TL;DR: Mere hours after co-founder Jihan Wu of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain tweeted a video claiming Bitcoin Core (BTC) had been “hijacked” during the scaling debates of a few years back, a sudden change came over a popular conference’s organizers or Wu or both. Scheduled to speak at the overt BTC maximalist gathering known for not tolerating dissent, Wu was either summarily disinvited or pulled himself from the program.