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CryptoBlockCon kicked off their four city conference tour of 2018 with a two day event in Downtown Los Angeles. Blockchain Beach moderated two panels and live tweeted many others. For the full set of tweets, visit our Twitter account or read below for the highlights: Wednesday April 4th Chris Snook, from the World Tokenonmic Forum, hosted the evening event. His organization is hosting a 32-start up competition at their annual event this year: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981719651850715136 Steve Masur, of Masur Griffitts + LLP, described how new this industry is for everyone, including the regulators that are being tasked with moving quickly: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981724067907514368 And fashion was on display: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981719835984850944 Thursday, April 5th The day started bright and early with an opening keynote from the esteemed CEO of Wax and OPskins, William Quigley: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981944160478310401 And don't forget that it's never to late to get involved: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981941223794487296 Next up was a panel on sending wealth: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981953216446279680 With a bit of history on the origins of the NEM Blockchain: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981954665494470656 And the future of our digital tribes: https://twitter.com/bmann/status/981957945465294848 The next panel of the day featured a number of Women Leaders in Blockchain: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981958732895600641 The women had great recommendations on how women can get involved: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981960003283107840 How men can help women: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981961579380879360 And how men can not hurt themselves: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/981962556456615936 Later in the day, was a interesting panel on investing in Blockchain companies: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/982032093625565184 And there was a great warning from Lindsey Maule of Luna Capital about the dangers of only looking at a project's community at the surface level: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/982039072095911936 CryptoBlockCon closed out the day with a Keynote from Crystal Rose, CEO of Sensay and the SENSE token project: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/982053873383690240 She discussed the Japanese concept of Ikigai and what it means to have a fulfilling purpose in life: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/982055327234326528 In closing, she touched on the recent trouble with Facebook and the opportunity that lies ahead: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/982056458375213057 With the New York CryptoBlockCon coming up next in August, the conference organizers are going to have to work hard to top what they accomplished in Los Angeles the past few days!