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123 sats \ 8 replies \ @kenn_b OP 2 Sep \ parent \ on: Please help me understand Trump bitcoin
Thanks for your thoughts. Toxic swamp it is ineed.
I just don't get how supporting Trump gains a foothold for Bitcoiners since he won't do any of that stuff he said anyway. You would be changing one corrupt system for another which ideas are not far from an authoritarian rule.
I get your point about voting, just have not found a person that inspires me to vote for. Let's not talk about guns, that is a whole another discussion.
Baby steps. One reason merchants don’t accept bitcoin for payment is the tax treatment it gets now. Merchants have a logical reason to adopt bitcoin and the lightning network as a means of payment. It’s a way better system and drives the cost down well below what visa and Mastercard charge. It’s the political overloads of the dying system that is holding us back. Plus look at the team Trump has assembled. RFK, Vivek, more progressive forward thinking people versus the current administration still having no answers on how to move this industry forward.
Trust me i understand your struggle red blue Trump Kamala both are going to spend us into oblivion. But if you aren’t going to vote then are you going to fight? You going to do pull requests on privacy focused FOSS? Buying and storing bitcoin is a start but we need more from you. What ever you decide make sure it can maximize freedom and sovereignty because that is what bitcoin stands for.
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Fighting is more important than voting unless you live in PA and other swing states.
use coinOS for merchants!
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If trump actually HAD bitcoin I could better support voting for him. But based on news reports (?) he has... ethereum. NFTs. And creates more nfts... and sells pictures of himself 'on a blockchain' which are honestly worthless.
Don't listen to what people say watch what they do. Trump showed up in Nashville which was cool... but apparently he doesn't actually own any bitcoin. And the 'crypto' his family is associated with appears to be memecoins and pump-n-dump-like tokens and nfts and such? A big appeal of bitcoin is fiscal and monetary soundness - predictability of monetary policy and having a bearer instrument available to everyone. Credit insurance.
And yet the republican party isn't interested in fiscal discipline and reducing the american deficit. (Which is what bitcoin is hedging against anyway imo). So i'm not sure where the appeal comes from.
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This is a fallacy as well not everyone who doesn’t own a gun doesn’t support gun rights. Ownership and support are not synonymous. Trump loves fiat money. He’s a boomer that got massively wealthy him grifting is expect as with most from that generation. But the man showed up to the bitcoin conference and spoke. Proves bitcoiners are gaining political power. Soon both party candidates will be forced to appeal to bitcoiners.
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well, why would I want to talk in detail about guns if I wanted to know different reasons why bitcoiners consider a vote for trump
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why are you voting for Kamala?
why is she better or more qualified than Trump?
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read the post before posting irrelevant comments
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