Samooves

I spent so much time in crypto before realizing I had no idea who was actually behind it… sounds strange, right? 👀 for a long time, Web3 was just a screen to me: charts, wallets, transactions, anonymous accounts, random conversations on X thousands of people interacting every day, yet most of them were nothing more than usernames and profile pictures, and honestly, I never thought much about it until I attended my first Web3 conference🥶 I still remember how strange it felt to walk into a room full of people I’d only ever known through the internet… > the anonymous accounts suddenly had faces, the people behind those daily posts had actual stories, and the industry I’d been following through a screen was standing right in front of me > developers, traders, founders, creators, investors: people from completely different countries, backgrounds, and walks of life > some had been building for years, others were just getting started, some were there to talk business, while others simply wanted to meet people who understood their obsession with this internet industry and somehow, everyone had something to talk about 😅 that was the moment my perspective on Web3 changed, because I realized something I’d completely overlooked we spend so much time talking about decentralization that we sometimes forget about the people who make it possible since then, I’ve attended more conferences, met people I never would’ve crossed paths with otherwise, and had conversations that stayed with me long after the events ended 👉 these six photos are from different moments along that journey, and looking at them now, I realize that what started as an interest in technology became something much bigger a community of people who might have absolutely nothing in common outside of Web3, yet somehow speak the same language when they come together and that’s what makes the idea behind @MEXC Bitcoin Whitepaper Day interesting to me in 2008, Satoshi published nine pages describing a system that could work without a central authority, but that system was never going to build itself people had to believe in it, contribute to it, challenge it, and keep showing up so if I could add one thought to Page 10, it would be this: > Decentralization removes the need for a central authority, it doesn’t remove the need for human connection BTC showed us what people can build without relying on a single institution, and meeting the people behind Web3 showed me why they’ll keep building that’s the part of this industry no chart will ever capture what would you write on Page 10?