Snowden Stresses Bitcoin's Privacy and Hedges Against Gov't at Conference, While Noting Its Own Privacy Issues

Edward Snowden stresses Bitcoin's importance for individual privacy and control against government surveillance.

Prominent figures at conference highlight Bitcoin's value proposition as a hedge against inflationary fiat currencies.

Snowden criticizes focus on Bitcoin price and ETFs rather than its core decentralized attributes.

Snowden says Bitcoin has "a privacy problem" and praises privacy tools like CoinJoin.

Snowden praises Nostr as integrating free speech and trade, tipping his hat to its creators.