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The crypto industry is making its mark on this year's elections to the tune of some $119 million.

The funding has largely come from two companies — Coinbase and Ripple — which are funneling money into super PACs like Fairshake PAC, which is dedicated to "elevating pro-crypto candidates and attacking crypto skeptics," according to Public Citizen.

At the 2024 bitcoin conference in Nashville in February, Trump — who called bitcoin "highly volatile and based on thin air" in 2019 — said he'd lay out a plan "to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the bitcoin superpower of the world." Trump has already won the backing of several crypto enthusiasts, including his running mate JD Vance, who owns at least $250,000 in bitcoin.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Weird that the anti crime criminal is promoting crime coin, or not weird at all. Republican party has for years campaigned on fires they started (see debt, immigration, economy, etc)

I guess supporting something whose only legitimate uses are digital theft, money laundering, and buying human trafficking victims are their way of ensuring cartels won't ever stop existing

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Weird that the anti crime criminal is promoting crime coin

Crypto is a painfully both-sides affair, what with the enormous volumes of investor cash flooding the election system. This went back to JP Morgan's backing of Etherium during the Obama administration, with crypto-bros infesting multiple Fed banks and throwing their own batch of state and federal office holders at the wall. Then Scam Bankrupt Greed's FTX went big and straight up bought out Senators Cynthia Lummis and Catherine Gillibrand to write crypto-friendly regulatory reforms. His bank imploded before that legislation could worm its way through Congress.

But now they're back and with even more obscene piles of cash. Mistaking the Crypto-bros as uniquely Republican is going to bit liberals in the ass biggly. You're going to start finding crypto investments in your pension funds, your 401ks, and your college trusts very soon, if the Newsome Imperium and the Bloomberg banksters are allowed to ram their novelty tech innovation bills through Congress uninhibited.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Newsom is largely centrist, its less that crypto is party aligned and more that its corruption aligned - the republicans are just more corrupt on average.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Newsom is largely centrist

He's absolutely buried within the Silicon Valley lobbying community and has repeatedly wielded his gubernatorial power to quash pro-labor and pro-regulatory legislation on those grounds.

the republicans are just more corrupt on average

California Democrats are a stone's throw away from any Midwestern Republican when it comes to "business friendly" state policies. The only thing either group cares about is economic growth.

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah because you definitely can't do any of that with cash.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I do all my digital theft in cash

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

How about the other things you listed?

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