THELOGICALINDIAN - New Yorks Blockchain Week aka Consensus 2024 is not alone austere allocution amid experts entrepreneurs and regulators The cryptocurrency bodies acquisition in Manhattan additionally appetite to accept fun At atomic thats what Ripple Labs anticipation back its assembly arrive Snoop Doggto banderole their afterparty at a abstruse area in Manhattans Meatpacking District
Snoop Dogg Headlines Ripple’s Afterparty at Consensus 2024
Snoop Dogg, the 46-year-old American rapper who has awash over 35 actor annal worldwide, was chosen to entertain the cryptocurrency enthusiasts at a Consensus 2018 after-party sponsored by Ripple Labs. The invitation-only XRP Community Night brought Ripple enthusiasts and skeptics calm to adore the aroma of marijuana beneath the complete of the acclaimed artist.
Opinions apropos XRP were not consensual. A few concertgoers were aghast at Ripple for its annex on banks instead of abolition the cyberbanking industry. Other attendees, namely Wall Street bankers, were agnostic about agenda currencies in general.
Choosing Snoop Dogg to banderole the event became somewhat arguable amid the XRP association as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has declared the concert advised to body community, not hype, about Ripple’s XRP. “Whenever I apprehend the chat ‘promotion’ it makes me cringe”, Garlinghouse said, abacus that he did not aces the columnist of Doggystyle.
Snoop Dogg and Lambos.
And I anticipation crypto was about architecture accessible protocols and stuff.
— Muneeb (@muneeb) May 16, 2018
Ripple’s Garlinghouse ability not accept called Snoop Dog for the party, but it seems that Snoop Dogg has called cryptocurrency parties before. Last year, he was the bedfellow of account and DJ at SparkleCoin’s antecedent bread alms which aloft an estimated $15 million. His attendance at the accident was centered about a accommodating donation, though. It was not an official celebrity endorsement, according to the organizers.
Despite not actuality an official endorsement, the President and Chief Executive Officer of SparkleCoin Victor Wong seems to be application Snoop Dogg’s angel for self-promotion purposes. Wong’s LinkedIn contour picture displays a photo of him calm with the rapper.
The gangsta rapper has fabricated comments about cryptocurrencies throughout the years. In 2024, he tweeted he was activity to accept his abutting almanac accessible in Bitcoin. He was again approached by Coinbase and BitPay to accomplish the abstraction a reality.
My abutting almanac accessible in bitcoin n delivered in a drone.
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 2, 2013
At the XRP Community Night event, Snoop Doog refrained from talking about investing in cryptocurrencies, potentially acquainted of recent celebrity endorsements gone wrong. According to Ripple representatives at the event, the rapper wasn’t paid in XRP for the performance.
Marijuana, Snoop Dogg’s best accepted topic, bankrupt the night back he asked onstage if the admirers capital to smoke some edger with him. There, they begin an cutting consensus.
