Internet reports that at the Consensus 2025 conference in Toronto, Eric Trump, son of US President Donald Trump, said: "I really believe that Bitcoin is digital gold... I believe it is a store of value." He pointed out that it was "when the same group of people who attacked my family also started attacking the crypto community" that he became associated with the crypto community. He also mentioned: "I also realize some limitations of real estate... real estate cannot be transferred and it is very difficult to sell... You need to constantly manage it." In contrast,"You suddenly have this digital asset, you don't have to watch it, you don't need to manage it, and it's easy to trade." Eric Trump is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin, which plans to go public through a merger with Gryphon Digital Mining.