Donald Trump Jr. (L), son of the US president, shakes arms with Rumble Inc.’s Chris Pavlovski throughout The Bitcoin Convention at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Could 27, 2025.
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Donald Trump Jr. (L), son of the US president, shakes arms with Rumble Inc.’s Chris Pavlovski throughout The Bitcoin Convention at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Could 27, 2025.
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In 2019, President Trump tweeted: “I’m not a fan of Bitcoin and different Cryptocurrencies.” In the present day, the Trumps are throughout crypto.
There are memecoins for Trump and the first woman. They personal a stablecoin, a bitcoin mining operation, and a crypto monetary companies firm. And, at the Bitcoin 2025 convention, Trump’s media group introduced they’re elevating 2.5 billion {dollars} from buyers to purchase bitcoin.
At that very same convention, audio system included two White Home advisors, two sons of the US president, the son of the U.S. Commerce Secretary, and a Trump appointee to the Securities and Alternate Fee. For a cryptocurrency constructed on independence from large government, this was a swerve.
So, what occurs when the President of the United States showers his love on the crypto group … whereas additionally changing into a crypto entrepreneur himself? We observe alongside as Trump Inc.‘s Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein spend three days at the Las Vegas convention middle the place convicts are cheered, oversight and regulation are booed, and the separation of crypto and state not applies.
This episode was hosted by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, and reported by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and fact-checked by Willa Rubin with assist from Emma Peaslee. It was edited by Marianne McCune. It was engineered by Maggie Luthar. Alex Goldmark is our government producer.
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