When meetings are covered by media then people tend to play to the press -- they also often focus more on "winning" looking good or will avoid saying things that they can say privately.
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People have concerns with investors, potential partners and so on.
Just like private conversations in a hallway...lots of advantages of privacy.
I understand. What about some public statements, or live-tweets of what is currently being discussed? You don't have to go in-depth though.
My transactions have never taken more than 10 minutes to confirm, unless there was unusual block timing.
I am seriously starting to question your knowledge of Bitcoin. Transactions never take longer then ten minutes to confirm? How often do you even use Bitcoin? Most people with some experience or at least some theoretical knowledge of Bitcoin should know that this is not true.
Either you are trying to attack me (in a polite way) or a unable to properly read what was written. Unless there is unusual block timing (i.e. no blocks in the last 10 minutes), a confirmation has never taken me more than 10 minutes. This is because I include a higher fee than unusual. This is true and you can't change that. This is off-topic, stop thread hijacking.