{"id":29104,"date":"2023-05-09T20:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T03:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/bear-market-pushes-crypto-events-to-cut-fluff-prioritize-discourse\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T03:49:30","slug":"bear-market-pushes-crypto-events-to-cut-fluff-prioritize-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/bear-market-pushes-crypto-events-to-cut-fluff-prioritize-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear market pushes crypto events to cut fluff, prioritize discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=840\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2023-05\/7f54415d-9273-4ad2-8d86-d7fd4ba187b7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-6da673f8=\"\">\n<p>The extended crypto winter has pushed crypto event organizers to tone down on the lavishness, allowing attendees to focus on asking more \u201cintelligent questions\u201d about regulation and tax.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto conferences attract all sorts from the crypto space, from founders and high-level executives to crypto influencers and everyday users.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany Fong, a crypto vlogger who<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/i-never-opened-the-code-for-ftx-sbf-has-long-candid-talk-with-vlogger\"> gained fame interviewing former<\/a> FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried following the collapse of the exchange, is attending crypto conferences for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Cointelegraph, Fong \u2014 who attended both Bitcoin Miami 2023 and NFT NYC 2023 \u2014 said she \u201ccan\u2019t speak to how conferences used to be in the bull markets,\u201d but has been told by other attendees that it is lighter on the entertainment side this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople have named dropped huge DJs that have performed in past conferences during bull markets and point out that the parties and events are much tamer this year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fong isn\u2019t too \u201cbothered by this year being more tame\u201d as she believes the enthusiasm for crypto remains strong and is an opportunity to meet others in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over the weekend, XRP Las Vegas \u2014 a conference for XRP (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/xrp-price-index\">XRP<\/a>) fanatics and the \u201cXRP-army\u201d \u2014 took place on May 6 and 7 in the United States&#8217; gambling capital.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees showed \u201cgreat optimism over crypto\u2019s future,\u201d pro-XRP lawyer John Deaton told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Deaton, who has been an active social media commentator throughout the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/defending-against-sec-to-cost-ripple-200m-ceo-brad-garlinghouse-says\">Ripple lawsuit<\/a>, said XRP fans were asking \u201cwell thought out, intelligent questions\u201d at the conference. Still, he could sense the frustration in their questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t classify their emotion as one of fear but frustration because it shouldn\u2019t be this difficult or take this long to achieve regulatory clarity in the United States.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Deaton further added that the frustration was towards<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/what-the-gensler-hearing-means-for-us-crypto-regulation-and-policy\"> the SEC chair Gary Gensler\u2019s<\/a> \u201cregulation by enforcement\u201d approach to crypto, following the SEC taking action against several crypto firms in recent times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s taken 2+ years to finally meet in person, but today I was blessed to spend some time with The Legend, The Marine, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaryGensler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GaryGensler<\/a>\u2019s worst nightmare; one badass, ethical, skilled lawyer with 75,000+ unpaid research assistants.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnEDeaton1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnEDeaton1<\/a> is such a force of nature, he\u2019s a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zwOeSxDIFV\">pic.twitter.com\/zwOeSxDIFV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Cunningham | KUWL.show (@KuwlShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KuwlShow\/status\/1655008254077050880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regulation appears to be top of mind for the crypto community in Australia too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/paris-blockchain-week-2023-latest-updates-by-cointelegraph\"><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Paris Blockchain Week 2023: Second day of the summit kicks off<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regulation was \u201cby far\u201d the most popular point of discussion among attendees at Binance Australia\u2019s most recent meetup event on May 3, according to Ben Rose, general manager for Binance Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Rose told Cointelegraph that crypto tax was another topic that had a high level of interest from attendees.<\/p>\n<p>He added that there is still \u201cinterest from the crypto-curious\u201d despite the bear market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMore recently there\u2019s been a lot of newcomers attending asking beginner-level questions, which is encouraging.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rose emphasized that Australian crowds are starting to get excited about \u201ca potential bull run [given] the price of Bitcoin has crept up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine:<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/pro-xrp-lawyer-john-deaton-10x-more-into-btc-4x-more-into-eth-hall-of-flame\/\"><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Pro-XRP lawyer John Deaton \u201810x more into BTC, 4x more into ETH\u2019: Hall of Flame<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"crypto_biz\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bear-market-pushes-crypto-events-to-cut-fluff-prioritize-discourse\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extended crypto winter has pushed crypto event organizers to tone down on the lavishness, allowing attendees to focus on asking more \u201cintelligent questions\u201d about regulation and tax. Crypto conferences attract all sorts from the crypto space, from founders and high-level executives to crypto influencers and everyday users. Tiffany Fong, a crypto vlogger who gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,56],"tags":[721,13,1256,8595,3913,8594,28,4136,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}