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President Donald Trump has re-ignited the nation’s Bitcoin conversation just after approving three crypto bills. Trump posted about an old video on his Truth Social account while describing it as the Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time. In 2018, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at the non-profit think tank Coin Center, delivered powerful testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In the video, Van Valkenburgh provides a concise and passionate defense of Bitcoin (BTC) as a decentralized, censorship-resistant financial technology. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump reposted the video on his Truth Social account, hailing it as the “Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time.” Valkenburgh says, Bitcoin is the world’s first globally accessible public money. Is it perfect?No. Neither was e-mail when it was invented in 1972. Bitcoin is not the best money on every margin. It’s not yet accepted everywhere, it’s not used often to quote prices, and it’s not always a stable store of value. But it is working, and the mere fact that it works without trusted intermediaries is amazing. Van Valkenburgh went on to explain why public, decentralized infrastructure, like blockchains, matters now more than ever. If we can replace private payment systems, he argued, then maybe we can also remove other private gatekeepers that limit human interaction and innovation. He posed a series of questions: Why invest in public infrastructure? Why work to improve blockchains, even if they’re still imperfect? And why should we make sure the pioneers of this technology stay in the U.S. instead of being driven overseas? His answer was simple: because the private corporations that control so much of today’s essential infrastructure are becoming fewer, bigger, and more powerful, and when they fail, the consequences are enormous. He pointed to the massive 2017 Equifax breach,…

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