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Consensus, Coindesk's flagship event, returned to Austin, TX for the last time (reports are that the Convention Center is about to undergo repairs). They announced upcoming events in Hong Kong and Toronto after the past three years in Austin (pre-COVID times it was in New York City). With the predicted bull run underway, there was optimism in the air and money being spent: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1795832003520303108 Day one featured a lot of brands and commerce, with companies like Adidas discussing how they're viewing web3: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1795837625200431255 And how blockchain data is finally becoming important to artists and creators: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1795845267247583571 Then ARK's Cathie Wood said some negative things about the FED and made an announcement about her funds: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1795850700041195835 Magic Eden's head of marketing made an interesting suggestion that chains don't have to matter. Why shouldn't someone be able to buy and Ordinal with Solana rather than Bitcoin? https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1795926747034030416 Day two began with a debate between Messari's Ryan Selkis and Uniswap's Marvin Ammori. Ammori made points that the Democrats were turning to favor crypto and that it doesn't need to be a partisan issue. Selkis disagreed in the clip below and has initially been proven correct after President Biden's veto of the SAB21 repeal: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1796200758292967481 Switching over to a16z's Chris Dixon, he tried to explain how blockchain is just open source software and then lamented that it's ok to make a memecoin, but that builders will get shut down if they actually try to build something that's has any utility: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1796207367459049878 Next investor Nic Carter and Elizabeth Olsen (formerly of Xverse) both shouted out OP_CAT as the next Bitcoin frontier: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1796257275738214666 To finish the day, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. discussed how Bitcoin could stop wars, that transactional freedom is as important as freedom of speech, and that he'd like to see blockchain voting for elections: https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1796308615437148245 Finally, Ordinals and Runes creator Casey Rodamor talked about why he did it all! https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1796580687862210698 Although next year will have a different feel being in Toronto, rather than Austin, I'm sure we'll be back to give you the latest coverage!

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