We refuse to hear the lie
Have no fear till the day i die (…)
(Cypher) Punk's Not Dead, I know the exploited
Czechs are a deeply distrustful people before the authorities. How could it be otherwise? Occupied by the Nazis, invaded by the Soviets; The history of a music in the twentieth century undoubtedly left a deep brand in its political perception. Today the Czechs have an electoral participation less than 40%; They do not believe the media; And they are the third most atheist country in the world. It can't be surprised that Bitcoin has found such fertile land in the Czech Republic.
This was confirmed this June 19, 20 and 21 during the third edition of BTC Prague, one of the most important conferences dedicated to Bitcoin in Europe. Although, for more than a year, the headlines and the public conversation about Bitcoin has given more place to ETF, institutional purchases and nation-states being involved in Bitcoin, this conference confirmed us that Cypherpunk principles survive in the Bitcoiner communitythat Bitcoin remains an active Cypherpunk and that will not be controlled by Wall Street or by the White House. The conference program was full of talks that highlight this dichotomy. The most obviously was the Cypherpunks vs. debate vs. Institutions: Who belongs to the future of Bitcoin?, In which Francis Pouliot de Bull Bitcoin and John Carvalho de Synonym defended the fundamental difference between a Bitcoin in self -ustodia in front of an ETF or before an action in Strategy, a position defended by André Dragosch of Bitwise. But also others such as the Paper of Reyna Girls of my first Bitcoin about the control of the educational narrative, or practicing Cypherpunk, with the founder of Parallel Polis Juraj Bednár, the former-Wasabi Wallet, Max Hilbrand, the developer of BTCPay, Rockstardev; and the co -founder of Lamassu ATMs, Zach Harvey.
Of left. A DER: John Carvalho, Francis Pouliot, André Dragosch, Stephan Livera and Giacomo Zucco. Photo by Iván Gómez. Of course, the new corporate narratives had ample space. Alexandre Laizet of The Blockchain Group (ALTBG) was able to tell how his company's action became the best performance in France and Europe with 3,000% since the launch of its Bitcoin treasury strategy in November 2024. Yves Chouueifaty, CEO of Tobam explained how its investment strategy in Bitcoin written in 2016 remains active and unchanged until now. But perhaps the most interesting point of his presentation was the analogy that established between the accumulation of gold by two entities that were initially private, and that would later become the Bank of England and the Bank of France, and the current corporate treasures with Bitcoin. Although he did not say it explicitly, he seems to suggest the possibility that Bitcoin's big accumulators end up dictating the monetary policy of the futureas already said about Strategy.
Michael Saylor was received between cheers in BTC Prague. Photo by Iván Gómez. But it seems that BTC -attending Bitcoiners do not care so much that the Bitcoin price of the future is determined in the Strategy Board Hall, because the ovation with which the attendees received Michael Saylor when he entered the stage did not even have the first person to receive the White Paper of Bitcoin by Satoshi, Adam Back He agglomerated to take photos and give gifts to the founder of blockstream). Being honest, Saylor's talk disappointed us. A new prognosis of price among many others, in which he told attendees how millionaires they would be if they managed to sell even their family to buy more Bitcoin, adorned with discursive flourishes to excite the audience. You can't deny the good speaker. Another great speaker, from which we tend to wait little for being accustomed to inflaring with excessive marketing, but that this time surprised us for good, was Jack Mallers. And we were not the only ones to whom he touched his talk, to the point they asked him to repeat it to close the event. It was about the moral violation that the Fíat represents. We already publish a cryptootic note about it, so we will not devote much space to deepen. We will only say that he returned to put on the table the ethical reasons why we have been building Bitcoin so many years.
Jack Mallers showed how, from the Nixon Shock, the Fíat destroyed the economic future of the following generations. Photo by Iván Gómez. Because Bitcoin is Fuck You Money. It is money to rebel against those who have stolen from future generations by emitting money from nothing, knowing exactly what it was bread for today, water for tomorrow. It was a great reminder that rebeling and replacing the inherited system and establishing a Bitcoin -based monetary system is a moral imperative. Czechs know it and have known it and that is why they have one of the oldest and most active Bitcoiners communities. In the Czech, the first mining pool was created in 2010, the first Wallet hardware in 2012, now they create the first safe element of open source (and although we do not want to sound partial towards Satoshi Labs, the truth is that they have been pioneers in many verticals of the industry). Since 2013, Prague was the house of the Institute of Cryptanoarchy of Parallni Polis, where the Hackers Congress is held annually and where they only accept payments with Bitcoin in their coffee for 12 years. Today Bitcoin's acceptance in a cock amounts to more than 1000 businesses, according to BTCMAP. Even the governor of the Central Czech bank said the institution is willing to invest more than 7,000 million dollars in Bitcoin.
Parallni Polis was renamed Second Culture and no longer houses the Cryptanananarchía Institute. Photo by Iván Gómez. Unlike other conferences, where Bitcoin was felt it was an excuse to promote the hegemony of the dollar through the stablecoins, in BTC Prague we feel that, as The Exploited would say, Cypherpunk is not dead, and we confirm that in the Czech Republic, Bitcoin has guardians.
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