This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘What crypto wants from Trump’

Michela Tindera
In early December, my colleague Chloe Cornish decided to travel to Abu Dhabi to report on a crypto conference.

Chloe Cornish
So the conference was held in the Abu Dhabi Exhibition Centre, but it was in the more glamorous part of the exhibition centre. I would say it’s the part that is next to the sea as a little harbour where there’s yachts pulled up alongside it.

Michela Tindera
As Chloe walks up to the entrance, she takes in the spectacle.

Chloe Cornish
There’s like a deejay outside and food trucks and things like that. It doesn’t have the kind of same starchy people in suits and smart shoes feel that you get…