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Trump Media In Talks to Buy Crypto Trading Business
November 18, 2024 at 3:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 76 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/18/trump-media-may-buy-crypto-trading-business/
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Trump Media, the company whose largest shareholder is President-elect Donald Trump, is in advanced talks to buy a crypto trading platform, CNBC reports.
Financial Times: A successful deal would deepen Trumps move into the cryptocurrency market after he began promoting a new crypto venture set up by longtime business partners, World Liberty Financial, from which he stands to earn significant fees. Crypto markets have also soared following his election victory, with bitcoin up more than 30 per cent on speculation that his administration would enact favourable legislation for the industry.
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Applegrove:
Because of course he does.
bucolic_frolic
(46,939 posts)some say replace it. He will be in a position to benefit from policies that hurt the value of the US dollar. This is way worse and more comprehensive than fees at his luxury hotels.
Irish_Dem
(57,038 posts)Sounds like something the Trump's would do.
bucolic_frolic
(46,939 posts)but it's only today we learn about Trump's move into this crypto investment.
It is definitely true that Crypto hedges the dollar just like gold, though crypto can move on mere speculation, and gold and crypto can, but not often, move in opposite directions for awhile (as they are now).
There was an article earlier this year that pointed to a crypto ETF as something that would move 83,000%. It's moved 66% to date.
Irish_Dem
(57,038 posts)He is going to be thinking big, very big.
bucolic_frolic
(46,939 posts)there were financial articles, usually from unnamed upper level financial guys at banks or hedge funds, who warned of the powers of the US Treasury, including the power to seal or seize deposit boxes. Now we have added moves in some countries for banks to charge a fee (%) to hold cash in an account, or to deposit cash to an account, or to spend cash. It's kind of like a wealth tax. At some points in some states they did assess the value of stocks and bonds. All these powers make anyone nervous. And yes Trump will go big its his only way of thinking or doing. This could turn out like plunder, Nazi style, without carnage. Aside from the war and holocaust, Nazism was a system of plunder. Now it will be friendly fascism.
Do you think the deported will be allowed to carry cash, or empty their bank accounts?
Irish_Dem
(57,038 posts)Like Bannon's wall.
Every government program will be privatized to Trump or his buddies.
Like the managed care scam, all the dollars sucked and little service delivered.
The replacing the dollar with Trump money is clever and thinking big for sure.
Sounds like Trump is thinking trillionaire level.
OneGrassRoot
(23,412 posts)to ask them to join bluesky and also inquire as to whether they're able to keep track of the tsunami of corruption that is coming between Musk and the Trump family.
keithbvadu2
(40,052 posts)The big money return in crypto is:::
1. Starting it, hyping it, selling it, and getting out, leaving the
suckers holding the bag.
2. Handling/storing it for others.
...a. Not your own money/crypto. Someone else's money/crypto.
...b. Lots of fraud/money manipulation/theft/lack of regulation.
3. Backed by trust/faith/great promises/optimism... but no
real assets.
4. It can literally disappear and good luck with lawsuits.
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A few have profited by 'investing' but not the majority.
keithbvadu2
(40,052 posts)Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/trump-family-gets-75-crypto-coin-revenue-no-liability-new-document-rev-rcna176088
Irish_Dem
(57,038 posts)His new schemes and grift will be eye-watering bad and lucrative.
IcyPeas
(22,601 posts)Fish700
(88 posts)Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin