Hall of Flame – Cointelegraph Magazine

Coin Tales host Natalie Brunell — who has 302,600 followers on Twitter — recollects feeling very tense earlier than assembly with Salvadoran President and Bitcoin maximalist Nayib Bukele in March 2022.

“It was very formal, there have been guards outdoors his workplace. What’s humorous is it felt very formal outdoors of his precise workplace. Then you definitely stroll in, and he’s very heat, very gracious and really humble,” she says.

Brunell was blown away by Bukele’s information of Bitcoin.

“He was very educated and well-read on the subject of Bitcoin and financial idea, and he appeared to genuinely need optimistic change for his nation by increasing financial freedom.”

Brunell, who can be the host of the Arduous Cash present, took an unconventional method to get the assembly, counting on the facility of memes suggesting Bitcoiners will all find yourself working at McDonald’s each time the worth goes down — so she put out a name on Twitter asking which McDonald’s she might discover Bukele at.

Surprisingly, it labored out very nicely.

Brunell used to work as an investigative journalist masking politics, significantly “public corruption and public officers participating in issues like bribery and manipulation.” However as Bitcoin is trustless, she factors on the market’s no precise have to belief politicians who embrace it.

“I’m naturally skeptical of politicians, particularly due to my information background. […] I feel it’s a really highly effective assertion that he’s chosen to ensure it’s authorized tender and guarded in El Salvador.”

Regardless of her greatest efforts, Brunell’s try and contact ARK Make investments’s Cathie Wooden utilizing the identical technique proved to be unsuccessful in June.

What led to Twitter fame?

Brunell by no means imagined that her follower depend would blow up in the way in which that it has.

“I feel the most important shock, actually, was after I reached 100,000 followers as a result of I didn’t intend for the Bitcoin and the podcast work to be my full-time job.”

She reckons she was so caught up in her obsession with Bitcoin that when her Twitter follower depend reached six figures, it caught her without warning.

“I’m actually captivated with Bitcoin, and I really like instructing individuals about Bitcoin, and I really like interviewing individuals concerning the matter, and I didn’t know what would occur. So when that following was reached, I used to be actually grateful.”

What sort of content material can I count on?

The vast majority of her content material is “quite a bit about Bitcoin.”

Whether or not she is doling out her opinions on the most recent developments, sharing video interviews of cool individuals within the area, or calling on distinguished Bitcoiners to hitch her on her podcast, Brunell’s Twitter is a one-stop store for all issues Bitcoin.

Nonetheless, there’s a healthful vibe to her Twitter content material that’s lacking on a few of the different orange-pilled accounts.

“I attempt to hold it actual and attempt to hold it optimistic, and I attempt to speak concerning the issues that may actually be mounted in our society. And quite a lot of it may be mounted with Bitcoin.”

What content material do you take pleasure in on Twitter?

Brunell says that she “loves” the Twitter content material from “distinguished Bitcoiners” equivalent to MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, economist Lyn Alden, Bitcoin advocate Jeff Sales space and Bitcoin Fundamentals host Preston Pysh.

“They’re beneficiant with their information, and I’m grateful to study from them,” she says.

“I’m a fan of Bitcoin memes, and I really like how genuinely intelligent some accounts are on this area,” she says.

Worth predictions?

Brunell predicts that Bitcoin will face “quite a lot of headwinds” over the subsequent six to 12 months, however believes it would “hit six figures” and new all-time highs throughout the subsequent “24 months.”

Whereas many can not look forward to the return of the bull market, Brunell finds herself in a barely totally different boat.

“I don’t need Bitcoin to hit an ATH anytime quickly as a result of I didn’t begin stacking till 2017 and I at all times need to stack extra.”

Nonetheless, she is fairly excited concerning the current developments with Bitcoin ETFs. 

“What’s totally different this time is the entities making use of for the ETFs should not crypto-native corporations, however fairly revered establishments like BlackRock and Constancy which might be deeply ingrained into the standard monetary system.”

“This might create a serious on-ramp for establishments and retail traders, permitting them to simply achieve publicity to Bitcoin,” Brunell says.

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Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He is additionally a standup comic and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Undertaking.