Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

csomar wrote: post #121

revel wrote: post #64

I was a big enough believer in crypto to literally start a company in this space only to leave it completely disenchanted and deeply pessimistic about the direction of the industry. I felt that there were many real legal and regulatory challenges that governments just didn't want to deal with. No government wants to enable money laundering, black markets, corruption and terrorism; or so I thought! Now we're in a situ…

> This is a big lesson for everyone about why some degree of regulation is necessary. I really wonder how you come up to that conclusion especially that there is more than a degree of regulation. If regulation will not apply for the top anyway, then it's better to remove all regulation.

Post by kashunstva » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:10 PM UTC

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #112

shwaj wrote: post #107

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Many people disagree with the Covid response. Many people look at the Bidens’ relationship with Ukraine and wonder whether the war could have been avoided, and we wouldn’t have to hear stories about “we sent $X billions, but Zelenskyy says he received only $0.5X billions” which could have been spent here, not to mention millions of lives spared (the latter doesn’t affect ordinary Americans directly, but there you go)…

> Many people disagree with the Covid response. I think that's fair, Covid was completely insane. Personally the part of the US response I disliked the most was the closing of schools. Like, in Ireland the pubs were closed for basically 2 years, but we kept the schools open for most of it, which I think was the right call. Difficult situation though, and the vaccine mandates were crazy (particularly given how ineffec…

Post by Sammi » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #96

revel wrote: post #64

I was a big enough believer in crypto to literally start a company in this space only to leave it completely disenchanted and deeply pessimistic about the direction of the industry. I felt that there were many real legal and regulatory challenges that governments just didn't want to deal with. No government wants to enable money laundering, black markets, corruption and terrorism; or so I thought! Now we're in a situ…

>No government wants to enable money laundering, black markets, corruption and terrorism; or so I thought! what ever gave you that thought? There are countries that do this right out in the open. The rest of the countries do it in various shades of gray to not be right out in the open, but still visible for those that can see in higher bit depths of gray than black and white

Post by Havoc » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:32 PM UTC

Post by alt227 » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #86

ceejayoz wrote: post #74

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> I mean, you could already 'donate' directly to the president, and even get a tax writeoff for it. What? Campaign donations are not tax exempt. > Hunter Biden made multi-million dollar deals, and got paid 50k a month for a being on various boards... despite being a known drugie. Musk is also a "known druggie"; his ketamine habit is self-admitted, and he smoked pot on Rogan. (Briefly risking his contracts, even!) > t…

donations to affiliated NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are tax-deductible. >Musk is also a "known druggie"; his ketamine habit is self-admitted, and he smoked pot on Rogan. (Briefly risking his contracts, even!) Taking a microdose of ket under medical supervision, and taking a hit of weed which is legal in alot of states is not the same "Smoking crack every 15 minutes" as hunter said he did. >Not in the slight…