Important message. Doing a keynote at Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town about the same issue this week.
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Donald Trump assumes office with plans to make the U.S. the bitcoin mining capital, causing concerns about centralization, institutional control, and bitcoin potentially becoming a tool of statecraft, weakening its censorship resistance. My latest piece in Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/01/20/is-trumps-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-a-threat-to-freedom/ image
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If you win, you loose, Donald. Hypercentralization of mining in the US effectively kills bitcoin, so be careful what you wish for. Many confuse power consumption and decentralization when they talk about bitcoin's security. If all the hashrate (and power consumption) is centralized, then bitcoin is only secure for the ones who own hash. Bitcoin has to consume lots of power to be secure, but it also needs to be fully decentralized.
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