{"id":569842,"date":"2026-03-16T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/sxsw-recap-panels-favoring-ai-over-crypto-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:53:46","slug":"sxsw-recap-panels-favoring-ai-over-crypto-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/sxsw-recap-panels-favoring-ai-over-crypto-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW recap: Panels favoring AI over crypto in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SXSW<\/p>\n

Unlike previous years, only a handful of official events at the 2026 version of the iconic Austin festival featured crypto.<\/p>\n

Cryptocurrencies seem to have lost their allure at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, giving way this year to panels and events focused on the rise of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

As the annual Austin, Texas event kicked off last week for a run through Wednesday, only a few official sessions focused<\/a> on crypto, while a side event, the \u201cBitcoin Takeover\u201d in downtown Austin, featured Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) maximalists and other industry representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost exactly the pattern that\u2019s playing out with AI is what\u2019s playing out with crypto,\u201d Ali Tager, the National Cryptocurrency Association\u2019s vice president of communications, told Cointelegraph, referring to many of the uncertainties from the general public in the early days of the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Unlike previous years, only a handful of official events at the 2026 version of the iconic Austin festival featured crypto. Cryptocurrencies seem to have lost their allure at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, giving way this year to panels and events focused on the rise of artificial intelligence. As the annual Austin, Texas event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-569842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}