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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 months ago

White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin

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White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin

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A senior White House official has hinted at the possibility of the U.S. utilizing its gold reserves to acquire more Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). What Happened: Bo Hines, the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, ...

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  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    Exchange physical assets for virtual assets… This administration is GENIUS!!!

    /s what a bunch of fuckheads

    • silverlose@lemm.ee
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      I love your username. It makes me want to start a project to bury him called “operation durian”

      • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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        Aw no! I will not allow the durian, the King of Fruits, to be besmirched!!!

        The musky melon however is the Tesla of fruits… Shitty and sinking fast

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    Oh god…

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    I didn’t have “Reverse Marshall Plan” on my 21st Century bingo card, but here we are.

    • Podunk@lemmy.world
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      Ive never heard it myself refered to it as “reserved marshall plan”, but damn it if you arent right.

      Thats exactly what it is.

      Ffs

  • Goun@lemmy.ml
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    Lol this is so funny, and sad, and funny. But sad.

  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    paging mike judge… paging mike judge…

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    So we laundering money to China now lol

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      And to the cryptocurrency industry that helped fund Trump’s campaign, whose assets will suddenly appreciate substantially.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      russia, surely?

  • doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    And then they can purchase NFTs with pictures of gold bars with zany expressions on them with those bitcoins - they’ll make trillions, or maybe even gazillions that way!

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    You ever just wanna facepalm with your fist?

  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world
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    Bankrupt a country speed run?

  • Deadeyegai@lemmy.world
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    Jesus fucking christ

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    This is so stupid it makes me want to actually go to hackernews and read the comments for this article so I can laugh my ass at some really smart techbro defending this.

  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Now we’re talking!

  • TedDallas@programming.dev
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    The most powerful recorded geomagnetic storm back in 1859 set fire to telegraph stations worldwide, but records indicate very few incidents involving a correlated sudden disappearance of gold bars.

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