On speaking
I am generally skeptical of crypto conferences, but not because they are useless, it is that large conferences are built for a large group of people, which means they tend to flatten into an average.
If there is an event like ETHDam or ETHDenver, I would go to side events than spend my time in the main venue. The conversations are better, more specific, and less performative.
Giving a talk at a conference is generally fine if the talk is being recorded and published online. To this day people still reach out to me because of talks I gave in 2022, for me the value is often not in the room itself, but in the recording that keeps circulating afterwards: the clearest example of that is Amnesty International reaching out to ask if I could help them with decentralized websites after they saw the talk I gave at IPFS Camp.
Here are some of my talks, panels, and workshops from the last few years: