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Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on Wednesday to discuss how they should be regulated—a potential make-or-break moment for nascent industries that have struggled to establish themselves as credible and legal.
As it happens, Trump himself is a crypto and prediction-market leader. The president and his adult children are major investors in both industries.
In the past, presidents have divested from their business interests while serving, or have taken pains to distance themselves from any…
