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Fortune
Niamh Rowe

Donald Trump’s latest pro-crypto push includes courting Bitcoin miners at Mar-a-Lago

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Donald Trump is on a mission to mine every dollar and vote out of the cryptocurrency industry he possibly can. His latest conquest? The actual miners.

The Republican presidential candidate took to Truth Social on Tuesday night—just hours after meeting with executives of publicly traded Bitcoin miners CleanSpark and Riot Platforms at an event at Mar-a-Lago—to post: “Bitcoin mining may be our last line of defense against a CBDC [central bank digital currency]. Biden’s hatred of Bitcoin only helps China, Russia, and the Radical Communist Left. We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT.”

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