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Trump’s Proposed 5% Remittance Tax Might Just Be Crypto’s Next Catalyst

Trump’s Proposed 5% Remittance Tax Might Just Be Crypto’s Next Catalyst

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2025-05-19 08:30:00
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Another day, another policy that could accidentally fuel crypto’s fire. Trump’s floated 5% tax on cross-border money transfers—ostensibly to ’make Mexico pay’—might achieve something far more interesting: pushing remittance users straight into Bitcoin’s open arms.

Why? Because nothing accelerates adoption like politicians creating friction in traditional finance. When Western Union starts looking like a bad deal, decentralized alternatives suddenly seem a lot more attractive.

Wall Street won’t like this one bit—watching their cut of the $800B remittance market evaporate because someone forgot to check crypto’s end-run around capital controls. But hey, that’s what happens when policy meets unintended consequences.

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