President-elect Trump launched his own cryptocurrency overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies.

Why it matters: The stunning launch of $TRUMP caught the entire industry off-guard, and speaks to both his personal influence and the ascendancy of cryptocurrency in his administration.

  • It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, for cooking into shoe leather and slathering in catsup before spending the next few hours on the shitter tweeting nonsense words until you manage a single bunny style bowel movement.

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      So do cryptocurrencies. Maybe not for you, personally, but other people have legitimate uses for them.

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          You’re going to use that “is not better served in another way” clause to wiggle out of anything I might suggest, but okay.

          The Ethereum Name System is a permissionless and fully decentralized version of the Domain Name System. Lacking central servers and control means it can’t suffer outages like DNS does.

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            Sounds like an overly complicated and resource intensive way to have failover servers to me, and I’m usually pro-decentralization.

            I don’t experience DNS interruptions when I’m running multiple failovers.

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                You’re going to use that “You’re going to use that “is not better served in another way” clause to wiggle out of anything I might suggest, but okay.” clause to wiggle out of anything they might suggest, but okay.

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          Bitcoin is the most secure banking method.

          Though blockchain tech produces new problems that ultimately make it useless outside of a store of value.