The Bitcoin / Crypto Currency Thread

Interesting bedfellows, the left and bitcoin

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/elizabeth-warren-pivots-on-bitcoin-honors-nakamoto-with-flag-over-capitol-

ELIZABETH WARREN PIVOTS ON BITCOIN, HONORS NAKAMOTO WITH FLAG OVER CAPITOL

After years of vilifying Bitcoin as money for criminals, terrorists, and climate change deniers, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) honored Satoshi Nakamoto for the 15th anniversary of the network’s launch with a commemorative flag flown over the United States Capitol, unveiled by NYC’s PubKey.

In participation of the Capitol Flag Program, Senator Warren’s office submitted a request to commemorate Nakamoto’s accomplishment of creating the first “truly inclusive financial system,” with the colors of the United States being flown above the Capitol on December 18, 2023 – a date known to Bitcoiners as HODL Day.

LOL, somehow I don’t think this is real. Maybe a prank by someone in her office.

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Dunno, as the saying goes, when they feel the heat they see the light. :alien:

Deaton would be the first major challenger in either party to emerge against Warren, who is seeking a third term. But he would still be considered a long shot against Warren, who remains popular here and had $3.9 million in the bank at the start of the year.

“Senator Warren is taking nothing for granted. She has a strong record of delivering for working families and continues to fight hard for the people of Massachusetts,” a spokesperson for Warren said in a statement.

Deaton is weighing entering the race as the cryptocurrency industry is ramping up an aggressive effort to influence the 2024 elections. An industry-backed super PAC that has more than $80 million in the bank made its first major splash this week with a multimillion-dollar ad buy attacking Democrat Katie Porter, a Warren protégé, in the California Senate primary.

I hope they spend everything they got, because I suspect Katie Porter will win, but even if she loses, it’ll probably be to Adam Schiff, which is just fine by me :wink:

USD reaches new lows against the One True Store of Value. Last seen requiring over $70k to buy just one bitcoin.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/bitcoin-rises-record-high-over-70000-2024-03-08/

  • CRYPTO STOCKS RISE AFTER BITCOIN HITS RECORD HIGH, BRIEFLY BREACHES $70,000
  • COINBASE GLOBAL UP 8.3%
  • U.S.-LISTED SHARES OF BITFARMS GAIN 7.2%, MICROSTRATEGY UP 5.1% RIOT PLATFORMS UP 5.9%, U.S.-LISTED SHARES OF HUT 8 MINING ADVANCE 4%, MARATHON DIGITAL GAINS 11%
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This is so frothy. Our wallet went from $1500 to $2500 in barely over a month. Thank you SEC I guess for giving me access to more fools. :smirk:

Crypto mogul gets 25 years for fraud.

  • FTX FOUNDER SAM BANKMAN-FRIED SENTENCED IN NEW YORK TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR FRAUD
  • BANKMAN-FRIED ORDERED TO FORFEIT MORE THAN $11 BILLION

On the bright side, he invested in shares of one of those hot still private AI companies, and they sold a bunch of those shares for nearly $1B so the FTX users might see a decent recovery.

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The judge found that SBF perjured himself on the stand, and tampered with a witness. Any idea how many years those findings added to the sentence? Would he had gotten, say, 15 years instead of 25 should he had kept silent since FTX filed for bankruptcy?

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Tulip bulbs were an actual asset, whose value was wildly inflated. It was a speculative bubble. Crypto is not an asset. It’s backed by nothing, and it’s also a speculative bubble.

Some bubbles are particularly resilient and resistant to logic. If enough people believe it, it keeps going for a time, like conspiracy theories and whacky political orientations. All past bubbles have eventually collapsed.

Crypto is widely used by the criminal, terrorist, and rogue nation communities, which may keep it going for a time.

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bitcoin must be down today on the government attack on its prophet

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FTX accounts looking like full recovery, thanks to SBF’s AI investments

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Huge gains for any etherium holders today as regulators signaled they were likely to approve an etf similar to Bitcoin.

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Etherium ETFs are approved and should start trading tomorrow.

  • SEC TELLS ISSUERS US SPOT ETF PRODUCTS CAN START TRADING TUESDAY, TWO FIRMS SAY
  • ETHEREUM ETF ISSUERS HAVE STARTED SEEING THEIR S-1 FORMS GO EFFECTIVE AHEAD OF TRADING TOMORROW

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Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi to repay its customers in full.

FTX isn’t the only failed crypto company to do a victory lap in chapter 11 because it will be able to repay its customers in full. BlockFi said on Monday it would soon repay its customers 100% of their claims valued in U.S. dollars as of BlockFi’s bankruptcy filing in November 2022.

The higher-than-expected recovery became possible because the defunct crypt lender was able to sell its claims against FTX “at a substantial premium to their face value” to a third party

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Plenty of Etherium etfs trading now (ignore the last letter, it’s related to which stock exchange).

ETH Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH) P
ETHW Bitwise Ethereum ETF P
ETHA iShares Ethereum Trust ETF Q
CETH 21Shares Core Ethereum ETF Z
ETHV VanEck Ethereum ETF Z
EZET Franklin Ethereum ETF Z
FETH Fidelity Ethereum Fund Z
QETH Invesco Galaxy Ethereum ETF Z

It looks to me like Republicans and many Democrats are running away from the Harris-Biden regime crypto policy. For the record, I do not own any crypto or crypto based financial products.

Trump confirmed that he will appoint a crypto advisory council with “regulations written by industry-loving people within 100 days.”

Trump also confirmed that “there will never be a CBDC” while he is president.

“Those who say that bitcoin is a threat to the dollar have it exactly backwards, the danger to our financial future comes from Washington DC not crypto.”

Additionally, the former president pointing out that

“Bitcoiners understand inflation better than anyone. You all understood it first.”

Promising to ‘drill, baby, drill’, Trump notes that with low energy costs the USA will become the undisputed bitcoin mining center of the world.

Notably, the Democrats appear to be worried that crypto could be a vote-change for many people (and are pushing back against the Warren/Gensler attacks). A number of Democratic congressmembers have penned a letter to the DNC pushing for change…

Over 52 million Americans have embraced digital assets, seeing them as a means to democratize finance, spur innovation, and create new economic opportunities.

According to recent polls. 19% of voters have bought crypto, 19% self-identified as Democrats, 18% as Republicans, and 24% of crypto-owning voters are independents.

Data shows that digital assets are being adopted at higher rates among Gen Z, Black and Latino Americans, and immigrant communities key constituencies of the Democratic party compared to traditional financial products. These technologies are revolutionizing opportunities for these communities, reflecting their transformative potential.

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Bitcoin and the other crypto assets are scams, backed by nothing except the certainty there will be an even bigger fool down the road. Trump will promise whatever he thinks will get him votes and presents him as a soon to be dictator-in-chief. More like a troll-in-chief.

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We can say the same thing about a $100 bill. A discussion of why crypto has value

Why Do Bitcoins Have Value?.

Comparison of gold, fiat currency, and crypto

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Governments can tax, and do tax, citizens and other residents to raise the funds and pay back their debts. The interest paid on government debt tries to be commensurate to risk and time value of money. Bitcoin can’t do that.