I Expected a Wild Cast of Characters at a Crypto Conference. Nope.
I wanted to go to the Solana Accelerate conference as soon as I saw the trailer for the crypto confab.
The video ad showed “America” at a therapist’s office, where the country described its urge to innovate and was met with resistance from a “woke” therapist, who encouraged America to “channel this energy into something more productive, like coming up with a new gender.”
The ad was so over the top in its culture war stance that the Solana organization pulled the video a few hours later.
I was curious: Would the tone of the conference, which was late last week, match the ad?
Not really. I was surprised by what I found.
I must report that crypto has entered its boring stage. It’s no longer the wacky, eccentric,…
