Anyone who doesn’t think it matters for Bitcoin who wins the 2024 US elections is totally detached from reality and does not think very hard about the truth of anything.
If you've been paying attention in the last 24 hours knows you know that the mere false rumour of an INVESTIGATION into Tether caused the price of Bitcoin to fall $2,000 USD. If an anti-Bitcoin president is elected, what do you think that will do to the price, genius?
And set aside the price for a moment. Craig "Faketoshi" Wright, who UK judges branded as a compulsive liar, waging lawfare against Bitcoin Core and its developers caused some people to say they would cease working on Bitcoin development, even before the end of the trial that eventually destroyed Faketoshi.
What do you think the US government going full anti-Bitcoin would do to those people? They would almost certainly stop working on Bitcoin if it meant the beginning of problems for them. A unconcluded court case in INGSOC was enough to frighten off devs; who could possibly be stupid enough to believe that an anti-Bitcoin American president would not scare off developers and businesses to a large degree? You'd have to be a drug addled simpleton not to see this as a very real threat.
Saying things like, "Aint no stopping us now, we're on the move!" and believing that nothing can stop Bitcoin is absolutelydelusionalbitcoincultgibberish. It is infantile, stupid, delusional, ridiculous, credulous, foolishness, odd, dumb, silly, childish, ignorant, puzzling and dopey.
It matters quite a bit who wins the election; especially people who KYC their users and have applied for and obtained Money Transmitter Licenses (https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-is-not-money-if-you-seek-compliance-you-are-asking-for-trouble-cbe9107e5298). Ripple have bet on the enemy of Bitcoin, and GEPOTUS is for Bitcoin. If you were any sort of betting man, you would be betting for Trump, because there is a lower probability of absolute disaster.
It's incredible how amazingly hollow people are. Shocking in fact. Thankfully, there is a small army of Anarcho Capitalist Bitcoiners, some of whom have access to many many tens of millions of dollars, and they are very dedicated to replacing the system that controls their fiat money and replacing it with something where their wealth can't be stolen.
These people don't imitate other people's cultures like brainwashees, know how to wear a shirt and tie, are not afraid of the truth, and are very very serious, unlike the Eloish Bitcoin Cult members who dance around like human cattle, barely able to speak their mother tongues and who sell delusion as hope.
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1849940606002561140
You must be fun at parties.
It matters short term. Not long term though. Stop scaring the kids.
Stop following me and enjoy what’s left of your life. Why not?
Bitcoin core devs need to follow example of Satoshi, stay pseudonymous, so governments can't come after them and threaten imprisonment.
i like thinking that we can make a good choice.
i'm sure i'm falling for Daily Wire feel good propaganda. Jordan Petersen thinks Trump is scores high on the compassion scale. and he can also not help himself from making the sarcastic jokes that get quoted as
"Impoliteness is a shield to protect him from the pain that compassion can produce.
It is at least in part a mask worn to shield him from the pain that such caring can produce. His gruffness is there to shield himself from the tenderness of his heart...there are many men like that."
https://youtu.be/K8o6n-AVqMw
On the face of it, yes. But does it really?
Perhaps if Trump was pro bitcoin. But is he? Who knows? He loved Wikileaks before he was elected. Then after, he had Assange thrown in the torture dungeon for about 5 years.
So I suppose your argument would hold true if Trump does what he says he will do. But he is a politician...
Even if he does allow self custody doesn't mean he wouldn't make registering the withdrawal addresses compulsory and transferring from those addresses illegal.
Perhaps the only thing to do is vote for Trump, hope for the best, and expect the worst?
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