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Last week, I was one of the more than 10,000 attendees of ETHDenver 2022, a cryptocurrency conference that sprawled over a week and across several city blocks of Denver, Colo. Compared with other crypto-centric events like Art Basel or Bitcoin Miami, ETHDenver has a larger technical bent, with hackers coming from around the world to build projects on the Ethereum blockchain. But the conference was also full of venture capitalists, speculators, politicians, EDM enthusiasts—and unfortunately, COVID-19. Here’s what I saw during my week in Denver.
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A COVID-19 Outbreak
When I boarded a plane out of Denver on Monday, I started feeling a tickle in my throat. I woke up the next morning feeling like I had been run over by a truck: nausea, chills, fever, cough, general fatigue. Two antigen tests told me what I already essentially knew: that I was positive for COVID-19. A quick search on Twitter told me I was far from the only one:
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