London Blockchain Conference Losing Sponsors as Well as Speakers

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4 weeks agoTue Jul 15 2025 07:55:06
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  • The London Blockchain Conference isn’t just losing speakers; its backers are dropping out, too
  • BCG and Zodia Custody have quit, with another speaker dropping out
  • Only BSV-related entities are now listed as backers, showing the conference for what it is 

Last week, we reported on how the London Blockchain Conference was losing keynote speakers after finding out the truth that the conference was being run by Calvin Ayre for the benefit of his BSV vehicle. Now, it seems that sponsors are finding out, and they’re quitting too; two independent backers have pulled out (alongside more speakers) in recent days, stripping the conference back to companies and backers almost all connected to the Ayre ecosystem. While some have complained that these individuals and companies are ducking out due to cyberbullying, others are arguing that they weren’t told the truth about the conference in the first place.

BCG And Zodia Custody Wash Their Hands

As we revealed last week, three speakers high on the list for October’s London Blockchain Conference dropped out just days after being informed of the real purpose of the conference and the nature of the man backing it; Ayre funded Craig Wright’s multi-million-dollar legal campaign against blockchain developers, all of which was based on a huge fraud, in order to enrich himself. To make things worse, one of the replacements, Head of Payments and Digital Assets at the Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial regulator, also dropped out within two working days of grabbing the spot.

Since then, Professor Naseem Naqvi, British Blockchain Association, has also pulled out, leaving the list of speakers looking thinner and thinner. However, the virus of realisation has now spread to the sponsors, as BitMEX Research revealed a few days ago:

BCG’s withdrawal has now been echoed by Zodia Custody, leaving virtually all the remaining backers projects associated with BSV or Calvin Ayre in some way. These include Velitor, Ayre’s London Law firm; TAAL, the majority BSV miner that Ayre took private in November 2022; and nChain, the blockchain company now almost totally owned by Ayre. To add fuel to the fire, nChain whistleblower Christen Ager-Hanssen also pointed out on X that he had been blocked by the X account of the conference as well as many of the entities still connected with it:

“Cyberbullying” Argument Falls Flat

Not everyone is rejoicing, of course. Ayre has been studiously ignoring everything to do with the conference, leaving other BSV supporters to do the complaining for him, often with amusing results:

Of course, given that BSV’s creator, Craig Wright, was famous for insulting and defaming anyone under the sun if he crossed them, including those he relentlessly pursued in the courts, the claim of cyberbullying against these individuals and companies is rich beyond belief.

With the list of backers now solely constituting entities connected to Ayre and BSV, the veneer of a conference where all blockchains are welcome has been stripped away, and it has been shown up for what it is and what it has been since it was the CoinGeek Conference: a platform for BSV-related companies to come together, waste tens of thousands of dollars of Ayre’s money, and pat themselves on the pack for having achieved nothing whatsoever since the last one.

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