"By harnessing the greed and corruption of the Trump family and its cronies, as well as many Democrats, the #cryptoIndustry has assembled a juggernaut of power that aims to revolutionize the financial system to place #crypto and their businesses at the center of #finance, not just in the United States but throughout the globe. The most immediate economic risk of this is the prospect of a crypto-induced financial crisis..."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-crypto-chokehold/
#cryptoLobby #USpol #economy #financialBubbles

Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/

"Wealthy #crypto executives and investors supported #Trump and other Republicans with millions of dollars in campaign donations. Now, they aim to cash in."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-crypto-bitcoin-corruption/
#USpol #USpolitics #TrumpCabinet #cronyism #CronyCapitalism #2024election #CryptoLobby #tech #SiliconValleyRight

I break down yet another poll out of the cryptocurrency industry. This one, via the Paradigm crypto-focused venture capital firm, is focused on Democratic voters. It claims that Democratic politicians, including Harris, need to embrace crypto to attract voters. Is the poll any good?

https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/paradigm-democrat-poll/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CryptoLobby

Some extracts from my pinned toot concerning the ways in which #Uniswap is a particularly diabolical means of capital extraction devised by #TheNerdReich bros of #a16z, #SequoiaCapital, and the rest (and their obscenely well paid and equally obscenely dishonest lawyers) and how the capital being extracted is currently being funneled into the 2024 election.

(The specifics of the electoral corruption are better documented by @molly0xfff; this is more an in depth explainer of the mechanics of one of The Nerd Reich's more effective grifts.)

#MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich