Trump's big cryptocurrency bet
CBSN
Former President Donald Trump, who once called bitcoin "a scam," is now pitching himself as the pro-crypto presidential candidate. "You're going to be very happy with me," Trump said at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday.
"If crypto is going to define the future, I want [it] to be mined, minted and made in the USA," he told a room full of bitcoin enthusiasts. "If bitcoin is going to the moon ... I want America to be the nation that leads the way."
Trump used his keynote address at the conference to announce that if elected, "it will be the policy of my administration, the United States of America, to keep 100% of all the bitcoin the U.S. government currently holds or acquires into the future."
At 6 feet 7 inches, former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn had to slouch slightly when he spoke beneath the navy blue canopy and greeted Democratic Party volunteers with a "what's up, y'all?" Speaking in Gaston County, North Carolina, earlier this month, the former James Madison University football player was a familiar face to the crowd.