so last year i remember i didn't go last year but obviously i watched the video afterwards and then
there was a lot of big announcement the biggest one last year was el salvador a small country uh
adopting bitcoin as their standard and obviously we've all seen how that's played out and it's
really cool are there is there something are there going to be announcements like that this year
oh yeah and so look obviously i'm not allowed to like talk about a lot of what's happening but
here's what we're told i'll just give you like kind of the teaser just just tell me man
no one's watching my soil i don't have any subscribers um there what we're told
is that it's going to make last year's uh announcement just kind of like baby cakes
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so you know let let's do it george mchale director of marketing of btc inc the parent company of
bitcoin magazine and bitcoin conference author of thank god for bitcoin george thank you for coming
on today and i am getting comfortable uh joining your you on the show so good good to be back
you're a regular at this point right feels good yeah all right let's jump into it just uh you know
big picture let's start it off i've heard about this bitcoin conference i think it's the biggest
one the biggest bitcoin conference in the world what exactly is it all right well the bitcoin
conference in miami is a four a day extravaganza uh it is going to be crazy i mean we are
oh man i've been like not sleeping i don't see these bags under my eyes but uh just getting
ready for this so by the way altcoin daily uh crowd is buying a lot of tickets i'm seeing your
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us in miami four days april 6th through the 9th april 6th is industry day we can start there so
industry day is really geared towards people who are interested in either being a part of
the the bitcoin ecosystem whether you're starting a business or you're already a part of a business
or you're looking to get a job or get hired or get an investment like whatever it is from a from an
enterprise or industry standpoint that day is for you so a lot of great content all of our stages
will be packed and then our exhibitor hall with uh 400 plus companies will be there showing off
new products making big announcements all of that kind of stuff takes place on industry day
then uh ga day one general admission on april 7th that's going to be the main event basically
and that's going to be a jam-packed schedule with all of our headliners
people like president naib buchelli from el salvador will be in the house given a keynote
people like jordan peterson jack mallors all sorts of names you can see the whole
list of speakers on our website it's almost just like ridiculous how many people we have
uh coming to to share their insights the top names in the space so ga day two is april 8th
again if you if you buy a ga pass you get access to april 7th april 8th and april 9th um
april 9th is the sort of the the close out of the event that's our sound money fest first
ever bitcoin music festival featuring artists like logic dead mouse uh cl and folks like that
uh we also have uh safety animosis uh book launch party for the fiat standard so he'll be there
uh he'll be signing books at the event and i'll be kicking off his book launch party sound money fest
we also have comedians uh sound money fest people like hannibal burris and a few other names that
will be announced so um it's jam-packed i don't even really know where to like dive in but
that's kind of the highest level uh information right right so is this something that is
obviously it seems like it definitely is for people who've been in the space a while is
this also something for like new bitcoiners yeah definitely so one of our taglines is education
celebration hyper bitcoinization so those three things if you fall into one of those categories
that's really uh that really just indicates that this is for you so if you're brand new to the
space you're looking to learn about bitcoin there's going to be a ton of great content
for you not only to to learn about just like the technical aspects how to use bitcoin where to
get bitcoin but also just be exposed to other bitcoiners i mean 35 000 people is the number
that we're expecting we are pacing to sell that many tickets it's going to be absolutely
massive in terms of scale so you're going to feel like you're in a bitcoin disneyland
and uh not only like exposure to good education and bitcoiners but also all of the companies that
are going to be there all of our sponsors like all of the the biggest brands and the brands that are
just getting started in the space will be present so again if you're looking for a job if you're
looking to leave your fiat day job and get a job in the bitcoin space you must be in miami we are
having a job fair actually throughout the event it's not going to be like a traditional job fair
where it's like you know come between these hours or whatever all we're doing at the exhibitor booth
is the companies that are hiring are going to have a flag posted outside of their booth that says
now hiring so you'll be able to walk through the exhibitor booth and be like oh this person this
company's hiring and let me tell you there are a ton of companies that are hiring and looking for
great talent not just developer talent not just technical talent that's actually a really common
uh misconception is oh i i want to work in bitcoin but i don't know how to code or whatever man they
are hiring for every position under the sun these companies you gotta understand are flush with cash
a lot of them just close big financing rounds and they're hiring like crazy so um that's actually
one of my biggest plugs is like almost like forget about the amazing content and the party it's like
if you're looking to make a major life change and i can say this is someone who recently likes
seven months ago left my full-time p.i job to go work for btc inc and it's just a game changer you
know when you get to wake up every morning and you get to do the focus on the the thing that
you're passionate about and that you love so if that's you i would definitely encourage you to you
know make an investment in yourself we're actually encouraging employers sorry i'm going to go off on
the job for every second because it's so important um we're encouraging employers to if they actually
find a candidate if they find talent at the at the job fair to reimburse the price of their ticket
um three months after they've you know hired them and they've started wow they're ten years
so um so if you feel like you're you're a good prospect and you're actually hireable
you know there's a good chance your conference could be comped uh at the end of the day
do you have any advice on how to navigate the conference for somebody who's gonna go there
but there's just so many things you can go to or just you know how do i what's a pro tip for
somebody who wants to get the most out of this conference yeah so so definitely don't do what
i did last year which went like i foamed in last minute i bought my ticket like like three
days before the conference booked my flight last minute everything was way more expensive than it
needed to be and i know we're only like you know a couple weeks out or whatever now but
you know there's still time to actually have like a plan because there is so much to experience and
if you don't have a plan you're gonna leave the conference and you're like oh i didn't realize
that this person was speaking or this activation was happening over there we have 500 000 square
feet this is how big this venue is it's one of the biggest venues in the world miami beach convention
center so you probably if you come aren't going to see everything so you got to do your research
you got to do a deep dive on the website we have all the content all the information out there join
our discord server ask questions but really like pro tip is to make a plan um this year we're doing
an app so we'll have an app for the conference where you can actually see kind of everything in
in one place and you can um one of the cool features of the app is you can scroll through
the agenda and you can add stuff to your own sort of calendar that you want to make sure that you
don't miss and you can start planning out all of your all the things that you want to make sure you
see because we have five or six different stages happening uh it's like disney yeah it really is so
uh the pro tip is to prepare and to plan and to map out what you want to make sure you get it
accomplished uh be intentional about all of those things and then the second thing is there all
i've talked about so far is what's happening in the four days of the conference there's so much
happening during what's called bitcoin week in general in miami there's all of these auxiliary
events and after parties i don't know about oh bitcoin week so there's this is going on in the
same four days yeah the same four days and like i think the the the days that bookend the conference
there's there's auxiliary events so satellite events some of them are official after parties and
events that are sort of um uh run or we're involved in them in some way shape or form
and some of them are just completely grassroots type events people uh throwing after parties
and stuff and those are definitely a lot of fun but also just a great place to to meet people so
yeah plan plan out your trip for sure because there's there's a lot and it's overwhelming if
you just if you're if your plan is just to get on a plane and land and just kind of wing it
it's gonna be great you'll have a good time and there'll be there'll be plenty for you
to do but you might end up missing out on some things that you would regret later yeah
um so last year i remember i didn't go last year but obviously i watched the video afterwards and
there's a lot of big announcement the biggest one last year was el salvador a small country
adopting bitcoin as their standard and obviously we've all seen how that's played out and it's
really cool are there is there something are there going to be announcements like that this year
oh yeah and so look obviously i'm not allowed to like talk about a lot of what's happening but
here's what we're told i'll just give you like kind of the teaser just just tell me man
no one's watching right so i don't have any subscribers um there what we're told
is that it's going to make last year's uh announcement just kind of like baby cakes um
i don't know what that i honestly don't know what that means because i'm like
and some of these announcements are embargo to the point where i don't even know them i
just know they're happening i just know there's big announcements happening um we actually have
a special spot on our website where a company can come and say hey i want to make a big announcement
because this is the conference to do it right you're yeah it's it's the uh it's the largest
event in the world for bitcoin and so this is where people want to make their announcements so
if i had to guess it would be i'm sure at minimum another another country adopting maybe
that's just speculation um and uh and then on top of that i really don't know but what i'm told is
it's gonna it's gonna make last year's announcements look really small so
that's definitely happening i mean this is the nature of this event is that we
are going to make history so that's i don't know if it's priced into bitcoin yet but uh
i i anticipate some some movement for sure i have really high hopes then if you say i can't
tell you anything but you can casually say it's going to be on the level of a you know
small country adopting that's pretty awesome right and and you got to remember right so
i'm being completely transparent i don't i don't know the exact announcements that you
know we're being told are going to be made but i can tell you the hype behind those announcements
uh and listen i'm the director of marketing you got to take everything i say with a with a grain
of salt not financial advice no don't trust verify kind of thing but i'm just telling you this is
what i'm hearing from our sponsors everybody wants to get on the main stage and make these big drops
everyone wants to follow jack mallor's big announcement and buchelle's big announcement
and look the president of el salvador is going to be there in the flesh and he's even tweeted about
um his predictions and and sort of uh teased about the fact that he has a surprise in store for the
bighorn conference so at minimum we're going to have a follow-up for for from last year from him
cool now as far as musical guests i know you have a lot of good ones logic deadmau5
steve aoki or as far as speakers i know you have a lot of good speakers the famous ones like jordan
jordan peterson as far as like speakers or music musical performers who do you think people are
most excited to see so i mean i could speak for myself i'm definitely excited to see logic uh
i'm a logic fan i think run the jewels isn't it run the jewel i'm excited to see them too yeah
run the jewels will be dope murder beats will be there um if you are into kpop cl is a huge
kpop artist a lot of excitement around her um and then the uh the comedians who
i think have not all fully been announced yet but um i think i mentioned hannibal burst will be
there and a few others he's awesome yeah i don't think i can quite mention yet but stay tuned for
for more there's gonna be a whole comedy set um so people are excited about that i think that
uh you know jordan peterson people are stoked and some people are really pissed like and this
is the thing i tell people is like you can't have a 35 000 person event with 300 to 400 speakers and
expect that everybody is going to like everybody right there's going to be some people on this
lineup that you probably don't like you probably disagree with and i'm sure to tell you that's okay
in fact i hope that it challenges you a little bit because i think we need more of that in the
world we need more dialogue i don't agree with everybody i don't even i don't even necessarily
i'm not a huge fan of every single person that's speaking at my conference that i work for right
um that's okay they probably don't like me some of them i don't know but the point is it's a
massive event so there's gonna be people from all walks of life literally we have one of the most
um liberal constitutional lawyers and and and neil castillo doing a fireside chat on
the constitutionality of bitcoin and then of course we have republican uh senator
cynthia lummus you know so people from all walks of life all political persuasions
uh are going to be present and are going to be represented at this map
and this is a bitcoin only conference i think everybody's invited to go but you know you should
certainly be a fan of bitcoin specifically and you know don't go there to shill your nft project
is that is that fair george that is definitely fair and uh it's i can't stress this one enough
just because like i want everybody to have a good time and i want people to have proper expectations
and if you come into it thinking like oh i'm gonna learn about ethereum or whatever you're just it's
not you're not going to it's bitcoin only very intentionally very overtly um and uh the best good
because there's tons of great crypto conferences i think let's have one that's totally dedicated to
bitcoin 100 there's one a couple weeks before ours um world crypto con i think in miami
taking place but yeah there's there's a ton of those but yeah this one is bitcoin only
so come with that expectation oh yeah and one more thing i wanted to ask um there are different
packages that people could buy on the site um can you kind of like go over the different packages
definitely yeah so your ga uh general admission ticket is the kind of the standard baseline
ticket that gets you in again to three days of the conference ga day one two and sound money
fest industry pass is the next step up that gets you into that first day april 6th of industry day
as well as the subsequent three days and then you got your whale pass which is all four days
plus whale night which is our uh premium after party that pass is literally for wales so it's um
will michael saylor be there will max kaiser be there max guys is going to be there well uh
mike michael saylor is going to be there both i mean i don't know if they're going to be at the
like well night but the conference i can't commit them to i don't know which whales are going to be
a well knight obviously you can't give that information out no i can't but i mean look
whoever you consider in your mind a whale they're going to minimum i can tell you
that they're going to have access to that after party whether or not they show up
yeah that's kind of on me to to market it really well but wellness is going to be a great time and
i think that the whale experience overall is just like cream of the crop vip access to our
your own section in the deep um which is like premium food and beverage
you know open bar all that kind of stuff we got these go-karts that take you around this venue if
you're aware awesome um so it's just like the it's just the best overall experience it's also a flex
let's be honest uh if you're buying a whale pass you're doing it because it's like buying a tesla
model x right with the falcon doors because you want to flex on your neighbors who just have the
the wire or the model or whatever uh you probably don't need the falcon doors i don't know maybe you
do maybe you really like them uh but the whale passes if you can afford it it's gonna be it's
gonna be worth it but most people buy the whale house to be honest with you um who are investors
or who are looking to raise capital because that's where you're going to rub elbows with other whales
and other whales are looking to there's a lot of people that are coming to the this
event who have money to allocate towards bitcoin specific projects and so buying a whale pass is
a a way to basically make sure that you're you're getting um face time with with those people
and by the way it's fun to hang with the whales but you know we're men of the people general
admission pass you know that's where the the true peeps are going to be for sure absolutely and then
finally if you just want to sell money fest we have a one day pass it's 99 um and during sound
money fest just everybody knows the exhibitor hall is going to be wide open so you know everything i
talked about with the job fair will be in full effect all that kind of stuff so sound money
fest if you're just looking to kind of sneak in the back door for one day kind of peek behind the
curtain and see what's going on without spending a ton of money it's a great option as well cool cool
george thank you so much for coming on today you certainly answered all of my questions and
i'm looking forward to going it's my first year i hope to see you guys coming from our audience
hopefully we can meet you hang out with you and you can meet all your favorite bitcoiners 10 off
use the code altcoin daily linked below george final thoughts for the altcoin daily audience
i can't think of anything but the conference it's consumed my whole life so please come out
and celebrate with us because it's going to be a great time we are making history
and uh it's a crazy time to be alive we're going to be talking about this conference
just like we're talking about last year in el salvador making history this is going to
be no different we're going to have some different news but you don't want to miss
it so hope to see you in miami awesome thanks george all right thank you peace