White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-says-gold-reserves-213421472.html

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Exchange physical assets for virtual assets... This administration is GENIUS!!!

/s what a bunch of fuckheads

silverlose@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I love your username. It makes me want to start a project to bury him called “operation durian”

MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Aw no! I will not allow the durian, the King of Fruits, to be besmirched!!!

The musky melon however is the Tesla of fruits... Shitty and sinking fast

MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y

Oh god...

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I didn’t have “Reverse Marshall Plan” on my 21st Century bingo card, but here we are.

Podunk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Ive never heard it myself refered to it as "reserved marshall plan", but damn it if you arent right.

Thats exactly what it is.

Ffs

Goun@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 1y

Lol this is so funny, and sad, and funny. But sad.

toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

paging mike judge.. paging mike judge..

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

So we laundering money to China now lol

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 1y

And to the cryptocurrency industry that helped fund Trump's campaign, whose assets will suddenly appreciate substantially.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y

russia, surely?

doctortofu@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 1y

And then they can purchase NFTs with pictures of gold bars with zany expressions on them with those bitcoins - they'll make trillions, or maybe even gazillions that way!

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y

You ever just wanna facepalm with your fist?

Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Bankrupt a country speed run?

Deadeyegai@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Jesus fucking christ

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y

This is so stupid it makes me want to actually go to hackernews and read the comments for this article so I can laugh my ass at some really smart techbro defending this.

ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

Now we're talking!

TedDallas@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

The most powerful recorded geomagnetic storm back in 1859 set fire to telegraph stations worldwide, but records indicate very few incidents involving a correlated sudden disappearance of gold bars.