Donald Trump

Elon Musk

On Aug. 12, X owner Elon Musk said there appeared to be a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on the micro-blogging platform, “working on shutting it down.”
A DDOS attack aims to disrupt a website or service by flooding the network with spurious traffic in an effort to prevent users from accessing the site.
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 “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what president Trump has to say and so, but I’m honored to have this conversation,” he said.
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 There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.
 Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823152153445404990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">August 13, 2024</a>
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<h2 id="trump-speech-attacked">Trump Speech Attacked?</h2>
The alleged attack coincided with a joint X Spaces event hosting a conversation between Musk and former President Donald Trump scheduled for 8 pm Eastern Time.
The highly anticipated discussion, which had been promoted by both parties, was intended to mark the presidential candidate’s return to X.&nbsp;Musk reported that the system had already been tested earlier that day.
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 “We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today.”
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After which, he <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823154463831728628" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-wpel-link="external">added</a> that the X Spaces event would proceed with a smaller number of concurrent listeners at 20:30 ET, and then they would post the unedited audio immediately thereafter.
On Aug. 13, Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823212033816584201" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-wpel-link="external">said</a> that “almost all of the legacy media will trash the Trump conversation, thus driving total listeners probably past 200+ million.”
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 It will blow up even more tomorrow <a href="https://t.co/2Co49tzce5" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/2Co49tzce5</a>
 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1823218291097395334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">August 13, 2024</a>
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Trump returned to X on Aug. 12 where he posted for the first time since January 2021, when he was banned from the platform.&nbsp;Over the past three years, he has switched to primarily posting on his own social media platform, Truth Social.
<h2 id="no-mention-of-crypto">No Mention of Crypto</h2>
During the event, Trump recounted his assassination attempt in detail and spoke about immigration. There were no mentions of crypto or Elon Musk’s <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/dogecoin-spikes-14-on-latest-elon-musk-endorsement/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">affinity for Dogecoin</a> (DOGE).
In general, Trump’s friendly interview with Musk did not reveal any new information about the former president’s thinking or his plans should he win a second term in November’s election.
However, Trump has been very <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/donald-trump-says-bitcoin-will-likely-overtake-gold-one-day-live-at-bitcoin-2024/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">vocal</a> about Bitcoin recently, pledging not to sell any of the U.S. Treasury’s stash should he get elected.
Even rival Kamala Harris has acknowledged crypto voters with the <a href="https://cryptopotato.com/harris-campaign-targets-crypto-voters-with-new-industry-advocacy-group/" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">formation</a> of a new advocacy group called “Crypto for Harris” last week.
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