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This past weekend, Donald Trump became the first American president to address a crypto conference, telling an audience in Nashville that if Bitcoin is going to the moon, I want America to be the nation that leads the way..
Its a stark contrast from five years ago, when Trump said Bitcoins value was based on thin air..
On todays podcast, host David Gura speaks to Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux about the surprising opinions he heard on-the-ground at the worlds biggest Bitcoin conference and what that could mean for the future of the 2024 presidential election...
He said, know, we can't let China dominate this industry, which is kind of weird because China has actually, um, made moves to ban the crypto industry but the big thing that Trump announced at the end was that the U.S. will establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve...
Gura: Zeke left the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville with a sense that, just as Donald Trumps attitude toward crypto has changed, theres also been an evolution in bitcoin more broadly:..