RFK Jr. Emphasizes Support For Bitcoin During 2024 Conference: ‘It Is The Perfect Currency’

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During the Bitcoin Conference 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered remarks on Bitcoin growth.

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00:00Now, I want to say a couple of words about Bitcoin today, which I consider myself part of.

00:11Despite their different viewpoints, I found the most striking feature of Bitcoin today

00:18is its unquestionable, just juxtaposition, marked by fierce visions on several minor issues.

00:28Bitcoin has a sense of unity with the larger Bitcoin ecosystem.

00:35The Bitcoin community reminds me of how American politics ought to be.

00:40Fiercely diverse, but ultimately united in our aspirations, in our belief, and in our belief that America is worth fighting.

00:52And in the end, we all come back together, united in our belief that Bitcoin is a technology for freedom,

01:01for optimism, for empathy, for democracy and transparency.

01:07It is the currency of hope.

01:10It is the perfect currency.

01:20It is an elegant, poetic, beautiful, pure species that aligns perfectly

01:28with the highest ideals and aspirations represented by the American experiment with self-governance.

01:36It is incorruptible.

01:39It has integrity.

01:41It has self-sufficiency.

01:44It promotes personal responsibility and accountability.

01:51It is decentralized and democratic.

01:56It is small in government and large on personal freedom.

02:00Bitcoin is anti-war.

02:03It is a fierce, merciless, and insurmountable foe of government corruption.

02:16Now, as you know, I owned Bitcoin on a conversion.

02:23I knew from my children about Bitcoin, but it was a...

02:29It seemed almost to me something like a fad or novelty.

02:36And then I saw it happening all the time.

02:38I was running a Dutch financial health class, which was the premier avenue for medical freedom in our country.

02:45And we had embedded with the...

02:53We had embedded with the strike truckers in Canada, a reporter for our newsletter.

03:01And she was traveling with the truckers from Alberta all the way to Ottawa.

03:06And the truckers were the first candidate.

03:09They're Asian.

03:10They're black.

03:11They're white.

03:13The truckers were doing something that all of us in our community hate.

03:18It was a fad.

03:20They were assembling a petition in their government about something that they thought was important,

03:27which was about the impact, the financial impact of the mandates on their businesses.

03:33And if you look at the videos, as a matter of fact, it was like Woodstock,

03:39where people were giving out water bottles, and they were picking up trash,

03:43and they were playing music, and they were being kind to each other.

03:46But it was portrayed by the Canadian government as a right-wing, extremist, violent, power organization.

03:57And then the government began using facial recognition systems and other forms of surveillance

04:04to learn the identity of truckers, looking at their license plates, et cetera.

04:09And it grows their bank accounts.

04:12And it grows their total income account.

04:16And when Canada did that, the premier template box in the world size of the United States,

04:25it occurred to me immediately that transactional freedom

04:30was as important as freedom of expression of first amendment.

04:43Because if the government has money, truckers were charged with much less than they did.

04:51And yet the government was able to shut down their bank accounts.

04:54It couldn't pay their mortgages.

04:55It couldn't buy diesel for their trucks.

04:58It couldn't buy food for their children.

05:00One trucker told me that he was going to jail.

05:03Because it couldn't make mandatory alimony payments.

05:07And if the government is able to starve you, if you see our deficit, if you criticize our policies,

05:19then we are on the road to totalitarianism and slavery.

05:23And I began at that time looking seriously for alternatives.

05:28And it was that incentive that led me immediately to grasp the potential of this technology

05:35to provide transactional freedom and self-sufficiency.

05:40Last year at this conference, I proposed that as your president,

05:46I would fight to ensure the right to self-custody Bitcoin from no federal homes

05:53to stop the federal government from reserving the first amendment rights to open source privacy-enhancing technologies.

06:01I'd let government officials from adopting CBDCs, which would inevitably morph into what we saw in Canada,

06:11become a levelling tool for surveillance and control.

06:14Most importantly, I promised to secure the United States' position as the global hub of crypto-piracy,

06:24invasion, monotony, infestation, and technology.

RFK Jr. Emphasizes Support For Bitcoin During 2024 Conference: ‘It Is The Perfect Currency’

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