New Years Live Stream

Bitcoin Bottom Line

Host and Valkyrie CIO, Steven McClurg, met via livestream with five special guests, all experts in the Bitcoin space.

Bitcoiner C.J. Wilson begins the round table discussion about the hopes and expectations of the new year. Wilson gives a short recap of the terrible flood attacks, adoption of Bitcoin from El Salvador, creation of the Bitcoin Football Club, as well as the action of mining reaching all-time highs during 2021.

Justine Harper of Unchained Capital speculates that adoption will be a significant focus of 2022 after seeing notable institutions adopting Bitcoin, while Kristy-Leigh Minehan of OhGodAGirl discusses hash rates and mining. Minehan believes that this will be the year that some mainstream guys join the ASIC development business due to all of the mining moving into the United States after China’s ban and the increased market saturation.

Charlie Lee, Founder of Litecoin agrees with Harper and Minehan that the adoption of Bitcoin will be prominent this year. He discusses Tonga’s interest in following El Salvador’s plan of making Bitcoin legal tender and the potential of a Spot ETF.

Peter McCormack of What Bitcoin Did discusses the benchmarks of the Bedford Bitcoin Football Club for 2022 and the focus on next season. One of the benchmarks will be commercial revenue proving that having an international base of Bitcoiners who support the team will allow a revenue model that matches lead clubs in the UK. Another benchmark will be strengthening the club's infrastructure, processes, and protocols to take a tenth division team through the leagues. McClurg speaks about the adoption of Bitcoin as payment by sports teams worldwide.

Author, Jimmy Song, discusses releasing his third book and seeing a trend of Bitcoin as a political issue in current and future elections. Two democrats and three republicans in the Ohio senate race have all expressed positive thoughts on Bitcoin. Song speculates that 2022 will have positive effects on Bitcoin despite potential adversity.

McClurg brings up the recent news that Rio De Janeiro is adding one percent of Bitcoin to its city treasury, similar to Miami. These two cities are now competing for forces with El Salvador. Wilson speculated that El Salvador would win due to its current Bitcoin infrastructure and commitment.

McCormack asks the other's opinions on the pegasus software in El Salvador. He describes the issue of thirty activists and journalists having information compromised on their phones due to this state tracking software. A variety of authoritarian problems have occurred in El Salvador over the past eighteen months. He challenged whether we are being objective enough regarding this issue.

Minehan states that the NSO group that created the Pegasus software was running a subsidiary of an American venture capital firm to create it. She has seen a trend of giving people a pause because they are in the Bitcoin community, which is happening in El Salvador. With the

excitement surrounding them adopting Bitcoin, people are not paying attention to what is happening with the pegasus software. Over thirty percent of the IOS population had the pegasus software installed until the IOS 14.2 update.

Song agrees and discusses the issue of tech companies having more information than they should.

McClurg suggests looking at the issue from a macro perspective. He acknowledges what they are doing is bad, but they have been an authoritarian regime for a very long time. It takes time to become a democracy, and he believes that aspects of democracy and freedom will emerge into the government.

Harper agrees that it is vital to be objective and that the people of El Salvador are benefit