PilgrimB on Nostr: After witnessing the packed room of clapping seals while Mchael Saylor was on stage I ...

After witnessing the packed room of clapping seals while Mchael Saylor was on stage I started to think deeper about bitcoin conferences... I arrived later to the BTC Prague conference, I think it was around midday. I walked a few km's from my appartment, so I headed straight to the refreshments outside the main door. When I asked to pay in sats the lady was surprised, she told me it would be her first Bitcoin transaction. I thought this is unusual, Im here ay Europes biggest bitcoin conference and I am the first one to pay in bitcoin right outside the door...Anyway I proceeded to settle in lightning using my Bullbitcoin wallet but to my transaction failed. We tried several times and several other wallets but we could not get it paid! The kind lady at the stall with the delicious homemade food and drinks offered to get help from the company that supplied the terminals to look at it and I set off inside to find the Bull Bitcoin stand to also ask for help. I went inside to the corporate area I was overwhelmed it was like going back in time to the conferences I used to work at in the Uk 25 years ago. Bright lights, flashy stands and constant talking without feelimg the life I had escaped. Still on my mission to buy a bottle of water, I found the Bull stand and spoke to the first guy, he paaaed me on to someone else and I waited patiently. Long story short they told me their wallet was not compatible with the terminals there. No sorry, no solutions and no signs of embaressment at the irony of it all. Unimpressed I head back to the refreshment stand and the guy from the terminals is there. We go through some of the other wallets and it fails and he doesnt understand why but kindly pays for my water himaelf and leaves. There is a lot more I am going to say about the whole experience but for now I akin these conferences to the covid protests. An echo chamber where masses gather to let off steam, worship heros ans feel the hopium before returning home to hodl and pay in fiat supporting the system they oppose. I just want to leave you with the thought of a packed room appluading Saylors financial products, trillions of wealth coming to bitcoin and me a few hundred metres away unable to use digital cash to buy a bottle of water and nobody really caring about that.