What to know about Trump’s cryptocurrency plans and a potential conflict of interest

Paul Solman:

And Bitcoin is supposed to be even scarcer than gold, as there’s an absolute limit to the supply, unlike government currencies like the dollar, which can suffer inflation, and in cases like Germany in 1923 and Zimbabwe and Venezuela more recently, hyperinflation.

Plus, all transactions are publicly displayed on something called a blockchain, tracked on every computer that uses the software.