Protos recently interviewed Cory Klippsten, CEO at Swan Bitcoin and Partner at Bitcoiner Ventures, to kick off a new series of opinions from big names in crypto. Klippsten has been vocal on social media about his views on cryptocurrencies — previously a fan of alt-coins, he’s taken a staunch Bitcoin-only approach.
Here’s his take on the current market, Ethereum’s Merge, regulation, and more.
Protos: You’ve gained 150,000 followers on Twitter since last year. What are you trying to accomplish by being out in the media? What’s your overall goal?
Klippsten: It’s not necessarily a goal. It’s something that fell into our lap over the past few months because of the calls that I made on Terra LUNA and then Celsius. So LUNA in March and then Celsius in May brought a lot of media attention. I think it’s very much driven by this recent news cycle with the CeFi [centralized finance] lending implosion of the past three months.
When I’m out there talking to media, honestly, I think the number one message that I try to get across is that Bitcoin is not part of the crypto industry. There’s Bitcoin, and there’s other things that call themselves crypto.
It’s in the interest of crypto people to try to put Bitcoin under that umbrella. And it’s clearly in the interests of Bitcoiners in Bitcoin companies to separate Bitcoin from crypto. So that’s the message that I try to convey very clearly with every one of these outlets.
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