The ponzi world of crypto never ceases to amaze, be it current events revolving around the Strait of Hormuz or the ongoing delay of Congress’s CLARITY Act or even the most recent drama in world of crypto known as WLFI (World Librety Financial); an ongoing fued between Justin Sun and Eric Trump. There was also that embarrasing assembly of “wahmen”, as in establishment, self-entitled bitcoiner women (e.g. Natalie Brunell, Efrat Fenigson, etc.) who surrounded themselves along with special guest, Senator Cynthia Lummis aka “Crypto Queen”, a Zionist.
And now, another pointless bitcoin conference, hosted by David Bailey, founder and entrepreneur of BTC Inc., has spawned in The Venetian Resort, located in Las Vegas. The conference feature several sessions with speakers, notably Kash Patel & Todd Blanche (Trump administration lackeys & representatives of the ENC aka “Epstein National Committee”), SEC Chairman (Securities and Exchange Commission) Paul Atkins, and Lauren Emily/Rodriguez (wife of Keonne Rodrigeuz, Samourai developer), Curtis Yarvin (dark enlightment per Peter Thiel) and Joseph Edgar Foreman aka Afroman.
Guest speakers
Kash Patel & Todd Blanche - “shots were fired”
DOJ Says Crypto Code Alone Isn’t Crime, But Roman Storm Case Still Looms
Before discussing Patel’s and Blanche’s remote appearance during bitcoin Las Vegas...quick recap; on April 25, during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, everyone including Donald “Jester” Trump survived several close encounters including: a (staged) shooting from “glass” bullets, guests recording selfies of the scene without directly witnessing what exactly transpired, RFK Jr. being seperated from his wife, Stephen Miller using his pregnant wife as a shield, a woman spotted stealing sealed wine bottles, and Trump himself, who insisted in his speech that the military for 150 years have been requesting for a foritified ballroom to be built within the white house. Good heavens!
As for Patel and Blanche, both played their roles cleverly upon execution: look confuse amongst guests as if they were uninvited, appear as if they royally screwed up via secret service, and contain their inner laughter while Trump gave his speech about the “shooting”, only 30+ minutes after everything went down? Smells like staged, something definitely doesn’t add up here, not to mention during the morning of April 25, there was a crypto conference featuring Trump’s memecoin $TRUMP. Guest speakers included Mike Tyson (who we all know threw down that one fight against Jake Paul), Ashley Sinclair, Cathie Wood, etc. Going back to the bitcoin conference…
…Patel & Blanche attended Las Vegas, albiet remotely. The two delivered “incredible energy” to a nearly empty audience. But who am I kidding; general consensus from both crypto critics and bitcoiners per social media were that Patel & Blanche were not welcomed with open arms. Patel expressed propaganda of confidence of “keep your digital assets”& that bitcoin isn’t going anywhere. (Not buying it). Blanche addressed that Trump is the greatest president in the world on crypto and third party participants in crypto won’t need to “sleep with one eye open” when the feds are coming along to charge them. (Still not buying it but what do I know; crime is legal.)
Finally, both Patel’s and Blanche’s words leave a lot be clarified. It sounds like the fed (Patel, Blanche, etc.) are trying to say “crime is criminal; code alone shouldn’t be.” But does that apply true for ongoing cases that the Trump administration has promised they would investigate? One such prominous case within the crypto community is the case concerning “Free Samourai”, which is about getting the Trump administration to pardon the two developers of Samourai, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill. The Samourai website describes Samourai as “a modern bitcoin wallet hand forged to keep your transactions private, your identity masked and your funds secured. (Both Keonne and Hill started on the Samourai project back in 2015.)
Lauren Emily - “not a Stella Assange”
"Bless her shes like a new Stella Assange" - gofreesamourai
Lauren Rodrigeuz Las Vegas sessions list
"escorted out of the bitcoin conference" - Lauren
"thank you @BranBTC and @TheBitcoinConf for resolving the issue with security" - Lauren
Speaking of Samourai, let’s move on to discuss Rodrigeuz’s wife, Lauren Emily/Rodrigeuz. Through combined efforts of various social media accounts e.g. Jesse Tevelow & “burn the bridge”, as well as the group “Women of Bitcoin” (the “wahmen” who are softies towards Lummis), Lauren & “Free Samourai” have a strong case to request that the Trump administration pardon both Keonne and William. So, what is the Trump administration waiting for? Before we can answer that, I need to disclose some more about Lauren.
Lauren is no “Stella Assange”, as implied by “gofreesamourai”. To my knowledge, there is insufficient evidence to compare Lauren to Stella as a honeypot of sorts. During the years of Julian Assange seeking asylum, Stella went through name changes, going from Sara González Devant to Sara Moris to Stella Assange. There is also much more significant time for Stella to have slowly embrace, and inevitably gravitate her cause of “free Julian Assange” to bitcoin communities as far as propaganda notions of “freedom”, “decentralization”, “Wikileaks” goes. Yes folks; Stella has spent several amount of years promoting bitcoin much like Wikileaks. At this moment, I cannot find any history where Lauren, out of the works of Keonne’s Samourai, has advocated bitcoin for several years.
Back in March 2026, Lauren went on the show of “What Bitcoin Did”. Lauren discussed the morning of Keonne’s arrest and what it was like for her to be woken up upon laser sights, a drone flying above her house, and several federal agents raiding their cottage. You can watch this interview here.
With regards to bitcoin Las Vegas, on April 27, Lauren tweeted at 10:43am about she and “Free Samourai” being escorted out of the conference. And then at 11:52am, Lauren tweeted that the bitcoin conference and some guy called “Brandon” helped to resolve issues with security about “Free Samourai” team simply holding signs that said “FREE SAMOURAI; code is not a crime”. Awkward?
If Lauren ever happens to read this article, I’m going to be honest: the bitcoin conference & its various speakers of billionaires/politicians & the fed/honeypots such as Brunell (“Fix The Money”, Michael Saylor honeypot, host of Coin Stories podcast) and Fenigson (the so-called independent journalist, former IDF service member)…they are NOT your friend(s) and are only using you (Lauren, as well as Keonne) to further promote false sense of “freedom”, technocratic agendas featuring bitcoin and other crypto, arguably pioneering Ai and data centers (given they are additional, essential tools to maintain crypto relevance), increase their asset portfolios, be it realized/unrealized gain & inevitably promote stablecoins: digital tokens that are “pegged” onto the U.S. dollar e.g. Tether (USDT), Circle (USDC), which are a “backdoor” to directly push CBDCs (Central Banking Digital Currencies).
With that said, I wish Lauren the best. I too, do see Keonne getting pardoned…but not by the Trump administration. Perhaps Keonne will get pardoned in a future adminstration that is completely absent from Zionism e.g. Lummis, technocratic propaganda tied heavily to Peter Thiel & Epstein related content such as bitcoin and palantir.
Paul Atkins - “we’re not the SEC anymore”
SEC, CFTC Guidance brings Crypto clarity Industry has Sought, Experts Say
SEC Chair Paul Atkins Tells Bitcoin Las Vegas 2026 a New Era Starts Now at the Agency
U.S. government is accepting donations to pay off its $39 trillion debt via PayPal and Venmo.
As of 2025, Paul Atkins is the current SEC chairman who unlike Gary Gensler, is heavily in favor of crypto being mainstream. Much like Lummis, Atkin has been behind the Trump administration’s efforts to push and legislate bills centered around crypto, including stablecoins.
Earlier in March, Atkins described his department as no longer being the ‘‘Securities and Everything Commission’. Atkins’s role is to ensure the updated guidance of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) & SEC’s guidance include and define four asset catogories: digital commodities (crypto), digital collectibles (non-fungible tokens), digital tools, and stablecoins (as described above).
Atkins describes crypto push will not exist if Congress does not finish establishing formal rules around crypto market structure; staff guidance can be unmade if a future administration ever decides to slow down/abolish cryptocurrency development. On a similar note, the White House recently announced they are accepting “donations” to pay off the 39 trillion via Venmo and PayPal. Not only is this atrocious, but it seems like this was made possible no thanks to Atkins’s role in the SEC to leave crypto largely unregulated as far as moving money around “untraced”. (I wouldn’t be surprised if future donations to the White House will originate originally from USDT & BTC based addresses. After all, the crypto industry is a 2-3 trillion industry with a lot of “money” sitting around…)
As the supposed first SEC chairman to attend a bitcoin conference, Atkins ensured Perianne Boring of the Digital Chamber that the SEC and CFTC would not clash as they used to before. As if nothing could go wrong…imagine crypto, stablecoins, and cbdcs (of which I’m confidantly certain that the fed and bitcoin maximalists are inevitably pushing, very insistingly through stablecoins) being identified as “commodities” as fungible, tradable digital assets as store of value INSTEAD of “securities” as in company ownership/investment contracts, or in the case of crypto, the said developer(s) of a crypto being the rightful owner(s).
Curtis Yarvin - “Mencius Moldbug”
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America - Ava Kofman
Curtis Yarvin - The Philosopher of Post-Democracy - Steve Anderson
Is Technology Making Democracy Obsolete?
Curtis Yarvin & Mike Brock Debate
Leadership Lessons from Aristotle
Yarvin, CEO of Urban Tigher/founder of Urbit, is in truth a techno-fascist, a key founder of the Dark Enlightenment, and a major figure & structure of Peter Thiel’s orbit of tyranny. In the case of Yarvin, software engineer Steve Anderson accurately describes Yarvin as the phiolosopher of post-democracy: one who intends to bring forth monarchy as an alternative over democracy, and rebrand authorianism as effienecy, as in no government oversight. (which reminds me, check out that one Ai commercial video of Alex “magi” Karp saying everything out loud.)
During the second day of Las Vegas, Yarvin held a debate with Mike Brock, former tech executive and writer. The discussion centered around whether resolved liberal democracy is an absolute “operating system” should be replaced by sovereign coporation (as in a monarchy). Yarvin cites progressivism and populism to his opponent, pointing out the inherit flaws of both akin to democracy as seen with prestigeous institutions, Ivy league universities, & elected politicians, who upon being elected by the people, are to run the governments, and whether even Trump should be in charge of the Department of Justice. (Yarvin’s last point is highly suspicious; wasn’t Yarvin back in 2024 all for Trump’s advocacy of replacing democracy with autocracy as well as being supportive of the cult known as MAGA? )
Interestingly, Brock does not play into Yarvin’s game of narcissism. He instead disputes that Yarvin does not truly understand philosophy such as Aristotle. Brock went on to explain his support of “liberal” democracy; it is working as intended and that through democracy, Trump will be removed from office. Brock also questions the format of the debate as described by David Zell, the moderator. The conversation goes back to Yarvin.
Yarvin brings up El Salvador and Nayib “Bukkake” Bukele. While yes, Bukele was democratically elected by the people, Bukele upon power immediately centered around policies around building a police survillence state, building a bitcoin-centric haven for crypto bros/the US/Israel, and who since 2025, has eliminated presidential term limits all while extending presidential term to last six years instead of five. Conversation shifts back to Brock who acknowledges that a dictator such as Bukele can be regarded as “popular” but also corrupt. More importantly, Brock highly suggests to his opponent that Aristole (as well as Plato) would not view CEOs and technates, a group of individuals governed by engineers, scientists, technologists, as true leaders. Aristotle once wrote: “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
The rest of Yarvin’s and Brock’s conversation continued with Yarvin asking questions to Brock, Brock asking questions to Yarvin, followed by rebuttals. The debate in itself can best be described as one libertarian vs. one liberal, dabbling further into monarchies vs. corporations e.g. The New York Times.
In a 2021 appearance on a far-right podcast, Vice-President J. D. Vance, a former employee of one of Thiel’s venture-capital firms, cited Yarvin when suggesting that a future Trump Administration “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” and ignore the courts if they objected. - Ava Kofman
Afroman - “because I got orange pilled”
The Afroman Defamation Verdict Explained
Afroman is free…plenty of other journalists have already covered Afroman’s case from last month so skipping that…last month, the Bitcoin conference announced Afroman as a guest speaker…why?!
Where to begin…basically, Afroman has admitted to being a “Republican” who yes, is at least for “free speech”. But what exactly has “free speech” done to Afroman outside of being a dude who writes funny rhymes from time to time, and gets paid? And what the hell does Afroman know about bitcoin let alone how “free speech” and “freedom” from his perspective is vastly different from the perspectives of typical “crypto bros” and “bitcoin maximalists” who like Lauren, only see Afroman as a “useful tool”.
On Day 3 of the (not so) incredible bitcoin conference, Afroman (who wore his USA suit), presented himself on stage with several ladies as props. Afroman reminded everyone that his house was raided, his money was stolen, cameras disconnected; as a result, he felt powerless. But with Afroman’s “freedom of speech”, he was able to “address a problem”, “solve a problem” etc. Afroman also encouraged everyone to use their “freedom of speech” for something “good”. Is that something “good” involve Afroman mentioning he be “needing some bitcoin”?
Then, Afroman mentioned about injustice within the court system (which there is) and the importance of a jury within family court, as a key piece in America, elected by the people, for the people. Oh and Afroman is running for president for 2028…wait what? (I have several questions then; what party is Afroman running for? Is he going independent? What kind of policies is Afroman is going to focus on; is bitcoin of them? Is Afroman even aware of the crypto industry’s super PAC, let alone the industry’s stringy involvement in installing a Peter Thiel-approved/Benjamin Netanyahu-approved presidential candidate back during 2023 (RFK Jr.)/2024 (Donald Trump)?
After Afroman performed “Because I Got High” and “Lemon Pound Cake”, Afroman mentioned he would be over at the “scarcity booth”…a nod (I guess) to the infamous bitcoin whitepaper. By the way, there was an earlier session with Afroman featuring Tracy Hoyos-Lopez from the crypto exchange Kraken…if you purchased a “whale pass”, was (the last I checked) a whooping $12,999.
Out of all the guest speakers that the conference threw together, Afroman was by far the most dissapointing. Afroman’s overall role can be described as a “banality of evil”, a concept invented by the philosopher Hannah Arendt. (Do note though; Arendt specifically referred her concept to that of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi and quite arguably a key figure to the “Final Solution” who went about committing evil acts mainly to “get the job done”. With that said, please note though…I am not suggesting Afroman is evil; he is simply carrying out an objective (bitcoin that is) without (to my knowledge) doing any research into the full history of bitcoin and its feats, volatility nature, and most of all, its controversies.
Final thoughts
If you thought the 2026 bitcoin conference was complete shit, I cannot imagine 2027’s being any different. Besides the usual horseshit that came out of Michael Saylor’s mouth to desperately keep bitcoin & stablecoins relevant with current (and potentially) future investors/suckers, or Natalie Brunell’s soft-peddling of questions, or her half-baked joke of introducing the traitorous cypherpunk Adam “Andy” Back as “Satoshi” (timestamp 4:37:50 - 4:37:56), I noticed a few unusual moments from the conference.
Eric Trump could not get a mild applause from the audience; he also revealed a bullshit “bombshell” about the US government to not sell its holding of 300,000.
Jack Dorsey announced the premiere of the film The Six Dollar Billionaire Man, describing the “bitcoin pioneer” & “freedom fighter” Julian Assange. I recently reacted to this annoucement; it is sus, very sus. But it does confirm my suspicion even more that Dorsey was the anonymous bitcoin donor who back in 2024 personally donated over 8 bitcoin to cover Julian’s private jet cost. Conclusion? Wikileaks has been partnering with Dorsey behind the scenes this whole time.
There was a “privacy protest” within The Venetian Resort that was cringe and about as effective and draining as the No King’s Protest.
Anthony Scaramucci fist pumping with Eric Trump, as if nobody was paying to attention to the fact that Scaramucchi briefly served in Donald Trump’s 1st admistration and was one of many who previously promoted Sam-Bankman Fried’s FTX fraud. Scaramucci is just another clown who goes on safe spaces such Bloomberg, CNBC, and even Brunell’s Coin Stories podcast to promote bullshit, spew nonsense all while having the least amount of pushback.
Don’t bother with wasting even a nickel supporting these fraudalent conferences. Down the road, these scamfests are worth being abolished.
-Golden Monarch
I recall my late friend The Straight Juice mentioning some details about crypto's fundamentally systematic orientation as a front for shadowy intelligence interests. If you're interested, I can maybe sometime soon scroll back at the massive archive batch of his articles and share pertinent extract passages with you if I find any.