Missouri has something most states don't: cheap energy, an energy surplus, and wide open land. That's the trifecta for Bitcoin mining.
Mining isn't some shadowy activity. It's a lawful use of your property. It's a lawful use of your electricity. It creates jobs. It brings infrastructure investment. It can actually stabilize the electrical grid by consuming surplus energy during off-peak hours.
And yet, across the country, local governments are using zoning laws to shut down home miners and small operations. They're treating Bitcoin mining like a nuisance instead of an economic opportunity.
We need mining protections codified into law. If you're running ASICs in your garage or planning a larger operation, Missouri should be the state that says "welcome" instead of "get out."
The hashrate should be here. The jobs should be here. The future should be here.
HB 594 is law, tax-free Bitcoin spending.
Let that sink in: Missouri eliminated state capital gains taxes on Bitcoin spending. HB 594 is signed law.
Every sat you spend in Missouri, buying groceries, paying for services, running your business, zero state capital gains tax.
Most states haven't even begun this conversation. Missouri already finished it. Governor Kehoe signed it. It's done.
This is what happens when a state decides to compete for Bitcoiners instead of punishing them. Missouri said: we want your business, your innovation, your community. And we're going to prove it by getting out of your way.
If you're a Bitcoiner looking for a state that actually respects your right to use sound money, Missouri is open for business.
HB 594 is law, tax-free Bitcoin spending.
Let that sink in: Missouri eliminated state capital gains taxes on Bitcoin spending. HB 594 is signed law.
Every sat you spend in Missouri, buying groceries, paying for services, running your business, zero state capital gains tax.
Most states haven't even begun this conversation. Missouri already finished it. Governor Kehoe signed it. It's done.
This is what happens when a state decides to compete for Bitcoiners instead of punishing them. Missouri said: we want your business, your innovation, your community. And we're going to prove it by getting out of your way.
If you're a Bitcoiner looking for a state that actually respects your right to use sound money, Missouri is open for business.
Indiana just made a big move. Governor Mike Braun signed HB 1042 into law, protecting the right of every Hoosier to hold their Bitcoin in their own wallet. No government agency can restrict it.
Missouri has HB 594, which eliminated state capital gains taxes on Bitcoin. That was a major win.
But Indiana just leapfrogged us on self-custody protections. Missouri must codifying self-custody rights, mining protections, and allowing the state to hold Bitcoin in public funds. It hasn't passed yet.
Meanwhile, the White House just brokered a tentative deal on stablecoin regulation, moving federal crypto legislation forward for the first time in months. Progress is happening at every level.
Indiana just proved that. Missouri needs to be next. If you're a Missourian who holds Bitcoin, speak up. Don't let Indiana be the only state that has our back.
In 1996, a mathematician named Daniel Bernstein sued the U.S. government for the right to publish his encryption code. He won. The court ruled that code is speech, protected by the First Amendment.
Nearly thirty years later, that precedent is more important than ever.
Every Bitcoin wallet, every Lightning implementation, every privacy tool, every node software, all of it is speech.
The developers who write these tools are not money transmitters. They are not criminals. They are the architects of financial sovereignty. And yet, globally, governments keep trying to criminalize the act of writing code that empowers individuals.
The EU's AMLR targets privacy tools. The old SEC tried to regulate developers out of existence. This is why state-level protections matter. In Missouri, we're pushing for a legal framework that recognizes what the courts established decades ago, that your right to write, run, and share open-source Bitcoin software is protected speech.
We need legislation that explicitly protects self-custody, mining, and node operation next. This is the infrastructure of freedom and we're building it.
The 4th Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches. That includes your financial transactions.
Chain surveillance of law-abiding Missourians is government overreach.
Privacy isn't secrecy, it's a right.
#ProtectYourBitcoin #BitcoinRights
It's not much but we placed our first amount of donations into cold storage. We plan to hold at least 21% of every political contribution for four years before releasing back into our general revenue account.
If you donate via Bitcoin, either on-chain or with lightning, our transparency dashboard updates pretty quickly and is a live as we can get at the moment.
Test it yourself with a small donation of 20,000 sats (yes, it's KYC):
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Bitcoin dipped below $70K this weekend. Geopolitical tensions. Bearish technicals. Rate hike fears. The usual noise.
Here's what didn't change when the price dropped:
Your right to self-custody your Bitcoin in Missouri. Your right to mine it on your own property. Your right to spend it without state capital gains taxes. Your right to run a node. Your right to write and deploy open-source Bitcoin software.
Rights are not correlated to price. That's the whole point. We don't fight for Bitcoin rights because the number goes up. We fight for them because they're rights, regardless of what the chart says.
When the price recovers (and it will), the states that protected Bitcoin rights during the dip will be the ones that attract builders, businesses, and Bitcoiners. Missouri must positioning itself to be that state.
Writing Bitcoin software is free speech.
The courts settled this decades ago in Bernstein v. DOJ. Developers who build wallets, nodes, and tools should never be treated like money transmitters. Missouri stands with builders.
#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin
You have the right to mine Bitcoin on your property with your electricity. Period.
Missouri's energy surplus makes us one of the best states in the country for mining.
We must keep it that way.
#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin
You have the right to mine Bitcoin on your property with your electricity. Period.
Missouri's energy surplus makes us one of the best states in the country for mining.
We must keep it that way.
#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin
Morgan Stanley just filed for its own Bitcoin ETF. The biggest bank on Wall Street is telling you what Missourians already knows, Bitcoin is here to stay.
That's why it's time we protect our rights to hold and use Bitcoin as we want.
#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin
There's a bill in Congress right now to let you pay your federal taxes in Bitcoin.
Missouri already eliminated state capital gains taxes on BTC. We're not waiting for Washington, we're leading.
#BitcoinRights #ShowMeStateBitcoin
The EU is banning anonymous Bitcoin wallets by 2027. Financial surveillance, plain and simple.
This is exactly why we exist. We MUST protect your right to self-custody here. Don't take it for granted.
#SelfCustody #ProtectYourBitcoin
The SEC just confirmed what we already knew.
Bitcoin is NOT a security. It's property. It's yours.
Missouri must protect your right to hold it, spend it, and mine it.
#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin
And we are up and running.
Donations for freedom can now be made with Bitcoin (on-chain or lightning) or with fiat (credit card or ACH).
We take 21% of your contribution and hold it in Bitcoin reserves for four years, regardless of your donation method.
Nothing in politics is fast as easy and we're here to play the long game.
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@jack mallers!
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@jack mallers.
Wanting a Strike account so we can process lightning.
We have a fiat bank account.
We have fiat payment process with Stripe.
Where we're stuck is on getting an account with Strike.
This feels backwards.
We're a new state-based political action committee working in Missouri to advance pro-freedom and pro-bitcoin policies.
Though we're only a day old, we're working to start off on the right foot by posting our holdings online.
See our transparency dashboard here:
Transparency – Missouri Bitcoiners PAC
See how the Missouri Bitcoiners PAC manages its funds. On-chain verifiable, transparent reserves.
