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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"In addition to facilitating crime, Bitcoin has increasingly become an engine of predation. Crypto — or, worse, shares in companies that buy crypto with borrowed money — is heavily sold to naïve investors who don’t realize what they’re getting into. They do well when Bitcoin’s price is rising, but many probably don’t understand how badly they can suffer when it falls."

~ Paul Krugman

#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling

The Trump Trade is Unraveling

Tells from the crypto crash
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"And crypto has fallen a lot recently. Bitcoin has actually held up better than smaller, more obscure coins, but even so it’s down roughly 25 percent since late October. ...

At this point Bitcoin is largely a Trump trade. Bitcoin’s price surged after Donald Trump won last year, and its recent plunge coincides with a series of Trump political setbacks."

#crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #crime #market #cryptocurrency
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The Trump family’s net worth has fallen by roughly $1 billion since September, driven by major crypto-related losses including an $800 million drop in Trump’s stake in Truth Social’s parent company after Bitcoin-linked investments fell, a sharp contraction in the World Liberty Financial token’s value (from a peak of $6B to about $3.15B)," (continued in /4)

~ Aaron Parnas

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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-white-house-in-turmoil-as-trump

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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

(continued from /3)

"a $300+ million loss tied to Eric Trump’s Bitcoin-mining partnership as shares plunged, and a $117 million decline in Trump’s memecoin, all occurring amid a broader $1T crypto market crash and heightened scrutiny of the administration’s ties to crypto players."

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