One Bad Idea, a Conference Ticket, and a Flight to Korea

Inside KBW 2025: Seoul 22-28 September

Donald Trump Jr is the keynote speaker at Korea Blockchain Week 2025. Charles Hoskinson and Justin Sun are also speaking.

I checked three times. It's still real. I'm not saying it's weird ...but I want to go to Korea to see for myself. (Also Tomasz Stańczak, my latest work crush, is going to be there!)

You might know my work. I tell Ethereum conference stories from the inside of my chaotic brain: the noise, the contradictions, the strange interactions in the hallways. I’ve covered ETHPrague and ETHBelgrade in long-form dispatches that read more like narrative fiction than news. When I go somewhere, I try to take you with me.

EVMavericks are holding the funds for this campaign. They won’t come with me. But they will make sure your ETH does what it’s supposed to.

EVMavericks Multi-sig wallet: 0x09A38B6187a2c44B6ba71c277c50764B5878b824

If the minimum amount of 0.5 ETH isn’t raised by the 10th of September, all contributions will be refunded.

If it is, I go to Seoul. Simple as that.

What your ETH buys, besides my questionable life choices:

0.5 ETH

• At 0.5 ETH, the trip happens. It's bare-bones, instant ramen and an hour's commute each way, but I'll make it work and send live updates every day.

0.75 ETH

• At 0.75 ETH, I'm not out of pocket for travel. From here on, 10% goes straight to the EVMavericks' media fund. You get your story, I get to eat something green.

1 ETH

• At 1 ETH, I can afford to stay closer to the venue and upgrade from ramen to bibimbap. More time for updates, more time for mischief. You get the main conference piece plus two deep dives into standout talks.

1.5 ETH

• At 1.5 ETH, the trip and my time are fully funded. October belongs to you: I'll write weekly dispatches like I did for ETHPrague, covering all of the highlights. (The final piece in that series, I went to Prague so you don't have to, had 27,000 views).

1.5 ETH is my goal. That fully funds my travel expenses and my time and supports the EVMavericks media fund. It gives me October to write about Korea Blockchain Week without cutting corners and without scrambling for the next freelance gig while the story is still unfolding.

Beyond 1.5 ETH

• If contributions exceed 1.5 ETH, the extra will extend the story where possible, probably doing something completely ill-advised in the name of narrative tension. If I end up in a raccoon café interviewing minor altcoin kings for the Doots podcast, you’ll know why.

All costs will be documented. Anything not spent on this specific project will go to the EVMavericks to fund the next great story.

Support tiers (optional, DM me to claim):

• 0.1 ETH: My undying gratitude. Not redeemable for cash or favours.
• 0.25 ETH: Your name in the credits, minted on-chain. Immortality crypto-style.
• 0.5 ETH: Send me one question for Trump Jr. or Hoskinson. If I can find a source of cheap rice wine, maybe I'll even ask it.
• 1 ETH: A personal handwritten letter about the event, full of spoilers, sent from Seoul (electronically if preferred).
• 1.5 ETH: You now own me. For October, anyway.

Send your contributions to 0x09A38B6187a2c44B6ba71c277c50764B5878b824.

One unreliable narrator. One blow-out conference. Let's see what happens.