President-elect Trump launched his own cryptocurrency overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies.

Why it matters: The stunning launch of $TRUMP caught the entire industry off-guard, and speaks to both his personal influence and the ascendancy of cryptocurrency in his administration.

  • It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.
  • @[email protected]
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    947 hours ago

    Trump holds 80% of the supply. This is going to be the biggest rug pull of all time. Americans are literally getting shitcoin scammed by their own presidents holy shit what a timeline.

    • NutWrench
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      53 hours ago

      And these “coins” are actually tokens. Not only are they not backed by any real assets (venture capital, real estate, etc), the damn things don’t even exist in reality!

    • @[email protected]
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      44 hours ago

      Honestly, I won’t forgive Biden for just smiling in response to Trump winning after not leaving 4 years sooner. Before anyone asks, I voted for Harris, so don’t shove that narrative down my throat.

      • @[email protected]
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        54 hours ago

        The tankies are getting REAL close to just outright admitting they wanted Trump, so there’s that.

    • @cley_faye
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      Honestly, it’s kinda impressive that this scheme still works in 2025. How low can people go, I wonder.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        Just means more rugs need to be pulled until idiots have no more money to waste.

    • @clutchtwopointzero
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      67 hours ago

      America will have a law about this probably by 2070, after many more generations of Americans lose money to those scams and the legislative finally has people who understand technology to write laws about this

    • @redditron_2000_4
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      47 hours ago

      This is money from foreign governments and corporations buying influence. It has nothing to do with “Americans”.

      • @Klear
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        24 hours ago

        I’m sure there’s still a plenty of idiots buying these.

        • @AstridWipenaugh
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          64 hours ago

          Yes, to the tune of 10s or maybe a couple 100s of millions of dollars. But now Saudi Arabia can come in and buy a billion worth of the coin as a direct donation to trump with zero oversight. This is open corruption on a scale we simply haven’t seen before.

          • @Klear
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            13 hours ago

            No doubt. Just saying it’s gonna be a rag pull towards the idiots in addition to all the corruption.