14 years ago this month, I spoke at the first Bitcoin conference in Prague.
Bitcoin had just crashed from $30 to $3.
None of us cared.
It was us vs. the banks.
My talk?
Disrupting banking—NOT helping banks own Bitcoin for you.
Who’s still with me?
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The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.
NEW: JD Vance just took a FLAMETHROWER to the ruling class at the Bitcoin conference.
He said crypto is the last hedge against corrupt elites, rigged systems, and weaponized tech.
What a moment.
Vice President JD Vance walked onto the stage and torched the political establishment, the corporate overlords, and the censorship regime in one brutal sweep:
“Crypto is a hedge against bad policymaking from Washington, no matter what party's in control.”
“It's a hedge against skyrocketing inflation which has eroded the savings rate of Americans over the last four years.”
“And as you all know well, it's a hedge against a private sector that's increasingly willing to discriminate against consumers on the basis of their basic beliefs, including their politics.”
“That includes of course debanking users for Second Amendment advocacy, or for ties to the first Trump administration.”
“In Canada, the government did the same to kill those big truck driver protests in 2022.”
Then Vance unloaded on the people who fear innovation—and use it as a weapon:
“Maybe most importantly, I see crypto as a hedge against one of the most dangerous trends in the digital era—that's of elites, who rather than innovate themselves, prefer to simply take over and co-opt cutting edge technologies to assert their control over other people.”
He closed with a line that lit a fire under every freedom-loving decentralist in the audience:
“That's not Bitcoin. It will never be Bitcoin—and you guys are going to make sure that happens.”