The Bitcoin Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, scheduled for the last week of May, includes several remarkable political figures intended as speakers, including recurring guest and Bitcoin spokesman Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY). Trump’s so -called “AI and Crypto Czar” also appear, “David Sacks and Bo Hines,” CEO of the President’s Council for Digital Assets in the White House. “
This year, a less expected and almost second worldwide quota may also appear-in the smallest in the audience, if not the radiation up and look right into the stage spotlights. Like fire from the sky, an unexpected $ 3,000 bitcoin donation, which no one asked for broken down in Roswell, New Mexico, earlier this year, leaving the members of the City Council, who are struggling with whether to answer history’s call again by establishing the first strategic Bitcoin reserve of the first strategic Bitcoin – at the city level or otherwise – before other US states or even President Donald Trump’s executive order).
Roswell is home to a few things you may not expect world-renowned milk production and one of the world’s largest mozzarella cheese factories; Aviation and aviation industries with a famous “flight cancer” that once housed Elvis Presley’s personal little aircraft, “Hound Dog II” for 35 years; A living art, museums and cultural scene – but also a thriving tourism industry that is largely built around what Roswell is really Known for: flying plates.
But Roswell is really known all over the world for the “UFO event in 1947.” At the beginning of July 1947, a presumably once fluid object of unknown origin and destroyed, and landed roughly by nearby Corona, New Mexico, later, and brought to the now closed Roswell army’s airfield 509., a 2nd World War World War II military base still houses the US’s only nuclear bombs at the time and as good as the U. to touch them.
Speculations are still raging about whether the recovered craftsmanship and its alleged pilot and passengers – reports of strangely shaped organs persist, but are very discussed – was still from a suspected extremely utility location or the result of an American military experiment.
At that time, Lokalavisen reported Roswell Daily Record, family owned since 1891 and still in print today, the headline seen all over the world:
RAAF catches flying plate at Ranch in Roswell -Region
Readers now know that the daily record followed up with a withdrawal and repeated the military’s revised claim that the crashed vehicle was “just” a weather balloon in height. Examination of the 21st century of a zoomed photo from “Flying Saucer” -Pasic Press Photo of 1947 reveals otherwise, according to Donald Burleson, crypt analyst and former professor of mathematics at eastern New Mexico University Roswell. Burleson is also a published author and has written “Look Up”, one of Daily Record’s recurring columns at UFOs for 25 years.
The city of Roswell hosts the International UFO Museum and Research Center, which opened in 1992 and draws over 220,000 visitors annually, CEO Karen Jaramillo told Associated Press during an interview in 2023 that marked the museum’s 5 million visitors. Roswell also hosts an annual UFO festival, which according to the city’s website in 2023 “… had a $ 510,205 direct financial impact for Roswell…” in a restoration year with lockdowns recovery for the event.
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Stranger in a strange country
Roswell largely and the newspaper is today home to many oddities, even included. A Nashville transplant with a strange missionary call, last year the record took me in as their internal evening copying editor-with a desk, landline, sick pay and all … it’s kind of surreal. (I am told that desks are from wwii army air base. And chairs? On day three I brought my own in.)
Germaine to today, I also possess certifications in Bitcoin and have been orange-pilling people for years. The newspaper eventually let me fulfill the second call of me by contributing as a writer as well via a Sunday column where I started writing about Bitcoin for the record. I have been honored to have been confidential on board just in time to document the whole “story of the story” by President Trump’s first term Anti-Bitcoin hostility and his 2024 turn in my opinion column in October 2024-so as well as Trump’s unexpectedly well received “Never sell your Bitcoin!” exclamation while campaigning on 2024’s Nashville Bitcoin conference. With “World War Bitcoin,” I described newspaper readers for “Normie” newspaper readers, the strategic race that occurs among the several nations now competing to accumulate and my “all the remaining Bitcoin.”
And through it all I wasn’t even fired. Yet. But being in the Bitcoin News industry and seeing the trend, in January I suggested a strategic Bitcoin reserve to Roswell when the city received a $ 3,000 in Bitcoin donation from an anonymous outside the state reader of the newspaper column. In my opinion, with or without government’s “approval” or Bitcoin Media Industry Recognition, I have a confirmed blockchain transaction from January 3, 2025, which says Roswell Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been created. Period.
Who depots and manages it’s still ready to grab, but I ask others, “Are we Bitcoiners or not?”
But ok, the idea is currently flooded by some city council leaders who have given me the time of the day as I will give the donation to the city as our start and look for personal and company sponsorships from there (not to create new expenses or taxes for the city). We fight and are honest.
While the City Council can of course be a tough nut and Bitcoin is new and confusing to many still, Roswell City Attorney Hess Yntema kindly replied to me recently via email, “As for a gift of Bitcoin, in New Mexico, municipalities are wide and include acquiring real and personal property. Tangible and efforts would include Bitcoin.
To help with the decision-making process, I am grateful to report that the Bitcoin magazine has extended an invitation to all 10 members of the Roswell City Council plus Mayor Timothy Jennings to attend the event whether the council approves the custody and management of a BYLOS Bitcoin reserve or not. Mayor Jennings’ office responded graciously that he would not be able to participate in these dates, while at least another city council leader, Cristina Arnold, has committed to being “thinking about it.” City Council Manager Ed Heldenbrand and City Attorney Hess Yntema are enthusiastic with Arnold to initiate Roswell’s next step, for posterity, if not their generation: “… A good step for the future,” Heldenbrand said in a text message.
Roswell City Council will meet next Thursday, May 8 at 1 p.m. 18.00 Mountain, with meetings that are live streamed over YouTube, where the subject of the proposed donation will be discussed will remain unknown at the time of the press. Prior to this meeting, two Roswell -City Council leaders, one from the city’s finance committee, have planned a meeting with myself and Hess this week to discuss the “procedure for accepting Bitcoin”, according to a group text message from my Ward’s councilor who organized the meeting.
“… try to front drive the market to ensure New Mexico remains a rich state,” presented State Secretary Anthony Thornton (R-NM, Dist. 19) A strategic reserve bill, SB 275, during the recent regulatory session. The bill was “narrowly filed” 5-4, Thornton said later.
Thornton was on request for further comment this week about “Why” a Bitcoinreserve, Thornton replied to me in a written detail: “I think that when our debt -based Fiat currency (ie the US dollar) will continue to be stripped by bold central bankers, more people, more companies, more municipalities, more municipalities, more golds, will decide to keep their wealth in an act of acting, press note in value.
“However, the scarcity of Bitcoin and its digital mobility is likely to make it, the asset used by the whole world as the best place to store one’s long -term capital. “
It is not at all surprising that citizens of Roswell can still be among the first in the nation to respond to Bitcoin’s siren -song shouting around the world to Earth’s more intelligent life forms for 16 years now.
Roswellians – accustomed, as they are now for random new technologies of mysterious origin that occur from heaven and disturbs all social order, industry and established economic infrastructures – may just have an unreasonable advantage over others in “Grogen” Bitcoin because of such an “event” that is already part of their collective psyche.
Readers who are interested in learning more about Bitcoin-First Hands may be awkwardly to be drawn to Las Vegas in May to attend Las Vegas Bitcoin Conference 2025’s two-day conference line, plus additional events during the week.
Disclosure: The author both have Bitcoin as a saving asset, do not believe in foreigners and have run for public office in Roswell three times: This content may therefore contain unintentional economic and/or political parties relating to the subject and is the author’s opinion.
This is a guest post of Guy Malone. Opinions that are expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those from BTC Inc or Bitcoin magazine.