"I knew there would be a question on Bitcoin or cryptos ... Ive watched these politicians dodge questions all the time ... and Ive always found it kind of disgusting ... But, the truth is — Im going to dodge that question — because weve probably got hundreds of thousands people watching this that own Bitcoin — and weve probably got two people that are short. So weve got a choice of making four hundred thousand people mad at us and unhappy ... or making two people happy. And, thats just a dumb equation. ... We have a governor one time in Nebraska .. long time ago .. he would get a tough question about property taxes .. or what should we do about schools ... and hed look right at the person and say, "Im all right on that one!" And hed just walk off. Well, Im all right on that one and well see how Charlie is."
Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown person published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, with the release of its open-source implementation. From 2021 to 2025, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender currency before revoking it. As bitcoin is ps
"it doesnt produce anything, [If] you offer me 1% of all the apartment houses in the country and you want [...] $25 billion, Ill write you a check, its very simple. Now if you told me you own all of the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25 I wouldnt take it because what would I do with it? Id have to sell it back to you one way or another. It isnt going to do anything. The apartments are going to produce rent and the farms are going to produce food."
Bitcoin"Bitcoin is meant to be this wonderful freeing thing. It’s a load of old nonsense; think of the power it takes to drive, to replicate, all those transactions globally. I just think it’s crazy, on energy usage alone."
Bitcoin"[bitcoin is] probably rat poison squared."
Bitcoin"Ethereum has vast potential, whereas Bitcoin wont ever do anything well beyond implementing a currency."
Bitcoin"I think its [Bitcoin] a technical tour de force, but thats an area where governments are gonna maintain a dominant role."
Bitcoin"Ive always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin, etc. You pointed out the only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance. .... If I was the government, I’d close it down."
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