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The evidence remains anecdotal that last weekend’s Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami resulted in a significant number of COVID-19 infections.
Many other participants may have caught colds.
According to the testimony of many attendees who were there, including CoinDesk’s own staff, this was an event with many packed rooms, little masking, and what appears to have been a subset of unvaccinated attendees.
“I went to #Bitcoin Miami. According to my @ouraring, I have averaged about 5.5 hours of sleep over the past 10 days (not the best for immunity), ”Twitter user Jeff Jagoe tweeted. “I didn’t have a test because I feel good.”
“I attended, I had access everywhere, I spoke to hundreds of people,” tweeted Alex Lawn, Senior Bitcoin Administrator. He added that he “had very little sleep and probably not enough food so the immune system should be weaker. I’m still in Miami and personally. [know no one who] fell ill.
Additional reports
CoinDesk reached out to its network in the crypto community to ask what people knew about attendees who returned with COVID-19 infections, the prevalence of vaccinations and testing after the conference.
Crypto investor Eric Wall appears to have been beset by one of the more serious cases, tweeting (then deleting) Thursday that he had just “tested positive for COVID” and sharing a photo of himself in an ambulance or a hospital attached to medical equipment.
It should be obvious that CoinDesk has no way of independently verifying any of these claims, and no previous reports on COVID-19 at Bitcoin 2021 have shown no evidence of verification research. All of the findings so far are largely circumstantial and suspect.
Respondents to CoinDesk’s inquiries requested to remain anonymous as this is a personal health story.
A staff member at a Bitcoin mining startup told CoinDesk that he knew someone in his travel party who had returned with a positive test.
“It seems that most of the people who went to the conference itself were doing fine. People who have been to clubs, not so much, ”this person said via text message. “Also seem to be people who infect colleagues rather than participants who affect each other.”
Overall, most of the respondents to CoinDesk’s surveys indicated that they had gone to Miami fully vaccinated, it should be noted.
Another entrepreneur in the industry traveled in a small group and said two unvaccinated members of the group returned with a positive COVID-19 test, neither of which was vaccinated. However, the whole group feels sick. The Respondent was fully vaccinated.
A spokesperson for a payments startup said many of the team were also feeling sick, but so far no one had tested positive for COVID-19.
it comes from social networks
The discussion seems to have started when Eric Wall of Arcane Assets indicated on Twitter that he came back with a positive test (he has since reported his private account). Subsequently, Luke Martin, creator of CoinistBot, said he tested positive, but that tweet has since been deleted. An anonymous crypto trader named @cryptokaleo also wrote about testing positive.
“Knowing that I would get it, would I go back and do the same?” 100%. Honestly, the average cold I get is worse than that, ”the account wrote.
It should be noted that since the complaint cannot be verified and is from a pseudonymous account, it could simply be a message intended to elicit a response. That said, there are posts on this feed that appear to have originated from the Miami event in early June.
Some respondents wondered if an infection that started in early June would show up so quickly in a test.
CoinDesk has contacted the Florida Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find out if they are tracking people who participated in Bitcoin 2021 but have not received responses at the time of publication.
Zack Seward contributed reporting.
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