Today is the second and final day of The North American Bitcoin Conference. The first speakers will take the stages at 9:30 am and once again Matt, Jeff, Dave, and A.J will be there sharing photos, quotes, and commentary.

To get more hits share the excitement with our readers we’ve managed to cajole, harass, beg, and bully our way into 3 bags of conference swag to give away to our readers. Each bag has a mixture stickers, pens, notepads, a lanyard, a couple shirts, and whatever else we could get our hands on.

To get in on the action, all you have to do is retweet this tweet or share our facebook post with the link, along with a comment about why you should get some swag.* On Monday we’ll collect all the valid entries and randomly choose our winner(s).

(* Sorry, swag give-away open to readers in the continental US only.)

LIVE BLOG:

- And that’s it. Everyone’s tearing down. Last minute deals are being made as people walk out.

I hope you enjoyed the blog! look for the winners to be announced tomorrow!

- 3:53 - A.J. -

Panel on BitLicense: New companies will simply block access to their tech in NewYork.

- 3:03 - A.J. -

Marco Santori on Bitcoin 2.0 & smart contracts: “You don’t have to the government or big institution, you can do it yourself.”

- 2:08 - Andrew -

Interviewing Adam Evers with Coindera about their market alert system launched yesterday, as well as the state of bitcoin in Minnesota.

- 1:58 - Dave -

Jeff and I got a chance to chat for a bit with Brock Pierce and Perianne Boring, amazing to talk to two super-knowledgeable people about bitcoin projects.

- 1:30 - Andrew -

People are filtering back in now. Lots of people here, those manning booths are always talking, barely getting a chance to breathe. Everybody is still excited.

- 12:50 - Andrew -

Lunch-time. Crowds of people are bolting to go eat before their stomachs abandon them to go find their own food.

- 12:37 - Dave -

Matt just announced the upcoming bitcoin college tour

- 12:29 - Jeff -

Jeremy Gardner opened the Students in Bitcoin panel by saying that he got interested in Bitcoin through the Silk Road and was intrigued by the concept of buying drugs online.

Pretty bold statement, not sure if this is the best way to promote Bitcoin in the midst of an “image crisis” that everyone talks about.

- 12:10 - A.J. -

The Students in Bitcoin panel is getting underway now.

- 11:52 - Jeff -

Charlie Shrem’s last remarks compared defending bitcoin to the British defending themselves against the Germans in WWII. Pretty dramatic, but I like the sentiment.

- 11:36 - Andrew & Dave -

We’ve been chatting with Alan Golub about his ‘BitRanch’ idea. Read about it here

- 11:20 - Matt -

Charlie Shrem is the mystery guest speaker today! My panel - ‘Students in Bitcoin’ - is delayed while he’s ‘up’ on stage.



- 10:40 - Jeff -

“One of the areas that Bitcoin shines is moving money across borders”

-Andreas Antonopoulos

- 10:22 - Andrew -

Brock Pierce is in the house!

- 9:35 - Andrew -

People are filtering in slowly this morning. Lots of talk about last nights after party. Of course what happens at the afterparty stays at the afterparty ;)

- 6:56 - Andrew -

On the first train to Chicago again this morning. I’m about an hour from coffee…