ETH Denver Uber Driver

Greetings,

I'm an Uber driver in Denver, we recently held Eth Denver, a huge conference for our city. I'd like to share my thoughts as an outsider. A passenger asked about my experience with attendees and she found it interesting and asked me to share on this subreddit.

Firstly, as an Uber driver, I always deal with one asshole a day. I'm glad to report that I didn't have a single bad experience with you nerds over the whole week. Not a single passive aggressive remark or worse that I would normally get on the daily... Namaste.

I probably drove a total of 300 different people from the conference. I'm very chatty and am pretty well versed in the space for a seeming outsider.

I would say I discovered two types of attendees; career oriented workers and crypto fanatics. Career oriented people were interesting but shared the same scepticism I do. They consisted of developers hoping for the best because their career rested upon it. Surprisingly a lot admitted big personal losses due to gambling behaviors. I found it weirdly refreshing to share a somewhat embarrassing experience to a complete stranger as a warning. I got the strong impression that they saw crypto as a career path as opposed to a revolutionary technology.

Fanatics were more interesting. I expected them to share a cult like exuberance, which they did. The difference is the following: I was expecting a call to action, as with all cults, but instead I only received calls to education. I must have spoken to 200 + crypto fanatics, but not one told me what they were working on specifically. No company, specific coin or project was shared, nobody told me to buy x or invest your time in y. The only call to action was: educate yourself in the space, research your interests and think how blockchain could change it, join communities, share your values, find projects that align with your beliefs etc.. Are all of you degenerates the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama or what? Haha

I must admit the philosophy that was shared is refreshing and it seemed that everyone was trying to 'help me' in an indirect way which I found sweet and non condescending. I've never judged a group of people as weirdly pacifist and revolutionary at the same time, and this gives me unreasonable levels of confidence.

After this experience as an outsider, I have come to the conclusion that crypto is an anti-cult, and IM IN.

Wish you all the best,

Satoshi... I mean ALEX THE UBER DRIVER

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