Last year, Trump promised crypto bros a seat at the table. He wasn’t lying
Last July, Donald Trump made a campaign stop that served as his crypto coming out party.
Trump, a guy who has an aide follow him around with a portable printer so he can read the internet, got onstage at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville and promised the moon to a crowd of extremely online crypto-Libertarians.
“Oh, you’re going to be very happy with me,” he said, before vowing to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”.
With the zeal of the converted, he rattled off crypto shibboleths, promising to “fire” Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler (the Biden-era bogeyman the industry loved to blame for its problems), to create a…
