{"id":671323,"date":"2025-05-25T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bitcoiners-fire-back-at-aussie-senators-you-cant-eat-bitcoin-remark\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:05:20","slug":"bitcoiners-fire-back-at-aussie-senators-you-cant-eat-bitcoin-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bitcoiners-fire-back-at-aussie-senators-you-cant-eat-bitcoin-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoiners fire back at Aussie senator&#039;s &#039;you can&#039;t eat Bitcoin&#039; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDUvMDE5NmQzZjktOWE5MS03OWE4LWJmMDctY2I4NTlkMjY0MTRi.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Australian Senator Gerard Rennick criticized Bitcoin, saying &#8220;you can&#8217;t eat Bitcoin.&#8221; A Bitcoiner replied, asking if he feels the same about the internet.<\/p>\n<p><p>Australian Senator Gerard Rennick has drawn criticism from the Bitcoin community following his remarks referring to Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme and questioning the asset\u2019s value because it can\u2019t be eaten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t eat Bitcoin,\u201d Rennick <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorRennick\/status\/1925754257547882888\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> in a May 23 X post, responding to an X user who questioned his stance after Bitcoin hit a new all-time high of $111,970 on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBitcoin will ultimately go to $1 million dollars. Why because it\u2019s a Ponzi scheme whereby BlackRock will pump more and more dollars into a supply constrained product,\u201d Rennick said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Australian Senator Gerard Rennick has drawn criticism from the Bitcoin community following his remarks referring to Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme and questioning the asset\u2019s value because it can\u2019t be eaten. \u201cYou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-05\/0196d3f9-9a91-79a8-bf07-cb859d26414b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74863,74355,20358],"class_list":["post-671323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-adoption","tag-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}