About Ross Stevens
Ross Stevens, founder and executive chairman of NYDIG, has been a vocal advocate for Bitcoin in a series of public appearances, often discussing its properties as a monetary asset. He has described Bitcoin as "the best money we have" and "the best money we've ever had," arguing that it is a store of value whose supply is unaffected by demandhol. Stevens has characterized fiat currency as "vulnerable" and subject to "the whims of human frailties," while stating that Bitcoin is "the thing that's fixed." He has also described Bitcoin as "life insurance" in the sense of providing "freedom and dignity," and has said that the Federal Reserve's money printing "steals time" from people, particularly "the non-asset owners."
Stevens has compared Bitcoin builders to medieval cathedral builders, stating that they are "working on something bigger than ourselves" and "working on sound money for Humanity." He has argued that Bitcoin's energy use will act as a catalyst for the development of "abundant clean cheap energy," claiming that "bitcoin mining can be located anywhere" and will allow humanity to "move the people to the power." In discussions with Michael Saylor, Stevens has stated that "if you are not long, you're short bitcoin" and that for companies adopting the "bitcoin standard," the results are "profound."
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Ross Stevens's recent appearances.
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So think about a Scottish Cathedral, one that was built 800 years ago, so maybe around 1300. It took 150 years to build. Let’s say we go back in time and you and I are masons and laborers putting those final stones at the top of that 150-year project. One thing we know: our fathers worked on the project, our grandfathers, our great-grandfathers, our great-great-grandfathers, our great-great-great-grandfathers. What that whole lineage had in common is one thing they knew for sure: they would not see the project to its fruition. They would die before it was complete. Yet they whistled to work every day because they thought they were working on something bigger than themselves.
What were they working on? They were working on an 80-foot Cathedral. They were working on an experience where when a peasant comes in from the countryside who has never seen man make anything taller than six or eight feet, and stands at 80 feet, and you see something in the corner that just slacks, which is light that has colors, stained glass, and he is just in awe and cannot speak.
Now, that was built to the glory of God. Bitcoiners believe in a better monetary world. We are the masons, we are the laborers of today, and we are working on a new monetary Cathedral. A new monetary Cathedral. And just like our great-great-grandfathers in that example, too, we will never see the fruits of our labor in its full form. We are building the base layer, the initial stones of the Bitcoin Cathedral. We are working on something bigger than ourselves. We are working on sound money for humanity. That's what we are working on.
