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Trump: Cryptocurrency ‘a Very Dangerous Thing’ — ‘I Like to Have the Dollar’
Breitbart ^ | 12/20/2021 | Trent Baker

Posted on 12/20/2021 12:09:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview that aired Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” former President Donald Trump issued a warning about the rise in cryptocurrency.

Trump’s wife, former first lady Melania Trump, recently launched a platform for Non Fungible Tokens. The proceeds will go towards efforts to support children in the foster care system.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cryptocurrency; dangerous; dollar; trump
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I know very little about Crypto
1 posted on 12/20/2021 12:09:58 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First advocating for the shot, now crapping on crypto. I suppose a running clock could be wrong twice a day?


2 posted on 12/20/2021 12:10:56 PM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: rarestia

I dont’ know anyone over 75 who is cool with crypto... also why we need younger blood in politics.


3 posted on 12/20/2021 12:12:32 PM PST by Katya (lacking in the feelings department, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To me, that’s what makes it “dangerous”. Also, today they accept bitcoin and tomorrow they don’t. I’d you transfer bitcoin to buy a house that doesn’t seem anonymous to me as ownership will have to be regulated so then what is the real purpose if anonymity is not it? Can’t put a freeze on Crypto currency...or is it actually easier?


4 posted on 12/20/2021 12:18:54 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Crypto is merely money that government can not f*** with.

The US Dollar used to be that way.


5 posted on 12/20/2021 12:22:51 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Correct. My observation has been that the more the FedGov devalues the fiat U.S. dollar, the more the interest in crypto seems to have grown.


6 posted on 12/20/2021 12:24:48 PM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I know very little about Crypto.

Same here several people have tried to explain it to me and it still makes no sense.

7 posted on 12/20/2021 12:25:09 PM PST by usurper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cryptocurrency looks very much like a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme, that has not yet played out to its end point.

It relies on the “bigger fool” chain - the person who buys in has to sell it to a bigger fool who has been looking at the rapid appreciation, and in turn buys the units of cryptocurrency at ever escalating prices.

Until they no longer continue to appreciate, and the bottom drops out into a yawning chasm.

There are no guarantees in this world, but there are a lot of certainties.


8 posted on 12/20/2021 12:28:05 PM PST by alloysteel (COVID-19 Wuhan virus doesn't kill most people, stupid government dictates kill many more people)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree with Trump though I have just a skosh of Ethereum.


9 posted on 12/20/2021 12:28:06 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: PGR88

“Crypto is merely money that government can not f*** with”

Oh really? In seconds they can outlaw it.


10 posted on 12/20/2021 12:28:33 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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He’s batting a thousand today.


11 posted on 12/20/2021 12:29:03 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nobody thinks that Bitcoin or other crypto currencies will ever replace the dollar.


12 posted on 12/20/2021 12:30:43 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: alloysteel

All the hobbyist coins are eventually going to zero or close to it.


13 posted on 12/20/2021 12:30:47 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary
Oh really? In seconds they can outlaw it.

That in no way affects two people who wish to transact in it.

Crypto is surprisingly popular in places like Venezuela, exactly because government hates it.

14 posted on 12/20/2021 12:37:12 PM PST by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll take silver eagles and maple leafs thank you.

Crypto could be good if done right, a gov backed crypto would be worse than the fiat dollar. FEDCOIN = money the gov can switch off if u is a bad boy.

I have a friend in CA that runs a bunch of ASIC crypto mining boxes.
He’s almost talked me into getting a few and trying it out.
They are very noisy though....


15 posted on 12/20/2021 12:38:46 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: usurper

investanswers on Youtube. Very educational. Will need to watch a few to get into the swing of things.


16 posted on 12/20/2021 12:38:52 PM PST by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: alloysteel

Your concern is why I choose gold over crypto currencies. Gold has hated by Central Bankers but they continue to devalue currencies with their money printing. Crypto will be controlled like anything else and they are already doing it via the tax code.


17 posted on 12/20/2021 12:43:20 PM PST by Metrobank
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WHAT? Such BS. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm447.
Scroll to bottom for Mnuchins report.


18 posted on 12/20/2021 12:43:33 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: M_Continuum

This from 2018. I am sure he supports the Fed and MIT’s stable coin.


19 posted on 12/20/2021 12:44:56 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I know very little about Crypto

Remember the magic beans in Jack & The Beanstalk?

Cryptocurrencies are exactly like magic beans, except without the beans.
20 posted on 12/20/2021 12:49:26 PM PST by Colinsky
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