Max Keizer, who now works at the National Bitcoin Office in El Salvador, discusses his upcoming appearance at the Bitcoin 2023 conference.
Even among the hundreds of unique speakers, activations, and viral moments, Max Keizer has become an unmissable aspect of the Bitcoin Conference event series. During Bitcoin 2019, He flatly shredded a $10 bill for CNBC Africawas named “crypto Willy Wonka” on the follow-up “Daily Show”. Active appearance in Bitcoin 2021 He set a potential record for F-bombs on stage during Bitcoin 2023’s “F*ck You Money” board.
Keiser’s unique stage presence may seem offhand, but his decades-long media career producing television content for the BBC, Al Jazeera and RT alongside his wife and business partner Stacey Herbert suggests he knows what he’s doing. As does his current assignment with Herbert, working alongside El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to create one of The most promising announcement for the bitcoin conference A touching fact for millions: In November 2022, Bukele announced that the two would do it Help establish the country’s national bitcoin office.
“You know in ‘Star Wars’ when they jump out into massive space? That’s what happens in El Salvador,” Keizer explained in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine. “Bitcoin plus Bukele, with some help from Max and Stacy, has pushed the country to become a Bitcoin Maximalist country.”
Kaiser is quick to note that Bukele, who is “omnipresent and pushes everything forward 24/7,” is “almost impossible” to keep up, but preaches the president’s state just as vigorously.
“El Salvador is the ark,” Keizer said. “Everyone is welcome while there is still room. I expect the airport to be full of cash refugees soon. Give us tired, weary, poor banked, huddled in casino gulags.
This anti-central banker message, which Keizer has shared in one form or another throughout most of his career, seems especially wise in the run-up to Bitcoin 2023, given the ongoing banking crisis and the accompanying bitcoin price rally. For someone who’s been preaching about inequality in mandatory banking for so long, the current climate isn’t surprising.
“I read the news about bank collapses and I don’t feel anything,” Kaiser recalls. The current collapse is not surprising, of course. In 2008, there was a catastrophic global credit freeze. The funded post-WWII economy is virtually dead; And bankers and financial taxiderms moved to supply her with lots of new, worthless paper money. And now, in the year 2023, the stuffed dead stag is ablaze, and the entire global house of deceit and unpayable financial claims is a flame of epic proportions visible from other galaxies.”
It all seems like the perfect recipe for another memorable onstage moment for Keizer in Bitcoin 2023. But if you’re looking for some details on how he’s trying to grab the headlines again this year, you’ll have to be content with that. Wait until May, just like everyone else.
“I plan to broadcast Satoshi live on stage, as always,” he jokes. “I am only telling the truth. I am bound by protocol and by the power vested in me as Bishop of Bitcoin to raise the masses and mass oranges for them whenever possible.”