Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speech at Bitcoin 2023 Conference, May-19-2023

"Today, we show the world the power and the durability and the flexibility of Bitcoin,” Kennedy said.

“Almost everyone in this room is aware of the link between Bitcoin and democracy and freedom,” he said. “They're passionate because of the deep representation of a deep need that we have for liberty and democracy, and the promise that this innovation has to guarantee those virtues."

Kennedy pledged to be an unwavering proponent of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. “As president, I will make sure that your right to hold and use Bitcoin is inviolable,” he told crowds in Miami that erupted into applause. "I am an ardent defender and lifelong defender of civil liberties, and Bitcoin is both an exercise and a guarantee of those freedoms.”

Kennedy warned of the danger of centralized digital currency (known as CBDC or central bank digital currency) being abused by governments to track every financial transaction of its citizens and then punish them for bad behavior, noting that "free money is as important to freedom as free expression."