Mark Moss argues the U.S. government can't kill Bitcoin because it's not unified. Powerful finance firms like BlackRock now profit from it, and multiple presidential candidates have run pro-Bitcoin platforms. Lobby groups shape legislation more than individual lawmakers do.
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Do you think that the US government's a monolith? You don't think there's not hundreds or thousands of people that make up the US government? Sure. And some of those people aren't hardcore pro-freedom and hardcore pro-Bitcoiners? There weren't 3 presidential candidates running on a pro-Bitcoin platform? Yeah. You know, I'm not going to ask you rhetorically. I'm sure you know how laws are made in this country. They're not made by lawmakers. They're made by lobby groups. Sure. Who present the bills to be signed. Yeah. Who are the big lobby groups? Finance companies. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, that's now making billions of dollars off Bitcoin. You think they want it to go away?