{"id":32207,"date":"2020-11-23T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T10:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32207"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:32:33","slug":"sean-ono-lennon-praises-bitcoins-resilience-to-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sean-ono-lennon-praises-bitcoins-resilience-to-political-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon Praises Bitcoin\u2019s Resilience to Political Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Ono Lennon, son of The Beatles member John Lennon and Yoko Ono, praised Bitcoin&#8217;s ability to weather political crises.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sean Ono Lennon on bitcoin: a source of optimism and happiness in 2020 as well as total agency &#038; self-sovereignty at all times <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanonolennon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@seanonolennon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maxkeiser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maxkeiser<\/a> \ud83c\udf4a\ud83d\udc8a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u1YJiWNFcX\">pic.twitter.com\/u1YJiWNFcX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orange Pill Podcast (@orangepillpod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orangepillpod\/status\/1330611277748645888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During the Orange Pill podcast on Sunday, November 22, the musician said that in the crisis year of 2020 Bitcoin opened up new opportunities for people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In the ocean of destruction that characterised this year, Bitcoin fills me with optimism about the future of humanity,&#8221; said Sean Lennon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The advantage of Bitcoin is that it &#8220;goes beyond the physical world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Gold can be stolen, and with Bitcoin you have full freedom of will and full self-sovereignty. As long as you remember your seed phrase \u2013 you&#8217;re fine,&#8221; added the musician.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sean Lennon has followed in his father&#8217;s footsteps and is known for performances with the groups Cibo Matto, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger and Claypool Lennon Delirium.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the price correlation between gold and Bitcoin has strengthened noticeably. The indicator has reached its highest level in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of demand for Bitcoin and financial products based on it was seen in open <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cme-bitcoin-futures-open-interest-hits-724-million\">interest<\/a> in Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the growing popularity of BTC-based options.<\/p>\n<p>For more on whether Bitcoin managed to confirm its status as a safe-haven asset during the coronavirus crisis, read ForkLog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LNSvXvJUqF\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coronavirus-crisis-and-markets-has-bitcoin-finally-proven-its-status-as-a-safe-haven-asset\">Coronavirus crisis and markets: has Bitcoin managed to confirm its status as a safe-haven asset?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cCoronavirus crisis and markets: has Bitcoin managed to confirm its status as a safe-haven asset?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/koronakrizis-i-rynki-udalos-li-bitkoinu-podtverdit-status-zashhitnogo-aktiva\/embed#?secret=vfDn06qpdy#?secret=LNSvXvJUqF\" data-secret=\"LNSvXvJUqF\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Ono Lennon, son of The Beatles member John Lennon and Yoko Ono, praised Bitcoin&#8217;s ability to weather political crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1883,536,1138],"class_list":["post-32207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-economic-crisis-2020","tag-gold","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32209,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions\/32209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}