Good afternoon.
The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.
Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”
And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.
Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.
The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.
Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.
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The Overton window keeps moving
Things are moving fast
Yes, we need to build as much privacy solutions on top asap. We saw it with ecash we have been very close to financial privacy for everyone. Unfortunaltely David messed it up due to it's lack in execution etc. Now might be our last chance before we end up
in a CBDC dystopian world. Devs like
@calle are the real goats ✌️
Unexpected, but awesome.
Lyn Alden
Good afternoon.
The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.
Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”
And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.
Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.
The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.
Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.
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Really wondering how many of them read your book.
Nothing stops this train. BTC stations are popping up everywhere.
Honestly, Idk my feeling on this whole phenomenon. Am happy Bitcoin is front and center and politicians are bending the knee to the industry.
But are they bending the knee!? Or is this part of the plan to bring us to heel?
Keep an eye out👀!
I’ll take freedom over NGU anytime of day
And on the main stage
@gladstein pitched to the room of people waiting for Trump about how Bitcoin is the best “ESG” investment in the world.
🥕 🥕
Thanks for the sane take on the political angle of the conference 🙏
Lyn Alden
Good afternoon.
The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.
Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”
And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.
Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.
The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.
Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.
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Where is rest of the world in this debates?
Wow. That sounds like the worst possible angle to pitch that crowd 🤦🏽♂️
Memes you say?
Doneski!
"Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic."
Everyone seems to forget before elections. Thanks for the reminder, Lyn!
Good evening #nostr
Lyn Alden
Good afternoon.
The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.
Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”
And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.
Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.
The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.
Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.
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Bitcoin is truly a Trojan horse. It’s completely unstoppable by the ruling class, so they “embrace” it so as not to be irrelevant, but it will ultimately strip them of their power.
He did it tongue in cheek. Take a dumb term from the WEF and use it against them.
Thank you for the analytic support
Yes
At least from where I sit (in a blue state) this was noticed, and it is indeed a big deal.
Bitcoin is a Trojan horse for the current DNC’s party’s ideals, but it is a Trojan horse they have to bring in. LOVE it!
My wife was the head of her department, and was forced out by the hospital where she works due to her refusal of the shot
Good take and summary 👊
that is the most amazing part of Bitcoin, it dgaf whether politicos, like it, embrace it, try to kill it or ignore it. We knew this time would eventually come where a campaign on the world stage would include discussing Bitcoin, just as sure as we know that Wall St will find a way to exploit Bitcoin derivatives.
At the end of the day, one Bitcoin = one Bitcoin. It will still be the hardest money the world has ever known. It will still be coveted by people who recognize personal freedom are not buzz words they are the template of self responsibility. If it's going to be, it's up to me.
God speed Bitcoin
It WILL change the world
@Lyn Alden, as usual, you called it.
"The thing I'm most disappointed about - there was not a single person from the other side of the aisle at the conference." - Zach Bradford, CEO of Cleanspark. Bloomberg TV today.
As a bitcoiner, and a shareholder, I'm disappointed by that abject blindspot. We all make mistakes, but those of us closely paying attention and in active leadership roles can do much better. It'd be great if he corrects his misstatement on such a big platform.
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How do they bring us to heel?
The real power of #Bitcoin is it's fixed supply, and with cold storage Unconfiscatable asset. It's your work/energy stored and backed by work/energy, to be used ANY TIME you want for ANYTHING you want.
And those that have it now will need to be wise or they will lose it - REGARDLESS of their position in society. You will eventually need to work and provide value to others to gain more Bitcoin. No way elites can print it, or create laws/rules that favor them.
To 'bring us to heel' would require doing the right thing by other people. Or, you lose your wealth. Nothing like this has ever existed for humans.
I will keep an eye out, but it will be an eye on how secure the network stays and how diversifed the nodes and mining progress. Nothing I see can stop the honest network of #Bitcoin.
Enjoyed this exchange a lot in preference to the tone in Nashville.
I don't know what I don't know but how I see it playing out is that,
they could vilify any native use cases for Bitcoin as being the wild-wild west and regular people who aren't in Bitcoin conversations (like we are) will be non the wiser. While these same regular people are being pushed towards controlled systems like the "bitcoin dollar", propaganda could make us look like villains for choosing a different system.
While Bitcoin might be inevitable, having the masses blame us for the break down of the fiat system will turn them against native-use cases of Bitcoin rather than embracing these use cases. In that case, no one really case about the wealth of villains. Wealth confiscation might be rampant.
Just my thoughts.
I agree with you! I think most of what you say WILL happen. It's already happening.
I'm just more optimistic we will win because they can't control us.
This may take a generation, I don't know. It depends on how fast the current system self destructs. Which it's doing. OH - and the current "Lords of Finance" (central banks and their leaderships) will at some point BLAME #Bitcoin for their negligence. It's coming!
