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 RFK Jr. Says ‘Crypto Equals Freedom’.
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) says cryptocurrency is the “best hedge against inflation.” He stressed that crypto “takes control away from the government and from the monopolistic banking system which uses money printing to shift wealth upward to the oligarchy of billionaires while impoverishing regular Americans.”
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 Kennedy has also addressed the environmental concerns associated with Bitcoin mining. While he acknowledges the need for environmental responsibility, he suggests that the environmental argument should not be used as a pretext to curtail the freedom to transact