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When President Donald Trump addresses the nation from Capitol Hill on Tuesday, he’ll get the first opportunity to sell Americans and Congress on his new proposal that the US needs to create a strategic reserve of cryptocurrency.
It’s a plan – unveiled Sunday in a pair of social media posts more than an hour apart – that will raise obvious questions of conflict of interest, both for Trump and his crypto czar, and could also feed into a brewing conspiracy about Fort Knox.
The first…
