Years ago I went to a crypto event in London where the old chain had a stand and loads of people from the community turned up so we practically took it over. I think a couple even came over from the Netherlands. In recent years the London community has been less active, but there may still be value in having a presence at such events. Tokenize:LDN was at the Excel exhibition centre in east London and @alessandrawhite and @mcsamm were both speaking there. I was not there to hear @mcsamm yesterday, but I made it along today.
I do not know the details, but some funds were made available for Hive to sponsor an area of the exhibition that featured a coffee bar and hot dog wagon as well as some Hive themed Christmas trees. I think @guiltyparties organised this and they also arranged VIP tickets for some of us, but I was not paid to be there and I paid for all my travel.
My travel was a bit of an adventure as I managed to get on the wrong branch of the Elizabeth Line and so had to take a couple of extra trains. Getting home was another story as there had been an incident that messed up loads of trains (see later).
As I arrived at the venue I bumped into @lordbutterfly and inside I found @alessandrawhite, @bitterirony, @adetorrent, @mcsamm and @collinz. I did not got any photos of everyone, but I know others did and they may do their own posts.
The exhibition was a mix of companies from the finance world plus developers. To be honest it was not that exciting to me, but then I am not their target audience, but I spoke to a few of them and of course I talked about Hive.
I think Alessandra was a little nervous about speaking, but she did really well. It was not a massive audience, but then it was not a huge event and there were several other stages. Her talk covered various aspects of what Hive can do. There was a question afterwards about how development gets funded and I helped field that.
We all spoke to various people there and some I met were quite enthusiastic. I did not create accounts for them, but they can find out about that via the updated hive.io site that @therealwolf has been working on. It has cool real time updates of transactions and blocks.
I do not know how you can measure the value of being at such events, but more people and companies will be aware of Hive now. We really more businesses to have a presence here.
Some of us went for dinner afterwards at the vegan restaurant Mildred's in Canary Wharf. I actually first met Alessandra and Devin in London almost exactly a year ago and we went to another branch of that restaurant then.
It was a fun day with cool people. None of us have massive power on Hive, but we can still represent the community and talk about the positive aspects. If there are relevant events in your area then it could be worth talking to people in the Hive Discord channels to see if can get resources like this.
As I mentioned the trains were a little messed up on the way home, but I did not have it too bad compared to others who may have been waiting around for much longer. I am glad I made the trip.
Hive five!
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