Before people had a chance to process the fact that the incoming president of the United States had just launched his own transparent crypto cash-grab, the soon-to-be First Lady did the same. Whoever is calling the Trump family's crypto shots seemed to think they could just follow the same playbook a second time and enjoy the same results, but the launch of the new token brought a sudden crash in the $TRUMP token value.This is not Melania Trump's first foray into the crypto world. In December 2021, she launched her own line of NFTs — only to apparently wash trade them after a tepid response.Meanwhile, some in the crypto world are reacting with horror at Trump's decisionmaking. While they hoped that Trump's administration would be crypto-friendly, they did not seem to anticipate that the Trump family would openly embrace some of the ecosystem's worst parts to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.
Crypto bros are first and foremost scammers who happen to specialize in that particular kind of scam. Whether they understand the underlying technology or not doesn’t matter, the same way someone who pays a killer to shoot someone is a murderer even if they know nothing about firearms.
She may be clueless about blockchains but she ain’t clueless about padding her bank account with suckers’ money.
You are right about the fact that almost all crypto peddlers don’t understand the underlying technology. But what makes them crypto bros is that they peddle the technology regardless of their lack of comprehension. Melania does not do that which is why I made that differentiation.
This has veered into the territory of not very important stuff though haha
The thing is, it’s not like selling sketchy things is out of character for Melania. So she doesn’t lend herself to the benefit of the doubt here.
Yeah that’s why I called her a grifter repeatedly