I believe but cannot prove that 'crypto meetups' are thinly veiled law enforcement attempts to assign every anon coin address to a face.

I see no reason to have a crypto meetup, the entire purpose of encryption is to ensure security and anonymity, doxing yourself is really the opposite of crypto.

In this sense, steemit is not crypto, nor is bitshares. They are simply websites which use codes like https to send information, but they hide nothing about the user.