Ross Ulbricht: Bitcoin2025 Conference, May 29, 2025
At the keynote on May 29, 2025, Ross Ulbricht said 12 of the 26 words Kalshi and Polymarket listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 26 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.
UpdatedMarkets
26 words · 12 settled yes · our count agreed on 26 of 26- Kalshi: named speaker only
Kalshi - Polymarket: named speaker only
Polymarket
backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.
| Word | Result | Our count | All speakers | Agrees | Probability | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom | Yes | 34 | 34 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Prison | Yes | 19 | 19 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Bitcoin | Yes | 15 | 15 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Decentralized | Yes | 6 | 6 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Silk Road | Yes | 4 | 4 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| A.I / Artificial Intelligence | Yes | 3 | 3 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Blockchain | Yes | 3 | 3 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Trump | Yes | 3 | 3 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Trump 3+ times | Yes | 3 | 3 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Crypto / Cryptocurrency | Yes | 2 | 2 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Pardon / Pardoned | Yes | 1 | 1 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Satoshi | Yes | 1 | 1 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| 21 Million | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| America | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Bank | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Biden | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Coin 25+ times | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Coin 35+ times | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Coin 50+ times | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Ethereum | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| FBI | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| FBI / Federal Bureau of Investigations | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Harris | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Memecoin | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Million / Billion / Trillion 5+ times | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
| Pardon | No | 0 | 0 | ✓ | –new new word, no probability yet | – |
Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 21, 2026 04:22 UTC.
Transcript
quotes of at most 25 wordsCaptions · machine-attributed · Bitcoin Magazine (YouTube) · Source · Quotes of at most 25 words; the full recording is on the publisher's official channel.
15 matches for “Bitcoin”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.
…alone. You are part of something much bigger. This is bigger than Bitcoin. This is bigger than crypto. Freeing me took many, many people from…
…hands, how many of you have heard the speech I gave at Bitcoin 2021? Okay, probably about 20% of you. In that speech, I wanted…
…me coming to speak at this conference. He said, "Ross, you took Bitcoin from zero to one. And while you were in prison, we the…
…wild ride it's been. When I launched Silk Road, buying a whole Bitcoin would set you back less than a dollar. Pocket change. Can you…
Bitcoin doesn't work without freedom. Bitcoin's power comes from the fact that any one of us can mine if we choose to. Any one of…
Where the listed words were said
…like Ross in a cage until he dies is a threat to freedom itself. It took President Trump recognizing that an injustice had been done…
[Applause] Hey gang. So, I'm not in a prison cell anymore. Yep. I'm standing on this stage right here in front of you on this…
…But as a principle, decentralization is the goal that we strive for. Bitcoin's strength is is in decentralization. Bitcoin lives on the internet which is…
…torch of freedom burning. Next, the wasps were strong because they were decentralized. Seven nests were harder to handle than just one. Had they all…
…Freedom, decentralization, unity. Let me take you back to before I created Silk Road back in 2010. I wanted to have some magic mushrooms on…
…to learn about. There's there's DeFi and web 3 and now there's AI to help me navigate it all. It's nuts. I I effectively went…
It's true. And if that wasn't enough, there are countless forks and blockchains all riffing off of Satoshi's original design. And this too is a…
President Trump pardoned me. But you know what? I'm glad I did it. I [Applause] am connecting with you that day felt so so good…
…get out from behind those thick iron bars, you even got President Trump to see that Bitcoin is the future. Yeah, you did that. [Applause]…
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