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Re: Trump to enter the crypto business
by
avikz
on 12/08/2024, 06:08:11 UTC
Trump Jr. has announced that his family will be entering the cryptocurrency business:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/donald-trump-jr-launching-crypto-platform-take-on-banks

Although the details are still sketchy (which is how they do everything), it's clear that Trump is making a big push into crypto personally.

I have sometimes been called "alarmist" in these forums because I have made predictions about what Trump would do if he wins the presidency. I predicted that Trump would introduce a competitor of Bitcoin, and then use his control of the US government to prop up his platform and pass laws to denigrate existing crypto platforms like Bitcoin.

Well, it looks like my first prediction is about to come true.

Trump already has built-in excuses to come after Bitcoin: he promises to criminalize abortion in the USA, which will require the largest police state created in the USA since the Prohibition in the 1920s (which is how the FBI was invented, for instance). Since Bitcoin and other cryptos can be used to pay for illegal abortions, it will make sense that Americans should be forced to use his "trusted" platform instead of "untrusted" ones like Bitcoin. (And if that excuse doesn't work, they could think of a dozen more).

I would like people to think about what a Trump presidency would mean to Bitcoin and crypto generally.

Trump, a convicted criminal and somebody who has been found guilty of running multiple scams all of his life, will have his own business that competes with Bitcoin and/or the crypto industry, and he will have the full power of the US government to give his own company unfair advantages over competitors. And Trump has demonstrated, over and over again, that he will absolutely use the US presidency to enrich himself at he expense of the American people.

Do you want to compete directly against the President if the United States and his political party with your business? Then by all means vote for Trump.


It sounds like a perfect conspiracy theory to me! US is a free country and its citizens can start a legal business anytime they want. So I don't see a concern if Trump Jr. wants to start a crypto business. But de-integrate Bitcoin from the ecosystem is very similar to banning firearms in Texas! You can pass the law and no one would care! So it's easier said than done!

Bitcoin is an ecosystem and not a platform. Even though US citizens/firms own a majority of the hashpower (around 36%), remaining 64% belongs to other nations. If one fine day, US government decides to ban mining and Bitcoin both, it won't collapse the network. There will be a temporary impact before everything comes back to normal.

Bitcoin is far bigger for only US to control. Talking about competitor, Bitcoin has seen millions of competitors till date. No one was able to come close even by an inch. So bring it on!