PorcFest 2012 -- Biggest Bitcoin event ever

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This post has now been translated into Spanish:

http://elbitcoin.org/en-porcfest-bitcoin-es-moneda-corriente/

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PorcFest ["porc" de puercoespín, un símbolo libertario] es el Festival anual de la Libertad, organizado por el Free State Project [Proyecto Estado Libre]. Cientos de libertarios se reúnen en un campamento en el norte de New Hampshire para armar carpas, comer, beber, comerciar, conversar y festejar.

¿Pero qué tiene que ver el PorcFest con Bitcoin?

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Thanks, elbitcoin.org!

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Better late than never:

Here are the Bitcoin interviews done by myself and Erik Voorhees on Free Talk Live while at Porcfest 2012

Roger Ver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDmAm5wbasU

Erik Voorhees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRRrJRhrlA

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I took a bunch of pictures at PorcFest myself. These are the Bitcoin-related ones. I even got a shot of the black helicopter. Enjoy!

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FIAT LIBERTAS RVAT CAELVM

Quote from: World on July 04, 2012, 02:56:53 AM

additional article
http://sussexcountyangel.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/porcfest-is-a-free-state-of-mind-or-an-ode-to-alternative-currencies/

Nice!

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additional article
http://sussexcountyangel.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/porcfest-is-a-free-state-of-mind-or-an-ode-to-alternative-currencies/

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Quote from: Daily Anarchist on June 30, 2012, 10:21:52 AM

Uhh huh! 180 LBS of shrink wrapped "bacon." I'll BET you were the biggest agorist business at Porcfest! Cheesy

Don't even joke about it! That shit took forever to weave & wrap up, LOL!

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Quote from: evoorhees on June 30, 2012, 11:22:10 AM

Quote from: Raoul Duke on June 29, 2012, 12:58:09 PM

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

Yes Burning Man, as an organization, has little concept of economics and money. It comes from their hippie roots, and is made highly apparent in the hypocrisy of banning money yet requiring payment of money to attend the event.

But it's worse then that. This year, because they are so ignorant of price mechanisms, they set a cap on the price of tickets and because there was (predictably) a shortage, they set up a lottery system to doll them out. This meant that groups of people got all messed up, because a group of 10 friends is not going to win 10 of the lottery tickets. It was a huge crisis this year, and a great example of why prices ought not be fucked with - if there are too many people who want to go, then charge more! Problem solved.

With that said, Burning Man is absolutely awesome as an event. I would love to go again, perhaps next year with a bunch of bitcoiners. Topless women everywhere and the best house and techno music I've ever heard.

It's really quite staggering how that the free-market hasn't yet toppled economic ignorance. Bitcoin gives me hope that it will.

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Quote from: Raoul Duke on June 29, 2012, 12:58:09 PM

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

Yes Burning Man, as an organization, has little concept of economics and money. It comes from their hippie roots, and is made highly apparent in the hypocrisy of banning money yet requiring payment of money to attend the event.

But it's worse then that. This year, because they are so ignorant of price mechanisms, they set a cap on the price of tickets and because there was (predictably) a shortage, they set up a lottery system to doll them out. This meant that groups of people got all messed up, because a group of 10 friends is not going to win 10 of the lottery tickets. It was a huge crisis this year, and a great example of why prices ought not be fucked with - if there are too many people who want to go, then charge more! Problem solved.

With that said, Burning Man is absolutely awesome as an event. I would love to go again, perhaps next year with a bunch of bitcoiners. Topless women everywhere and the best house and techno music I've ever heard.

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Quote from: Mandrik on June 30, 2012, 10:17:50 AM

One final note - BTC payments were less than 2% of our transactions so we have a ways to go. I'd say we got about twice as many payments in silver. I think cash will always be king at these events, but I'd love to see more growth with BTC.

I for one bought a half dozen meals from you with FRNs because I had neither cell service nor internet down in the barn. Sad

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Uhh huh! 180 LBS of shrink wrapped "bacon." I'll BET you were the biggest agorist business at Porcfest! Cheesy

Haha! Just kidding! I ate some of that bacon and it was deeeeeeeeeelish!

Hopefully next year I'll have a smart phone and can pay in BTC.

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One final note - BTC payments were less than 2% of our transactions so we have a ways to go. I'd say we got about twice as many payments in silver. I think cash will always be king at these events, but I'd love to see more growth with BTC.

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Hey, folks! I am the "baklava guy" and I wanted to let you know that we had a total of about 45 BTC transactions during PorcFest! Eight were from physical BTCs and the rest were via QR code on my BitPay deposit card. I think it's safe to say that George's Famous Baklava is the largest agorist business at PF. We took silver, barter, cash, BTC, and gold. There were a ton of pics taken during the event, but here are two of my favorites.

I'm a little silly Tongue

I was given the coolest shirt ever!

I made a meme out of this image and Epic Meal Time retweeted it a couple weeks ago:

That's 180lbs of bacon packaged and weaved into 320 5x5 bacon weaves. We ran out by Saturday morning! That's why we have this sign at our stand:

We filtered and saved all the bacon grease from the weaves we made and ended up filling our frier up with it for a couple days. So yeah, we are kinda crazy about the bacon!

Just wanted to thank everyone who came out to PF - especially our BTC customers! I'm a huge fan and am so happy we had so many transactions during PorcFest.

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Quote from: ben-abuya on June 29, 2012, 11:48:51 PM

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Quote from: kiba on June 29, 2012, 03:08:22 PM

Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

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Quote from: kiba on June 29, 2012, 03:08:22 PM

Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

And you are here posting about it....nuff said Grin

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Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

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Bitcoin meetup at Burning Man? I might be in for that...

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Quote from: bitcoinBull on June 29, 2012, 02:19:49 PM

Quote from: Daily Anarchist on June 29, 2012, 09:21:14 AM

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

Corporate tyrrany is just as harmful as government tyrrany.

Governments are corporations.

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Quote from: bitcoinBull on June 29, 2012, 02:19:49 PM

Quote from: Daily Anarchist on June 29, 2012, 09:21:14 AM

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I buy into good science, it doesn't matter who funded it.

If you're not a sceptic, you don't believe in good science. Time will show the truth, but it largely has. The computer simulation models used to support GW politics have been consistantly wrong in the short term, who in their right mind would believe that they could be inaccurate in the first few years and get more accurate in 100 years? Predictive simulations don't work like that, proven by the 'butterfly effect' theorm.

The irony is that the best long term weather predictive models that we have today are pencil/paper models developed in the early 1800's. The track record of The Old Farmers' Almanac makes these modern supercomputer aided models look like they were developed either by amatures or frauds.

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Quote from: bitcoinBull on June 29, 2012, 02:19:49 PM

Quote from: Daily Anarchist on June 29, 2012, 09:21:14 AM

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I buy into good science, it doesn't matter who funded it. The US government (other than funding some science) is doing nothing to prevent global warming, in fact they are doing much to accelerate it. Such as invading foreign countries (which increases the likelihood of terrorism, incidentally) to keep the oil flowing. The oil companies fund the climate change skeptics, but that's corporate propaganda, not science.

Corporate tyrrany is just as harmful as government tyrrany. Actually, its hard to know which is the bigger problem, given the revolving door for power-brokers between government and corporations (public and private). I think the real power structure behind the government is the private sector (eg the Federal Reserve, a private corporation whose board-members are all CEOs of private banks and companies).

Am I still a libertarian anarchist? Grin

Yes. You still sound like a libertarian and/or anarchist. The current form of government, which mixes corporate interests with public, is closer to mercantilism or fascism. Wanting corporations to play by the same rules as individuals is in fact necessary for capitalism to function properly.

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