IF DONALD TRUMP’S sweeping global tariffs send household good prices soaring and drive the economy into recession, at least one industry could profit.
The Trump administration is considering using tariff revenues to buy Bitcoin for a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” a top administration crypto official said in an interview last week.
The White House’s proposal is driving interest from crypto industry figures who have made building the reserve one of their top priorities.
It is uniting critics on the right and left, however, who have cast the reserve as a pointless industry giveaway that will come at the expense of ordinary taxpayers. Using tariff money would add insult to injury, they say.
That’s one way to take make money…
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Buy a bunch of personal bitcoin
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Announce that the government is buying a ton of bitcoin
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Wait for the value to surge
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Sell your bitcoin at the new inflated value
You forgot the part where they take all the government purchased Bitcoin and cash that out to personal accounts.
They could literally steal billions of dollars this way… It’s terrifying.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa… “COULD”??? We both know that they WILL do that, given the chance. The Fash Trash are opportunistic parasites, after all.
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I’m sure there’s no way this could backfire.
Oh and you know it’s really all Elon’s idea.
If they’re leaking this now, they have already purchased their personal “investments” to dump in exchange for tax (tariff) dollars.
If this regime has the government buy crypto; the government will lose access to it. These people will either “lose the encryption codes”, actually loose the encryption codes, steel it, let it be stolen, ect…
Biggest fraud in human history unfolded in front of everyone in 2025
Why do we let the dumbest motherfuckers decide anything, ever?
Because your “opposition” politicians and voters are cowardly as hell?
Because they’re the popular kids!
And they’re rich.
I’m not saying these are good reasons, just that they’re reasons.
more like they have the cops in their pocket
We keep letting capitalism rule the world
Because nobody is putting bullets into people.
Honestly, using the country’s surplus to fund a sovereign wealth fund like Norway instead of throwing it into the black hole of the military industrial complex seems like it would be a pretty good idea.
Too bad they’re stealing taxpayer dollars through tariffs to throw into the additional black hole of crypto market manipulation instead.
The only problem is that the U.S doesn’t really have a trade surplus to put in that fund.
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. Just ask how his casinos, steaks, planes, hotels, university, and rape victims are doing.
To the moon! 🚀 🌙 👊 🇺🇲 🔥
Right… So what happens is you dump money into it, the government then dumps money into it, you cash out, then the government is out money and you grain money… Assuming you have capital to fuck around with prior.
…except the thing you cashed out into is undergoing rampant inflation.
I’m not sure that’s sound investing advice…
Not quite. They’ll pull the rug before you get to cash out.
you grain money
Is that why the kids have been calling money “bread”?
Dough
Oh look, another buy-the-dipshit
GME ahead of the game somehow. Would be nice if we could benefit from the pump/dump.
Shouldn’t they be paying down that debt they are increasing. Esepcially since they are driving foreign companies to not buy it.
Would’nt dogecoin be more efficient?
/s
Hah. Yeah, put your money where your mouth is! I fucking dare you!
Put all your money into that worthless joke!
It’s gonna be $DOGE.
seems like a great way to siphon off the cash
Yeah, we can’t let them do this… Bitcoin is electric cash, once they have public funds in Bitcoin, they have turned it into private funds, they’ve already pocketed it. We can’t let them steal from the country like that…
I’m assuming the plan is to buy bitcoin from themselves and their friends with taxpayer cash. They don’t care about the bitcoin after that. They’ll have the cash.
That’s not a great assumption. He doesn’t need to take the margins on an increased value of Bitcoin, maybe making 20% on a quick investment… he could take the Bitcoin itself! Instead of making 20% on the money that he and his cronies put in, he could make 100% on the money the NATION puts in… It’s the difference between millions and many billions!
This is a much bigger deal than a pump and dump scam! Bitcoin is cash, he could convert it into any currency in the world whenever he wants. It’s instant money laundering.
I still like it better than another bailout for banks, who over levered for short term profits to attain their bonuses.
How high are you right meow?
Very. But I disagree with the other guy.
Better? You like eating shit better than eating rotten assholes?
Thanks for sharing…
I still like it better than another bailout for banks
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
You think they’ll pay it all back with interest?
