• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      Don’t forget a side of market manipulation.

      Crypto can be manipulated hard with a huge amount of capital, so now he is just using the US tax dollars to manipulate crypto currencies.

      Yes this is the world we live in.

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      5 days ago

      Can someone explain the how to a stupid person like me? I fully believe it but I want to know how it works

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        1. Buy coins privately
        2. Force government to buy tons of coins, making prices go up
        3. Sell personal coins, dropping prices and make government spend even more
        4. Repeat as needed
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    You laugh now, but once war breaks out and all currencies break down, you’ll be happy to have a… wait, absolutely worthless nothing on hard disks?

    How many of those strategic digital assets will be some sort of Trump coin?

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    And immediately after it took a nose dive, recovered slightly, and then started trending down like it has been for the last two months. Super strategic.

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    So let me guess. Coming on the heels of, “Elon Musk should check Fort Knox to see if the gold is really there”, the next step would be a 1:1 “trade” of bitcoin for actual, tangible gold - which will be hidden away in a certain Mar-a-Lago basement. Remember you read it here first.