Ron Paul takes the stage to a raucous standing ovation from the maskless Miami crowd. Outside the air conditioned Mana Wynwood Convention Center, thousands of Bitcoin worshipers still stand in line in the sweltering morning heat.
“We have a shortage of liberty,” the 85-year-old Libertarian and former Texas congressman declares, “and I do know the people here are very much in tune about the principles of liberty!”
The people here might be in tune with liberty, sure. But it’s hard to know how many of them came for the politics, and how many came to revere the newest of new money. Bitcoin in 2021 is more mainstream than it’s ever been, and its fervent fans have evolved from Paul-style Libertarians and prototypical cypherpunks to pretty much anyone who can find a moral or financial motivation to embrace non-government-backed currency. After the global pandemic prompted the Federal Reserve to pump out more U.S. dollars, and more institutional investors bought in to the narra
Źródło: https://decrypt.co/73396/bitcoin-2021-miami-conference-covid-fiat-immoral-evil-money
