Date: 2025-08-01 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Richard Greaser
A satirical news piece claiming BlackRock has tokenized Bitcoin conference tickets as a BRC 20 token, pushing general admission from $399 to almost $5000 overnight on speculation about surprise speakers. It attributes approving quotes to "Udi" and to Larry Fink defending stakeholder capitalism, and reports fears that BlackRock will steer programming toward ESG and KYC compliance, with Bit Block Boom also tokenizing tickets. The joke lands on plebs being unable to buy fractions of tickets and choosing to stack bitcoin instead, which the piece says will ironically make them richer. Written by Richard Greaser, founder of The Bitcoin Bugle, which the magazine note calls a direct competitor.
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A general admission ticket shot up from $399 to almost $5000, or close to the price of a whale pass overnight.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/plebs-priced-out-of-conference-tickets-after-blackrock-tokenizes-them-as-a-brc-20-token/
Many are speculating that the increase in price could be due to speculation of future announcements of certain speakers like Taylor Swift.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/plebs-priced-out-of-conference-tickets-after-blackrock-tokenizes-them-as-a-brc-20-token/
Unfortunately, plebs cannot buy fractions of conference tickets, yet.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/plebs-priced-out-of-conference-tickets-after-blackrock-tokenizes-them-as-a-brc-20-token/
Satire: BlackRock tokenizes Bitcoin conference tickets as BRC-20s, pricing plebs out of conferences.
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Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 59, category satire-humor. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/plebs-priced-out-of-conference-tickets-after-blackrock-tokenizes-them-as-a-brc-20-token/