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bquintb , to Bitcoin in Donald J. Trump: Now accepting crypto
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Trump can say and do whatever he wants. It all sounds like a blur of horseshit to me. We'd be better off if he stuck with the NFTs and spare Bitcoin his grifty reputation.

cacheson , to Bitcoin in Donald J. Trump: Now accepting crypto

Don't give your coins to politicians, kids. They'll just become dependent and less able to survive in the wild.

Anticorp , to Bitcoin in Donald J. Trump: Now accepting crypto

Still a shitty candidate, like Biden

Trump is nothing like Biden. That's like saying leaporsy is painful, like a paper cut.

MrJameGumb , to Bitcoin in Donald J. Trump: Now accepting crypto
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It kind of makes crypto look bad?

SwingingKoala OP ,
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I think donating to any of the two major candidates makes people look bad. But does it make the USD look bad?

MrJameGumb ,
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I don't donate to any party, but Trump accepting crypto immediately makes it look like a scam. I don't think it really changes how people see the US dollar, it just makes Trump seem desperate. Why else would a man so devoted to enforcing backwards 1950s values suddenly become accepting of something like crypto?

SwingingKoala OP ,
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I think Donald started to talk about crypto after talking to Vivek. Anyway, I don't understand the reasoning "Donald takes crypto" -> crypto scam, but "Donald takes USD" -> usd not scam. I mean, "crypto" is a scam, I agree as a bitcoiner, but for other reasons.

MrJameGumb ,
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Because literally everyone in the US accepts the dollar? Trump wouldn't risk using something he definitely doesn't understand, such as crypto, unless someone convinced him it was a new way to bilk people out of their money. If Vivek Ramaswamy convinced him to use it then they are definitely trying to do something underhanded with crypto

SwingingKoala OP ,
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When wikileaks started to accept bitcoin donations in 2011 it wasn't to scam or to do something underhanded, it was because the people in power tried to kick them out of the financial system. Donald doesn't have that problem, but he doesn't have to "understand" "crypto" either, he can hire people to handle that.

KeraKali ,

I guess the critics were right: crypto is used for supporting criminal activities.

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