Tether CEO Bitcoin Conference Speech Transcript: We Are Not a Money Printer, We Are a Provider of Decentralized Infrastructure
At the Bitcoin 2025 conference, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino's speech may not have been as "data bombarding" or "conceptually frenzied" as those of traditional Web3 executives, but it was unexpectedly genuine, vivid, and even had a touch of dark humor. He compared Bitcoin to his childhood idol "Wukong," referred to gold as "the Bitcoin of nature," and while joking about API keys, emphasized the aesthetics of peer-to-peer architecture, casually mentioning, "We are one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world." This keynote speech by Paolo Ardoino was less of a corporate roadshow and more of an expression of technological faith—Tether is attempting to expand the boundaries of stablecoins into a set of decentralized infrastructure systems, including currency (USDT), value anchoring (BTC), communication (Keet), smart platforms (KUBA), and even the construction of identity and sovereignty.