Does trump or hillary winning affect the Bitcoin industry?

[tiggytomb]

I don't think this will have any direct effect on bitcoin, not immediately anyway, I would think Trump would be positive towards bitcoin but who knows.

[Blitzboy]

Maybe yes. Trading is the important issue, 10% of the world population are the USA, which means they have to trade with other 90% because USA is the most powerful country at present. And as you can see, If Trump becomes a president, he will avoid immigrants to join America. This will affect both on the America society and economy which will influences Dollar a lot. That's why i believe there will be a big impact on bitcoin if Trump becomes the new President

[RodeoX]

I doubt either will make a difference.

Anyone else feel like me after voting today?

[Kprawn]

Hilary wrote a email about this, but it was [Deleted]   .... Joking aside... I doubt that any outcome will have a immediate effect. The changes must

still go through loads of legislation... if there would be any, from either side. They know that they cannot stop Bitcoin completely... and they know

that Bitcoin generates loads of jobs. The price will not shift more than 10% in both direction, no matter what the outcome will be.  

[reddibrek]

I doubt either will make a difference.

Anyone else feel like me after voting today?

I feel like that just watching from far away.

[kryptqnick]

"We must position American innovators to lead the world in the next generation of technology revolutions – from autonomous vehicles to machine learning to public service blockchain applications – and we must defend universal access to the global, digital marketplace of ideas."
'In April 2015, then-Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul announced he would accept bitcoin as payment for donations'
http://www.coindesk.com/presidential-candidate-hillary-clinton-pledges-support-blockchain-tech/
I think therefore that if Clinton wins, Bitcoin will be legalized more and will become more popular, whereas Trump won't do any good and hopefully won't do bad.

[Pattberry]

If Trump wins and he build the wall or blocks visas then the price of bitcoin could go up.  People can no longer send U.S. dollars to Mexico so they will be forced to use something like bitcoin.

Mexicans really do think that a win by Trump would cause harm to them and so is the reason people are turning up in huge numbers to vote against him and if Trump wins the market would be in a state of uncertainty for a while which would boost the value of bitcoin as people starts investing in bitcoin

[jondeen707]

Hilary wrote a email about this, but it was [Deleted]   .... Joking aside... I doubt that any outcome will have a immediate effect. The changes must

still go through loads of legislation... if there would be any, from either side. They know that they cannot stop Bitcoin completely... and they know

that Bitcoin generates loads of jobs. The price will not shift more than 10% in both direction, no matter what the outcome will be.  

I don't think that the outcome will have any major effect on the price either. But it looks like the tech future may be somewhat brighter if Hillary gets elected. Looks like Trump does not have a clear and coherent tech policy at all. 

[Snorek]

Mexicans really do think that a win by Trump would cause harm to them and so is the reason people are turning up in huge numbers to vote against him and if Trump wins the market would be in a state of uncertainty for a while which would boost the value of bitcoin as people starts investing in bitcoin

That is correct. People are afraid that Trump will do something radical. But truth to be told - he won't. Not when he has good political advisers like these people: https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign_key_staff_and_advisors,_2016

But at this point I don't think that Trump will win and with Hillary as president we would keep current status. Nothing will change for cryptos.

[criptix]

Some say that if Trump wins, the dollar may go lower for a while. And that would mean the Bitcoin's price vs Dollar will be better.
But actually the elections should be the end of a time frame for speculations, the Dollar should stabilize and Bitcoin would fall or start having ups and downs around a value (maybe 700$, maybe a bit lower).

Some say that if Cliton wins, we will be in WWIII very soon. I guess BTC will be worthless then. Best thing to invest is real gold barrells. Buy them and hide them. If you survive the nuclear attacks, you can use the gold to buy some nuclear wasted food.

This has already been discussed lately. Buying firearms and ammo in bulk quantities will help you much better in the case of this or similar disaster (for example, a social upheaval). Anyways, if you can't defend your gold, it will be useless. With guns and gold you will fare much better than with gold alone. That's why the possession of gold pretty well correlates with the possession of guns.

Come and take it.

Thank god (or whoever) I live in Germany, it´s almost impossible to get guns and I am very thankfull for that

Dont fred, we have one of the biggest military-industrial complex in the world.

Should ww3 break out we will get free arms delivered in less then a day.

[NeuroticFish]

I live in Romania. If WW3 starts we will have guns too.
Just they'll be Russian guns and we will be at the wrong side of them.

[UnDerDoG81]

Trump wins, BTC goes up $30, stock market crashes, Peso crashes. I hope that Trump will really change a lot of things in the world. Especially more peaceful relationship with Russia and more peace in the world. I hope all the zionist wars in the middle east will end and the zionist system will be destroyed. A long way to go. And I guess the zionists wont leave peaceful. There will be a lot of blod but humanity must get rid of these parasites for a peaceful future.

[jondeen707]

I doubt it would cause any effect on bitcoin, some may argue otherwise but imo the only thing it might do is cause a pump in price purely because the people who do the pumps dont really need much of a reason other than other people thinking the price should go up.  Although if either of these two are elected and its suspected the dollar may drop as consequence then perhaps people will move more money into btc.

I don't think it will go up or down significantly just because of the election outcome. But there's a shared sentiment that the price may go up a bit since investors in general may be selling off some assets because of Trump and a small fraction of that freed up liquidity may find its way into Bitcoin.

[BingoDog]

The US elections are not influencing the Bitcoin price. Bitcoin is not tied to politics so there is actualy no reason for this. And Bitcoin is not in politicians focus at all.
At the moment the price is on the way up again but Trump nor Hillary are not connected with this.

[MONKEYJUNK]

The price goes up last night, I think bitcoin price have relation with the presidential race however now the price will stay the same, I don't think a president can change much in the price.

[n691309]

With American Elections coming to a end, whoever wins, will Bitcoin world be affected or not? I mean can the price suddenly shoot up or down. Or they put any kind of restraints or start accepting it for local use? Could Bitcoin benefit or will it be at a disadvantage

I think that it will not affect the bitcoin industry directly but I think trump will make the u.s economy better at another level so I think in this bitcoin price will rise and be affected for good.

[20kevin20]

Unless Trump will propose a law limiting the use of Bitcoins, we're all fine. America having +300 millions of people is important to Bitcoin too. This means probably tens of thousands without Bitcoin, bringing its price and popularity down.

[TERA]

On the surface,  it may appear that Trump will have a positive effect on Bitcoin, for instance if people use it s a haven or to make remittances to Mexico.

However,  later on Trump may be very bad for Bitcoin. Trump is known to be anti Silicon Valley and anti privacy,  and pro surveillance.  He might do something like ban encryption or make computer manufacturers install surveillance hardware and crypto chips. He might appoint a special team of the world's top mathematicians and security researchers to lead the 'war on crypto and terror' as if it were Enigma.

All of Bitcoin's history of 8 prosperous years have been under Obama and liberal democrats.  Think about it.

[tee-rex]

On the surface,  it may appear that Trump will have a positive effect on Bitcoin, for instance if people use it s a haven or to make remittances to Mexico.

However,  later on Trump may be very bad for Bitcoin. Trump is known to be anti Silicon Valley and anti privacy,  and pro surveillance.  He might do something like ban encryption or make computer manufacturers install surveillance hardware and crypto chips. He might appoint a special team of the world's top mathematicians and security researchers to lead the 'war on crypto and terror' as if it were Enigma.

All of Bitcoin's history of 8 prosperous years have been under Obama and liberal democrats.  Think about it.

In fact, there is nothing to think about yet. Bitcoin has been "prosperous" only for the last 3-4 years at most, and with a varying degree of success at that. Besides, you seem to completely forget that Obama and his liberal democrats were the only ones that Bitcoin has been "under" so far. There's simply no data to make any reliable inference in this regard.

[romero121]

On the surface,  it may appear that Trump will have a positive effect on Bitcoin, for instance if people use it s a haven or to make remittances to Mexico.

However,  later on Trump may be very bad for Bitcoin. Trump is known to be anti Silicon Valley and anti privacy,  and pro surveillance.  He might do something like ban encryption or make computer manufacturers install surveillance hardware and crypto chips. He might appoint a special team of the world's top mathematicians and security researchers to lead the 'war on crypto and terror' as if it were Enigma.

All of Bitcoin's history of 8 prosperous years have been under Obama and liberal democrats.  Think about it.

Trump won't make deep interference over the digital currency network. In my view during the days of hard financial crisis over different countries bitcoin continued to grow, so trumps winning won't make big impact over bitcoin. Also US has just 10% of the world population and Asian countries were much involved into bitcoin compared to other continent countries.