Former UFC champion and Irish presidential hopeful Conor McGregor doubles his vision of an Irish strategic bitcoin reserve. On May 30 he went to X to promise A ‘decentralized blueprint for sovereignty’, which states that Germany had ‘dropped the ball’, and promised that ‘Ireland will not do that’.
He also tagged the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, with the words: ‘Let’s chat’, a message that Bukele later placed out of his account again.
The post follows a flurry of McGregor action in recent weeks after publicly promising to bring the conversation about a strategic Bitcoin reserve to the mainstream. On May 9, CryptoSlate reported that McGregor had been brought to X with a function that quickly received hundreds of thousands of views, which stated:
“Crypto in its origin has been established to give the power back to the people. An Irish Bitcoin strategic reserve will give power to the money of the people. I will make a Twitter space Cohost to talk about what I want to see changed. Victory to Ireland!”
McGregor tries to coordinate Ireland to other countries that have embraced Bitcoin at a sovereign level and drawing inspiration from the movement of El Salvador to make Bitcoin legal tender and set up a national reserve.
His campaign has quickly evolved from a discussion about Bitcoin and digital assets to a broader debate about the financial independence of Ireland. Various prominent proponents of Bitcoin have taken note, including Anthony Pompliano, host of the Pomp Podcast, and David Bailey, CEO of BTC Inc., who both showed interest in collaboration.
Despite substantial steel wind and favorable price momentum, the path to setting up a national Bitcoin reserve is not flexible. Ireland remains firmly anchored within the monetary framework of the European Union, and every movement to keep Bitcoin active as a sovereign, would require unprecedented coordination with EU institutions and the Irish Central Bank.
McGregor’s proposal arrives at an important moment, not only for Ireland, but also humanity in general. As digital assets are announced in global finances, his call for an Irish strategic Bitcoin reserve challenges traditional monetary institutions, where he argues for a new era of financial sovereignty.
The willingness of McGregor to participate in the digital activable policy has brought Bitcoin into the national spotlights. Whether his vision of an Irish strategic Bitcoin -reserve gets grip, the debate he has opened, will probably be discussions about digital assets and financial independence in Ireland for many years.
Since the presidential election, which approaches on 11 November by 11 November, the McGregor campaign will continue to test the boundaries of crypto and politics, both in Ireland and throughout Europe.
