To make crypto mainstream you need to have fun… shower and be generally presentable… and dress like a wizard. Oh, and then send bitcoin to the moon.
Those were some of the ideas exchanged today at the Bitcoin Builders Conference in Miami ahead of the Bitcoin 2023 Conference.
“People in crypto are not the most sanitary, I don’t know why,” Udi Wertheimer, co-founder of Taproot Wizards, said jokingly. “It’s just not always a very good experience to be next to crypto people. So we thought it was time to fix it. If we want to go mainstream and we want people to adopt crypto, we have to be presentable. We were like, okay, let’s shower people and we asked people to come into the Taproot Wizard community, we asked them to shower, dressed in a wizard costume.
Ordinals and BRC-20 were the talk of the event, with attendees saying new developments could bring back some of the fun some people have brought to other blockchains in recent years.
Fun is also a good way to go mainstream, enthusiasts agreed. The crypto industry is also eager to find new adopters amid declining interest, with cryptocurrency prices nowhere near their 2021 peak and the industry processing a spectacular parade of corporate collapses.
George Calle van The Block, Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at Coinshares, Muneeb Ali, CEO Trust Machines
Ordinals have recently led to spikes in costs and some have raised concerns about the blockchain’s clutter.
There were also very serious discussions during the Bitcoin Builders event, where panels chat about rollups and ZK proofs.
Aubrey Strobel, Host of the Aubservation, Udi Wertheimer, Co-Founder of Taproot Wizards, Joe Vezzani, Co-Founder and CEO of LunarCrush, Danny Yang, Founder, OnChainMonkey,
Wizards in the shower
Earlier this year, Taproot Wizards, an NFT collection, allowed people to complete quests to get their hands on a Taproot Wizard. One was dressing up as a wizard and filming yourself in the shower.
Wertheimer, speaking on a panel, estimated they had received about 4,000 submissions.
“I actually really like what is happening with Taproot Wizards and BRC-20s,” said Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at Coinshares. “Incredible things are all happening that are driven by people having fun, and it’s funny, someone asked me yesterday, what does it take to make a dramatic leap forward in Bitcoin adoption? And I said, ‘Honestly, it’s probably going to be something silly that looks and feels like a toy that makes people feel like Bitcoin is fun.’”
“Bitcoin is going to be fun again. We have people showering fully clothed to try and get a Taproot Wizards,” Demirors said at a panel.
Joe Vezzani, co-founder and CEO of LunarCrush, agreed.
“It’s all about fun,” he said. What is his project? He sends bitcoin to the moon in the form of an address carved into a lunar rover “about the size of a dog”.
The question is: Chihuahua or Great Dane?
© 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All rights reserved. This article is for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial or other advice.