President Trump showed up for crypto.

In one week:
+ sparked a $200 billion+ crypto market rally
+ forced Senate Dems into submission on SAB 121
+ forced the resignation of the FDIC Chair
+ forced the SEC to reverse course on its ETF approval
+ upped FIT 21 odds of passage

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Diamond Hands

I’m gonna give 30 random people that repost this and follow me and @Pulte $1,000 ($30,000 in total) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours.

A Central Bank Digital Currency would give bureaucrats in the federal government absolute command and control over the economy and our lives. Governor Ron Desantis and John Stossel sound the alarm.

politico.com/news/2024/05/1… - For the first time in history, crypto has become an issue in the US Presidential election.

Coinbase-initiated Stand With Crypto advocacy group launches PAC targeting US elections: Reuters theblock.co/post/293743/co…

JUST IN: Donald Trump says if he doesn't want crypto business leaving the United States due to regulation hostility.

'If we're going to embrace it then we have to let them be here.' 🇺🇸

In a new survey from DCG and The Harris Poll, crypto is top of mind:

1 in 5 voters in key swing states consider crypto a major issue in the 2024 election

40% want to see more discourse on digital currency from their candidates

More here: theblockchainassociation.org/swingstatevote…

My British brain cannot comprehend Americans' enthusiasm for political merchandise.

Non an Alligator, it's a freaking Dinosaur🤯

Call me crazy, but I truly believe crypto is on the front line of the war for individual liberty in the digital age.

So many rights are at stake: free speech, association, financial privacy, property ownership, on and on.

I'm grateful each day to fight alongside all of you 🙏

“We are America, and should focus on privacy and free speech and private property, and leave the surveillance and censorship shenanigans to tyrants and kings”

-The Founders, a very long time ago, apparently

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A monumentally bad day for privacy on the internet

The implications of this are so dire

A real “before and after” moment

UNBELIEVABLE. The EU & Brussels mayor are about to shut down the National Conservatism event with Nigel Farage still on stage. They are so scared of the discussion they're shutting it down!!

A thoughtful, thorough, and sober analysis by J.D. Vance, who’s already become one of the best conservative policymakers. Hats off to the The New York Times, of all outlets, for running his op-ed.

🧵 1/ He writes: “President Biden wants the world to believe that the biggest obstacle

Anna Paulina is doing heroes work. By delaying and forcing another vote Monday it gives us time to try and pressure lawmaker to vote so the FBI must get a warrant to spy on us. Contact your congressman demand they change course.

house.gov/representative…

If you were mad about your House rep voting to let the government spy on you without a warrant ('FISA 702' - fy-za seven-oh-two), we may have one last shot. CALL YOUR REP @ (202) 224-3121 and say '𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳𝟬𝟮, 𝗜 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂.'

'Governments should be afraid of their people... Any politician who supports a CBDC in the UK needs to pay the price with their seat at the next election.'
- Freddie New

Obviously engaging policymakers is important. I wouldn’t be at the #Bitcoin Policy Summit if I didn’t think so. But “policy”—that is “law”—is something that needs to be kept on a tight leash. Law is not fundamental. It is way downstream from the primary social relationships that

You can be sure that if the President of the United States—of all people—won't say if he supports a bill protecting the free press, which is the easiest sort of win you get in politics (and right before an election!), there is a reason. And it's a reason that should worry you.