Bitcoin Nashville Conference in Pictures: Orange Athena, Pink Suits, Polymarket Swag, Trump's Song

Surreal doesn't begin to describe the combination of visuals collected from last week's festival-style gathering in homage to the oldest and largest cryptocurrency, punctuated by former U.S. President Donald Trump's pro-crypto speech to an adoring crowd.

CoinDesk journalists Bradley Keoun and Danny Nelson attended the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, and documented their experiences in a series of dispatches and photos. Here's a visual journey through their coverage.

Surreal doesn't begin to describe the combination of visuals collected from last week's festival-style gathering in homage to the oldest and largest cryptocurrency, punctuated by former U.S. President Donald Trump's pro-crypto speech to an adoring crowd.

Attending the Bitcoin Nashville conference last week hosted by BTC Inc. was an exercise in sensory-overload management: Try to stay in the moment, follow the thread, and hopefully don't lose your mind or your wits.

A couple of us CoinDesk journalists were lucky enough to attend in person, and rather than write some hackneyed conference-wrap article that nobody would read, we thought we'd spare you the windy prose and just give you a glimpse of our journey.

While trying to take it all in, we had to simultaneously plan our strategy for how exactly we were going to cover former President Donald Trump's keynote scheduled for Saturday, the last day of the conference. The security around this particular speech was unrivaled in the history of Bitcoin and crypto conferences; it wasn't totally clear how or if we would be able to take laptops or good camera equipment inside, or if we would have the wireless connectivity to send headlines and file stories.

The conference didn't start till Thursday, but the side events and parties were already in full swing on Wednesday. We went to the BIT GALA at the Nashville Parthenon, a 127-year-old replica of the ancient Greek temple. The carpet leading to the entrance was orange – the color of bitcoin – and the interior of the classical architecture was swathed in orange light, casting a glow on the 42-foot-tall (12.8-meter) meticulously reconstructed statue of the goddess Athena.

Just to be fair to the hosts of this party, the following image was taken before it really got going, but here's what the inside looked like. Later in the evening we had a 97-percent-confirmed sighting of Heather Morgan aka the rapper "Razzlekhan," who pleaded guilty along with her husband in July 2023 to charges connected to the $3.5 billion Bitfinex hack. (On Sunday, Jameson Lopp, a contributor to open-source Bitcoin projects who now serves as CTO of Casa, tweeted that he also crossed paths with her in Nashville, and separately we heard from a source that she was describing herself as a "Web3 advisor.")

We don't shy away from the clichéd people-taking-photos-in-front-of-conference-sign image that's so de riguer at these events:

Below is a view of the main Nakamoto Stage, where many of the biggest names spoke. Later in the week, this is the specific room that the U.S. Secret Service would lock down with its own separate security check, in advance of the scheduled appearances on Friday of the independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Trump on Saturday.

We headed over to the Bitcoin Builders conference, sponsored by the Bitcoin smart-contracts layer project Stacks, held on the upper floors of an enormous bar called Acme Feed & Seed. They had an omelette station and offered hummus-and-vegetable cups. We chatted briefly with David Tse, the Stanford University engineering professor who co-founded Babylon, a Bitcoin staking protocol, and afterward I moderated a panel on Bitcoin DeFi, featuring projects working on stablecoins, swaps and staking.

We headed back to the main conference venue and took a spin through the expo hall. There were all sorts of solutions being offered.

Bitcoin artists displayed their works bazaar-style, and as part of a gallery.

We just randomly walked past this seminar being taught by Bitcoin Lightning protocol engineer Lisa Neigut, who is also co-founder of the Bitcoin++ developer conference. We had no idea what was going on at the time, and had to scurry away for another appointment, but Neigut explained afterward in a Telegram message that this was an instructional game she invented called "Bitcoin LARP."

Here are two completely different ways of pulling off a pink suit:

This guy went Dogecoin on the bottom, Bitcoin on the top:

RootstockLabs の共同創設者である Adrián Aidelman と 1 対 1 で話をしました。チームはフェアゲートと協力し、メインのビットコインネットワーク上で、SNARK証明（多くのブロックチェーンシステムにおける強力な暗号方式）を対話的に検証するという技術的ブレークスルーに成功したと発表したばかりでした。

私たちはマラソン デジタル ホールディングス CEO のフレッド シール氏に会い、オープンソースのビットコイン開発者に資金を提供する際の課題について簡単に話をしました。

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