institute in 2007 and later translated Jesus Huerta de Soto's Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles into Dutch. He also co-founded two private Sudbury schools, one in Belgium and one in the Netherlands. Tuur has lived in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Chile and Argentina, speaks or mumbles in six languages, and has traveled to over thirty countries.
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+5% I think you guys are on the right track with Stefan Molyneux and Andreas Antonopoulos.
As for additional suggestions, what about someone like Jeff Berwick?
He posted this on a blog post awhile back found here:
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/5/2/my-official-withdrawal-from-the-bitcoinatm-project.html
I am now focusing more of my efforts on less physical ventures that will be much harder to be controlled by governments and central banks. Things such as a P2P bitcoin exchange, similar to Mt. Gox, but without any central servers. And many more.
In this vein, if you or anyone you know is one of the top percentile programmers and theorists in P2P protocols please contact us here at TDV.
Bitshares seems ideal for what he's looking for.
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Ron Paul
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Ron Paul
I open this thread to write this name.
I heard Tuur speak at the Lat Am BTC conference, I am not sure he fits the bill, more analytical than inspirational.
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Ron Paul
I open this thread to write this name.
I heard Tuur speak at the Lat Am BTC conference, I am not sure he fits the bill, more analytical than inspirational.
Yes, he would be better as a Sharktank judge than as a motivational speaker. But it would be very good to get him involved because of his following.
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Another possible candidate would be economist and writer Bob Murphy. He's extremely knowledgeable and even spoke at at the Texas convention.
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Some great suggestions...I'm going to have to look a few of these up.
Also, think of people who may already be in Vegas. They'd be easier to get to say yes since we're on thier turf... all they have to do is drive over for an hour. Tony Hsieh of Zappos comes to mind. I met him many years ago (before he did the Amazon deal) at a conference and the dude has a ton of great content. he could talk about what it takes to lead people, for example. He's not in the industry, but someone big like this may just say yes because they're fascinated by our industry. We only need one "star" like that to draw a sold out crowd. Who else is in Vegas??
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How about Steve Wynn? His philosophy on innovation in business and hospitality is pretty good. He has been pretty outspoken against the establishment recently and could be a great convert.
Brian, I could potentially help contact these people also if you like.
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Ron Paul, Stefan Molyneux and Andreas Antonopoulos would be pitch perfect.
.. Peter Thiel
Throwing everything else I can think of out there:
Nick Bostrom, Kurzweil, (transhumanists)
Michael Connell - (bitcoin comedian? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQKEi2-0Ws))
Niall Ferguson, (historian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money:_A_Financial_History_of_the_World))
Julian Assange (wikileaks)
Rickard Falkvinge (pirate party)
Zizek, (philosopher/cultural critic)
Ashton Kutcher (actors?!)
Elon Musk, Larry Page, Richard Branson, Kim Dotcom .. (entrepreneurs)
John Carmack (game developers)
Salman Khan of Khan Academy (educators)
Paul Krugman (LOL!)
From TED talks (pretty random):
James B. Glattfelder: Who Controls the World
Geoff Mulgan: Post-Crash, Investing in a Better World
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
Peter Eigen: How to Expose the Corrupt
Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Our Own
Rachel Botsman: The Currency of the New Economy is Trust
Yochai Benkler: The New Open Source Economics
Robert Neuwirth: The Power of the Informal Economy
Auret van Heerden: Making Global Labor Fair
Geoffrey West: The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations
Rob Harmon: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing
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Marc Andreesen has been VERY outspoken with regards to bitcoin
..along with Fred Wilson (who testified at the bitcoin senate hearings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k9hdeyDynw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k9hdeyDynw)
Edit: Replaced video clip
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From TED talks (pretty random):
James B. Glattfelder: Who Controls the World
Geoff Mulgan: Post-Crash, Investing in a Better World
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
Peter Eigen: How to Expose the Corrupt
Laurie Santos: A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Our Own
Rachel Botsman: The Currency of the New Economy is Trust
Yochai Benkler: The New Open Source Economics
Robert Neuwirth: The Power of the Informal Economy
Auret van Heerden: Making Global Labor Fair
Geoffrey West: The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations
Rob Harmon: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing
How about Adriana Lukas? We need more women speakers and she's an expert in peer to peer networks. See her speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNwn49YuFa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZ7jEyaVFE
Someone contact her and invite her:
https://twitter.com/adriana872
Email: adriana@bigblog.net
Skype: adriana872
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I don't know where he stands exactly within the Bitcoin community, but I have heard Trace Mayer says very clever and inspiring things.
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
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I would love to see Sal Khan and what he thinks of these technologies for empowering the less advantaged of the world.
Andreas of course is an easy pick. Maybe some technical discussion by people in the field on source control and versioning/upgrading of blockchains in place - this is an interesting challenge to me.
I think contacting some of the "futurist" style speakers and opening their eyes to the DAC possibilities would be interesting. Maybe once they have had time to think about the tech they could talk about where we may be going (similar to the Mike Hearn talk about autonomous cars that's on YouTube).
Also any discussion of the economic ramifications of blockchain tech would be good. (Impact on trade, free markets, individualism, power shift to individuals, etc).
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I think no matter who you get you should require of them that they do a talk on the actual technologies we care about, and if they do not know about them, that they learn about them, so we don't get talks from some big-shots about something vaguely, but maybe, but not really related.
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Jeffrey Tucker gave probably the best speech in Miami.
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and CEO of Liberty.me, distinguished fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, and research fellow of the Acton Institute. He is the founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, serves as economic consultant Let’s Talk Bitcoin, and writes a fortnightly column for The Freeman and Crisis Magazine. He is author of Bourbon for Breakfast, It’s a Jetson’s World, A Beautiful Anarchy, and his upcoming book Liberty.me: Liberty Is a Do-It-Yourself Project and thousands of articles, introductions, and prefaces. Following his 15 years as editor and builder of the website Mises.org, he now works on building Liberty.me as a social network and publishing platform for liberty-minded individuals.
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Tom Malone. He is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. He talks a good deal about decentralized organizations and the promise that it can provide. I think if he knew about bitshares and DAC's he would fully support the movement and speak at the conference. I don't know if he's the guy thats going to pump you up, but I think it is very important to get support of academics.
Here are three short clips from youtube that illustrate his like minded approach to organization theory and harnessing the wisdom of the crowd for collective decision making.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI3fHkGNOpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fXbOkmlN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3GSaU9PVM
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
That's great. Really looking forward to your DAC proposal. Good luck !!
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Jeffrey Tucker for sure.
Jeff Berwick perhaps?
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I came up with the perfect speaker, can you Guess Who?
Lives close (Salt Lake City, Utah) to Las Vegas, owns Bitcoins himself, CEO of a well-known company that accepts Bitcoin, and stated why his company at the moment doesn't hold onto Bitcoins for more than a day because "There aren't any derivative instruments out there yet to hedge that risk, but we anticipate they will be created in one way or another."
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I came up with the perfect speaker, can you Guess Who?
Lives close (Salt Lake City, Utah) to Las Vegas, owns Bitcoins himself, CEO of a well-known company that accepts Bitcoin, and stated why his company at the moment doesn't hold onto Bitcoins for more than a day because "There aren't any derivative instruments out there yet to hedge that risk, but we anticipate they will be created in one way or another."
hmmm hard to get that one !!! But would be nice if it could happen.
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I came up with the perfect speaker, can you Guess Who?
Lives close (Salt Lake City, Utah) to Las Vegas, owns Bitcoins himself, CEO of a well-known company that accepts Bitcoin, and stated why his company at the moment doesn't hold onto Bitcoins for more than a day because "There aren't any derivative instruments out there yet to hedge that risk, but we anticipate they will be created in one way or another."
hmmm hard to get that one !!! But would be nice if it could happen.
+1
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I came up with the perfect speaker, can you Guess Who?
Lives close (Salt Lake City, Utah) to Las Vegas, owns Bitcoins himself, CEO of a well-known company that accepts Bitcoin, and stated why his company at the moment doesn't hold onto Bitcoins for more than a day because "There aren't any derivative instruments out there yet to hedge that risk, but we anticipate they will be created in one way or another."
hmmm hard to get that one !!! But would be nice if it could happen.
Great idea.
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Jeffrey Tucker gave probably the best speech in Miami.
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and CEO of Liberty.me, distinguished fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, Executive Editor of Laissez Faire Books, and research fellow of the Acton Institute. He is the founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, serves as economic consultant Let’s Talk Bitcoin, and writes a fortnightly column for The Freeman and Crisis Magazine. He is author of Bourbon for Breakfast, It’s a Jetson’s World, A Beautiful Anarchy, and his upcoming book Liberty.me: Liberty Is a Do-It-Yourself Project and thousands of articles, introductions, and prefaces. Following his 15 years as editor and builder of the website Mises.org, he now works on building Liberty.me as a social network and publishing platform for liberty-minded individuals.
+5%. Agreed... He added polish to the Miami conference and gave an engaging presentation. He would be my first choice for MC.
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
Will you be honoring the social contract?
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Three top motivational, free thinking, futurist, fighting the good fight and winning:
Michael Tellinger founder of The UBUNTU Party and contributionism movement
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funds-for-the-ubuntu-party-to-participate-in-the-south-african-elections (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/funds-for-the-ubuntu-party-to-participate-in-the-south-african-elections)
Foster Gamble founder of the "Thrive Movement" and heir to the Proctor Gamble fortune.
http://youtu.be/OibqdwHyZxk (http://youtu.be/OibqdwHyZxk)
John Mackey founder of Whole Foods and Conscious Capitalism
http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/aboutus (http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/aboutus)
http://youtu.be/5CXrrwOktmQ
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Tom Malone. He is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. He talks a good deal about decentralized organizations and the promise that it can provide. I think if he knew about bitshares and DAC's he would fully support the movement and speak at the conference. I don't know if he's the guy thats going to pump you up, but I think it is very important to get support of academics.
Here are three short clips from youtube that illustrate his like minded approach to organization theory and harnessing the wisdom of the crowd for collective decision making.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI3fHkGNOpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9fXbOkmlN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3GSaU9PVM
My opinion is we definitely want a focus on academia and to try to avoid the political theater atmosphere. Politics are a point of attack and to foster a political atmosphere this early could come back to haunt the Bitshares community as the media will present it like we are all birds of a feather.
Try to be inclusive of everyone with good ideas, promote an inclusive atmosphere from the first conference because one of the arguments we hear is that these sorts of conferences always have the same people or same sort of demographic.
You need media reps, you need academics, you need professionals and entrepreneurs, you need some artists. Avoid mixing any specific flavor of politics with distributed finance.
Do we know any artists who want to make use of this technology? I'm sure we can find at least one artist if there is going to be Bitshares Music. If we can't then how about we start approaching them now?
John Mackey founder of Whole Foods and Conscious Capitalism
http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/aboutus (http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/aboutus)
http://youtu.be/5CXrrwOktmQ
Jack Mackey, a very politically controversial figure. If the goal is to foster a feeling of broad acceptance of future Bitshares products if you're going to invite Jack Mackey you could end up in a situation where you're preaching to the choir in a sense while alienating Bitshares from all of the people who disagree with what Jack Mackey has said.
The person you want to invite is the CEO of Overstock Patrick M. Byrne, he's politically controversial but in a far more populist way. He's taking on Wall Street, people can relate to that and he's come out saying he's a Bitcoin user.
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
Will you be honoring the social contract?
Of course. It is what I believe in.
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Will you be honoring the social contract?
Of course. It is what I believe in.
(http://s29.postimg.org/dupkmav7n/HALLELUJAh.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/dupkmav7n/)
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
Will you be honoring the social contract?
Of course. It is what I believe in.
Can't wait to hear more!
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Dang guys...this is an impressive list! Now to narrow it down. I'm sure a lot of these people may just say yes becasue no one has yet given them a platform or asked them to speak on the subject. I'm non stop on the site work and videos right now but most of my focus will be on finding speakers once the new sites are up (not much to show them right now). Keep submitting ideas, and youtube links help. b
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I would love to speak at the conference! My goal is to speak about the future of decentralised gaming applications and present my DAC to the community. I am still finalising draft proposals to submit to the shark tank.
I will be in touch during the following weeks.
Will you be honoring the social contract?
Of course. It is what I believe in.
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Also, think of people who may already be in Vegas.
Penn Jillette
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The suggestions above are excellent! Even the speakers whom I find intensely irritating are outstanding choices, given their wide appeal.
We've seen enough Washington DC insiders at these events, and there's little point in making Beyond Bitcoin yet another stop on the Bitcoin Usual Suspects Tour.
Above all, you want to avoid speakers who seem to think that the Known Universe ends at the US border. Perhaps reach out to the Bitcoin communities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico; if not for speakers, definitely for attendees.
Maybe get the guys from Blueseed (https://blueseed.co/) to come pitch their idea and learn about BitShares.
Sarah Meiklejohn (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/05/follow-the-bitcoins-how-we-got-busted-buying-drugs-on-silk-roads-black-market/) might be fun. I haven't heard her speak, but she's a Southern California academic who has the ears of a lot of interesting people.
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Any idea on when this thing is actually gonna go down and how much it's gonna cost?
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All details will be available when the new site goes live Mar 21 at beyondbitcoin.org Dates are July 18-20 in Las Vegas. B
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All details will be available when the new site goes live Mar 21 at beyondbitcoin.org Dates are July 18-20 in Las Vegas. B
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link to the video of the presentation. The Overstock Bitcoin -shares comment starts at 0:59m:18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bkf04kQw1YU#t=3558
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link to the video of the presentation. The Overstock Bitcoin -shares comment starts at 0:59m:18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bkf04kQw1YU#t=3558
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The guy said if someone has a technology he wants to be called.......................