Bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce told Newsmax on Thursday that the cryptocurrency industry finally has “tailwinds” with the support of the Trump administration, adding that the United States will dominate thanks to the support.

Pierce, president of the Bitcoin Foundation, joined “National Report” one day after Vice President JD Vance delivered the keynote address at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas.

“We were an industry that was persecuted, vilified, sensationalized, choke-pointed, lawfare and everything else,” Pierce said. “We finally have permission to build, and we’ve been doing extraordinary things despite the government headwinds. Now that we’ve got tailwinds, the winds at our back, the United States is clearly going to dominate this multitrillion-dollar industry.”

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