{"id":4723,"date":"2023-04-10T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bc6d55d000253f"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:07:34","slug":"max-keiser-speaking-at-bitcoin-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/max-keiser-speaking-at-bitcoin-2023","title":{"rendered":"Max Keiser, \u2018Crypto Willy Wonka,\u2019 Is Ready To Seize The Moment At Bitcoin 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even among hundreds of speakers, unique activations and viral moments, Max Keiser<\/a> has become a can\u2019t-miss aspect of the Bitcoin Conference event series. During Bitcoin 2019, he emphatically ripped up a $10 bill for CNBC Africa<\/a>, he was labeled \u201ccrypto Willy Wonka\u201d on the \u201cDaily Show\u201d following his energetic appearance at Bitcoin 2021<\/a> and he set a probable record for on-stage f-bombs during the \u201cF*ck You Money\u201d panel at Bitcoin 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keiser\u2019s unique stage presence might seem improvised, but a media career that has spanned decades and produced television content for the BBC, Al-Jazeera and RT alongside his wife and business partner Stacy Herbert<\/a> indicates that he knows what he\u2019s doing. As does his current mission with Herbert, working alongside El Salvador President Nayib Bukele<\/a> to make one of the Bitcoin Conference\u2019s most promising announcements<\/a> an effective reality for millions: In November 2022, Bukele announced that the two would help establish the country\u2019s National Bitcoin Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know in \u2018Star Wars,\u2019 when they jump to hyperspace? That\u2019s what\u2019s happening in El Salvador,\u201d Keiser explained in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine. \u201cBitcoin plus Bukele, with some help from Max and Stacy, has catapulted the country into becoming Bitcoin Maximalist Country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keiser is quick to note that Bukele, who \u201cis everywhere and pushing everything forward 24\/7\u201d is \u201calmost impossible\u201d to keep up with, but he evangelizes the president\u2019s country with equal vigor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Salvador is the ark,\u201d Keiser said. \u201cAll are welcome while there\u2019s still room. I expect the airport to be packed with fiat money refugees soon. Give us your tired, your weary, your banked-to-death poor, huddling in the casino gulag.\u201d<\/p>\n

This anti-central-banking message, which Keiser has been sharing in some form or another throughout much of his career, seems particularly prescient in the run up to Bitcoin 2023, given the ongoing banking crisis and accompanying bitcoin price surge<\/a>. For someone who has been preaching about the inequalities of fiat banking for so long, the current climate is coming as little surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read the news about how banks are collapsing and I feel nothing,\u201d Keiser recalled. \u201cThe current collapse is no surprise, of course. In 2008, there was a catastrophic global credit freeze; the financialized, post-WWII economy effectively died; and the financial taxidermists and bankers moved in to stuff it with lots of new, worthless fiat money. And now, in 2023, the stuffed, dead moose has caught fire and the whole global house of deceit and unpayable financial claims is a bonfire of epic proportions visible from other galaxies.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all seems like the perfect recipe for yet another unforgettable on-stage moment for Keiser at Bitcoin 2023. But if you were looking for some details as to how he will attempt to grab headlines again this year, you\u2019ll have to be content to wait until May, just like everyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan to channel Satoshi live on stage, as always,\u201d he teased. \u201cI only speak the truth. I am bound by the protocol and the power vested in me as the Bishop of Bitcoin to elevate the masses and mass orange pill them whenever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Max Keiser, who now works in El Salvador\u2019s National Bitcoin Office, discusses his upcoming appearance at the Bitcoin 2023 conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1477,422,1590],"class_list":{"0":"post-4723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-bitcoin-2023","9":"tag-feature","10":"tag-max-keiser"},"author_data":{"id":2705,"name":"Peter Chawaga","nicename":"peter-chawaga","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/peterc-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/max-kesier-bitcoin-2021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}