• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Woah, and trump wants to set up a bunch of US bitcoin stuff that will massively pump up its value and give Russia free billions on their holdings???

    I never would have guessed!

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        ahhh. ok. This does explain why trump and the republicans want to trade in a portion of fort knox for bitcoin. Its definitely a pump and dump scheme – a bailout of the russian economy. Gotta hand it to Putin, thats clever. Get the American taxpayer to bail out Russia. I bet it works.

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        in the crypto space, the trading values of most coins are loosely tied to bitcoin’s value- it’s sort of a “reserve currency” of the cryptosphere, most major trading platforms focus on converting Bitcoin to and from other coins. If BTC goes up, the rising tide lifts most/all boats in the space.