- DL News attended the EthCC conference in Cannes this year.
- The split between the blockchain’s cypherpunk and corporate fans was hard to miss.
- Conference side events were still the biggest draw.
This year at EthCC, the Ethereum blockchain’s premier gathering in Cannes held between March 30 and April 2, it felt like two conferences going on in parallel, people told me.
On one side are the cypherpunks, the privacy-loving industry trailblazers who want to use the power of cryptography to cut out middlemen and empower users.
On the other side are those looking to sell crypto and its products to the traditional financial world, sometimes by compromising on the ideals baked into the technology by the former group.
It’s the latest, and perhaps…
