Next week's CoinDesk Consensus event needs an open, reasoned debate that includes speakers and attendees on both sides of hot-button technological and regulatory crypto arguments to successfully drive change. Opinion by mikejcasey
As with 2019, trading losses, along with slimmed-down marketing and travel budgets, will ensure a somewhat smaller turnout than last year, which drew a record 20,000 attendees from more than 130 countries.
Sure, the FTX debacle and crypto winter have soured mainstream opinion around this industry and, it seems, contributed to another major talking point of this conference: the U.S.But alongside that unprecedented regulatory crackdown, there’s also the background promise and anxiety stoked by the rapid encroachment of artificial intelligence into the broader digital economy.
A lot rides on what happens in the policy and technical development front over the next few months and years. So, it’s important that such a wide array of people will gather in Austin to discuss such matters – developers from all the biggest protocols, regulators and politicians from inside and outside the U.S., academics, investment professionals, retail investors, venture capitalists, institutional investors, creators, marketing professionals and everyone in between.
What bothers me about this is that if one side of the debate is absent, they cede ground to the extremists on the other side. Not turning up is the best way for those who want a more regulated industry to allow the “crypto bros” to dominate the conversation. A more intensified echo chamber is hardly what we need. Now is the time for people to come together and address their differences, to advance the global conversation around this technology. It’s not the time to hide under a rock.
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