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President Trump: 'Bitcoin is like a SCAM. I don't like it'
Alex Salvi ^ | June 7 | Alex Salvi

Posted on 06/07/2021 8:17:39 AM PDT by RandFan

Former Pres. Trump: “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I don't like it. I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bitcoin; bitcoinmining; btc; cryptocurrency; pyramidscheme; trump
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Trump is not a Bitcoin fan and I agree with him...

He's made my day!

1 posted on 06/07/2021 8:17:39 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I’m not a fan either, never have been. I would rather hold something tangible in my hands than some password to fake wealth.


2 posted on 06/07/2021 8:19:13 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: RandFan

Agree 100%. Let’s restore the US dollar is the worlds currency, bitcoin is a scam that needs to be shut down, I never understood how it was ever legal to begin with, just a blatant attempt to launder money and avoid taxes.


3 posted on 06/07/2021 8:21:09 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Reno89519

It’s the currency of choice for those Ransomware hackers.

Needs shutting down


4 posted on 06/07/2021 8:22:06 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: Bulwyf

Trump was right about madoff


5 posted on 06/07/2021 8:23:36 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: RandFan

That ought to drive the market bonkers............


6 posted on 06/07/2021 8:24:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: alstewartfan

Ya, I had almost forgot about that.

The whole bitcoin thing just never sat well with me.


7 posted on 06/07/2021 8:25:37 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Reno89519

Bitcoin is a cryto hobbyists cool idea but has several fatal design flaws. Achilles heels that will prevent it from being widely scaled out.


8 posted on 06/07/2021 8:26:07 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: RandFan

He’s old fashioned. Nothing wrong with being uninformed about new technologies.


9 posted on 06/07/2021 8:26:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: RandFan

Trump helped create the speculative mania in items like bitcoin with his insistence that the Fed pump fiat via debt instruments. Is this 3D chess on his part?


10 posted on 06/07/2021 8:27:55 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: Red Badger

Will be interesting to see if it goes higher or lower. Don’t know how many MAGA people are into crypto. I know there’s a few here. I made a few bucks off of it but I don’t take it seriously as a currency. The blockchain is definitely useful though.


11 posted on 06/07/2021 8:28:59 AM PDT by Pollard
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If I can’t hold it in my hand, I don’t want it.

Where will it go when the electricity shuts off?.......................


12 posted on 06/07/2021 8:29:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Pollard

Bitcoin, preferred by Ransomware Pirates 100:1!.................


13 posted on 06/07/2021 8:31:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: RandFan

The USA and our massive, progressive, social-engineering Fed.gov have been continuously destroying the US Dollar through massive debt creation, money printing and social engineering schemes

Do you and Trump not expect people to respond to the theft of their hard-earned wealth?

I’d rather hear Trump discuss how he is going to force government back to a <10% share of American GDP


14 posted on 06/07/2021 8:31:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RandFan
Needs shutting down

Good luck with that.

15 posted on 06/07/2021 8:34:59 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Reno89519

Given 25 percent of all money ever printed was printed in the last 12 months, how do you suppose that’s going to happen - restoring the currency?

It was the US that renegged on Bretton Woods. It was our Dollar, and their problem.

Well, now there are many, many more dollars chasing way, way too few goods.

And, the current admin is going to make sure to print many, many more dollars to chase even fewer goods.

So there you go. If wishes were fishes.

The market responded, as it does - crypto. The VALUE of crypto doesn’t change. All it does is reflect the current actual value of the dollar.


16 posted on 06/07/2021 8:35:09 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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Bitcoin exists only in electronic impulses. When the owner of the website and the software decides to cash it all in, and dismantle the website, you are left holding your keyboard.

There will be no trace of Bitcoin. No use going to Google’s cache. No owner to track down and sue. Your “money” will have vanished, and there is no insurance. No monthly statements in the mail. No 1099s to the IRS. Gone.


17 posted on 06/07/2021 8:36:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The reflectance of my epidermis does not give anyone the right to assume anything about me.)
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To: Red Badger
Exactly.

When the feds / deep state shut down the internet and the chicoms shut down the power grid you won't be able to buy a can of beans with your bitcoin.

18 posted on 06/07/2021 8:36:50 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: RandFan
Trump's right. Bitcoin is a scam.


Unfortunately so is the US dollar.

19 posted on 06/07/2021 8:36:50 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Bulwyf
Not a big fan either, I just happen to have a bunch of it.

It will be reinvented a few times, especially to make it quantum-proof. And it doesn't really matter what non-fans think, it will happen.

20 posted on 06/07/2021 8:37:56 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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