 This special episode of the Bitcoin show conference edition is brought to you by MtGox, that's M-T-G-O-X dot com and bit-pay dot com that's B-I-T dash pay dot com and Mezy Grill M-E-Z-E grill dot com and Cablesaurus Cablesaurus dot com I feel like I'm ready to practice something, but it's not for me, it's for Bitcoin. We just all love Bitcoin, right? So, the difference between this and the internet is that you can buy some of it, right? Now I'm like multi with the marketing. But anyway, we love Bitcoin so, so, so, I don't need to tell you about that. What's really cool is that we are all here and we're getting together. And like I said, you know, everybody was like, how many people are filming? Oh, ten, it was going to be eight guys in a row staring at each other. And, but we had no freaking clue. But one thing I knew for sure from my experience was that Bitcoin people are very, very busy people. They're like the busiest people in the world. And I knew they would all register at the very last minute when they're boarding the plane, or even after they arrived. Like, I think more than half the people registered like last night. And like, either last night or they're like just showing up at the door, which is cool. It's all good. Thank God we got enough chairs. For those of you who were at the studio yesterday, you saw Studio One, The Big Room. That's where we originally planned to do this. We're going to have like little tiny voting chairs. I don't know what we were thinking. We didn't know. We had no idea. So, and I'll tell you this. Like, what was it like about a week ago? There were 19 people registered. So now I don't know. There's something like that. So it's a really great turnout. So I just want to welcome everybody to this and understand this is a historic moment. It really, really is. Obviously it's not the number of people that are here. It's the quality of the people, quality of the minds, and the quality of the conversations. You know, people are arriving Wednesday. I mean, if you're going to stay till next Wednesday too, so don't flip your return flight yet. There's a lot happening here. It's amazing, amazing, amazing. So, you know, the mind-melting and all that, I need to tell you. It's like kids, you know, being told they're all going to Disneyland. Everybody's just so excited. Last night at Hudson-Eatery, you know, it was just amazing. The energy was palpable. So, you know who I am probably, but it's not everybody else. So, only one TV is an internet television network. Ed and I actually, my partner, a business and life partner, Ed Gell, back there on the camera, and I started and we originally had an idea of like doing a talk show or whatever. And then it, like, five years ago, and it sort of like accidentally became a network because we couldn't both have a studio. We may as well do one-on-one show. And then after we got the studio, less than three months ago, we, Ed was like, all you do is talk about Bitcoin half the day, you know? And so, we were like, well, we should do a show about Bitcoin. We should have a show and call it the Bitcoin Show. And obviously, you know, now we're like known as the Bitcoin Network because now we actually have the Bitcoin Show every day at 2 p.m., when it's on time, whenever. We're like four shows a day of the breaking news because not much time can blow it up, whatever. But now we actually are enrolling launch of the Bitcoin Show in ten more languages. So, we're actually going to do three shows a day. One in English and two o'clock. And no, I'm not doing the other shows. I don't speak anything else but English. But we're doing, let's see if I can do it right. Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, French, Russian, yeah. They said Polish. Three more. They're Dutch. Arabic, yeah. I'm missing one. I can never get them off. But anyway, it's really, really cool. So, we're going to do two a day. And obviously, you know, I'm not posting them. It's mostly done by Skype, but some. Like, you know, we have local hosts for the Spanish show for sure. The Chinese show. A lot of people in New York are just fantastic. Of course, you have to get people from the Bitcoin community. You can't just make time to speak Chinese, a Bitcoin person. But it's really, really, really exciting. Oh, and then when we launched the Bitcoin show, like, suddenly we got like 16 new sponsors out of nowhere. So, they all went at the other Bitcoin show. So, obviously, it's really, really exciting timing because the Bitcoin itself is exploding. So, this is history of the making. I don't need to tell you. I am so, so excited and honored to be here and to see, to witness this. And I love you all. It's just so freaking awesome, right? Yeah. Right? Woo! I'm not going to make any longer this feature anything, but I have a couple of things I want to tell you about that I hope I sleep. And obviously, this first one is pretty obvious. This is not going to be the first and last Bitcoin conference. We're going to do another Bitcoin conference at World Expo in New York in 2012, down again. There. Yeah. Bitcoin conference in NYC 2012. It'll be here again October 18th to 21st next year. That's pretty obvious. You probably can guess that. But there's been also huge demand for a conference in Europe because, believe it or not, not everyone lives in America. So I just discovered this. We're a global network and Bitcoin is a global network and so we go hand in hand. So we are going to do a Bitcoin conference, Europe 2012, which is going to be in Amsterdam. Where else? June 13th to 17th. So that's exciting. Both your hotels now. We'll put the venue and we'll let you know. And also all of these details are going to be on Bitcoinconference.com. So obviously, in fact there, you know, when you've registered, if you weren't asked, is it okay to publish your information to that venue or covers of the desk? If it's okay to publish your information, we're going to put it on Bitcoinconference.com. So you can go on the network, even after the fact, you have emails or whatever you want to list there. But Bitcoin conference Europe, Amsterdam, June 14th to 17th, and that's not all because not everybody lives in Europe or in North America. So we decided that there's this whole other part of the plan on the other side called Asia. So Bitcoin conference Asia is going to be in 2012, even sooner. It's going to be in Pattaya, Thailand, from February 16th to the 19th. That's coming up. It's only six months away. It's really going to look this. We don't know the venue yet. It might be for seasons or for its Carlton or whatever. But trust me, it's nice. It's on the beach. And Pattaya, I don't know where that is. It's like, there's a brand new Bangkok International Airport. This beautiful world-class airport. Pattaya is closer to the Bangkok Airport than Bangkok, time-wise. It's beautiful. It's on the beach. So obviously, I had a little bit of say in picking the cities. These are my three favorite cities on the planet. New York City, Amsterdam, and Pattaya. Where else is there? So we're really excited about that. And if that's not enough, we have one more. And that is so exciting. This is for 2013. We decided that Bitcoin... See, you know, people are going to have private little millionaire parties especially before the My Bitcoin thing. When you become a billionaire, when you become a Bitcoin millionaire, you don't have to invite everybody or tell everybody that you're going to tell me and play me. You hear that? So anyway, by 2013, you'll probably be some Bitcoin billionaires. And so we decided to have, what? A Bitcoin world cruise. Now, this is not just any cruise. I have a friend who actually started the largest travel agency in the world. He's got it on every cruise on the whole planet his whole life. And he's old. And he says this is the best itinerary in the world on the best cruise line in the world. Because what else do we deserve, right? It's called Crystal Cruises, five-star Bitcoin world cruise. And it's Buenos Aires to Rio, February 26th to March 10th. It's already set up. There will be all the Bitcoin conference.com, all the details, but basically you just go to Crystal Cruises and it's group code G001 or group 1. How's that? You can hear over that. So, how's that? That's it. Oh, by the way, speaking of the t-shirts, we have souvenir t-shirts because Geeks love t-shirts, right? Yeah, we already have t-shirts. But anyway, you have to have a t-shirt that says World's First Bitcoin Conference. Anyway, they're $25. That's like the cost, you know. So, you can start from up over there. And also, you know, whenever you come up later online, let me see a show of hands. How many miners are there again? Okay, now how many of those? And how many people have known about Bitcoin? Let's see. Let's show of hands. How many people have known about Bitcoin since 2009? Three. Wow. You didn't buy any? Okay, that's kind of cute. All right. And so, how many people have known about Bitcoin since, like, November 2010? How about, like, say, what, April 2011? How many people have just learned about Bitcoin in the last month? Nobody's going to admit it. What's a Bitcoin? I'm going to explain a little bit about Bitcoin. Anyway, welcome, everybody. We're really, really glad you're here. We're really excited. So, let's get back to our breakout sessions, actually. So, if you want to, you see the list of breakout sessions that are listed there. So, if you want to just kind of, like, form groups, whatever, and just, you know, let this happen organically, right? What are the sessions? What are the sessions? Who has a schedule? Can we have a schedule? I have one. I have one. Maybe you can help me. Yep. Okay, yeah, that's great. Let's see. Bitcoin client development, back there by the exit sign. How's that? Let's start there. I'll go over here. And then mining hardware and software up here in the corner. Okay? And then, treating and exchanges we'll do over here in front of the big trade-off banner. And then merchant solutions. Come on over in front of BitBay. That would be appropriate. What do you think? And then, so those are the breakout sessions, but you can form your own, obviously. How's that sound? Okay. All right, great. Thanks for being here. A special thanks to our sponsors, the first Mt. Gox. mtgox.com. You know them by now. They are the largest exchange for Bitcoins. They are now taking the British pound, Australian dollars, and Canadian dollar, should be here any day now. The euro is now here with the BitOmat acquisition. Mt. 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