2024-12-26T09:12:53+0000

Donald Trump promised to commute the sentence of #RossUlbricht, the founder of the online illegal drug marketplace Silk Road, in a raucous speech before the #Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night. “And if you vote for me, on Day One, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht,” the former president said, generating cheers from the audience, moments after mentioning his plans to pardon supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s promise came during a speech designed to make overtures to Libertarian voters, who argue for the legalization of drugs and have long lobbied for the release of Ulbricht. Supporters of Ulbricht distributed hundreds of black and white signs that read “Free Ross” to the crowd, and Libertarians waved them manically in the moments after Trump’s announcement. Trump outlined a plan to turbocharge #crypto growth and make the US a crypto mining powerhouse in his keynote address to the #2024 #Nashville Bitcoin Conference on Saturday. Trump announced that if elected, he would create a strategic bitcoin reserve in the US. “It will be the policy of my administration to keep 100 percent of all bitcoin the US government currently holds or acquires in the future … as a core of the strategic national bitcoin stockpile,” he said. Right now, the US government owns more than 210,000 bitcoins that were seized via illegal operations like the online dark market Silk Road and the ponzi scheme BitConnect. It’s worth approximately $14 billion at time of writing. #bitcoin #crypto #trump #speech #rumble #youtube #silkroad #trumprally #politicalnews #portland #politics #solana #ethereum #eth #dogecoin #dogecoin #elonmusk