{"id":54742,"date":"2024-07-28T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54742"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T05:15:30","slug":"trump-courts-crypto-vote-with-pro-bitcoin-president-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54742","title":{"rendered":"Trump courts crypto vote with &#8216;pro-bitcoin president&#8217; vow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump, once a cryptocurrency skeptic, vowed Saturday to be a &#8220;pro-bitcoin president&#8221; if elected in November, as the Republican nominee sought backing from an industry irked by US regulations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s repression of crypto and bitcoin is wrong, and it&#8217;s very bad for our country,&#8221; Trump said to cheers at a conference in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-president likened cryptocurrencies to the growth of the &#8220;steel industry of 100 years ago&#8221;, and said &#8220;Bitcoin stands for freedom, sovereignty and independence from government coercion and control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said if he was in the White House, he would not allow the US government to sell its bitcoin holdings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will serve in effect as the core of the strategic national bitcoin stockpile,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was more limited than one offered the day before by longshot third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said he would seek to build a stockpile of 4 million bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, once a cryptocurrency skeptic, vowed Saturday to be a &#8220;pro-bitcoin president&#8221; if elected in November, as the Republican nominee sought backing from an industry irked by US regulations. &#8220;The Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s repression of crypto and bitcoin is wrong, and it&#8217;s very bad for our country,&#8221; Trump said to cheers at a conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2034],"class_list":["post-54742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-courts-crypto-vote-with-pro-bitcoin-president-vow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}