PANews reported on December 8 that according to Cointelegraph, David Sacks, the crypto chief appointed by Trump, praised Bitcoin for its ability to hedge against legal inflation and its anti-censorship properties in an interview with Anthony Pompliano. Sacks said, "Church and state used to be intrinsically linked and combined. You can't imagine the two being unconnected." Sacks continued: "Now, we think of them as separate. I think currency and state are a bit like that. We really can't imagine currency without a country, but Bitcoin, it's a bit like a sci-fi future, you might be able to separate the two things."