its a flexible valuation he can manipulate with words and far less regulation. makes sense for a public con artist
This is it. He had a taste of pump and dump securities fraud with the SPAC. He has spotted a new scam.
Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday. “Biden’s hatred of Bitcoin only helps China, Russia, and the Radical Communist Left. We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT!!!”
Didn’t COMMUNIST China ban it mostly because it was putting strain on their grid? Not sure how wasting states worth of electricity to fuel a glorified ponzi scheme is going to help with energy dominance but who am I to question the self-proclaimed genius.
Just tell him the only way to mine it is with windmill power. He’ll change his tune.
They banned exchanges because people were able to move their wealth out of China
I just… I… what goes through this man’s head? Why is literally every sentence he spews completed bullshit? And why do so many people fall for it?
The broad masses of a nation […] more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie
he’s propped up by like 7 billionaires with media companies and a lot of editing.
Yeah it’s telling that this grifter is talking about Bitcoin when most other cryptos are massively more efficient. Even within crypto bitcoin is an obsolete technology. This is more for the like coal sector than crypto.
“Bitcoin mining may be our last line of defense against a CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency],” Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
lol, no shot he wrote this.
He probably can’t even read it. “Man. Woman. Camera. CBDC.”
He did just have a fund raiser in SF with some billionaire crypto bros…so he may not have
Everyone who has not regarded crypto as a scam will certainly do, once he’s done with the pump and dump he’s setting up here.
I dunno man, the trumpets still buy whatever shit he shovels out and they don’t seem to have caught on that he’s a scammer yet…
A fool and their money are soon seperated.
Sunk cost is a strong salesman.
Bitcoin is only a few points off it’s all time high… Who’s getting scammed by that?
(On the other hand I would recommend switching to a sustainable crypto.)
Once again Trump proves himself to be a mere opportunist and grifter without principles or convictions. While in office Steven Mnuchin tried to kill crypto at the behest of the banking industry and Trump was vocal against Bitcoin. Once he left the White House he peddled his own NFTs.
without principles or convictions
He has 34 convictions
We all know politicians have no morals. The reason he changed his stance is very simply because the crypto industry very well could get him elected. Crypto is a growing concern for a lot of people and he has to see that.
Crypto is a growing concern for a lot of people
What do you mean?
More and more people have used it or would use it or are interested in using it.
But they’re almost all using it STUPIDLY, aren’t they?
How many people who purport to have Bitcoin actually hold their own private key?
Now you make a very fair point there. If you hold Bitcoin on an exchange or an ETF or somebody else holds it for you, you don’t own Bitcoin. That’s for sure. In those cases, you hold an IOU for Bitcoin. And that’s worth just about as much as it sounds. In other words, shit.
How many people hold a key to their bank’s vault or deposit box?
Bet Trump has moved campaign money to buying bitcoin through some shady investment vehicle.
It’s like trying to watch a 5 year old lie about eatching chocolate, when theres chocolate on their nose.
It would be funny and adorable if he weren’t so hateful and racist, with real world consequences.
Oh. Donald must have bought some Bitcoins so it is time to pump for a dump.
“Bitcoin mining may be our last line of defense against a CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency],” Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday. “Biden’s hatred of Bitcoin only helps China, Russia, and the Radical Communist Left. We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT!!!”
I love using social media, but I sure miss the politics of the pre-social-media era. The craziness levels were considerably lower.
I agree with you, but then I just thought of the political eras that gave us Nazis, Stalin and the gulags, Mao and the Cultural Revolution and thought hmm politics could be crazy before, also.
Oh yeah. I remember this episode of Mr. Robot
there was a time when conspiracy loons would fearmonger about “digital currency” and “cashless society” and yet here we are…
They still are.
Bitcoin mining may be our last line of defense against a CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency],” Trump said in a Truth Social post Tuesday
Don’t use the imaginary digital currency made by the deep state. Use this specific digital currency that I have a huge financial interest in!
This dude probably has a much bigger stake in USD than BTC. The main difference is that USD always loses value.
Yes, here were are with digital currency. No need for quotes.
But what if the bitcoin is made on an electric boat that is being attacked by sharks?
Phew, can finally cross this off my short list of things he hasn’t been completely hypocritical about.
Taking pointers from Elon’s playbook with Doge, I see.
Bitcoin doesn’t move like the stock market. There’s no hedge funds to call to naked short a nonexistent Bitcoin Inc in to the dirt. This means nothing.
That said I’d live bitcoin to go to a penny. I’d buy and hodl. I’d buy and hodl hard.
That said, fuck Trump. But not literally because his lineage should be pruned.
Monero is what Bitcoiners thought they bought. It’s completely fungible and private just as cash is supposed to be.
Monero is great. Only crypto currency I actually use. Transactions are also waaay cheaper and faster than with Bitcoin.
It’s really the only one worth using.
It’s also completely unsustainable like bitcoin. There’s no long term future in proof-of-work.
Monero uses RandomX which must be done only on CPU which limits power consumption drastically and promotes decentralization rather than mining farms like bitcoin. Both of those combined will make it much easier for utilities to handle it. Since one utility won’t be getting hit with extreme load from mining farms all in one single area, such as Texas. You’ve also got to consider how much electricity does the banking industry as a whole use for building their buildings, bringing employees to work, shuttling money around in armored trucks, all that stuff. There’s probably tons I’m not even thinking of. Proof of work is better than proof of stake simply because a governmyth can’t print more of their crap fiat currency and buy up more stake in order to hurt the network. If a government wants to attack Ethereum, they just print more fiat currency and buy Ethereum. If they want to attack Bitcoin or Monero, they have to buy the equipment to do so and then plug it in and use power. They would have to sacrifice something real in order to do that.
Tin-foil hat time but I’d be willing to bet they have mechanisms to do something resembling naked shorting with crypto. I have no idea what that voodoo might be, but they conjure shares out of thin air for shorting stocks, and they’ve managed to package crypto into ETFs some-fucking-how so why not. I feel like I’m increasingly noticing that nothing really seems to crash anymore.
Bitcoin has been moving like the stock market since 2020. Big investors got involved, small investors lost trust in stocks. I don’t fully expect the current halving to cause the rally like all the other times it halved. That is assuming it doesn’t keep bombing shortly after breaking $69,420, what I suspect is a meme sell limit price.
A criminal saying that a laughable scam that is mostly used for criminal activity is good? Who would have thought? Oh right, everyone.
He was anti-Bitcoin until recently though. Now suddenly he’s all-in on it. Obviously something major has changed. One person speculated that this is to appeal to libertarians. I’m suggesting that along with that, the Saudis, who are in tight with Trump, just announced that they are abandoning the petrodollar and are considering trading in Bitcoin.
