Bitcoin Lightning dev tried to outsmart Secret Service at Trump speech
Last week, Bitcoin Lightning developer Jordi Montes disrupted the US presidential campaign trail and the largest Bitcoin gathering in the world by trying to hide his cigarette lighter inside a conference hall. Bitcoin 2024 organizers scheduled Donald Trump to speak on Saturday, July 27 at 2:00pm and as the majority of the conference’s 20,000 attendees queued to enter Nashville’s Music City Center main stage — some of whom had paid $60,000 for a selfie or $844,600 for roundtable seating — secret Service agents made everyone wait an extra hour. Montes, however, was allowed to enter the main stage area via exit doors , bypassing security scanners and pat-downs. Unsurprisingly, cameras caught his trespass and within seconds, he had been identified via facial recognition. But this wasn’t the only suspicious behavior caught on camera. To avoid giving up his cigarette lighter at one of the venue’s security checkpoints, Montes had found a place to stash it in anoth...