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Bitcoin Bros Go Wild for Donald Trump
At Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Trump is finally telling crypto enthusiasts what they want to hear.
Rick Potocki, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based older man who works at the ETF and mutual fund manager VanEck, and Eric Ramirez, a Long Island, New York native wearing shorts he bought for the Fourth of July and a Trump post-assassination attempt shirt that he had screen-printed for $15. When Trump finally takes the stage to “God Bless the USA,” he basks in the glory of his standing ovation, “thrilled…to become the first American president ever to address a bitcoin event.” His next step is to pander to his supporters in the audience. He reiterates past promises (freeing Ross on day one, never creating a Central Bank Digital Currency) and tacks on some new ones (the plan for a US strategic bitcoin reserve, which senator Lummis details in a brief speech after Trump’s; the firing of SEC chairman Gary Gensler, a crypto industry nemesis).
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