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🇺🇸BREAKING: Nic Carter says the US government will break Bitcoin using quantum technology. 👀 "We will build the first quantum computer and put (those Bitcoins) in a trust." "Anybody who onwed it before the salvage can claim it back." -Nic Carter at Galaxy Digital Brains Podcast

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