Listening to him speak att the Bitcoin conference counts in as one of the more bizzare things I've ever done.
For 50 minutes he ranted on about his opponentes. The bulletpoints in the main post arent really boiled down bulletpoints of what he said; rather, they are more or less the total extent on what he actually really said about bitcoin during those 50 minutes at the Bitcoin conference.
My brain hurts.
How can the people that vote for him even stand listening to him going on like this? It is painfully obvious he has no idea at all about what he is talking about. Does all his rally's sound like this?
What a nightmareish outlook it is if he gets reelected.
The level of clownery I witnessed, at the bitcoin conference stage, from this man today - is insane.

Third world country? This isn't the 1980's.

Yes, lets decide on investing in large infrastructure projects, that will take years to complete.
Also, why don't we let our energy surplus go to waste, waiting for our projects to catch up with our surplus, years in the future.
I mean, that's how you know you love the dollar with all your heart, right?

I assume he's trying find out if he can publish OC in a new media form? ie. web3 and blockchain.

I think a lot of it has got to do with how one present ones viewpoint. The people who are against cryptocurrencies and bitcoin often lashes out in sarcasm and down right cynicism, many times in a very arrogant and dismissive tone, while the people who promote cryptocurrencies and blockchain tech are genuinely perceived as encouraging and interested in educating the people they interact with - which generates genuine good will. I'm not saying the pro people don't lash out in sarcasm, they do. But I think the way the pro arguments are delivered, usually, don't generate the negative mindset that the against side tend to cause.

Yes, some are designed to be untracable, but they are very few. The purpose of blockchain and crypto is not to be anonymous, but to be transparent and open to the world to see. The reason you can operate practically anonymously on bitcoin today is because our traditional system is based on islands of closed published ledgers (banks) that dont always agree or tell each other the whole truth or anonymous money transactions(cash) that people insert into the very open and transparent ledger of any given blockchain. Blockchains remove banks from the equation, and put the trust in algorithms that are predefined and open source - unaffected by political or human desires. As time goes by, the blockchains will get less and less anonymous.

Cryptos like Monero are considered untraceable but Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, Solana and Cardano, and of course the dollar stable coins, are all very much tracable. They were never designed to be untracable.

Well, you're not getting any cash from the bank if the power is out and your electronic cards will barter you no more than a usb-stick.

I stand corrected!

Interesting that Bloomberg has an article on layer 2 chains, without mentioning a single one of them. Chainlink, Polkadot, Polygon and Uniswap are four of the bigger layer 2 projects, if anyone is interested. Together they have a combined market cap of around $80 billion USD as of current date.

Since the total market cap of crypto is currently at $2 trillion, I doubt this will affect those $7 trillion too much no matter the crypto markets movement. Or are they implying that the great part of the crypto market cap is not based on illegal money laundering, but actual legitimate financial investing?

Cant you think of time as a 4D index point in the fabric of reality?