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What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, May 29th, and that means it's time for Long

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Memorial Day. I will not have a show coming out. I hope you guys are having a great celebratory

beginning of summer weekend. With that, let's get to our topic and ooh baby is it one that I love.

Daniel Kuhn wrote a piece on CoinDesk this week called Bitcoin is a political, but won't be much longer.

Practically speaking, everything is eaten by the culture war.

You don't even have to be that regular, a listener of the breakdown to know that this topic,

Bitcoin's partisan or nonpartisan nature,

is one that I think a lot about. So let's read this piece and then discuss. Ted Cruz, the Republican

U.S. Senator for Texas, said he wants the lone star state to be an oasis on planet Earth for

Bitcoin and crypto. He said that, reiterating previous support for the

state's mining industry during a keynote address at a Heritage Foundation event. The block reported

that several speakers harshly criticized the left side of the political aisle at this Bitcoin

and the American Experiment Conference. Cruz singled out Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren,

a Democrat. Quote, why does Bitcoin make Elizabeth Warren toss and turn in Twitch at night?

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