Pondering the early Bitcoin meetups, I have a question for anyone who was around then, ~2015-2018. My experience of Bitcoin and Crypto meetups now is dramatically different than in the past in very specific ways, and I’m not sure if the events changed or if I did.
Did we always talk so much about social issues?
Now when I go to Bitcoin events (that are not my own) I try to discuss tech, but always wind up in discussions of social issues. I am particularly sensitive to this at the moment as in the past ~5 years I’ve been bombarded by people literally following me around trying to give me their asinine gender studies treatise 🤦🏻♀️
At the past few events I’ve been to I didn’t get too many insane lectures on why I should go home and have more babies etc, but it was just uncomfortable for me as I wanted to discuss tech and I was seemingly the only one who did.
Was it always like this and I was just less sensitive to it back in the day? Did we discuss a lot of social issues at BOB meetups? Or has it changed?
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