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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Bitcoin or Bust: Trumpโ€™s $2.5B Bet on Crypto Treasuries

โ€œFirst Crypto Presidentโ€? Trump bets big in a financial showdown.

๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์ธ๊ฐ€, ํญํƒ„์ธ๊ฐ€: ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ๋กœ 25์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์–ด์น˜ ์œ ๋ณด๊ธˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„

โ€œ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ นโ€? ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„, ๊ธˆ์œต ์ „์Ÿ์— ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ ํŒ…์„ ๊ฑธ๋‹ค

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋งํฌ : https://forms.gle/6a6ou68a2YyLvnaMA

๐Ÿ‘‰ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๋ฌธ์˜ : https://open.kakao.com/me/insightsalon

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Trump Media just announced a staggering $2.5 billion raise to purchase bitcoin, marking one of the boldest moves into crypto by a public company. The fundsโ€”$1.5B in equity and $1B in convertible notesโ€”are set to transform the firm from a fringe social platform into a financial player holding bitcoin as a core asset.
ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ๋งค์ž…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด 25์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(์•ฝ 3.4์กฐ ์›)๋ฅผ ์œ ์น˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ์€ ์ฃผ์‹(15์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)๊ณผ ์ „ํ™˜์‚ฌ์ฑ„(10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์ž์œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ SNS์—์„œ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๊ธˆ์œต ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Bitcoin will be custodied by Anchorage Digital and Crypto.com, firms deeply embedded in the U.S. crypto infrastructure. As Trump leans harder into crypto in his 2024 campaign, the move is not just financialโ€”itโ€™s ideological. Trump Media now positions itself as a vanguard of โ€œfinancial freedom,โ€ directly challenging traditional finance.
๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์€ Anchorage Digital๊ณผ Crypto.com์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ด€๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ฃผ์š” ์•”ํ˜ธํ™” ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด์  ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ์ด๋…๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ด์ œ โ€˜๊ธˆ์œต ์ž์œ โ€™์˜ ์ „์œ„๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธˆ์œต์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Bitcoin Treasury Strategy (๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ์œ ๋ณด๊ธˆ ์ „๋žต)
    A corporate practice of holding bitcoin as a reserve asset, pioneered by MicroStrategy.
    โ†’ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์ŠคํŠธ๋ž˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ์„ ๋„ํ•œ, ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์„ ์ค€๋น„ ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋žต.

  • Convertible Notes (์ „ํ™˜์‚ฌ์ฑ„)
    Debt instruments that can be converted into equity at a future valuation.
    โ†’ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ ํ˜•ํƒœ.

  • Custody Partnership (์ปค์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ)
    Collaborations with specialized firms to securely hold crypto assets.
    โ†’ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™” ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณผ ๋งบ๋Š” ํ˜‘์—… ๊ด€๊ณ„.

  • Financial Deplatforming (๊ธˆ์œต ๋””ํ”Œ๋žซํผํ™”)
    Alleged exclusion of politically controversial entities from traditional financial services.
    โ†’ ์ •์น˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ผ๋ž€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธยท๋‹จ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€ํ–‰.

  • Bitcoin Standard (๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ฒด์ œ)
    A financial vision where bitcoin is used as a core reference asset like gold or the U.S. dollar.
    โ†’ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์„ ๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธˆ์œต ์ฒด๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ์ƒ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Trump Media's pivot signals how "alternative finance" is going mainstream. While most companies opt for cash reserves or stable bonds, DJT is embracing crypto volatility as strategic armor.
ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์€ โ€˜๋Œ€์•ˆ ๊ธˆ์œตโ€™์ด ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜๋กœ ํŽธ์ž…๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ฑ„๊ถŒ์„ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, DJT๋Š” ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”ํ์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์„ ์ „๋žต์  ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This move also reflects a redefinition of what "safe asset" means. Bitcoin, once viewed as speculative, is now framed as protection against what Trump allies see as systemic bias from legacy banks. The ideological battle over financial autonomy is entering Wall Street.
์ด์ œ โ€˜์•ˆ์ „์ž์‚ฐโ€™์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ •์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ํˆฌ๊ธฐ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์กŒ๋˜ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์ด, ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ง„์˜์—์„œ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต ๊ธˆ์œต์˜ ํŽธํ–ฅ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ hard asset strategy (์‹ค๋ฌผ์ž์‚ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ์ „๋žต)
"This is a hard asset strategy with ideological roots."
"์ด๊ฑด ์ด๋…์ด ๊น”๋ฆฐ โ€˜์‹ค๋ฌผ์ž์‚ฐโ€™ ์ „๋žต์ด๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ exit the fiat system (๋ฒ•์ • ํ™”ํ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์—์„œ ์ดํƒˆ)
"They want to exit the fiat system entirely."
"๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฒ•์ •ํ™”ํ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์•„์˜ˆ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ financial dissidents (๊ธˆ์œต ๋ฐ˜์ฒด์ œ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค)
"Trump Media appeals to financial dissidents alienated by big banks."
"ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์€ํ–‰์— ์†Œ์™ธ๋œ ๊ธˆ์œต ๋ฐ˜์ฒด์ œ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ์ค€๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ bitcoin play (๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ํ–‰๋ณด/์ „๋žต)
"Trumpโ€™s bitcoin play is shaking up how political campaigns think about treasuries."
"ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ํ–‰๋ณด๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์—์„œ์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ ์ „๋žต์„ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Mainstream media such as CNBC and Bloomberg described the transaction as an โ€œideological financial experimentโ€ and warned of high risks. At the same time, conservative communities praised Trumpโ€™s move as a countermeasure against perceived financial discrimination.
CNBC, Bloomberg ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ "์ด๋…์  ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹คํ—˜"์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ํ–‰๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์œต ํƒ„์••์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ '๋Œ€์•ˆ ํ™•๋ณด'์œผ๋กœ ๊ธ์ • ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

A political platform backing a bitcoin investmentโ€”itโ€™s not a revolution, but it is a signal.
์ •์น˜์  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€. ํ˜๋ช…์€ ์•„๋‹์ง€๋ผ๋„, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… July 27, 2024 โ€“ Trump attends Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville
2024๋…„ 7์›” 27์ผ โ€“ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„, ๋‚ด์Šˆ๋นŒ์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฐ Bitcoin 2024์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋น„ํŠธ์ฝ”์ธ ์ง€์ง€ ํ–‰๋ณด ๊ฐ•ํ™”

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  1. โ€œDJT shares fall 10% as Trump Media says itโ€™s raising $2.5 billion to buy bitcoinโ€ (CNBC, 2025)

  2. โ€œTrump Media turns to bitcoin as core treasury assetโ€ (Bloomberg, 2025)

  3. โ€œCrypto.com, Anchorage to custody Trumpโ€™s BTC playโ€ (Coindesk, 2025)

  4. โ€œFinancial freedom or financial theater?โ€ (The Guardian, 2025)

  5. โ€œTrump and the rise of parallel financeโ€ (The Atlantic, 2025)

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