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Trump vows to fight central bank digital currency, keep crypto independent
Just the News ^ | May 26, 2024 6:31am | John Solomon

Posted on 05/26/2024 5:26:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

“Right of self custody” is key to future of America’s cryptocurrency, former president tells Libertarian National Convention.  

Former President Donald Trump is vowing to fight any effort to create a central bank digital currency in the United States, saying the “right of self custody” is the key to the future of America’s cryptocurrency.

In a speech to a raucous crowd Saturday night, Trump told the Libertarian National Convention in Washington D.C. that he believes President Joe Biden is waging a "crusade to crush crypto."

"We're going to stop it. I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the USA, not driven overseas," Trump said.

Biden two years ago issued an executive order that many fans of Bitcoin and other private cryptocurrencies panned. Among other things, it urged research on creating a national digital dollar.

Trump offered a vastly different policy vision in his speech Saturday night, promising to keep federal regulators out of the cryptocurrency business like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has urged.

"I will support the right of self-custody.,” the former president said. “To the nation's 50 million crypto holders, I say this: with your vote, I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from your Bitcoin. And I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency."

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1 posted on 05/26/2024 5:26:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here, Here!

Nice to see Trump plucking some low-hanging fruit.


2 posted on 05/26/2024 5:32:17 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The right to anonymous cash is the right to be free.


3 posted on 05/26/2024 5:40:02 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Trump has his way he will eliminate the Fed or at least cripple it.


4 posted on 05/26/2024 5:48:44 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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Never gonna happen. The fed keeps low artificial interest rates. Market rates would skyrocket and destroy current mortgage and housing ecosystems to start. A free market would be awesome, but its a rigged environment now toward asset incumbents, there is no way the gop or trump would turn over that table.
5 posted on 05/26/2024 6:11:40 PM PDT by Theoria
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The Fed controls short term rates and has created massive inflation by keeping them artificially low and not raising them enough because it’s an election year.

At the very least Trump will weaken the Fed and clean them out.


6 posted on 05/26/2024 6:40:47 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve been in plenty of countries in which “green” goes straight to the black market. Bar owners and others handling large sums of substitutes for cash will offer whatever it takes to get your green, typically about 25% to 50% more than face value, all with an eye to get out of the hell hole they live in, just like scumbag Joe’s vision for the U.S. during his second term.

Vote Trump!


7 posted on 05/26/2024 9:11:17 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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