ISTANBUL, Turkey — Down the elevator, at the baggage belt and at the exit, the slick, in-your-face advertisements featuring famous crypto personalities were nearly omnipresent at the Istanbul airport.
One of those personalities, when sent a photograph of himself in one of those ads, texted back: “Wow! Even I didn’t know I’m going to be there.”
“There” was Blockchain Economy Istanbul, held July 27-28 and billed as Eurasia’s largest blockchain conference. Conference organizers said 3,000 people showed up along with 50 speakers, including Alex Bornyakov, the face of war-torn Ukraine’s crypto movement.
But the absences were noticeable. Big players like exchanges Binance, FTX and Coinbase (COIN) didn’t have exhibitions. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao did appear in Turkey – via a virtual meeting with the country’s finance minister on the same day as the conference. At a conference touted as the “meeting place for the world’s top crypto companies and blockchain entrepreneurs,” four...
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