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Just add it to the rest of the grift...
First he creates his own crypto out of thin air worth billions. Then he's going to make US gov't and tax payers buy his fantasy value currency with real money? You can't a clearer day light robbery than this!
You're forgetting the final part of the plan. Take those dollars and exchange them for gold or a different currency so that when the dollar implodes you still have all your loot.
No, don't, this is likely to be immensely more wasteful.
Aren’t strategic reserves meant for material resources that support industry and military that can be made inaccessible by foreign actors?
This one is meant to pay back all the cryptobros who supported his campaign. Still gotta get Congress to authorize funds for it, but the cryptobros have been pumping money into those campaigns, too.
Cryptoclones/clowns deserve love too, doncha know??
Or materials that take a while to manufacture, but which may be needed in large quantities relatively quickly. Even if it’s not a case of foreign actors, some things just take a while to start coming off of production lines in large quantities.
Shelf-stable food is a good example. You can’t just grow more wheat overnight. Sure, you may be able to reallocate where resources are going to use them more efficiently or start converting more into shelf-stable versions, but your overall food production levels are going to take a long time to actually ramp up, as new crops and livestock take time to grow.
Wow, a state backed scam and grift reserve. Surely this will turn out great.
Bitcoin lost 20% of its value in a month. It's great for speculation, but it seems like a shitty thing to use as a currency.
Wouldn't this give it stability?
Why? Because a whole bunch of it is locked up somewhere? That's already the case for bitcoin. Only a tiny fraction of the total supply actually moves. The vast majority is either in abandoned or lost wallets, or being held.
That's not what makes a currency stable. The Fed wouldn't need to work so hard if that's all it took.
lol this is going down on history books as one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.
And shortly after, hackers stole the US government's unsecured crypto wallet
The password was B1tcoin!
Considering Trump can’t stop bringing him up, you missed a prime opportunity to make a hunter2 joke.
What ******* joke? Please explain.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
One of Trump’s favorite talking points is Hunter Biden. He even found a way to start talking about Hunter during his debacle with Zelensky.
Also, you’re allowed to say “fucking” on the internet.
whoosh
He wouldn’t be able to think of Hunter while thinking about bitcoin. Have to focus when coming up with a password!
Russian hackers. Based in Florida.
Also shortly after, unrelatedly Trump begins claiming his personal wealth is exactly the missing amount higher than it used to be.
Oh yeah... that's a great idea especially since Bitcoin has cratered in the last few weeks and people have lost over $2 billion on trumps scam meme coins.
Sure... what could go wrong?
Not $2bn.
$12bn.
You just watch.
"Strategic crypto reserve" of several billion in taxpayer funds, and then in several months "oops where did it go? It's all been moved to several different wallets now, gosh how did this happen" and the news cycle will just glaze over it as another Trump blunder while he and his cronies pocket it.
Welp. I look forward s to hearing about how our strategic reserve was hacked away from us by a dozen coders in China who found an open wallet on an unsecured PC.
Or it's made to look like hackers and somehow gets funneled to Donny.
"Bitcoin is dangerous because it's trying to create a level of credibility to unreliable and wholly unfounded value"
-Trump
Fundamentals haven't changed, Donny. Why the flip-flop?
edit: but I sold my BTC @ $20k so I guess I'm the dumb one.
Maybe he gets a kickback when Russian hackers steal it.
😂 the title somehow failed to mention the 2nd most valuable crypto but named all the others. Wtf
The ticker is ETH!
You are looking at a price and thinking you're seeing value.
LOL!!! Not so fast...
Trump Crypto Rally Fizzles After Skepticism on Reserves Plan
Coins picked by Trump gave back some initial gains Monday Crypto experts are questioning the benefits of Trump stockpile
This can't possibly go wrong. Crypto is so stable and guaranteed to just keep going up in value. /s
Both at once is very impressive.
All NEW!!! strategic money laundering scam featuring CRYPTOCURRENCY!!!
There is no way a crypto investment will out pace debt growth.
Have they not historically done that? Not a guarantee, but it's possible.
Last checked he doesn’t have that money. Am I missing something? Congress controls funding.
You mean that rubber-stamp fanboys club called congress?
Yeah, I don't know why we get these comments full of legalistic hope about congress for every thread about Trumps doings. He owns congress.
Last I heard was that instead of selling the crypto they seize from illegal activities/arrests, they're going to hold it in this reserve. So it's not new spending, but it will be a reduction in income for the government.
The article mentions and notes "reserve" vs "stockpile", but my gut take is that he has no idea of the difference and just thought "reserve" sounded better in the moment.
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