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Two weeks before Bitcoin 2024, Trump survived an assassination attempt. Then one phone call changed the conference floor plan.
Justin Doochin of @_btcinc tells the inside story. Live now.
Justin Doochin, explains how the biggest Bitcoin conferences get built: Bitcoin Amsterdam (Nov 5-6, 2026), the new AI event i27 in San Francisco (Apr 22-23, 2027) and Bitcoin 2027 in Nashville (Jul 15-17). He tells the story of Trump and Bitcoin 2024, two weeks after the assassination attempt, how the Bitcoin 2021 announcement of El Salvador's legal tender felt in the room, and why the real conversations happen in the bear market.
ā± CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open: Trump, Nashville and a floor plan
00:51 Welcome to Season 6: the first English episode
02:53 Justin joins: BTC Inc's first AI event in San Francisco
05:42 From performance marketing to Bitcoin: a wedding in 2017
07:33 Bitcoin 2019: Snowden, the FBI and "make Bitcoin fun again"
08:42 What marketing teaches you about running a conference
09:59 Bitcoin Amsterdam 2026: what to expect
12:34 US vs. Europe: what changes in a Bitcoin conference
14:13 Sponsor break: Blockstream Jade, Bull Bitcoin and Umbrel
16:05 Same Bitcoin, different perspectives around the world
17:00 The Barcelona Cyber Conference and bringing Barcelona to Amsterdam
20:16 What attendees never see: 100 decisions a day
21:47 The calendar: Amsterdam, i27, Bitcoin 2027 Nashville, Hong Kong
23:41 What has to happen before Nashville
25:05 Miss Bitcoin's question: a Bitcoin pageant in Nashville
28:21 Juan's orange-pill story: Kaiser Report, his dad and El Salvador
33:15 Bitcoin 2021: when El Salvador announced legal tender
34:58 When things go wrong: Trump at Bitcoin 2024
37:43 How to tell if a conference helps Bitcoin: look at the bear market
39:18 What Bitcoin gave Justin
40:57 Closing
Miss Bitcoin (@MissBitcoin_) asked a question to the next guest on BitCorner: a Miss Bitcoin pageant at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville?
Justin Doochin of @BTCInc answers: "Let's do it."
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Reddit says its search traffic in October dropped by more than 1 million referrals a week on average, and its CEO says Google's AI search modes do not help.
If AI answers keep the click, who pays to publish? (via @verge)
Thrive Holdings, a holding company with OpenAI as partner, is buying ADT: $7.6B in equity, $15.3B including debt.
It already owns 75+ companies it wants to run with AI.
Is that the real business model for AI: buying old industries? (via @TechCrunch)
Amazon expects about $220B of capital spending in 2026, mostly for AWS, and 'meaningfully more' in 2027.
AWS grew 39% to a $184B run rate. Jassy: a trillion-dollar business in 5-10 years.
Who pays for all that compute: customers, or the power grid? (via @TechCrunch)
Source: techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/awā¦
Binance's first findings point to a possible employee laptop compromise, with no evidence of a private key leak.
A company-sized loss can start at one person's device.
For your own Bitcoin: which single device could move it today?
Source: news.bitcoin.com/security/biā¦
$81.5K ā $76.3K: Bitcoin gave back about $5,200 in roughly 13 hours.
Thursday a GDP beat lifted it. Overnight the Binance hack headlines pulled it down.
Macro up, custody risk down. Which one moves your Bitcoin more?
Strategy booked a record $20.91B of operating income in Q3, driven by Bitcoin's rebound. Revenue fell, and its year-to-date Bitcoin yield is still negative.
Saylor says a new bull market is starting. Paper profit or real progress? (via @BitcoinMagazine)
Binance says an estimated $6.3 billion left its wallets. Early findings point to a compromised employee laptop, and about $3B is frozen onchain.
Bitcoin dipped to $76.3K overnight.
How much of your Bitcoin still sits on an exchange? (via @BitcoinMagazine)
$6.3B gone from Binance. Most of it in ~20 minutes, across 10 blockchains (TRM Labs).
~$1.5B of it was Bitcoin.
Binance says a compromised engineer's laptop may be the way in. One laptop.
Not your keys, not your coins. š§µ
Sources (figures preliminary, as of 30 Oct 11:00 CET):
CNBC cnbc.com/2026/10/30/billionsā¦
CoinDesk coindesk.com/business/2026/1ā¦
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