Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States would become the cryptocurrency capital of the world if he is elected to the White House.If Bitcoin is going to be important in the future, it will be minted, minted and manufactured in America,” he said at a cryptocurrency conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
The tycoon has emerged as a vocal supporter of cryptocurrencies, vowing to be “the president who embraces innovation and Bitcoin that America needs.”
“Bitcoin [criptomoedas] “represents freedom, sovereignty and independence in the face of government coercion and control by the Biden-Harris administration,” Donald Trump said.
Trump promised to “keep 100% of the Bitcoin owned by the U.S. government” if he wins to “ensure a solid core of the nation’s strategic reserves.”
“This will be the policy of my administration,” he said, suggesting that North American stockholders “never sell their holdings.” [suas] Bitcoin”, in contrast to the positions he held during his presidency (2017-2021).
“If we don’t embrace cryptocurrency and bitcoin technology, China will,” he said.
“America’s destiny is to beat our competitors at everything and to not lose our industries to anyone,” he added, acknowledging that producing bitcoin would require “massive amounts of electricity.”
“We will build a power plant on the territory. We will use fossil fuels because we have to. We will use nuclear fuel,” he emphasized.
Trump also criticized US Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely Democratic rival in the presidential race.
While acknowledging that Kamala is “on a bit of a honeymoon right now,” he accused her of being a “crazy left-wing radical who is also against cryptocurrency.”