In the world of Trump, crypto and orange-pilant of government: planet money: NPR

In 2019, President Trump tweeted: “I’m not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.” Today, trumps are everywhere on crypto.

There are guys for Trump and the First Lady. They have a stablecoin, a bitcoin extraction operation and a cryptographic financial services company. And, at the Bitcoin 2025 conference, Trump’s media group announced that they were collecting $ 2.5 billion from investors to buy Bitcoin.

During this same conference, the speakers included two advisers from the White House, two sons of the American president, the son of the American trade secretary and one appointed by Trump at the Securities and Exchange Commission. For a cryptocurrency built on the independence of the great government, it was a distance.

So what happens when the President of the United States presents his love on the cryptographic community … while becoming a cryptographic entrepreneur himself? We follow as Trump Inc.He is spending three days at the Las Vegas Conference Center where the convicts are acclaimed, surveillance and regulations are hummed in Las Vegas Conference Center, and the separation of the crypto and the State no longer applies.

This episode was organized by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, and reported by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein. It was produced by Sam Yellods Kesler and verified by fact by Willa Rubin with the help of Emma Peaslee. He was published by Marianne McCune. It was designed by Maggie Luthar. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

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