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Trump to Speak at Bitcoin Conference Despite Assassination Attempt
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to deliver an in-person speech at an upcoming Bitcoin conference in Nashville, hours after surviving an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Bitcoin Conference, a historically popular crypto event, is set to kick off in less than two weeks. While he couldn’t discuss specifics, BTC Inc. CEO David Bailey said Decipher that event organizers are now planning additional security measures for the conference where Trump will be a keynote speaker.
“We are proud to host [Trump] and to share the solidarity of the global Bitcoin community”, the official Twitter account of the conference (aka X) declared Sunday. Organizers added that they are “actively engaging with our security teams and are fully collaborating with all stakeholders to ensure a safe event.”
The confirmation of Trump’s presence follows a failed assassination attempt on the former president at a political rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, which has suddenly cast uncertainty over the 2024 presidential race. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was quickly taken away by the Secret Service in an armored vehicle after the shooting. The FBI has identified The gunman is Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20.
Questions immediately arose about Trump’s next campaign stop, including one of the most celebrated annual gatherings among Bitcoiners. After about 12,000 attendees from around the world flocked to last year’s conference in Miami, the upcoming Nashville scene is expected to draw about 20,000 people this time around, Bailey said. Decipher in a written statement.
“I just spoke to the President’s team,” Bailey said. tweeted Sunday. “He is in good spirits and excited to see you all in Nashville and to give a speech that will be heard around the world.”
Last year Bitcoin The conference featured several pro-cryptocurrency voices in politics, including independent presidential candidate by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.United States Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.
This year, Kennedy is expected to reunite with Lummis, along with Tennessee Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, also should appearBesides this, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is expected to address the conference.
The former president appealed to cryptocurrency holders during the election campaign, accept cryptocurrency donations in May after the report now he is “good” with cryptocurrencies at an event at Mar-a-Lago for owners of his Polygon-based NFT collectionLast month, Trump explicitly supported Bitcoin Miners.
As other Republicans openly embrace cryptocurrencies, some have followed Trump’s lead, like Blackburn, who announced that his re-election campaign… accepts cryptocurrency donations last week.