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 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 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 (Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs After Suggesting To Texify Bitcoin).

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.

Appearances

In the news (1)

• Ted Cruz Denounced By Core Devs After Suggesting To Texify Bitcoin — 2023-03-07, headline subject; earlier one-line mention in Elizabeth Warren’s Top Crypto Advisor Revealed (2023-01-12)