Miami NFT Week is Here and Here are all the Details
Beginning on April 1st, NFT enthusiasts will descend upon Wynwood for Miami NFT Week. For 3 days, 250 lecturers, experts, and over 3,000 crypto fans will come together for discussions, presentations, and games all centered around NFTs.
According to the Miami NFT Week Co-Founder Gianni D’Alerta, “We are the kickoff event for Miami tech month. The main idea of the week is to really just celebrate NFTs and its culture because it’s beyond blockchain and tech.”
The event will take place from April 1st through the 3rd at the Mana Wynwood Convention Center. Mayor Francis Suarez, Mark Cuban, and VaynerNFT President Avery Akkineni will be among the presents for the event.
Mayor Suarez states, “As these technologies continue to evolve, Miami NFT Week is the perfect launchpad for developers, trading platforms, crypto projects and all of the Discord communities to come together and exchange ideas to support the growth and understanding of the technology.”
NFT week will come right before one of the largest cryptocurrency events in the world, Bitcoin 2022. Founders of NFT week hope to build and be as large as Bitcoin 2022.
Here is the timeline of events:
Day 1- Friday April 1, 2022
09:00 AM Opening Welcome & Introductions
09:10 AM Welcome/Importance of Miami Tech Month
09:40 AM A Voyage Through Vayner NFT
09:45 AM Building Value On-Chain
10:15 AM Tradestation – Fireside Chat
10:45 AM Take the NFT Trip presented by Tripsters
11:00 AM The Secret to NFT Utility
11:30 AM Digital Future of Miami
11:40 AM Music is the strongest form of magic
12:00 PM Web 2 You Vs Web 3 You
01:00 PM Lunch Break
02:05 PM How NFT’s are Building New Economies
02:35 PM Fireside Chat
02:50 PM Protecting your Intellectual Property / Data
03:25 PM Disrupting Real-estate through Blockchain
03:40 PM What’s in Your Wallet
04:10 PM Marketing Entertainment NFTs & how their funded
05:15 PM Fire Side Chat
07:00 PM After Party
Day 2-Saturday April 2, 2022
09:00 AM Welcome to Miami NFT Week – Day 2
09:10 AM Founding Fathers of Miami NFT Week
09:30 AM Wax onchain Wax offchain
09:50 AM Why Web 3 Matters?
10:20 AM Beach Bums Vs Exotic Apes
11:05 AM The Digital Revolution: From Gaming to Commerce
11:35 AM Gamification Expert / Metablox Founder
11:55 AM Would you buy a home in the Metaverse?
12:25 PM Why Web 3 Matters
02:00 PM Fireside Chat with Special Guest
02:50 PM Future of Metaverse Marketing of Brands
03:05 PM How Blockchain Innovation Leads to Successful Projects
03:35 PM More than Skin Deep Fashion & Beauty in Web 3
04:05 PM How Blockchain & NFT’s Disrupt Art, Games, Music
04:35 PM Impact of NFTs on the World
05:05 PM Redefining Fandom
05:40 PM Marketing your NFT project
07:00 PM After Party
Day 3 Sunday April 3, 2022
02:10 AM Blockchains Change the Game
09:00 AM Welcome to Miami NFT Week Day 3!
09:30 AM LATAM Building Value for your Community
10:00 AM Presentation
10:15 AM Leveraging Tokenomics for HODLers
10:50 AM How to DYOR before Investing in NFT’s
11:25 AM Don’t Fall for the FOMO
12:00 PM More than a Drop: Building Brands through NFTs
12:30 PM Fine Art Finds Art
01:00 PM Lunch
02:40 PM Venture Onchain
03:15 PM How We Built It
03:45 PM Just DAO it
04:15 PM Let the Games Begin
04:45 PM Gaming Sports VC PFP Crypto IP Fin EDU
05:20 PM When Web 2 & Web 3 Collide
07:00 PM After Party
For more information on speakers, travel information, and tickets click here.
Announced: Bitcoin Conference Miami Beach April 6-9 2022
For the 2nd year, the International Bitcoin Conference is coming back to Miami Beach and it will be bigger than the last day. Stretching over 4 day, this event will introduce cryptocurrency experts, investors, and industry leaders through panel discussions, Q&As, lectures and much more. On the last day, a music festival, the “Sound Money Fest” will take place with some major headliners.
This year the Bitcoin Conference will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Center form April 6-9, 2022. This week long event is dedication to the education of the Bitcoin ‘ecosystem’ through companies as well as upcoming project at the conference.
According to the numbers from the previous Bitcoin 2021 Conference, there were 12,000 in attendance making it a sold out event. This was considered the largest Bitcoin event in history. This year, they conference is expected to bring over 35,000 people from all over the world.
Some of the main headliners include Michael Saylor, Nick Szabo, Jack Dorsey and Tony Hawk. Jack Dorsey is the former CEO of Twitter and is also the founder of Block, Inc., a digital payment company based in San Francisco. Michael Saylor is a big name investor in Bitcoin with a stockpile of 21,454 Bitcoin = $876.5 million.
Tony Hawk also made an appearance during last year’s conference and discussed the parallels of cryptocurrency and skateboarding. His charity foundation just recently started accepting bitcoin as well.
The event is open to all ages at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Ticket prices begin at $862. For more information on the conference or to purchase tickets, click here.
World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Conference is Coming to Miami – Bitcoin 2021
In the last few weeks, Miami has been swarmed with vacation goers and visitors from all over the world. But this week, Miami will be taken over by big tech with the world’s largest cryptocurrency conference, Bitcoin 2021. There is no doubt that Miami is the place to be!
Bitcoin 2021 will take place on June 4th and 5th at Wynwood’s Mana Convention Center. This will be considered one of the largest events to occur since the pandemic. This conference was originally set to take place in Los Angeles.
Notable speakers for this conference include Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez as well as other leaders in cryptocurrency. The conference will explore technology advancement and give opportunities to actually utilize Bitcoin in a real setting.
According to the Chairman and Co-founder of the Wyndwood Business Improvement District Albert Garcia stated, “Wynwood’s residents and businesses have shown their resiliency in the face of this pandemic, and we are ready to safely welcome back visitors for the first major in-person event in the last 16 months. Conference attendees will enjoy the unique, open-air offerings of the Wynwood Arts District- from our colorful streets to our internationally recognized culinary and brewery scene.”
Bitcoin 2021’s local partners include BitBasel, that are creating a mural showing the evolution of currency. The mural will be displayed outside of the convention center. Other sponsors include Microsoft, Crypto.com, coinbase, and Bitfarms. According to their event announcement, they did not accept any sponsors that advocated for any other cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has gained a lot of headway in Miami with buyers using Bitcoin with their real estate offers as well as a lot of nightclubs, retail, and airlines accepting the digital currency.
Miami Luxury Real Estate Website Adds Bitcoin Currency Conversion for All Property Listings
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know that Bitcoin – the world’s most famous cryptocurrency – has been all the craze these past couple of months. Opponents of Bitcoin argue that it lacks mainstream adoption and that prices are fueled by nothing more than pure speculative hype. However, that seems to have changed in recent months as local and national headlines have been filled with examples of luxury real estate properties listed for sale in Bitcoin denominated currency. Supporters of Bitcoin argue this flurry of activity is the tell-tale sign that mainstream adoption is just around the corner. Miami luxury real estate website – MiamiCondoInvestments.com – has prepared itself in case the latter proves true. Buyers shopping for Miami luxury homes or condos can now convert in seconds prices denominated in U.S. Dollars to Bitcoin for all luxury real estate in Miami and Miami Beach that is listed for sale on its website.
Below, you can see screenshots of the three-step process in action for using the Bitcoin converter:
Step 1: Click the “Currency Conversion” drop-down located underneath the property’s List Price.
Step 2: Select “Bitcoin” from the drop-down menu.
Step 3: Watch the property’s List Price convert from U.S. Dollars to Bitcoin. (Although BTC is the generally accepted abbreviation for Bitcoin, XBT is commonly used for foreign exchange and futures trading.)
The currency conversion tool can also be used to convert a property’s list price from U.S. Dollars to Bitcoin along with any one of 160+ currencies or precious metals. MiamiCondoInvestments.com uses a third party service to provide daily spot rates.
Bitcoin-denominated Penthouse Switches to U.S. Dollars
Well, that didn’t last long! The Bitcoin-denominated penthouse at Platinum Condominium has switched its denomination to U.S. Dollars. With Bitcoin’s recent plunge in value and high-risk volatility, this should come as no surprise. As of today’s trading, Bitcoin had lost 50 percent of its peak value set just last month.
The asking price of the penthouse is now quoted as $525,000. Had it remained listed in bitcoins, the price would be roughly equivalent to $355,000…$170,000 less than its current asking price but still $40,000 more than what the seller paid! The owner of the penthouse purchased it for $315,000 about one year ago.
Perhaps Bitcoin had its shining moment but, today, it’s all about the Benjamins baby!
Edgewater Penthouse Accepts Only Bitcoin
Have you jumped on the Bitcoin Bandwagon yet? If not, you cannot buy this penthouse!
That’s right, the seller of the Penthouse 2206 at Edgewater’s Platinum Condominium does not want your financed offer, or your cash offer for that matter. They accept ONLY Bitcoin and are asking $33 for the 1 bedroom unit. According to our handy currency conversion tool, this amounts to $542,000 USD.
While I commend the seller for their attempt at profiting from the buzzword of the hour, there are some fundamental flaws in their strategy.
FLAW 1: Alienating Potential Buyers Who Would Pay Cash
Whenever you are offering something for sale, you want that item to be available to as many people as possible. This is the reason Realtors are always saying to remove the clutter and personal items from your home before you put it on the market. In order to achieve maximum profit, you want the potential buyers to be able to see themselves living in the apartment and making it their home (or to see a solid profit in an investment). If you ONLY accept Bitcoin, you alienate all of those who would pay cash or get a mortgage.
FLAW 2: The Price
If you convert the price of $33 Bitcoin to US Dollars, it comes out to $542,000 (as of today). Even the biggest two bedroom in the building isn’t offered for that much! Check here to see the other available apartments in the building. They’re priced nowhere close to this unit. In fact, over the last 6 months the only two 1 bedroom apartments to sell both went for HALF of the asking price at PH 2206. Even the two bedroom apartments that sold traded for more than $100,000 less than this listing.
This is a hyped-up attempt to get away with overpricing an OK apartment.
FLAW 3: These Photos
Ah, these photos. If you’re going to post a listing that is overpriced by double, at least give us some photos that attempt to justify the price. Let’s go through them…
This one is great if you want to see a blurry depiction of what the view was like in 2014. Since then, at least 3 towers have been constructed within the frame.
The gym is nice enough, but the image could be sharper.
Same with the pool.
There are lockers and a sauna.
This photo was also taken in 2014. You can see IconBay in the background, but not the other towers that have been built around.
This photo is so blurry, you can’t even make out the name of the building behind the front desk.
The kitchen is nice enough.
Apparently there is a rule in this apartment that prohibits hanging photos or wall decorations by tenants.
So, there’s a washer/dryer in the apartment. I’m not sure this photo is a testament to how spacious the laundry area is, but at least you know it’s there, right?
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All-in-all, I think this listing should serve as a huge warning to bitcoin buyers. This seller is clearly trying to pull one over on the market and profit from the hype. BUYER BEWARE!
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