Eric Trump, the American president’s second son, has been called “the top diplomat of the bitcoin nation”. Last month his mission took him to the People’s Republic of China, where he spoke in Hong Kong at Bitcoin Asia, a conference dedicated to the original cryptocurrency. What is it trading at today, he asked, while on stage: “112-113,000”. The correct answer ($110,143) was right behind him, continuously updated on a big screen.
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