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Ted Cruz

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+title: Ted Cruz
+type: character
+portrait: /portraits/x-ted-cruz.jpg
+status: confirmed
+aliases: [Senator Cruz]
+sources:
+  - raw/news/ted-cruz-denounced-by-core-devs-after-suggesting-to-texify-bitcoin.json
+---
+
+**Ted Cruz** is a United States Senator from Texas, a prominent Republican, and a vocal supporter of Bitcoin whose enthusiasm exceeds his grasp of its consensus history.
+
+## Arc history
+
+Cruz was first noted in canon in January 2023, seizing on the [[characters/elizabeth-warren|Elizabeth Warren]] nephew affair to insist that Bitcoiners send him more money for their own protection. He earned his own headline in March 2023 by tweeting a proposal to "texify" Bitcoin: raising the block size to 17.76 megabytes, a figure symbolic of "fighting the tyranny of [[characters/joe-biden|Joe Biden]] and the Democratic party." Core developers responded by explaining that the block size question had been hashed out in 2017; the only supporter to jump in was Gavin Andreeson ([[news/ted-cruz-denounced-by-core-devs-after-suggesting-to-texify-bitcoin|Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs After Suggesting To Texify Bitcoin]]).
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+> irl: Ted Cruz is the real junior senator from Texas and one of Congress's loudest Bitcoin boosters (mining advocacy, orange-pilled speeches at conferences). The blocksize proposal is invented; it satirizes politicians adopting Bitcoin branding without understanding the blocksize war, which really was settled by 2017.
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+## Appearances
+
+### In the news (1)
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+- [[news/ted-cruz-denounced-by-core-devs-after-suggesting-to-texify-bitcoin|Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs After Suggesting To Texify Bitcoin]] — 2023-03-07, headline subject; earlier one-line mention in [[news/elizabeth-warrens-top-crypto-advisor-revealed-to-be-her-19-year-old-nephew-who-lost-it-all-on-dogecoin|Elizabeth Warren's Top Crypto Advisor Revealed]] (2023-01-12)