"In 2024, Donald Trump did something no major party presidential candidate had done before: he courted the Bitcoin and crypto community directly, spoke at Bitcoin Nashville, and positioned himself as the industry's champion."
"The war that the U.S. and Israel launched on February 28 has already killed American service members, destroyed universities and elementary schools, closed the Strait of Hormuz, and sent shockwaves through every market on the planet."
"The Bitcoin community did not coalesce around a political candidate so that he could become the latest patron of the military-industrial complex. The very machine, by the way, that Bitcoin was conceptually designed to defund."
"Bitcoin was, from its genesis block, a protest against exactly this: the unchecked power of states to debase currency in service of violence."
In 2024, Donald Trump engaged directly with the Bitcoin and crypto community, positioning himself as their champion. However, by 2026, the U.S. military actions in Iran have led to significant destruction and loss of life, contradicting the values of financial sovereignty and decentralization that the Bitcoin community supports. The community's initial support for Trump was based on a desire to defund the military-industrial complex, which Bitcoin was designed to oppose. The current situation reflects a betrayal of those foundational principles.
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