. you meet a girl or guy and they tell you how great you are. so grate that you deserve to be even greater and they know how to make you even greater. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams explores the clash between online dating and crypto scams. reporter: steve belcher of concern vereentally divorced and single again found someone on a dating app that seemed like a good match. after several weeks of messaging, she mentioned bit coin. he didn t want to miss out on another hot prospect after failing to cash in on apple and google. i was wow, if i wanted to get in earlier on these technologies and businesses i would have done okay in my life. reporter: he started sending money and getting payouts him. he poured more and more in, the website showed his bundle ballooning as high as $8
big massive ambitions and people do love him. people appreciate him. i gave a speech at a college on friday and i mentioned two names that the crowd went crazy on. i m talking alumni, students, people from the town, michael say laura big time guy in bit coin putting his money where his mouth is and elon musk, standing ovation. america does want someone like this to remind us what america is all about. ainsley: even if he buys even more shares, how will he have any weight on how twitter runs its company? typically, if you own 25% of a company, you own the company. you know, because the rest of the stock is so diluted that when things come up for votes, he will be able to put board members on and everything. we have seen hostile takeovers with a lot less holdings than he already has. if he buys more, game on. ainsley: promising. i m excited. thanks. ainsley: we will be watching your show making money. it s on fox business every weekday at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. 44 minutes afte
cryptocurrency. a small crowdfunding s orvis that uses bit coin. it not controlled by banks. no government can pressure anyone to turn the money over. bitcoin goes from person a2 person b. it is pretty appealing. you can imagine the long-term consequences here. if the people in charge in this country and in canada want to make the u.s. dollar of relevant, they will keep acting like this and soon it will be. either way, it is becoming very clear that the only way around the stranglehold that technology has on or human rights is decentralization beer that doesn t apply to crowdfunding, but more than anything to communication. you can t organize and talk to other people. facebook has shut down the convoy to d.c. group which amassed more than hundred 40,000 followers in just two days.
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they need entrepreneurs unfortunately that i don t think it s going to work out. dan: got about 30 seconds left but my biggest concern about government digital conservancy is they can survey out pretty much everything they do and implement negative interest rates and then you can t get your money out of the bank because it s digital. does that worry you as well? anytime the government gets involved, i get paranoid. talk of government produces a lot of met paranoia for me. this has been something i ve been concerned about for a long time. the people in the community, people say finally it will bring up regulations we can see, there s a community i m upset they are doing trying to control, it s going to take a lot to figure out what angles they take but canada tries to do what they could with a bit coin to try to control and set it decentralized, you can t do