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Optimism reigned at Paris Blockchain Week

Careful optimism was the theme at this year's Paris Blockchain Week. Builders will build and the crypto community will keep going. Expectations for Paris Blockchain Week were relatively low considering the downbeat market conditions. However, Paris can always surprise you. Indeed, Conference halls at the Event were not nearly as empty or depressing as Consensus after the big crypto meltdown of 2018. People were present, and conversations were fruitful. (And yes, the croissants were, as always, delicious.) In 2022, the conference was held symbolically in Palais Brongniart, a building known for hosting the historical Paris Stock Exchange until 1987. This time, organizers managed to outsoar themselves and held the event right under Louvre in the elegant “Carrousel du Louvre” conference halls. Paris Blockchain Week 2023. Here's beginning pic.twitter.com/ZnmlhWcQpE — DavidSHLee (@davidshlee11) March 21, 2023 Evening side events took place all around central Paris, overlapping an...

ETHDenver 2023: Cointelegraph afterparty delivers a ‘packed house’ and other notable events

Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright and Rudy Takala discussed the recent events at ETHDenver on the podcast. In this episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, United States policy reporter Turner Wright and opinion editor Rudy Takala speak to listeners about their experiences at the ETHDenver conference from Feb. 24 to March 5. Wright arrived in time to interview industry experts, check out a “hacker house ” and watch developers go through the BUIDLWeek. Takala talks about the highlights of ETHDenver and how it compared, in his opinion, to better-organized conferences. The topics discussed by Wright and Takala include the logistics of traveling between different venues at ETHDenver and other events held the same week, general vibes among participants in various panels, and how the weather and altitude affected the experience of the two writers traveling from Texas and Florida. Takala also attended Cointelegraph’s afterparty on March 3. “I will say it was a packed house ,” said Takala. ...