Opinion: Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Is Just Another Scam
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Opinion: Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Is Just Another Scam

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WASHINGTON – Imagine if President Bill Clinton created a Strategic Beanie Baby Reserve, hoping the ugly dolls could someday pay down the national debt. “They’re just used to gamble.” Even Avik Roy ― once a top policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney who believes that stockpiling specifically Bitcoin, because of its finite supply and wide acceptance, might be a good way to hedge against what he sees as a looming budgetary and monetary crisis ― sees no reason to “line the pockets” of some “random billionaires” by elevating non-Bitcoin crypto. As late as the summer of 2021, Trump had no problems describing crypto for what it is: “Bitcoin, it seems like a scam” — specifically, a “greater fool” scam, which relies on you finding someone gullible enough to spend even more than you did for something with little or no intrinsic value. At Friday’s “crypto summit” Trump convened at the White House, he made clear his total reversal on the topic was complete: “Last year I promised to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world, and the crypto capital of the planet, and we’re taking historic action to deliver on that promise.” The actual order Trump signed Thursday was not as bad as critics had feared. The normalization of crypto as an investment “asset” — even though it pays no interest like bonds, generates no dividends like stocks and you can’t live in it like a house — is precisely what the giant financial industry that has evolved to take advantage of people’s desire to buy imaginary money wants.

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