I'm so excited about a strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

I'm hopeful that when you're my age, that you can worry about other things.

You don't have to worry about a national debt.

You can have a healthy nation, a wealthy nation, the strongest nation in the world,

without worrying about that debt that my generation grew and that you can move this nation

forward the way that our founders designed it and have it be the most superlative government

that was ever conceived by mankind.

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Senator Cynthia Lummis, welcome to CoinDesk Spotlight.

Thank you. It's so nice to be with you again.

Of course, wonderful to have you here and really happy to have you on this show because this show is all about understanding some of the key figures who are pushing the space forward.

And so I have to start here.

You've been called the Bitcoin Senator in the past and I want to hear about some of your inspirations.

You know, who did you learn about crypto from?

Who do you continue to be inspired by?

Well, I first learned about it from my now son-in-law, and he described this asset. I had to listen to him, describe it several times before I finally decided to buy. And I bought just sort of as an

experiment because when you have skin in the game, you start to learn about something. And so I bought

three Bitcoin in that 2013, 2014 timeframe. But I really didn't take a deep dive in it until I was invited to the

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