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Zeke Fox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
693 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

And there's been just this explosion of different meme coins to gamble on. Some of them are by C-list celebrities. Some of them try to attract attention by being as stupid as possible. For example, one popular one was like the Dogecoin dog with a hat.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

And there's been just this explosion of different meme coins to gamble on. Some of them are by C-list celebrities. Some of them try to attract attention by being as stupid as possible. For example, one popular one was like the Dogecoin dog with a hat.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

And the goal is just to get people on the internet to think it's funny, or at least to think that other people might think it's funny, and to get some attention so that people buy your coin. And in most cases, there's some sort of group of insiders who started this whole thing, who have a lot of coins, and they're hoping to sell them to the

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

And the goal is just to get people on the internet to think it's funny, or at least to think that other people might think it's funny, and to get some attention so that people buy your coin. And in most cases, there's some sort of group of insiders who started this whole thing, who have a lot of coins, and they're hoping to sell them to the

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

And the goal is just to get people on the internet to think it's funny, or at least to think that other people might think it's funny, and to get some attention so that people buy your coin. And in most cases, there's some sort of group of insiders who started this whole thing, who have a lot of coins, and they're hoping to sell them to the

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like a new kind of gambling game, except that it's basically rigged in favor of whoever started the meme coin. And in the case of Trump coin, Trump created one billion of these coins and he is keeping 800 million of them for himself and his associates. He also made money by selling this like initial block to the public.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like a new kind of gambling game, except that it's basically rigged in favor of whoever started the meme coin. And in the case of Trump coin, Trump created one billion of these coins and he is keeping 800 million of them for himself and his associates. He also made money by selling this like initial block to the public.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like a new kind of gambling game, except that it's basically rigged in favor of whoever started the meme coin. And in the case of Trump coin, Trump created one billion of these coins and he is keeping 800 million of them for himself and his associates. He also made money by selling this like initial block to the public.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

It used to be this took a lot of technical expertise to create a new cryptocurrency, but it's now super easy. There's websites where it's as easy as coming up with your own little joke and uploading an image and clicking a button on this website called pump.fun where, you know, Hundreds or thousands of new coins are created every day. And what Trump is saying is that, hey, the game is on.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

It used to be this took a lot of technical expertise to create a new cryptocurrency, but it's now super easy. There's websites where it's as easy as coming up with your own little joke and uploading an image and clicking a button on this website called pump.fun where, you know, Hundreds or thousands of new coins are created every day. And what Trump is saying is that, hey, the game is on.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

It used to be this took a lot of technical expertise to create a new cryptocurrency, but it's now super easy. There's websites where it's as easy as coming up with your own little joke and uploading an image and clicking a button on this website called pump.fun where, you know, Hundreds or thousands of new coins are created every day. And what Trump is saying is that, hey, the game is on.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

I've released a meme coin. I am very famous. This will get a lot of attention. Don't you want to buy now? Get in early before other people get in. And as soon as he released it, the price soared. It got as high as $72. The best estimates by... Cryptocurrency analysts are that he has already made 50 or 100 million dollars just from releasing this coin and sending a tweet.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

I've released a meme coin. I am very famous. This will get a lot of attention. Don't you want to buy now? Get in early before other people get in. And as soon as he released it, the price soared. It got as high as $72. The best estimates by... Cryptocurrency analysts are that he has already made 50 or 100 million dollars just from releasing this coin and sending a tweet.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

I've released a meme coin. I am very famous. This will get a lot of attention. Don't you want to buy now? Get in early before other people get in. And as soon as he released it, the price soared. It got as high as $72. The best estimates by... Cryptocurrency analysts are that he has already made 50 or 100 million dollars just from releasing this coin and sending a tweet.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

A few days after Trump's coin, Melania Trump announced that she was releasing her own meme coin. This led to kind of a negative reaction from crypto traders driving the price of Trump coin down. Why?

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

A few days after Trump's coin, Melania Trump announced that she was releasing her own meme coin. This led to kind of a negative reaction from crypto traders driving the price of Trump coin down. Why?

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

A few days after Trump's coin, Melania Trump announced that she was releasing her own meme coin. This led to kind of a negative reaction from crypto traders driving the price of Trump coin down. Why?

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

So what they say is that they believe the crypto industry is great and valuable and working all sorts of good, important tech things, and that Trump is discrediting their industry by promoting a coin that's based on nothing at all and that will inevitably crash at some point and leave people with a bad taste in their mouth.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

So what they say is that they believe the crypto industry is great and valuable and working all sorts of good, important tech things, and that Trump is discrediting their industry by promoting a coin that's based on nothing at all and that will inevitably crash at some point and leave people with a bad taste in their mouth.

Fresh Air
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

So what they say is that they believe the crypto industry is great and valuable and working all sorts of good, important tech things, and that Trump is discrediting their industry by promoting a coin that's based on nothing at all and that will inevitably crash at some point and leave people with a bad taste in their mouth.