Erin Nakamoto / AnarchoVegas
Erin Nakamoto on the AnarchoVegas crypto conference
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Today on blockchain interviews we speak with Erin Nakamoto, the Co-Founder of the AnarchoVegas conference in Las Vegas, July 19-21st 2019.
- AnarchoVegas is a Liberty conference scheduled for July 20-21, 2019 in Las Vegas, positioned as more accessible than similar events in Mexico or other locations.
- The conference features keynote speakers including Jeff Berwick, G. Edward Griffin, and Larkin Rose, with panels covering cryptocurrency adoption, homeschooling, and independent media.
- All speakers and organizers accept cryptocurrency for donations and transactions, with tickets sold via the Eventchain platform using crypto payments.
- A Free Ross fundraiser party on July 20th will kick off the conference, with ticket sales benefiting the campaign for Ross Ulbricht.
- The conference aims to empower individuals toward self-ownership and financial independence through cryptocurrency as an alternative to government-controlled currency systems.
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upcoming anarcho Vegas conference that you are Co organising what is this conference all about I've heard of some similar things before but nothing really like this and how is a narco Vegas associated with crypto and blockchain as well so a narco Vegas is a conference a Liberty conference here on the west coast there are a few like Freedom Fest in Acapulco we went down to enter for
NRK zona just back in March so there are a couple of conferences that are popping up on the west coast and on the East Coast as well but really our conference I mean we really want to set it apart and break it down to really empower the individual a lot of Anarchy conferences their message is to you know rise above the state and try to figure out ways to
live their life with as little intervention as possible from the government and you know we also want to convey that message but ideally we really want to empower the individual to have them realize that we all own ourselves so we're trying to put a speaker panel together or a speaker speaker lineup together and it basically shows people that these people are
everyday people who just decided to make a decision and go out and do something that changes the world around them so that's kind of the message that we are trying to get out it's going on July 21st or I'm sorry July 20th to 21st and it's right after Freedom Fest so I hope that answered your question that kind of went on a little bit of a tangent yeah
that's awesome that's great and I've heard of a narco poco in Acapulco haven't heard of Freedom Fest but that sounds interesting is that nearby as well and I as it is there a little bit of a different twist with a narco Vegas then there then you would find out like Acapulco I could see there being definitely a different crowd being in Vegas and a lot closer to the northern
states and just sort of a central point in America yeah so there are a lot of cool first of all in Acapulco is every time you Aryan it's the best Liberty Conference that I am personally ever been to I go every single year I'm a huge fan Jeff Berwick and I are are good friends and so I'm very very supportive of what they're doing over there however there are a lot of people who either
live outside of the United States or in the United States who either don't want to fly to Mexico they're you know of course there's rumors about Mexico and people just feel very uneasy you know or it's too expensive or whatever the case is a narco Vegas kind of brings it to a different stand point where it's easier to travel it's in an accessible
city so you know we're trying to really capture that market that's great and now in terms of the speakers have you guys lined up some major speakers yet and what do you think the topics will be that the audience is interested in learning about at the conference so we actually have some awesome speakers I'm very very happy with our lineup this year as it being our first year I think
it's pretty impressive but our keynote speakers are Jeff Berwick from in Acapulco we have both of the Fifth Column he's a youtuber who has I mean he's an anarchist but he has this thing where he won't call himself an anarchist so he calls himself an artist without labels and so he's the Occupy Democrats page on Facebook often shares his videos because he is a message that
just goes far and far beyond the anarchists you know and I think he breaks it down Ahnold to a level where everyone can actually find some common ground so I'm excited about that one I don't agree with everything he says so for me I you know it's definitely a new voice that I really haven't heard before so that's a good one we have GM Earth Griffin who is the
author of creature from Jekyll Island and also Larkin Rose keynoting among many many others we have Benny wills as our emcee he is a poet and her former we have David Rodriguez coming to talk about homeschooling we have an independent media panel with all of the big independent media channels out there and we also have our cryptocurrency panel which I'm excited for we just just
confirmed his name is Tron black so with Raven Quinn so we're gonna be announcing him probably tomorrow and so lots of lots of cool speakers this year I'm pretty excited I wonder how we're gonna top it next year definitely that sounds like an amazing line-up of speakers and there's a lot more diversity than just the crypto and as you said you have a
crypto panel but there's all these libertarians authors poets that sounds like an amazing line-up in Vegas there so congratulations on adding that up so far I think you know everyone everyone is speaking at our conference is very very Pro crypto they all accept cryptocurrency as donations they all pretty much transact in crypto themselves and you know again our
conference is about freedom and empowering the individual and what better way to do that then then cryptocurrency cryptocurrency literally is our answer for self ownership and for getting out of that government rat race and you know just getting us out of the u.s. dollar so crypto is the answer and it really is the all encompassing factor
for our Liberty conference that's amazing and the fact that you take crypto as well for the tickets to get to the conference and you know you're able to donate to all of these main speakers is just amazing that everyone's on the same page so I'm glad that you guys are doing that it's amazing thank you yeah thank God for avenging so we are using your platform and we are
absolutely loving it you make it very very easy to track all tickets all information it's literally all there and of course we love the crypto component adds to it almost all of our speakers and attendees so far so thank you for creating this platform yeah it's it's it's gonna be good I'm very excited I hope that you'll be able to come out and join us
that's amazing Aaron I'll try my best and I'm also here a little bit curious about do you guys have any sponsors main sponsors of the event is it crypto related or anybody else that's putting their name on it and what kind of organizations maybe that they are hoping will show up at the event or what kind of people that hope to show up yeah so I believe a lot of our base is going
to be from like crypto blockchain so we do have a couple of crypto sponsor is we have a crypto title sponsor who I can't announce just yet but you should be able to announce within the next week but they are a crypto company we also have edge Wallet who's going to be there we have the coffee company called halal fuel and they accept like coin and they
actually paid for their table and like coin too so that's pretty cool we also have independent media press for truce world alternative media and then our platform float which is going to be the livestream partner for the event and something we haven't talked about yet is the free Ross party that we are throwing on the Saturday the 20th so that's going
to be a very big part of our conference so we're actually kicking off our conference with that party and ticket sales are going to go to free Ross campaign so hopefully we'll be able to help raise funds to help get Ross that's amazing Aaron and that's a great initiative to move towards especially with all of the cryptocurrency people backing it I know that's a very
important issue and it's a huge precedent to be set for all of cryptocurrency and just in neutral markets and things like that so that's it's a huge issue to tackle yeah yeah it's going to be interesting i don't know the topic for a crypto panel at the moment we're still trying to figure it out but we're probably going to touch on just how we can achieve
mass adoption I mean that's always a big topic I got a crypto conference Bitcoin conference Liberty Conference and so anything that you have to suggest for like a topic anything that your viewers want to hear let me know and we'll strongly consider that definitely we'll take a look in the comments section and see what the audience has to say and just speaking that the Raven coin team
is gonna be there already piques my interest so I could imagine that it would be quite the crowd that are looking for that kind of information so that's great and that's you just touched on that you know I was hoping to find out what you hope the attendees are looking to learn or will get out of the conference right and I guess crypto trends but also just about
libertarianism and the other topics that the speakers are speaking on ya know I know but well first of all we run the Las Vegas Bitcoin Meetup and so we have the largest cryptocurrency meetup here in town so you know what we're planning on doing is bringing all of our attendees into one room so they can ask ask our crypto panel their questions
and really I'm hoping that they'll just want to learn the differences between all the other cool projects that we have out there we have a crypto POS system to talk about mass adoption we have VIN Armani speaking on coin text I don't know if you're familiar with coin textio but basically you can send crypto to each other through SMS and so you don't even need an internet
connection so a lot of people you know who are very very new to crypto they always worried although what if they showed off the power you know and that kind of removes that out of the equation so that's that's a really interesting topic to talk about and then we actually have a company called B yov coming into town it's BYO salt was wand alt and anesthesia Serco
via I don't know how to say her last name it's very Russian but they are actually going to be doing in digital security workshops so basically teaching you how to secure your crypto assets against threats you know how to use a treasurer and how to how to just protect your assets from from being hacked or stolen so that's amazing Aaron swell it sounds like the conference is going to
thank you so much Aaron I'll leave that in the description box below as well for the audience and that's all the time we have but I really appreciate you taking the time to come on here and tell us about a narco Vegas that sounds like it's going to be a super great event and I am excited to potentially get there myself as well so all the best in the
pre event planning here and all the best so thank you so much for your time thank you awesome have a great night you
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