With Bitcoin Cen's Crypto Club of Nashville

Bitcoin Magazine made history July 25-27^th by hosting the world’s largest ever Bitcoin Conference with over 26,000 attendees at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. Williamson County residents and hosts of the new podcast, God, Freedom and Bitcoin, Todd and Janet Gatewood, along with friend and business partner “Bitcoin Ben” Semchee, sponsored one of the larger booths at the conference to promote their new education business, Bitcoin Ben’s Crypto Club Nashville located in Cool Springs. 

 

Greeting thousands of Bitcoiners over the three-day period and hosting giveaways totaling over $8,000 in Bitcoin, Todd Gatewood described the experience, “We had people from all over the world stop by our booth, register for our drawings, and ask about our club in Brentwood,” shared Gatewood. “They want to learn, to be a part of a community, and they all recognize Bitcoin as digital gold.”

 

The biggest draw of the weekend was the appearance by keynote speaker President Donald J. Trump, who became the first ever candidate from a major political party to address Bitcoiners. “You are the modern-day Edisons and Wright brothers and Carnegies and Henry Fords, and what you do in your lifetime stands a chance to outlive us all,” Trump told the thousands of in-person attendees and over 500,000 watching live on air. “I stand before you today filled with respect and admiration for what the Bitcoin Community has achieved. It’s incredible. This is the steel industry of 100 years ago, I think you’re just seeing it in its infancy. I can see it happening.”

 

Bitcoin Ben held on-air live shows all three days and, together with the Gatewoods, interviewed influencers, business associates, and shared live stream content for viewers on X. When asked about President Trump, Semchee shared, “This is the leading candidate for president of the U.S. announcing that they will be buying Bitcoin for the strategic reserve, I cannot express how large this is!”

 

Robert Kennedy, Jr., also candidate for President, took the time to speak at the conference, “Bitcoiners have it right, fix the money, fix the world. Bitcoin provides a store of value that will allow middle-class Americans to live in abundance again."

 

Notably the most influential figure in the Bitcoin space, Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy, delivered a positive keynote address to the upbeat crowd, “This is the biggest week in the history of Bitcoin, this is the week where we have two of three presidential candidates, a former president, perhaps the next president, ten senators, congressman, governors, the amount of media attention is profound. It’s a coming out party for Bitcoin. They recognize this as a technology critical to the success of America. This is an inflection point because there is a subtext here and the implication is that Bitcoin is digital property, it has property rights, it’s ethical, it’s technically sound, it’s economically sound, it’s an instrument of economic empowerment, and the establishment now agrees with you. Bitcoin has an infinite life span. It’s the solution to our economic dilemma. It’s a revolution in economics”

 

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Haggerty also spoke, vowing to defend the rights of privacy and freedom of transactions that Bitcoin allows. “You will see us get the federal government off your back, out of your wallets and let you control your life,” stated Senator Blackburn.

 

President Trump got a thunderous applause when he proclaimed, “Never Sell your Bitcoin,” which is a core belief of Bitcoiners. “The United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world.”