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Trump makes everyone a winner on bitcoin

The launch of $Trump is a clear signal that the president is serious about leaning into American exceptionalism and driving that innovation on cryptocurrencies.

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On the Friday night before his inauguration – during a gala ball for his new-found “tech bros” – Donald Trump launched his very own meme coin.

$Trump very quickly rose in price to $US72 before falling back to $US48 at the time of writing. The biggest cause of that fall in price was the launch of the $Melania meme coin. Both the US president and his wife have their own cryptocurrencies.

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Sinclair Davidson is a professor of economics at the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.

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