Even when politicians and actors spend a full hour trying to conflate Bitcoin with crypto scams from SBF and Trump, they're learning they can't get away with outright lies. Thus, we got a not-horrible intro to Bitcoin partway through an otherwise useless conversation: @GavinNewsom: "The origin story... it goes back to this notion of the lack of trust in institutions, people hating banks. So the idea was... code not people. 2008, the financial crisis, perfect time to come out with a paper saying the system is broken, we have something more pure, better." @ben_mckenzie: "It says, wouldn't it be cool if we could have a form of money where we didn't need the banks? We could send money directly. Some form of digital money. This is an idea that had been floating around for a while, a bunch of cryptographers has been trying to figure it out. And the Bitcoin code does have some elegance to it. It has a capped number of Bitcoin that can ever exist. The rest of these cryptos really don't. Advocates will tell you that means it has value because it's scarce. There's only so much of it." You're getting there, fellas! Make sure to evaluate Bitcoin separately from the world of non-Bitcoin cryptoblockchaindefi. And don't forfeit your integrity just to pander to your base and donors. Bitcoin is for everyone.