disposition2 2 hours ago

It’s pretty wild how the incoming president has a social media platform, is backed (financially and otherwise) by the richest person in the world with his own social media platform and it’s (currently) absolute crickets in a thread like this where the same incoming president is creating a meme coin.

Maybe folks are just apathetic, but for a technology based forum to have little to no discussion about a topic that not only touches the basis of the forum but also the potential affects toward the country where this forum is based is pretty confounding.

As another commenter pointed out, this is definitely an interesting (for lack of a better word or balking towards cordiality) timeline.

  • seanmcdirmid an hour ago

    it’s been a circus and it will be a circus for the next four years. This is outrageous sure, but maybe not even the top five of outrageous things this week. Fatigue should be expected.

9283409232 10 hours ago

The US President is about to rug pull the country and make billions. What a timeline to live in.

  • paulpauper an hour ago

    that seems too obvious. as we saw with DJT stock, which years after its reverse merger defied similar predictions of worthlessness, things that seem too obvious usually have some form of small print or do not replay as they did in the past. Most shit coins implode, but $Trump may be an exception.

chrisbrandow 8 hours ago

I wish someone more knowledgeable could explain how this is currently valued at $25 billion.

Is that legitimately $25 billion “on paper”, or is that like an initial “stated value”? I don’t even have the precise language for the question.

Regardless, I’m sure it’s a big grift almost certainly, but I don’t understand the valuation.

  • nabaraz 7 hours ago

    Like any tradeable product, valuation = supply * current price. 1B supply * 25 current price = 25 billion.

    Important to note - it doesn't mean there is 25B of value created.

  • shombaboor 6 hours ago

    it's really not. the instant some insider starts selling the price will crash instantly dropping the price for other buyers. theres probably some momentum calculation when that happens but its not 25B

foldr 7 hours ago

> It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.