I really hope you’re right here. Trump’s been able to capture the passion of people that are hurting economically right now like dems haven’t been able to. Their anti-crypto stance didn’t help. Hopefully they’re learning, but I see much to still be discouraged by on these fronts.

Please do! Your presence and that of other influential positive voices for bitcoin is sorely needed here.

Not monopoly money. A highly decentralized, uncensorable global payment network and savings technology with with zero counterparty risk. Speculation for many, but for many it's not I can assure you.

Understood, no worries. I'd just heard a lot of different attacks on it but hadn't heard that one yet and was genuinely curious.

A social bad? What's your reasoning there if you don't mind me asking?

I wonder how long this can really last though given 1) Trump has said he wants a weaker dollar, 2) the stress on other countries' debt a higher dollar causes, and 3) our significant negative NIIP.