Pierre Rochard
@BitcoinPierre
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CEO of The Bitcoin Bond Company, Steward of @CatholicBitcoin
Joined December 2021
This afternoon I testified at the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce hearing in favor of SB 21, to establish a Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Thank you @DrSchwertner for introducing the bill, @LtGovTX for making it a legislative priority, and @DonnaCampbellTX for
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The biggest obstacle for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is not the Fed, Treasury, banks, or Elizabeth Warren. It’s Ripple/XRP. They are aggressively lobbying against the SBR by throwing around $millions at politicians, desperately trying to derail it. They did the same to.
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France is going to tax BTC unrealized gains, horrible economic policy.
Impôt sur la fortune improductive voté mardi 26 nov. par le Sénat:. "inclure le patrimoine de type passif [. ] des actifs numériques type le Bitcoin".Vermillet (Union Centriste). "il n'y a pas de logique à laisser exonérer des Bitcoins" .De Mongolfier (LR).
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Humbled and honored by this appointment. Ready to run the numbers!.
BREAKING: President Trump selects @BitcoinPierre to become Inspector General for Digital Assets. Pierre will be in charge of auditing the supply of any digital asset being considered for the U.S. Strategic Crypto Stockpile
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@SenWarren @SECGov With all due respect, your colleague Senator Menendez did not use #bitcoin for his money laundering. What do you think about that.
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Trump should issue an Executive Order to exempt BTC from capital gains taxes within the first 100 days of his presidency. Bring all that money back to the United States and grow the economy.
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Let's be clear: Kamala would not have pardoned Ross. Trump was the right choice.
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After a decade of begging and grifting, banks are still not using XRP for one obvious reason: it doesn’t solve any real problems. Now Ripple is a failed company begging for a bailout from the government. There is zero strategic interest in subsidizing its nonsense.
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BREAKING: Democrat politicians have written a letter to the DNC, asking the party to pivot away from the anti-bitcoin policies of Elizabeth Warren. This is likely in response to polling data, the GOP pro-bitcoin policies, and President Trump speaking at @TheBitcoinConf
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The best takedown of Ripple/XRP on this website. It's not a cryptocurrency and has no use case 👇
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ECB needs a new president who understands bitcoin.
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Is it true that Ripple is actually just a big seller of XRP? They created all the XRPs with just a key stroke, for free? . They don’t actually buy any XRP? . And they want the government to buy XRP from them?.
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BREAKING: the Biden Administration is cancelling the fake #Bitcoin mining "emergency" declaration and destroying the data that it illegally collected. The government is going to restart the process the legal way: with public notice and comment. The government is also paying
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The only reason you think $87k is cheap is that you saw $106k. After you see $600k you’ll think that $250k is cheap. That’s the problem with watching the exchange rate too closely. The solution is to study the fundamentals of #bitcoin: freedom to earn, save, and spend.
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It’s only a strategic asset if your enemy wants it. For example: Brad wants your BTC, but you don’t want his XRP, so BTC is a strategic asset and XRP is not. It’s not complicated.
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The US government is controlled by Bitcoin Maxis. Let that sink in.
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@ewarren No one should have to wonder whether a Senator is putting the interests of big banks ahead of the Bill of Rights. Yes, Senator Elizabeth Warren, I’m looking at you.
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Ripple was hoping that Kamala would foist a CBDC on the United States and use their technology. They were taken by surprise when Trump won, so they immediately started giving $millions after the election to get a seat at the table and derail the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
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Please don’t lecture us about #bitcoin financial risk if you are $33 trillion in debt with no plan to pay it off.
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This could be the last bitcoin cycle, Saylor has unlocked the Speculative Attack.
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Bitcoin is big. In fact, it's bigger than the internet. It's bigger than email, social media, and smartphones combined. And it's here to stay.
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I’m founding The Bitcoin Bond Company to provide transparent financial products that help institutional investors access bitcoin’s long-term growth.
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Just bought my coffee with BTC on Lightning ⚡️ . Bitcoin has the fastest and cheapest payment rails in the world. Permissionless, decentralized, and open source utility.
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If Kamala had won, you would be reading an Executive Order requiring the use of Ripple CBDC and banning bitcoin. God saved us with a miracle in Butler!.
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The world needs more bitcoin maximalism, not less.
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I might need to do a full supply audit of Ripple’s XRP ledger. Has anyone actually run the numbers?.
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Biden administration is proposing a 30% tax on electricity used by #bitcoin miners, even if you are off-grid using your own solar and wind generation. All of the reasons they provide are pretextual, their real reason is that they want to suppress Bitcoin and launch a CBDC.
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That was a $10k daily candle . 5 years ago BTC/USD was $10k. Really makes you think
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XRP army in disbelief. Ripple sells XRP as revenue, an operating cash inflow. It’s not financing, you are not investing in Ripple, you’re just getting tokens created out of thin air dumped on you. Ripple doesn’t owe you anything post-sale.
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Bitcoin is backed by math and energy. XRP is backed by trademark intellectual property laws. We are not the same.
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Sources say Ripple has been moving billions of XRPs to exchanges over the past six months to prepare the rug dump after the artificial pump, same game plan as last time.
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Senator Cynthia Lummis should be the next Secretary of the Treasury
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Message for fiatbros: please don’t lecture us about bitcoin’s inequality after you printed $trillions€ to bail out your bankers and politicians.
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BREAKING: Texas' Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is now a legislative priority, and has received a very symbolic bill number: Senate Bill 21!
My Statement Announcing First Round of Top 40 Priority Bills for the 2025 Legislative Session. #txlege .
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Please don’t lecture us about #bitcoin financial risk if you are $34 trillion in debt and counterfeiting is your only option to pay it off.
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Bitcoin will replace the US dollar as the world reserve currency.
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BREAKING🚨 Biden's 2025 budget is very bullish on #Bitcoin , the White House expects $250k by 2035. They are counting on it for their tax revenues!
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Face the facts: Ripple / XRP has been the leading source of anti-bitcoin misinformation for more than a decade. They have aggressively lobbied policymakers around the world to try to ban bitcoin mining. Weaponizing woke ESG narratives to promote their centralized token.
BTC is an exceptional store of value. It’s just not ideal as a payments mechanism bc of PoW energy costs / CO2 emitted (estimates show a weighted average carbon intensity of 480-500 gCO2eq per kWh) 1/2
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@bgarlinghouse Brad have you ever actually bought XRP? Or just sold?. Yes/no, don’t need to know how much but curious since you’re asking the government to buy XRP.
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Elizabeth Warren swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but instead she is attacking it. I'm calling on her to resign.
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The choice was Kamala banning bitcoin or Trump opening a memecoin casino. A lot of people can’t or don’t understand this, but thank God we’re on this timeline.
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@bgarlinghouse Reserves and stockpiles should be strategic based on the needs of the nation aligning with specific properties of assets. They shouldn’t be a DEI hodgepodge of random crypto ticker symbols shilled by industry lobbyists.
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This a real document from Ripple/XRP. They are pro-CBDC
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El Salvador discovered $trillions of gold deposits that when mined will massively dilute the above ground supply of gold. This can’t happen with Bitcoin because the code is open source, anyone can run a node to see that there will never be more than 21 million BTC, and new.
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When each nation acquires a big Bitcoin position and a small basket of their own “domestic local cryptos”, the new world reserve currency is BTC by default. Few understand this.
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We’re not terrorists and we’re not criminals. We just don’t trust banks and governments and want to control our own money.
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Bitcoin is separate from crypto. This is now official US government policy!.
JUST NOW! . President Trump signs an Executive Order establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile 🇺🇸
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As altcoins inevitably demonetize and trend to zero relative to bitcoin, the strategic reserve will naturally become bitcoin-only. Folks, this is Economics 101.
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Everything ok @bgarlinghouse ?. Try unplugging it and plugging it back in.
XRPL Ledger halted at height 93,927,173 (14 min so far). Steady lads, all hands on deck.
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“The Executive Order prohibits agencies from undertaking any action to establish, issue, or promote central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).”. Oof, Ripple/XRP rekt @bgarlinghouse . Your CBDC tech is not welcome here.
🚨NEW per my @FoxBusiness colleague @EdwardLawrence: The #crypto executive order has officially been signed. Here are the details:. 📌The Executive Order establishes the Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to strengthen U.S. leadership in digital finance. 📌The.
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The government holds zero XRP, nobody uses it (other than Ripple selling it)
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Bitcoin doesn't need Trump, but Trump does need Bitcoin. Few understand this.
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Bankers and politicians agree: using your own money without getting their permission first is a crime.
"I've always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin, etc. [Senator Warren] pointed out the only true use case for it is criminals," says JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. "If I were the government I'd close it down."
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BREAKING: ERCOT recommends that #bitcoin mining in Texas should be directly integrated as a Controllable Load Resource (CLR) to increase reliable grid balancing
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Bitcoin is going to go to $100k and @ewarren deserves a lot of credit for that. Her tireless attacks on the industry led to very effective defensive lobbying that has flipped into offense, accelerating bitcoin adoption. Great self-own, the best, congratulations @SenWarren.
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Right from the horse's mouth: Ripple/XRP is opposed to a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, they want a "Diversified Crypto Reserve" instead. This is what they're pushing behind closed doors in DC, and waving $millions at politicians to make it happen.
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Tariffs should be paid in bitcoin for the Strategic Reserve.
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@bgarlinghouse @realDonaldTrump Brad, why does Ripple sell so much XRP?. You expect the government to buy XRP, but you are a seller. You don’t walk the talk. This undermines your credibility.
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If markets were efficient, XRP would go to zero tonight. Ripple is defeated.
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If Japan causes the next financial crises, money-printing bailouts, interest rate cuts, inflationary fiat collapses, and the ultimate final victory of Bitcoin, we will then know why Satoshi Nakamoto chose a Japanese pseudonym.
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Texas bitcoin mining load increased 30%. August electricity prices fell 80%. Anti-bitcoin critics in disbelief
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Elon Musk is having more success changing the Federal government than he did changing Bitcoin. Bitcoin is more powerful than the Deep State. Let that sink in.
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If you invest in XRP, you are financing anti-bitcoin lobbyists just fyi.
@BitcoinPierre Btw, they attack Bitcoin in the EU even more.
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The same people who call bitcoin a bubble are $35 trillion in debt.
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Ripple can trivially fork the XRPL software and add trillions more XRP or remove the escrow locks. Ripple wrote up a fake narrative of decentralization, there are no “alternative publishers”. It’s just a shell game of Ripple affiliates.
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Bitcoin isn’t just for payments, it’s also a store of value.
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You can’t make this up. @bgarlinghouse @DavidSacks come on guys let’s be serious
@TeddyBitcoins @BitcoinPierre I just checked and this is the first block number that I see, and it says "genesis" lol.
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The Ripple business model:.(1) "incentivize" banks to put their brand in a press release.(2) hype up the press release to dump XRP on retail.(3) banks don't actually use their tech. Zero strategic interest for the United States to subsidize press releases for low quality software.
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Thanks to President Trump, bitcoin mining is now safe from political attacks and there’s a lot of new opportunities! It’s been an honor to work for Riot, the best team in the industry, but it’s time for me to part ways and start a new bitcoin adventure! Stay tuned for more 🫡🇺🇸
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I can hear Brad Garlinghouse screaming about the fact that Bitcoin Maximalists won and were right all along.
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@bgarlinghouse You want the government to buy XRP, and yet Ripple is a mass seller of XRP?. With all due respect, walk the walk if you want to have any credibility.
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Let’s be clear: Elizabeth Warren wants to arrest you and put you in prison just for using #bitcoin.
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1. ETFs should not need regulatory approval. 2. The SEC should have approved the first Bitcoin ETF that applied in 2013. 3. It took ten years for the SEC to finally make the correct decision to approve, after losing in court. 4. The SEC completely bungled the announcement.
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Laser-eye toxic bitcoin maxi podcasters won, again! . Amazing timeline.
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Elizabeth Warren should resign from the Senate and retire from politics. Her anti-#bitcoin dogma has severely damaged the progressive cause, it might be irreparable.
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Tariffs should be paid in bitcoin, to accumulate a strategic stockpile.
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Your brain is an "unhosted wallet" according to Elizabeth Warren. She wants to ban it!
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@bgarlinghouse The @POTUS campaign had the core tenets of.(1) banning your CBDC technology.(2) a strategic BITCOIN stockpile. There's no ambiguity.
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