The Bitcoin 2021 conference may have cꦿome and gone, but it’s having a lingering impact as attendees are beginning to test positive for COVID-19.
The Bitcoin convention was held last weekend in Miami, ๊with some 12,000 attendees. As one of the first in-person events to happen since the pandemic’s outbreak, Bitcoin 2021 had no mask mandates or proof-🐎of-vaccination requirements. People came from all over the world, mingling for three days.
In the aftermath of the event, people started testing positive, leading someꦅ to label the conference a “super spreader event.”
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Some Twitter users are already condemning those who attended without being vaccinated, saying it showed reckless disregard for the health꧅ of others.
I can’t believe꧙ people attended a massive in person conference without being vaccinated. It’s not just risky for themselves but it is reckless in regards to others
— CryptoRiot (@CryptoRiot1)
While it’s not clear how many have been infected, some u𝕴sers indicated entire groups of people they were hanging out with have all teste𝄹d positive.
Everyone who I hung ou𒉰t with in M🌳iami got covid. Luckily for me I hung out about one feet above everyone
— Larry Cermak (@lawmaster)
Bitcoin 2021 illustrates tℱhe challenges event holders will continue to face, despite rising vacc𓆉ination numbers.