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Today in Focus

How Trump’s victory sparked a crypto boom

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, explains what the US president-elect’s embrace of the cryptocurrency world might mean for his second term. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.9

Today, what is with the lucrative love affair between the crypto industry and Donald Trump?

0:25.4

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Agent Force, what AI was meant to be. Donald Trump is history-making for many reasons, but he notched up another back in July,

1:38.1

becoming the first former or sitting U.S. president to address a cryptocurrency conference. This afternoon, I'm laying out my plan

1:46.8

to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin

1:52.9

superpower of the world. And we'll get it done. That was Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, where the men and women, mostly men, of the cryptocurrency community, gathered to network.

2:09.0

Where speakers included Russell Brand.

2:11.7

Thank you so much for having us at the Crypto Olympics.

2:16.3

And Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

2:18.5

And I'm grateful to be part of your Bitcoin community.

2:21.9

There was Bitcoin yoga, Bitcoin karate.

2:25.5

It's the evolution of the sport.

2:28.5

And a screening of the documentary, God bless Bitcoin.

2:33.0

Bitcoin is just another step in the technological development of how we can serve God better.

2:38.7

It is trying to remove politics from money.

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