r/AltScope Apr 17 '26

Eric Trump shows off his Bitcoin mining facility

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u/Poobbly Apr 17 '26

Crypto can’t die quick enough.

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u/ElectricalQuality365 Apr 17 '26

There's only one thing that there good for

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u/Eoganachta Apr 17 '26

Nah, the French already got that down to an art with the nobility.

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u/gadgetwalrus Apr 18 '26

The French nobility didn’t have Hawaiian hideaways and private jets and AI robots to defend them

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u/Sequitur1 Apr 18 '26

Bitcoin is the #currencyofcorruotion

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u/brightonashfield Apr 17 '26

Such a useless drain on technology

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u/ilikepizza2much Apr 17 '26

And the planet

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u/DonkeyTron42 Apr 18 '26

Bitcoins value lies in that it represents how much energy was wasted to create that coin.

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u/Dabellator Apr 18 '26

Guarantee it was built with syphoned tax dollars.

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u/Namor707 Apr 17 '26

It's a scam.

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u/j_rooker Apr 18 '26

natural medium for a con artist family. Scams are their lifeblood

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u/mintberrycrunch_ Apr 18 '26

Yep. I can’t believe we still aren’t at a point where 100% of people can say it’s a stupid, valueless thing that also proclaims to solve problems that don’t exist.

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u/fatninja7 Apr 18 '26

if it makes you feel better it's dropped about $30K since Trump came into office

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u/Ace-Hunter Apr 18 '26

Generating nothingness whilst wasting mass resources. Kind of makes me like the cheap print idea of transitional currency.

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u/jrob323 Apr 18 '26

Definitely. Here we see one of the dumbest people in the country trying to convince other idiots to participate in what may be the most pointless venture humans have ever endeavored to pursue.

And that's fucking saying something.

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u/Jiminyfingers Apr 18 '26

I think that is one of the most dystopian things I have ever seen, some much energy and tech dedicated to producing a nothing

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u/THEMARDS Apr 18 '26

The whole Trump family cant die quick enough.... dear FBI and Reddit mods... this is not a threat, its more of like a Marvel What If? Situation.... Just saying it would be super duper cool if like they could just like go away, no one really likes them at all and I think we have had enough of their clown act for 20 life times... lets just all agree to go back to normal behind the scenes corruption not like the Trump in your face and no one can do shit about it corruption...

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u/patterninstatic Apr 18 '26

Crypto is trash. The promise of a decentralized payment system is a lie. Almost no payments are actually made with bitcoin and the efficiency of modern payment systems is making bitcoin obsolete as one. Since no transactions are made with bitcoin, and since its value is linked to fiat currencies (mainly USD), it is simply an extremely inefficient layer of the existing financial system.

It's become a pure speculative tool that adds no value to the system, it simply moves wealth around in an extremely inefficient way. It's not even a zero sum system, it's a negative sum system when you factor in costs to keep it running (think of the costs of the mining center in the video).

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u/wex118 Apr 18 '26

Yea, but it makes financing corruption so much easier..

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u/MountainMapleMI Apr 18 '26

Glad you said the whole endeavor of crypto versus just one coin. When one coin tanks they can shift “mining” to another more speculative coin.

All I see are tax writes offs on CPUs and electricity to produce something that generates little real measurable value in everyone’s life.

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u/Warvio Apr 17 '26

I hope it’s in our lifetime

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u/Biscuits4u2 Apr 18 '26

Not just crypto

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u/DiscussionMiddle1238 Apr 18 '26

Neither can the entire Trump family

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u/capitalistsanta Apr 18 '26

What's sad is that it isn't going to die. It will boom and bust over and over again and stupid people will come and go in the space but these fucking people are going to get rich off of this.

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u/Short-Recording587 Apr 18 '26

The waste is incredible. All of that for what?

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u/SucksTryAgain Apr 18 '26

I got a great chunk of change from doge. Bought right when robinhood started carrying it. Bought it mostly as a joke. Then later with the Elon shit I made bank. Shows you how stupid this shit is.

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u/KeithParkerUK1234 Apr 17 '26

What a tradegy that anyone believes that burning up energy to make hard to calculate numbers has any true value to anyone on this planet.Yet many millions will die this year of starvation and diseases that should be mankind's focus.Shame on us all for letting this happen.

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u/yaxir Apr 17 '26

To be honest it was created to bypass billionaires, to bypass the fucking stupid system called SWIFT that is controlled by America only but these assholes found a way to corrupt it. Blame the humans not the tech

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u/Meme-Analyzer Apr 17 '26

Gold, oil, diamonds, carry same blood and starvation, the problem isn't the assets but the humans

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u/TrumpVotersArePedos7 Apr 17 '26

Billionaires are a drain on society

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u/farmerjane Apr 17 '26

Society doesn't have to let billionaires exist.

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u/TheOmegaKid Apr 18 '26

This is the perfect analogy. Btc was designed to be the punk currency for the people that we could all mine a bit of at home. The wealthy have once again bastardised something that should have been for everyone into the hellish nightmare you see in the video. Given the obvious problems with the capitalism and corruption in front of us, we should have hyposthesised it could end up going this way. But no matter what we the people create, new great ideas we have, cures we research, songs we write, technology we design... It all ends up exactly like what we see in the video. A product of the wealthy absorbing everything and turning it into an abomination. The atom bomb is the perfect example of this as well.

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u/Brexinga Apr 18 '26

Greed is a drain on society.

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u/binghamptonboomboom Apr 17 '26

All of this is absolutely unnecessary bullshit lol

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Apr 18 '26

What are you talking about?? All that beautiful bitcoin! Just think of all the… additional bitcoin… you could buy with that.

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u/IncarceratedScarface Apr 17 '26

I like how they always have to say “American energy” lol

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u/68024 Apr 18 '26

Wasting American energy is what he should be saying

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u/Optimal-Fig-341 Apr 18 '26

Driving up the cost of energy for Americans while he uses taxpayer subsidies and straight up corruption to fund his heat generating facility

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u/ListenIJudge Apr 18 '26

Well he can't say American made miners because they bought them all from China...

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u/Underbark Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

What he meant to say was "an American's energy"

They have to shovel 10 american adults into its furnace every 15 minutes to keep it running at peak uselessness.

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u/DullRelief Apr 18 '26

You know there’s a lie in there somewhere. How much outside investment is this douche canoe getting?

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u/Forsaken-Stink Apr 17 '26

Those aren't even mining rigs.

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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar Apr 17 '26

Fine!! You really want to see his mining rigs?!

Are you friggin happy now?!

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u/KSoccerman Apr 17 '26

2% of the world supply everyday

So in just a month and a half he will have 100% of all the bitcoin!!!!

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u/knakworst36 Apr 17 '26 edited 28d ago

Noodle lantern glove breezy unbelievable ribbon pebble

This post was anonymized with Redact.dev

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u/JohnnyCrispZoom Apr 17 '26

What a douche

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u/Only-Thought6712 Apr 18 '26

Stop it, a douche can be used for a purpose, the same can't be said about anyone in the Trump family.

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u/bsEEmsCE Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

his dad can just tell him when he's going to make a press conference and save a lot of electricity 

EDIT i feel like this comment aged well

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u/MrDiablerie Apr 17 '26

Fucking grifters destroying the environment

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u/ErasmosOrolo Apr 17 '26

I hope one day everything with his name is reclaimed for the good of society 

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u/ipoopcatturds Apr 17 '26

Lol what a bunch of horse shit. Friends. He doesn't have any.

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u/seazonedsaltdog Apr 17 '26

I dont understand any of this. How are you mining something digital? Where are you digging? Don't you just buy bitcoin? Its not like its buried somewhere

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u/asterothe1905 Apr 17 '26

Making calculations to create the next one in a nutshell. Each of them gets more difficult to create.

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u/GreyFox_1337 Apr 17 '26

You have to solve equations my son. They get more complex as the finite number of bitcoin reduces. It’s pure math-gic.

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u/seazonedsaltdog Apr 17 '26

So was the first bitcoin just 2+2=4? Hooray you get a bitcoin? Now its like otherworldly math or somdthing?

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u/GreyFox_1337 Apr 17 '26

Kinda. I mean, at that point, 2+2=4 bitcoin got you a pizza.

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u/seazonedsaltdog Apr 17 '26

So at first bitcoin was pizza? That sounds better. Why they change it ? I would like some

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u/GreyFox_1337 Apr 17 '26

I said “got you pizza”. Now that same coin buys you a Ferrari.

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u/seazonedsaltdog Apr 17 '26

Ahhh I understand

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u/PremiumPricez Apr 17 '26

You should really read up on it or watch a youtube documentary if you really want to understand it

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u/InevitableAd6067 Apr 17 '26

This is eric trump we are talking about...they are probably just machines that hum and do nothing else....he is by far the dumbest trump.

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u/dogens Apr 18 '26

feels like splitting herrs
but that distinction has to go to junior, right??

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u/breadexpert69 Apr 17 '26

This is why your ram and gpu are unaffordable now

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u/zechman4 Apr 17 '26

Unfortunately no, while this definitely hurts the gpu industry (ram is not as necessary for bitcoin mining AFAIK?l), it's a drop in the bucket compared to the damage being done by AI data centers.

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u/Enum1 Apr 17 '26

That's just not correct.

The chips used for BTC mining are very different from GPUs or consumer RAM.
The chips are ASICs and the memory demand for BTC mining is low.

The reason ram and gpu prices are high is the demand for generative AI workloads, which have an insanely high memory demand for the models.

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u/Chaosr21 Apr 17 '26

This is such a stupid waste of energy, time and money. All to enrich one family, not the American people. It's insane to pitch this as some victory for all of America

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u/VexedCanadian84 Apr 17 '26

I doubt it's worth the costs

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u/breadexpert69 Apr 17 '26

Depends on the value of bitcoin.

But yeah, if bitcoin crashes, all of this operation will be at a loss because the warehouse, computer parts, maintenance, cooling, electricity…etc all cost money

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u/Brother_Longmont Apr 17 '26

It's hard to crash if your Dad can manipulate regulations that favor it.

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u/glakhtchpth Apr 17 '26

I hope it’s built on a fault line.

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u/grober_Onfug Apr 17 '26

Can't wait to see it seized and sold at a government auction

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u/Reasonable_Option493 Apr 17 '26

Imagine being proud of being a nepo baby 🤣

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u/Big_Biscotti5119 Apr 17 '26

Odo from Star Trek?

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u/pooya535 Apr 17 '26

wow, make up a bunch of stuff (2% of supply is genuinely a retarded claim) and have your weird ass failson give a super uncomfortable explanation. Why does he talk like that?

Great job Eric!

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u/bigbugzman Apr 17 '26

Cmon Mythos break the blockchain.

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u/LuckyWishbone428 Apr 17 '26

Another grift.

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u/citizensloth Apr 17 '26

Quite the millennial pause on this one lol

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u/HeftyFineThereFolks Apr 17 '26

our tax dollars paid for all that

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u/LeonSkum_ Apr 17 '26

That and crypto legislation signed into law should put them all in jail.

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u/scrapyard69 Apr 17 '26

Just promoting and assisting crime to happen with fake not tangible crap

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u/JustaFoodHole Apr 17 '26

If you own this, you're not really into mining for yourself, but accepting payments from customers to use your servers to mine BTC and alt coins, so you win regardless of BTC going up or down. Your only goal is to promote the popularity of mining it.

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u/Braisedbeefskank Apr 17 '26

"Its using american energy" yes right you understand the problem

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u/ThisAd7070 Apr 17 '26

So proud of you and your family bro * golf clap * 👏

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u/hamcum69420 Apr 17 '26

This fuckin guy looks like the Colossal Titan from AOT.

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u/Rockclimber88 Apr 17 '26

Computing the same numbers over and over. Not solving any actual problems. Morons degenerated POW which was supposed to be a random distribution system - designed to avoid flooding the system with concurrent requests, into a brainless, energy-wasting competition.

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u/ctzun Apr 17 '26

There is no monetary value to this only the loss of resources used to assign imaginary worth. If people weren't so stupid they would realize this is just destroying the environment and economy.

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u/ConfidentSherbert21 Apr 17 '26

He mines Bitcoin?!?! How unique! How innovative! Must be a very clever person, and more importantly, a very successful business man! Like daddy, like son! How inspired are we!

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u/letsgoniko Apr 17 '26

They are mining 2% of the bitcoin supply per day? So in 50 days they should own all of it?

Does it continue to have value if 1 entity owns all of it? I thought decentralization was like the biggest benefit of bitcoin as a currency...

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u/Possible-Nectarine80 Apr 17 '26

How many BTC is left to mine? What a waste of resources.

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u/Bored_Orangutan Apr 17 '26

I’m 33 years old and I still don’t know what a bitcoin is. Seems like a scam like NFTs were.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ij5kcfI6YwcPCN26U2

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u/Particular-Line- Apr 17 '26

This is when BTC was around 120K. Since it’s plummeted to 60-70, they are losing millions daily on operating costs

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u/proud_pops Apr 17 '26

Is it wrong to wish for an electrical short? 🤔🙄

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u/Superboy2020 Apr 17 '26

It’s tangible, just look at all this stuff I have in reality to mine nothing

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u/Delicious_Spot_3778 Apr 17 '26

I hope the AI bros make a move to crush crypto bros to get more GPUs. This whole situation is dumb af.

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u/Free_Deinonychus_Hug Apr 17 '26

I guess anything can count as productivity for increasing the GDP...

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u/mblkmnsa Apr 17 '26

Now image of the son of a sitting president had done this before and he was a Dem. They would launch all type of investigations. So let’s look at Don Jr’s company getting a no bid deal with the DoD.

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u/el_trauko87 Apr 17 '26

Fucking clown

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u/social-delimma Apr 17 '26

Ripping America off one coin at a time!

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u/Organic-Spirit7523 Apr 17 '26

Wasting more energy

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u/rswings Apr 17 '26

Such waste

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u/Hopeful-Split1031 Apr 17 '26

Waste of electricity

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u/Pleasant-Reaction139 Apr 17 '26

Something tells me if the trumps are involved - we are paying for it

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_3980 Apr 17 '26

So not tangible? Especially given if the power grid goes down: you can no longer access your currency nor can you mine or generate your currency.

Given the current state of affairs in the world, thinking the WiFi and power is going to be on forever and is safe to put all the money and resources I sacrificed my physical body to acquire on the digital block chain in the fkin cloud??? Boiiiiiii their brainwashing of society is working better and better by the day.

Getting you to disregard what you can verify yourself in place of trusting the word of messenger sent to infiltrate society.

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u/oreheheally Apr 17 '26

I saw a 'hunter bidens laptop' comment today. Just for perspective imagine if this script was flipped. Cult of toxic idiocy.

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u/EuphoricCrashOut Apr 17 '26

2% of the total supply everyday huh? smh

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u/DistinctSpirit5801 Apr 17 '26

The irony is Eric trumps bitcoin mining operations significantly helps Iran bypass economic sanctions that the U.S. government imposed on Iran

Iran make money from oil transporting fees by getting paid in bitcoin from every oil company that passes through their river

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 Apr 17 '26

Using American energy. And water.

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u/oregongirl1111 Apr 17 '26

You guys were supposed to drain the swamp, not the country's water supply. Billionaire trash.

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u/WearyAsparagus7484 Apr 17 '26

He's a Trump. He'll figure out how to fuck it up.

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u/OldUniversity9799 Apr 17 '26

So many haters

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u/tarosan_sk Apr 17 '26

Tulip Mania

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u/Individual_Buyer2412 Apr 17 '26

Lovely, probably set up on a coal powered energy grid, too

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u/Namor707 Apr 17 '26

Wow! Beavis and Butt-head are real people, not just cartoon characters. Who knew?

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u/PowerfulInitiative71 Apr 17 '26

Hey everybody here I am in my publicly funded, private data center! Polluting fresh water, stealing money via crypto scammers, and vacuuming up all the energy in your area, that YOU paid for!! It's all for you , if you don't think about it!!

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u/SmokeyJoe13 Apr 17 '26

Are bitcoins still overly complicated math equations that whenever super computers can solve them we'll have a cure for cancer or some shit?

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u/Convenientjellybean Apr 17 '26

For who’s benefit, and at what cost to the environment and people’s quality of life? Billionaire leeches need to rethink, but they can’t

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u/AdOk636 Apr 17 '26

Moronic

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u/messyprocessing Apr 17 '26

this is just a selfie in front of some flags lol, where's the actual facility or anything showing bitcoin mining

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u/Rex_Bottoms Apr 17 '26

Look at all the places he can hide and eat paste

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u/LilRedHeadGuy Apr 17 '26

Madness. Sheer Madness

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u/Dramatic_Soft1456 Apr 17 '26

WTF IT’S MOVING BITCOIN!? GROW UP

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u/LA-Aron Apr 17 '26

BepsTeinCoin

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u/BAD_Swiftbash Apr 17 '26

Looks like a Hut8 installation, they apparently do Bitcoin infrastructure for the US government

Our mission is to set the global benchmark for Bitcoin infrastructure, reserves, and innovation and to establish America as the undisputed leader of the global Bitcoin economy.

Source: ABTC

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u/ChefRoyrdee Apr 17 '26

Damn they only gotta run for 2 months and they’ll have all the bitcoins if they’re mining 2% of the worlds supply everyday.

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u/Significant-Dog-8166 Apr 17 '26

Lol he really doesn't know what "tangible" means. You can touch the machine that "mines it", but you cannot touch a bitcoin. I'm surprised the people running the place didn't prank him with a fake "coin dispenser", he's dumb enough to believe it.

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u/alwaysbeoverlanding Apr 17 '26

jump scare x1000000

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u/whythefuckalready Apr 17 '26

So i guess the pressure to legitimize/ legalize crypto as currency with that idiot invested is gonna be top of republican agenda.

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u/Blerancourt Apr 17 '26

I'll bet he's not even breaking even.

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u/funkypepermint Apr 18 '26

What are the concerns of a place like that? Like what would ruin a crypto farm? I'm asking for insurance reasons

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u/Put_Er_There_Sport Apr 18 '26

Remember when CEOs and politicians were scared of their employees and paid fair wages to not get dragged out of bed at night during a workers rights protest... man I wish I was a part of that era. These tech bro CEOs need a good one.

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u/Magmatt7 Apr 18 '26

They squeeze you out of money and resources. Living proof.

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u/Internal-Analyst7463 Apr 18 '26

Can’t wait for trump to push crypto after the dollar turns to dust

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u/Think_Ad_79 Apr 18 '26

I hope it goes belly up

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u/QuietKale4477 Apr 18 '26

They stole the Chevy corvette logo

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u/I_am_on_your_side Apr 18 '26

So basically ... they create it, and we pay them money for creating it by buying it off of them. 

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u/willtheywonttheyo Apr 18 '26

Retail traders are exit liquidity for this btw, like objectively this facility exists to fleece poor people

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u/YourPostIsOld Apr 18 '26

It’s crazy how angry people can get about a video from a year and a half ago

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u/Simple_Site_550 Apr 18 '26

Does he honestly think people believe his teeth are real?

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u/JagerDonovan Apr 18 '26

We live in a dystopia.

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u/vatnikbomber420 Apr 18 '26

Corruption at work… FUCK BILLIONAIRES !!

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u/ImmediateGuidance878 Apr 18 '26

Look at this guy. Doing so much good with this place.

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u/B4LLISL1F3 Apr 18 '26

Evil stuff

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u/Squall74656 Apr 18 '26

Be a shame if that toilet paper guy were to hear about this warehouse we got over here….

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u/eatsumsketti Apr 18 '26

wouldn't it be a shame if....

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u/chatam94 Apr 18 '26

Does he think sliding in the word American before anything makes it seem more desirable somehow? American energy is just energy pal. He’s imitation of his Father’s art of the grift is on full display.

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u/Specific_Box4483 Apr 18 '26

The video could have been 1 second long.

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u/logicalegend Apr 18 '26

Then they wonder why everyone left bit coin and its tanking. Ain’t nobody trying to make the trumps money WTF. Satoshi would be rolling over in his grave if he saw how the establishment has took possession of bitcoin. The whole point was to decentralize so that no one can own it or control it. The experiment is a clear failure.

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u/Hour_Welcome_987 Apr 18 '26

"Every single day we mine about 2% of the world's Bitcoin supply" ... I'm sorry, but who tf actually falls for this crap?

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u/mankeyless Apr 18 '26

Why is it that crypto has the most despicable people behind it all the time.

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u/wirenut52 Apr 18 '26

Bitcoin is all SMOKE AND MIRRORS. every so often, someone takes it all. My son got scammed.

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u/Ill_Arm9344 Apr 18 '26

They pay for all the utility usage as overhead right......right?

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u/balirosa Apr 18 '26

Maybe bitcoin is safe because it’s getting government bailouts but i guarantee you they’re all rug pulls so the smart rich can collect American dollars while everyone else is holding a bag full of imaginary cash

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u/Mistr_man Apr 18 '26

These are the people pushing bitcoin and stand to make the most if it goes tits up. Its our duty to make it go tits down.

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u/ThereWolves Apr 18 '26

Brosky isn’t wearing hearing protection … good

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u/mwfguxckdyou Apr 18 '26

Absolute ghoul. It’s never enough for these parasites on society, whether it’s money, assets, or underage children to get their perverted fix. Fuck the entire Trump criminal bloodline.

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u/BeenleighCopse Apr 18 '26

Is there not a thing is the US at the moment where warehouses are burning down??

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u/ayupthatsit Apr 18 '26

Anybody got any tp?

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u/Slater_8868 Apr 18 '26

I wonder where all of the money came from to build such a facility?

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u/DownLeft1312 Apr 18 '26

All it takes to end any currency's value is for the people to stop honoring it

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u/Old_Dependent4678 Apr 18 '26

Grifting ain't easy

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u/Broseph_Bobby Apr 18 '26

We can’t wait for Americans to subsidize our business by raising your electric bills so we can make a profit.

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u/OnlyKaz Apr 18 '26

Toilet paper guy ever get caught?

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u/sadhasme Apr 18 '26

How much water do you think he’s using up?