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One rainy night last
November, hundreds of professionals gathered at a bar in Chelsea that
hadn’t seen much action in years. The prestigious Consensus Conference was
the following day, and every square inch of the place was filled with
people drinking, laughing, swapping cards and networking. These were men
and women of every age and ethnic group imaginable, and if it hadn’t
been for the heavy drinking (and flirting) one might think it was a
church group meeting for all the diversity present. And in a way, it
was, because they were all there to congregate passionately on one
subject and one subject only: Bitcoin.
Those who don’t think
Bitcoin is a religion should attend one of the hundreds of meetups that
happen seven days a week all over New York City. Here you’ll find
evangelists and doubters discourse passionately about the merits of
Bitcoin, Ethereum, the Blockchain and altcoins.
Meetup.com has over
4,300 crypto groups and over 1 million members worldwide. In New York
City alone there are over 30 cryptocurrency groups, and some have as
many as 7,000 active members. Groups vary in interest from general
cryptocurrency to more focused subjects like FinTech, Ethereum,
women-only groups, and groups for N00Bs (newbies), BitDev groups, and
groups for investing.
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Source: Observer (via Empire Report New York)
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