Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump recently had a two-hour long interview that covered topics such as illegal immigration, the economy, AI, and global warming. Even though the interview attracted over 1 million listeners, crypto was not mentioned during the discussion.
The interview was delayed for over 45 minutes due to what Musk claimed was a “massive distributed denial of service attack” on X, the platform where the interview took place. However, sources questioned the validity of this claim, with some suggesting that Musk may have been lying about the attack.
Interestingly, bettors on Polymarket were speculating on whether “crypto” or “bitcoin” would be mentioned during the interview. The prediction market saw over $600,000 staked on the possibility of crypto being discussed, and approximately $330,000 on the chance of bitcoin being mentioned. One user named ‘bama1234’ managed to win over $1 million by correctly predicting most of the words Trump did or did not say during the interview.
Despite crypto becoming an election issue and Trump attending a recent BTC 2024 conference to announce crypto policy, it seems that the topic remains largely unaddressed during mainstream events like this interview.
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Cheyenne Ligon, the CoinDesk news reporter covering this story, focuses on crypto regulation and policy and does not hold significant crypto holdings. For more updates on this topic, you can follow @cheyenneligon on Twitter.