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ER I'm with the devicon team and I'm
here to say to you all today
and welcome back to Devcon
we've wanted to say we wanted to say
that for a long time a long time it's
been three years three years since the
last Defcon three years since we last
met in Osaka Japan in 2019 three years
of planning this Devcon postponing
planning again postponing again
and I must say it feels great to be here
with you all today
we're here to celebrate a little bit of
what we've done over the last three
years
and what we still have yet to do and to
make progress towards a lot of the
outstanding items we still need to do
into the future and we're excited for
this reunion to take place here in Latin
America
and what's even cooler yeah Round of
Applause for that no
what's even cooler though is that
there's representation from almost every
single Latin American country here right
now let's give it up for those from
Latin America kinika as they Latin
America
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for three years we've continuously
communicated to all of them the same
thing our goal was to bring Devcon not
just to Colombia not just to Bogota but
to the Latin American region as a whole
and we emphasize this with our road to
Dev gun where just in the past year
we've seen 10 plus events organized
around latam everything from ethereum
Rio islatan Buenos Aires to Mexico City
to Lima to Santiago to ethereum Sao
Paulo to Quito to Bogota where we are
now and soon to be Medellin in Panama uh
coming up in the next couple weeks and
this is just talking about major events
this isn't talking about the meetups the
many meetups that have happened along
the way an important to note is that all
of these events are Community organized
events
Devcon is the only one organized by the
ethereum foundation the rest done by
Volunteers in their free time because
they care about ethereum they believe in
what it's capable of and they want to
improve this world
not many communities have this much
passion and soul
but even still some of you've been
asking but why Latin America
I've seen some doubts and criticisms
some of you on Twitter probably as well
it's dangerous they say it's
underdeveloped they say why bring our
precious Community to a risky developing
region when we could stay close to home
in our well-developed comfortable
countries
and quite honestly I think that's the
wrong idea ethereum is a coordination
mechanism for all of us it allows things
like greater Financial inclusion power
over your digital assets stopping unjust
censorship Sovereign control over your
identity and many more and in my opinion
ethereum can be most impactful today in
developing regions around the world
places where serious censorship really
does exist where many don't have access
to the basic Financial systems where
your identity is not guaranteed nor
owned by the individual where
coordination failures are rampant in the
form of corruption or even in the lack
of public goods funding
and as much as it might be more
comfortable to stay in developed regions
of the world that's not what we're here
for we're here to use ethereum to make
the world a better place and the world
exists outside the comfortable bubbles
many of us live in in fact most of the
world lives in these developing regions
and this is why we are excited to be
here in Latin with you all to one expose
the region to ethereum and the
incredible community that composes it
and to to remind the ethereum community
about the types of problems we really
are trying to solve with ethereum which
is not what's the hottest nft nor where
the best defy yield is or other similar
distractions but rather how can we
provide greater Financial inclusion a
more accessible network with lower fees
higher censorship resistance identity
systems that are more accessible and
Sovereign payment systems for the masses
true digital ownership and much much
more these are the problems that we need
to focus on
and we need to continue focusing on
improving the world and continuing to
improve ethereum to be able to do so
and on that note I'd like to introduce
someone who's actively been helping with
just that
someone who helped heard one of the
largest coordination challenges in Tech
History also known as the merch
yes
that someone is Tim Bako coordinator for
all core devs so let's give Tim a big
warm welcome
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