This UFC Champ Wants Ireland’s Money in Bitcoin—and His Own Name on the Ballot 🥊💸

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  • McGregor, ever the poet of the punch and now the bard of Bitcoin, wants to slip a digital coin in Ireland’s financial sock drawer.
  • Bitcoin sucker-punches $105,000 as McGregor unleashes a barrage of tweets; somewhere, crypto wallets weep with joy.
  • Ireland enters existential debate: should the country become a digital gaul, as McGregor prances the 2025 campaign stage, shadowboxing the air and economic orthodoxy alike?

Conor McGregor—a platinum-pated, ever-exclamatory neon enigma; a corkscrew of muscle and mischief freshly pressed into the tweed elbow-patch world—has proposed a delightfully deranged bit of legerdemain: an Irish Bitcoin reserve. Why? “Give power back to the people,” he croons on X (née Twitter, now flapping in the digital wind), as if bringing the wild-west ethos of octagons to Irish finance would liberate the people from *all* sorts of tyrannies, including reasonable economic policy.

Bitcoin Hits $105K as McGregor Renews Crypto Advocacy

Into the crypto colosseum strides our hero. The crowd roars—10 percent bots, 90 percent “influencers”—as he beckons Pompliano and Bailey like carnies luring astrologers to a snake oil convention. X Spaces, that agora of modern Socratic wrestling, will soon resound with his brogue.

Why this late gust of monetary bravado? Consider: a White House visit, a Trumpian thumbs-up (viral, if nothing else), a rap sheet emblazoned with peccadilloes both salacious and rather less Twitter-friendly. McGregor, bruised by scandal, responds by lacing up new gloves. This time, he spars not with flesh but with “the system.”

McGregor’s prior crypto escapade ended, alas, in unglamorous refunding, with would-be token titans shaking their heads at hot wallets full of nothing but IOUs and dashed dreams. Despite the tragedy (or perhaps feeding on it, like a literary vampire in gym shorts), McGregor persists: he believes Ireland can spring from the fiat slough of despond and frolic, wallet-unfettered, on a Bitcoin reserve.

And lo—just as he plants his crypto-flag, Bitcoin surges past $105K, the internet grows giddy, and everyone from mattress-stuffers to meme-stock aficionados wonders: could this be the moment when Ireland sets aside potatoes in favor of private keys? McGregor, buoyant, plans an encore at X Spaces, flanked by “the best Bitcoin specialists” money, or sheer spectacle, can buy.

Ireland Yet to Act on Bitcoin Reserves Amid Global Trend

Of course, an idea so flamenco-dancingly mad has ruffled more than a few economic peacock feathers. The U.S.? Busy counting its nuclear subs and meme stock ETFs. El Salvador? Already bet the farm—occasionally literally—on Bitcoin’s moonlit promise. Bhutan? Mysteriously involved, as Bhutan always is. Ireland, meanwhile, dithers on the brink, one foot in moss, the other on an embryonic blockchain.

Meanwhile, the inscrutable money-mages of HashKey Group have tiptoed into Ireland, granted official VASP status (almost scandalously unpronounceable) by the Central Bank, like a shadow in a Joyce novel whispering sweet nothings about AMLD5 compliance.

And so, as McGregor—face set, arms flexed—races toward a 2025 presidential run, the Irish public collectively wonders: are we on the verge of a new economic paradigm, or just another episode of “Conor’s Wild Economic Ride”? Only time, and perhaps an X Space or two, will tell. Until then, keep your wallets close and your passwords closer. 🍀🥊🚀

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2025-05-12 00:55