Mayor unveils 'Miami Bull' statue with laser eyes to kick off Bitcoin 2022
To mark the opening of the Bitcoin 2022 conference, Miami mayor Francis Suarez unveiled a laser-eyed bull statue meant to symbolize Miami becoming the self-proclaimed “world’s capital of crypto.”
The statue is a 3,000-pound robotic-looking bull fashioned in the same vein as the Charging Bull of Wall Street according to the official website. The statue was commissioned by Florida-based finance firm Tradestation.
“New York is the former financial center… I give you the Miami bull!”- Mayor Suarez #Bitcoin #Bitcoin2022 pic.twitter.com/i70kr2XFSg
It was unveiled on April 6 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the conference is being held and was immediately labelled by skeptics at Intelligencer as 'A Crime Against God'.
However the crypto community has taken a shine to the new symbol of the future of finance. Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano tweeted on April 7: “The bulls are in control.”
Meanwhile, Binance founder and CEO CZ tweeted that the bull is “pretty cool.”
This iron man #bitcoin bull is pretty cool. pic.twitter.com/B8x7yjAtTq
The bull will greet the 30,000 attendees expected at the conference this year, before being put out to pasture at the Miami-Dade College campus after the conference ends. The conference will run for four days from April 6 to 9.
The conference features five different stages, the largest of which has a capacity of 15,000 people. Events started off with Pomp and Galaxy Digital CEO MIke Novogratz giving a joint fireside chat, and continued with chats from Bitcoin community legends Nick Szabo, Jameson Lopp, Dan Held, and others.
Other speakers include PayPal founder Peter Thiel, NFL star Odell Beckham Jr., and MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, just to name a few.
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