How Trump was 'orange-pilled' by three bitcoiners in Puerto Rico and the promise of $100 million

2 years ago by vegeta to c/politics

Getting Donald Trump to keynote the year's biggest bitcoin conference took the work of
ganksy 130 points 2 years ago

Our industry as a whole will cease to exist if Trump doesn’t win

That'd be the cherry on top

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Samvega 74 points 2 years ago

industry

An industry that utilises real resources and to make... nothing?

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ganksy 48 points 2 years ago

The overlap of the people who complain about the Fed creating money is almost 1:1

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null 0 points 2 years ago

Because inflation and deflation are exact opposites...

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Cethin 6 points 2 years ago

Inflation and deflation have very little to do with making new money. It's a measure of the cost of goods and services, each given a weight based on an estimated effect on purchasing. The largest thing effecting inflation right now specifically is companies increasing profits massively while providing less to the consumer, like groceries, rent, cars, etc. These companies make more and more money by increasing costs, hence the inflation.

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CaliforniaSober -1 points 2 years ago

“Because bullshit and reality are exact opposites.”

“Because a rando’s take on economics and actual economics are opposites.”

See how that works? I can keep going…

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Agent641 10 points 2 years ago

Monkey pictures

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Plum 15 points 2 years ago

People pay money for these.

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Ack 6 points 2 years ago

I read somewhere that he made a few million on them. It blew me away. It does not compute.

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ayyy 4 points 2 years ago

No they don’t, shady foreign influencers just launder their payments through this crap.

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points 2 years ago

Mostly I'm a market socialist kind of guy, but some markets need to send the customers straight to the reeducation camps.

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TheEighthDoctor 2 points 2 years ago

An industry that utilises real resources and to make… nothing?

Marketing? Advertising?

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Neon 1 point 2 years ago

Their Industry is investement-banking if we're honest

It will never die. Bitcoin will, because it will be killed by the Industry itself since Bitcoins are inherently worthless since they aren't backed up by anything.

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vegeta 87 points 2 years ago

“ Orange pill refers to bitcoin’s official color and represents a person’s dedication to bitcoin over fiat currencies.”

And here I thought it was referring to Trump’s color. Perhaps he has been the BTC mascot this whole time?

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perviouslyiner 30 points 2 years ago path: 0 11993327 11995522, hotness: undefined, score: 30, children: 0
driving_crooner 48 points 2 years ago

Wtf, orange pilled was already coined by Not Just Bikes.

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cheese_greater 21 points 2 years ago

coined

Heh

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WaterSword 47 points 2 years ago

In my circles orangepilled means wanting infrastructure to be like in the Netherlands

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lemann 6 points 2 years ago

NJB! NJB!

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TheRealCharlesEames 17 points 2 years ago
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just_another_person 6 points 2 years ago

What a flock of idiots and assholes.

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rayyy 5 points 2 years ago

Fitting that the weird orange felon jumps into yet another scam. That's how he naturally rolls.

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Carrolade 4 points 2 years ago

... I guess I probably should've seen that coming.

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MediaBiasFactChecker -8 points 2 years ago path: 0 11993315, hotness: undefined, score: -8, children: 0
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