From the White House to Caesar's Palace: Trump at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference (blog post)

Gross. This is why crypto has that kind of reputation, they let known scammers in the door.

!buttcoin@awful.systems would appreciate this post (and you might like the whole instance if you're not already aware of it).

Huh, great writing.

Because Bitcoin sets itself up as the antithesis of governments' ability to use fiscal discretion in budgeting, or central banks' monetary discretion in stabilizing an economy, people's financial investment in Bitcoin usually ends up morphing into an emotional and ideological investment in being antagonistic toward those parts of liberal democracy, regardless of the policy being implemented.

Great summary.

this is excellent

(and i'm not just saying that cos i'm in the footnotes)