How Burning Man's Camp Bitcoin Became Camp Dogecoin
Black Rock City excludes buying and selling by definition. Rising from the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival, it's a temporary community where rental van logos are covered to avoid commercialism and where a bike ride might net you a free dance lesson or a grilled cheese sandwich from a billionaire, but no shopping. So what is a cryptocurrency camp doing at Burning Man, an event where even bartering is deemed too capitalistic? Relax. It's dogecoin. Late-model burgundy caravan. In the official Burning Man database, the camp is registered as Camp Bitcoin. But after hatching a....
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Part I can be read here along with thisCoinDesk Article on why we changed Camp Bitcoin to Camp Dogecoin. "What is this -- that Bitcoin bulls*t?!" were the words I awoke to my first morning at Burning Man. A large burly man declaring himself as "Papa Bear," who was also in charge of placement of our camp, came out with teeth bared. We had set up camp about 10 feet in the wrong direction, and he found an excuse to ream us out for not agreeing with his brain. Our camp organizer, Gary Lachance, instantly sprung out of his tent, fully postured to face the noise. "Camp Dogecoin," Gary said in....
Get out the marshmallows because this episode is intense, pun intended. Now, bear with us as we experienced technical difficulties with slight audio annoyance from Roman’s mic. Nevertheless, the content is pure fire, so hopefully those Airpods you got from Santa are retardant.sizzle* Roman Mandeleil from Ether.Camp moseies on over to the campfire to speak with the trio, about all things Ethereum. Roman uses our platform to discusses Ether.Camp’s most recent hackathon and his top 3 favorite projects. He goes on to explain his vision of Ether.Camp and its future goals. Listen to Roman....
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