It was standing room only at Music City Center in Nashville when former President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of roughly 10,000, according to conference organizers, at the Bitcoin 2024 conference Saturday. 

Among the campaign pledges issued during Trump’s speech: stop government sales of seized bitcoin, create an advisory council focused on crypto issues and, in a moment that elicited particularly passionate applause, fire the current chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler. 

“On day one, I will fire [Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman] Gary Gensler,” Trump told the crowd in the middle of his 50-minute address. The crowd, which had been sitting…

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