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US will be ‘crypto capital of the planet’ – Trump​

The Republican presidential candidate has promised to unveil his bold plan in the coming hours
US will be ‘crypto capital of the planet’ – Trump

FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump © Getty Images / Emily Elconin / Stringer
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to unveil a plan that will make America the world cryptocurrency capital.

In a post on X on Thursday, the former US president shared a video of himself with the voiceover: “This afternoon, I’m laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet.”

“They want to choke you. They want to choke you out of business,”
Trump says in the video, without specifying who “they”are. “We’re not going to let that happen,”he concluded.

The post included a link to World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance project that his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have been promoting recently. Trump Jr. has said previously that the platform would rival the traditional banking system. The project’s Telegram channel has been quickly gaining subscribers, with more than 53,000 followers as of Thursday.

Trump is the first major presidential candidate to accept donations in cryptocurrency. He was the featured speaker at a Bitcoin conference last month, where donors were asked to pay $844,600 for a seat at a round table with him.


Trump has said that crypto is essential to his vision of America in the future. Last month, he pledged to ensure that the US government never sells off its Bitcoin holdings and creates a Bitcoin “strategic reserve,” if he returns to the White House.

On Tuesday, Trump launched a fourth collection of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which feature images ranging from the former president in a superhero costume to figurative Bitcoins. The NFTs sell for $99 each.

According to CNBC, the crypto platform and the NFTs are a private Trump family enterprise in the digital currency space, and are not officially connected to Trump’s presidential campaign.

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Trump, who in 2019 wrote on social media that Bitcoin’s value is “based on thin air” and in 2021 warned that cryptocurrencies were a “disaster waiting to happen,” made a U-turn in his rhetoric early in the current election campaign.

The Republican candidate’s embrace of crypto has led to endorsements from some well-known venture capitalists and executives in the sector, such as Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
 
rt.com 19 Sep, 2024 14:26
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Trump makes first payment in Bitcoin​

Using cryptocurrency is “very easy,” the Republican presidential candidate said
Trump makes first payment in Bitcoin

Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, visits a cryptocurrency-themed bar in New York City. © Getty Images / Spencer Platt

Donald Trump used Bitcoin to buy cheeseburgers and beer for his supporters at a bar in New York City on the National Cheeseburger Day.

This made Trump the first ever incumbent or former US president to make a payment using the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, according to media reports.

The Republican presidential candidate visited PubKey, a Bitcoin-themed bar and restaurant in Manhattan, shortly before his Long Island campaign rally on Wednesday.

The 78-year-old was helped by the bar’s employees to perform the transaction using his phone and a tablet belonging to PubKey.

“I just made the first transaction in Bitcoin,” Trump announced to cheers from Bitcoin enthusiasts, who packed the establishment. Paying with cryptocurrency was “very easy,” he added.


“They have been treating you very badly at the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) and we are going to treat you very fairly,” he told the crowd.

“Get out and vote because if you vote, we cannot lose,” the former president said.

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The purchase of burgers by Trump “was one of the most important Bitcoin transactions of all time,” one of PubKey’s owners, Thomas Pacchia, told the Bitcoin Magazine. “We are very excited he was here… to show his support to the Bitcoin community.”

Bitcoin, which was introduced in 2009, has grown in value by more than 500% during the past five years. The current price for one Bitcoin is above $61,000.

On Monday, Trump and his children unveiled their own cryptocurrency venture, called World Liberty Financial. There is so far little information available about the project, which is expected to be a borrowing and lending service to trade cryptocurrencies. According to Donald Trump Jr., its goal is to provide opportunities to entrepreneurs who are unable to obtain financing from traditional banks.

Trump appears to have made a U-turn on cryptocurrencies during the current presidential campaign. In 2021, he told Fox News that they were a “scam” and “potentially a disaster waiting to happen.”The dollar should remain “the currency of the world,” and investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies “hurts the US currency,” he argued at the time.
 
Zoals beloofd mijn theorie over Trumps onverwachte push richting cryptovaluta.

In een recente aankondiging spreekt hij laagdunkend over het 'trage' reguliere banksysteem. Op typisch Trumpiaanse wijze zegt hij dat het allemaal veel sneller en beter kan.



Ik dacht meteen: gold shall destroy the FED. Wat als Trump een eigen op goud gebaseerde cryptomunt gaat uitbrengen waarmee het centrale bankenstelsel.niet alleen omzeild kan worden, maar zelfs platgelegd?

Vervolgens was er een X Spaces waarin Trump uitlegt dat er veel elektriciteit nodig zal zijn voor deze crypto. Ik dacht meteen: vrije energie. Algemeen wordt aangenomen dat de mensheid pas vrij zal zijn als het centrale bankenstelsel valt, maar ik heb vorig jaar reeds een artikel geschreven waarin ik beargumenteer dat we pas vrij zijn als onze energie vrij is en dat het centrale bankenstselsel gekoppeld is aan kunstmatige energieschaarste waar een onnodig duur tarief aan kan worden verbonden.


Denk aan de succesvolle pogingen van de Rockefellers en andere rijke industrielen om de gehele economie afhankelijk te maken van olie en andere 'fossiele brandstoffen' en de huidige pogingen om ons hier weer vanaf te brengen d.m.v. inefficiente zonne- en windenergie. In mijn artikel beschrijf ik.hoe een energiewapen succesvol is ingezet in New York tijdens 9/11.

Alles draait om energie en energie is geld. Trump koppelt nu heel handig deze twee zaken op een manier die geloofwaardig is voor de massa. Zijn verwijzing naar Bitcoin moet volgens mij opgevat worden als een verwijzing naar blockchain, wat volledig transparant betaalverkeer mogelijk maakt. Ik denk dat we een nieuwe fase in zijn gegaan, die van de systematische ontmanteling van de Federal Reserve en daarmee het volledige centrale bankenstelsel.

Mike
 

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