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Description: Throughout last week, a few yards away from the Caribbean's largest casino in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, about 2,000 people gathered at the Baha Mar resort’s convention center to discuss cryptocurrencies and the next iteration of the World Wide Web a.k.a Web3. “Crypto Bahamas”, inched closer in resemblance to the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference, not minding the casual dress code. Pretty much everyone from CEOs to developers wore flip-flops, sneakers, and t-shirts bearing slogans such as “NFTs are a scam” and “Burnt Finance” Co-organized by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto derivatives exchange FTX and the SALT thought leadership forum, founded by Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital, Crypto Bahamas featured guests ranging from former U.S. president Bill Clinton and ex-prime minister of the U.K. Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen. It was a far cry from the early days of “shadowy super-coders” hearkening the end of banks. Read the full story on Forbes: forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/05/03/royal-flush-inside-cryptos-most-exclusive-gathering/?sh=7cb84d8c6d29 Subscribe to FORBES: youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.