Former Member of the European Parliament Godfrey Bloom has bought his first bitcoin. The British politician is famed for numerous controversial views, such as calling the entire banking system a scam and the state an institution of theft.
Godfrey Bloom Now Owns Bitcoin
Godfrey Bloom is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the U.K. Independence Party but later served as an Independent. Bloom has also published six books on military history and the Austrian School of Economics.
The former MEP is well known for his unconventional views, including calling the state an institution of theft and saying that the debt crisis was created by politicians and central bankers. He even said that the whole banking system is a scam, as is global warming. He has been referred to by some as the “British Ron Paul.”
Bloom revealed in a tweet on Thursday that he has bought his first bitcoin. “I make my first purchases of bitcoin this week. Gold & silver have I plenty,” he wrote in response to a tweet that says: “If you asked people if they’d prefer $800 or 800 bitcoin a lot of them would pick the dollars. We’re still early.”
At press time, Bloom has received 257 comments for his bitcoin buy tweet, which has been liked 2.7k times and retweeted 473 times.
With an overwhelming number of responses from the crypto community, the 70-year-old former MEP followed up with another tweet on Friday. “I have had a very significant response to my bitcoin tweet. So an update. I am revising bitcoin over the weekend to know enough to understand what I don’t know. It is
