COINDESK DAILY: DOGE's Elon Musk Finds U.S. 'Magic Money Computers'
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Doge overlord Elon Musk uncovering what he calls government magic money computers printing |
| 0:06.5 | money out of thin air. |
| 0:08.9 | It's Tuesday. |
| 0:09.8 | March 18th, 2025. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Christine Lee. |
| 0:12.5 | This is Coindus Daily. |
| 0:14.2 | The U.S. |
| 0:19.4 | Government is creating money out of thin air via 14 magic money computers. |
| 0:24.3 | Department of Government Efficiency head, Elon Musk, telling Senator Ted Cruz in a podcast |
| 0:29.5 | that U.S. departments, including Treasury, Health and Human Services, State and Defense, |
| 0:34.4 | have computers that issue payments to people out of nothing without any coherent |
| 0:39.0 | accounting and are probably off by up to 10% in reporting government expenditures. Bitcoin advocates |
| 0:45.5 | are sounding the alarm to fix the money with Bitcoin, which has a limited supply and protects |
| 0:51.4 | against currency degradation. Crypto Exchange Gemini has appointed a new |
| 0:56.1 | chief financial officer as it positions itself for a potential initial public offering. The company's |
| 1:01.5 | latest hire Dan Chen, who previously served as vice president of capital markets at a firm, |
| 1:07.3 | announced the move in a social media post. Chen will work alongside Gemini, co-founder's |
| 1:12.1 | Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to help scale the business. If Gemini moves forward with the public |
| 1:17.4 | listing process, it will be part of a small but growing number of crypto-native companies |
| 1:21.4 | considering an IPO in the U.S. stock exchanges, including Cracken, Circle, blockchain.com, |
| 1:27.2 | and Bullish, the parent company |
| 1:28.6 | of CoinDesk. Friends, Defi is having a moment. Uniswap Labs, web app, and wallet connect you to the |
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