I can't say I've heard of them, but they seem to have been a very popular place for many people interested in technology over the past three decades. It is positive that everything they published will continue to be present online, and that their forum will continue to work.
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The theory seems to be that friendliness towards bitcoin (and crypto/shitcoins, et al) is more bullish for bitcoin as compared with anticipated ongoing hostility towards bitcoin and crypto. Whether any of those theories are correct is still to be seen.
Whatever it means though, since he
"... told his 90 million followers on X that he would lay out “a plan to ensure the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet” later on Thursday."
it is likely going to have a relatively substantial effect at least in the short term.
Even though Trump is a dweeb in several ways, even irritating to listen to, he has had some pretty solid bitcoin talking points, even though he seems to NOT have too much of an idea about the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins, even though from time to time, he suggests that he knows the difference.I honestly doubt that he knows the difference, and the probability that he still thinks that Bitcoin is a scam (privately) is much more likely than the possibility that what he is saying publicly is not just political propaganda aimed at winning over every possible voter. I think that a lot of people who trust him in terms of cryptocurrencies will be disappointed if he somehow wins, because considering the other political ideas he communicates to the public, I think that he and his administration will be dealing with far more complicated things than Bitcoin.
In other words, get as many voters as possible, collect as many donations as possible and then put this thing somewhere low on the list of priorities.
