# Post ts_114888005422699333

- Post ID: `ts_114888005422699333`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2025-07-20T22:50:40.556Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_114888005422699333.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> “Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time”

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (6:15), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> Chairman Krapo, Ranking Member Brown, members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Peter Van Valkenburg and I'm the Director of Research at Coin Center, an independent nonprofit focused on the public policy issues affecting cryptocurrency and public blockchain networks. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency and it works because of the world's first public blockchain network. What does Bitcoin do? It's simple. It lets you send and receive value to and from anyone in the world using nothing more than a computer and an internet connection. Now why is it revolutionary? Because unlike every other tool for sending money over the internet, it works without the need to trust a middleman. The lack of any corporation in between means that Bitcoin is the world's first public digital payments infrastructure. And by public I simply mean available to all and not owned by any single entity. Now we have public infrastructure for information, for websites, for email. It's called the internet. But the only public payments infrastructure that we have is cash, as in paper money. And it only works in face-to-face transactions. Before Bitcoin, if you wanted to pay someone remotely over the phone or the internet, then you could not use public infrastructure. You would rely on a private bank to open their books and add a ledger entry that debits you and credits the person you're paying. And if you both don't use the same bank, well then there'll be multiple banks and multiple ledger entries in between. With Bitcoin, the ledger is the public blockchain. And anyone can add an entry to that ledger, transferring their bitcoins to someone else. And anyone, regardless of their nationality, race, religion, gender, sex, or credit worthiness, can for absolutely no cost create a Bitcoin address in order to receive payments digitally. Bitcoin is the world's first globally accessible public money. Is it perfect? No. Neither was email when it was invented in 1972. Bitcoin's not the best money on every margin. It's not yet accepted everywhere. It's not used often to quote prices, and it's not always a stable store of value. But it is working, and the mere fact that it works without trusted intermediaries is amazing. It's a computer science breakthrough, and it will be as significant for freedom, prosperity, and human flourishing as the birth of the internet. And Bitcoin is just the beginning. If we can replace private payments infrastructure, then we can replace other private choke points to human interaction as well. Now, why should we want to build more public infrastructure? Why should we embrace blockchains over corporate intermediaries? Why should we tolerate their inefficiencies and work to make them better? Why should we want the pioneers of this technology here in the United States and not fleeing overseas? A simple reason, because the corporate intermediaries providing today's critical but privately owned infrastructure are becoming fewer, larger, and more powerful, and their failures are increasingly grave. So roughly half of all Americans, 143 million people, had their social security numbers exposed to hackers because of a breach at Equifax. The Swift network has relayed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions because of hacked member banks in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ecuador, and Russia. The FBI suspects now that the largest of these hacks was perpetrated by North Korea. Corrupt, low-level employees at an Indian bank, Punjab National, were able to fraudulently certify Swift messages stealing 1.8 billion dollars. It's the largest electronic bank robbery in history. In fact, it's the largest bank robbery in history. In October 2016, an estimated 1.2 million internet connected devices were hacked and turned into a botnet that for several hours made prominent websites unavailable across Europe and North America, including CNN and Fox News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Increasingly, physical machines are being connected to the internet to augment their capabilities. They're wired through servers that are owned and maintained by private and trusted intermediaries, the so-called Internet of Things. Pacemakers from St. Jude's Hospital have been hacked, baby monitors from TrendNet have been hacked, and Jeeps from Jeep have been hacked to the point where they can be remotely commandeered and driven off the road. Now those vulnerabilities are inescapable in systems that have single points of failure. It doesn't matter if the point of failure is a corporation or if it's a government. There shouldn't be a single point of failure. Similar choke points existed before the internet. If you wanted to deliver a message, you'd have to go through one of three television broadcasters or a handful of newspapers. Private corporations are essential, but no critical infrastructure should rely on one or two. The internet removed single points of failure in communications infrastructure and ushered in a wave of competition among new media corporations building on top of its public rails. Blockchains can similarly disintermediate critical payments and IoT infrastructure. The technology is not yet ready to answer all of those questions today, but it is our best hope. And as with the internet in the 1990s, we need a light touch pro-innovation policy to ensure that these innovations flourish in America for the benefit and security of all Americans.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/888/001/662/086/426/original/5fe817f26f161c51.mp4

## Engagement

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- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.302Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-22T02:56:34.678Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

# Analysis: "Greatest Bitcoin Explanation of All Time" (2025-07-20)

## Overview
A minimal, low-intensity post sharing a Bitcoin-related video with a quoted superlative endorsement. This is a routine content-sharing post with negligible psychological significance.

## Authorship
Posted ~6:50 PM ET. The brevity and video-share format are ambiguous. The "Greatest X of all time" construction is a Trump signature pattern, but the clean presentation and business-hours timing are consistent with aide involvement. Mixed attribution.

## Psychological State
Routine supply-seeking through content curation. The habitual superlative ("of all time") reflects baseline grandiosity applied reflexively even to third-party content. No emotional reactivity, no injury response, no rage. This contrasts sharply with the earlier WSJ/Bessent post from the same day, which showed narcissistic injury and defensive grandiosity.

## Rhetorical Techniques
Single device: hyperbolic superlative. The use of quotation marks may indicate he is quoting someone else's assessment, lending borrowed authority while maintaining the amplification.

## Context
Consistent with Trump's pro-crypto political positioning. Sharing crypto content serves both audience maintenance and policy signaling. No direct connection to the day's major events (WSJ lawsuit, Epstein pressure, congressional DOGE bill).

## Clinical Significance
None. This post is too brief and routine for meaningful psychological inference beyond confirming baseline patterns of superlative language and self-positioning as arbiter of quality.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time" | **Unverifiable** | Subjective superlative claim about a video; not a factual assertion. |

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Authorship Analysis

**Uncertain** (score: 40%)

### Indicators

- Short quote-style post sharing video
- Superlative language ('Greatest...of all time') is consistent with Trump's style
- Evening posting time (~6:50 PM ET)
- Clean formatting suggests possible aide involvement
- But hyperbolic superlative is quintessentially Trump

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking

Sentiment: +0.50

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- curator of excellence
- implicit endorsement as value signal

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-22._

> Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time

**UNVERIFIABLE**

Subjective superlative claim about a video; not a factual assertion.

Overall Veracity: 50%

## Tags

- crypto (80%)
- video_share (90%)
- low_intensity (90%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Six-Month Victory Lap Derailed by Epstein Defense, Obama Revenge Fantasy, and Afternoon Rage Spiral**

Trump tried to make the day about celebrating six months in office, but the narrative quickly shifted to damage control over the Epstein files and an all-day campaign to relitigate the Obama-era Russia investigation. The afternoon brought the sharpest edges — a demand to prosecute Adam Schiff, dehumanizing language aimed at immigrants after a CBP officer was shot, and a pointed attack on the Wall Street Journal for suggesting his Treasury Secretary had to explain things to him. A recurring thread about restoring the Washington Redskins name escalated into a threat to withhold a government stadium deal. The overall mood was combative self-congratulation laced with defensive grievance.

Full digest for 2025-07-20: https://trump.fm/date/2025-07-20/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2025, July 20). “Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time” [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_114888005422699333
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "“Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time”" Truth Social, 20 Jul. 2025. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114888005422699333. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "“Greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time”," Truth Social, July 20, 2025, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_114888005422699333.

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