Crypto currency thread

[Winehole23]

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[CosmicCowboy]

strategy is now 6 billion+ underwater

[Winehole23]

previous Bitcoin bear markets lasted ~300 days, we're ~150 days into this one


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[CosmicCowboy]

Folks are dumping IBIT shares which means Blackrock has to dump too.

This is a slow motion trainwreck

[CosmicCowboy]

102 million IBIT shares have traded in the first 1-1/2 hours of trading. Normal volume is 66 million all day.

[CosmicCowboy]

Bitcoin trades 24 hours and for ordinary investors the stock market opens at 9:30 eastern and closes at 4 eastern. There may be a mad dash from the bitcoin ETF's right before the close if bitcoin is still dropping like a rock.

[Winehole23]

Bessent already nixed a public bailout, but that won't stop people from asking


SOME GOP LAWMAKERS PUSH TREASURY TO BUY BITCOIN Senator Cynthia Lummis has suggested Bessent buy Bitcoin using U.S. gold reserves. She told reporters last year she raised the idea with him and would support action under existing executive authority.

[Winehole23]

The Trump rally is over


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[Winehole23]

Michael Burry sees the possibility of cascading destruction




“Sickening scenarios have now come within reach,” Burry wrote. Should Bitcoin fall another 10%, Strategy Inc., the world’s largest corporate crypto treasury, would be billions in the red and “find capital markets essentially closed.” Additional drops, he said, would push Bitcoin miners toward bankruptcy.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-burry-warns-cascading-effects-001910407.html

[CosmicCowboy]

Wino, you were joking yasterday about buying in at 50. At this rate it could be in the 50's by sundown.

[Winehole23]

62.74K at 6pm, down ~14% on the day


The event centers on the quarterly financial performance of Strategy Capital, a prominent digital asset investment firm. According to the provided data, the firm concluded the fourth quarter of 2025 with a net loss of $47 million. The primary driver of this loss was the severe downturn in the price of Bitcoin during that period. The firm’s key investment vehicle, the Strategy Digital Asset Fund, mirrored this downturn, recording a 24.7% loss in Q4 2025. The timeline is specific to this quarterly reporting period, with no further granular detail provided on exact dates within the quarter or immediate precipitating events for the Bitcoin price tumble


The provided source material does not describe a technical breach, smart contract flaw, or software failure. The mechanism of loss is purely financial and market-driven. The analysis indicates a direct correlation between the market price of Bitcoin and the valuation of Strategy Capital‘s holdings. There is no information concerning legal consequences, appeals, court rulings, or new regulations stemming from this specific loss. The event is presented as a result of market exposure rather than operational or legal failure.


The source data does not describe any breach of trust related to data privacy, security exploits, or custodial failure. The impact on the digital asset sector, as framed by the available facts, is related to investment performance and risk perception.


Based exclusively on the provided financial data, the fallout from Strategy’s stunning Q4 loss is quantifiable and direct. The firm sustained a $47 million net loss, with its flagship fund declining by 24.7% in a single quarter. This outcome was precipitated entirely by market conditions, specifically a Bitcoin price tumble. The verdict is a neutral confirmation of significant financial impairment due to concentrated asset exposure, providing a clear case study on the material impact of crypto market volatility on institutional investors.

https://cryptopulsenow.xyz/strategy-capital-q4-loss/

[ChumpDumper]

2019518083627643339

https://x.com/MaMoMVPY/status/2019518083627643339

[Winehole23]

tangent:

Amazon down 4.4%

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[Winehole23]

tangent:

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[Winehole23]

just my silly opinion maybe, it's inappropriate as well as improper for presidents to be advising the public about financial products they have a direct financial interest in


But Fink’s new optimism about digital assets isn’t coincidental; it actually mirrors that of President Donald Trump’s August 7, 2025 executive order (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/democratizing-access-to-alternative-assets-for-401k-investors/), which explicitly opened 401(k) plans to “holdings in actively managed investment vehicles that are investing in digital assets.”


The order's logic is straightforward: wealthy Americans and government workers access alternative investments through pension plans, but 90 million Americans in employer-sponsored retirement plans don't. “My Administration will relieve the regulatory burdens and litigation risk that impede American workers' retirement accounts from achieving the competitive returns and asset diversification necessary to secure a dignified, comfortable retirement,” the order states.


The 2025 State of the Crypto Holders Report from the National Cryptocurrency Association found that 76% of users say crypto has had a positive impact on their lives, underscoring its move from niche experiment to mainstream asset class.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyaevans/2025/10/14/trumps-401k-bitcoin-order-what-it-means-for-retirement-portfolios/

[Winehole23]

just my silly opinion maybe, it's inappropriate as well as improper for presidents to be advising the public about financial products they have a direct financial interest in


But Fink’s new optimism about digital assets isn’t coincidental; it actually mirrors that of President Donald Trump’s August 7, 2025 executive order (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/democratizing-access-to-alternative-assets-for-401k-investors/), which explicitly opened 401(k) plans to “holdings in actively managed investment vehicles that are investing in digital assets.”


The order's logic is straightforward: wealthy Americans and government workers access alternative investments through pension plans, but 90 million Americans in employer-sponsored retirement plans don't. “My Administration will relieve the regulatory burdens and litigation risk that impede American workers' retirement accounts from achieving the competitive returns and asset diversification necessary to secure a dignified, comfortable retirement,” the order states.


The 2025 State of the Crypto Holders Report from the National Cryptocurrency Association found that 76% of users say crypto has had a positive impact on their lives, underscoring its move from niche experiment to mainstream asset class.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyaevans/2025/10/14/trumps-401k-bitcoin-order-what-it-means-for-retirement-portfolios/

[Winehole23]

Binance's stablecoin boosts DJT's income

Trump pardoned its co-founder last year


World Liberty Financial, which launched in September 2024, was “inspired by the vision of Donald J. Trump” and lists him as its co-founder emeritus, alongside co-founders Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Barron Trump. An LLC affiliated with Trump and some family members owns about 38% of World Liberty Financial and 22.5 billion $WLFI tokens and the LLC is entitled to 75% of the proceeds from sales of $WLFI, per the small print on its website. Trump reported making $57.4 million (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/06/14/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-earnings-financial-disclosure/) from World Liberty Financial on his latest financial disclosure (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/President-Donald-J.-Trump.pdf), which appears to cover the 12 months ending in December 2024, income he receives through the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. He is its sole donor and beneficiary, while Donald Trump Jr. serves as the trustee. The Trump Organization confirmed in an April regulatory filing in the United Kingdom that Trump retains contro (https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/05/06/trump-organization-admits-president-still-controls-his-business-in-new-filing/)l over his businesses while in office.https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoin-usd1-binance-holds-87-percent/

[Winehole23]

Binance told Forbes its involvement with USD1 is similar to what it provides for other cryptocurrencies, “it is not uncommon for large exchanges to hold large amounts of certain tokens,” and there is no connection between Zhao’s pardon and Binance’s promotions of USD1; World Liberty Financial called the promotions “standard practice” and said any suggestions Binance can influence the company are “patently false;” Zhao’s attorney called the pardon an effort to “rectify an injustice;” and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never and will never engage in conflicts of interest.

[Winehole23]

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[Millennial_Messiah]

Binance and CZ are 100% fraudsters, but the Democrats are buttheads for not voting for the Clarity act.....

Anyone regardless of political party who is lobbying and shilling for the loathsome big banks at this point should be shot dead, without second thought. It's obstruction of free market capitalism to save a dinosaur industry from free and fair competition over stablecoin interest yields.

It's long overdue time for the dirty, greedy jewish Rothschild industrial big bank complex to get a taste of their own poison that they've been feeding the system for over a century.

Occupy Wall Street. Defund Israel. Defund AIPAC. Free Palestine. Death to the Big Money Jew.

[Winehole23]

again with the Jew-hating, this is your new thing

[Winehole23]

pay for play


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https://popular.info/p/days-after-5m-donation-trump-administration

[Winehole23]

$1.7B got funneled to Iran via Binance in 2024-2025

Binance fired its internal investigators and declared itself free of sanctions violations


A group of internal investigators at the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html) made a series of startling discoveries last year.


People in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance platform over the previous year. About $1.7 billion had flowed from two Binance accounts to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions. And one of those accounts belonged to a Binance vendor.


After uncovering the transactions, the investigators reported them to top executives, according to company records and other documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Within weeks, Binance fired or suspended at least four employees involved in the investigation, according to the documents and three people with knowledge of the situation. The company cited issues such as “violations of company protocol” related to the handling of client data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html

[Winehole23]

starts WW3, holds a bribery shindig to prop up his foundering sh!tcoin


The top 297 holders of President Trump's memecoin will be invited to an exclusive gala at Mar-a-Lago. One investor has already bought $7 million worth of $TRUMP for a seat at the table.https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-03-13-2026/card/trump-s-meme-coin-rallies-as-investors-chase-mar-a-lago-invites-Nvjf2JyK6FOntnfXXNkF

[Winehole23]

:lol

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/crypto-billionaire-sues-trump-linked-project-alleging-extortion

[CosmicCowboy]

With the crypto price yoyo up and down it's tempting to buy IBIT when bitcoin drops to $66,000 and sell it when it hits $76,000 and rinse and repeat.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

"heads we win, tails you lose"


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[Winehole23]

Trump seldom loses a chance to use public office to steer money into his own pocket


UFC Gives Trump Crypto Venture An Interest-Free Loan—

1. UFC gives World Liberty cash

2. World Liberty gives fighters USD1

3. World Liberty invests UFC’s cash in Treasuries and pockets the interest.


White House spokesman Davis Ingle said there is no conflict of interest and that Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children. “The Fake News’ continued attempts to fabricate conflicts of interest are irresponsible and reinforce the public’s distrust in what they read.”

The fight is not linked to Freedom 250, a separate organization promoting the 250th anniversary of the country.

World Liberty Financial, a Delaware-based cryptocurrency venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons in 2024 alongside the Witkoff sons , has emerged as one of the highest-profile businesses connected to the president’s family.

At one point, Trump Sr was publicly listed by the company as its “Chief Crypto Advocate”.

His financial disclosure form lists his holdings in World Liberty Financial as “over $50m ”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/white-house-ufc-fighters-crypto

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Inflection point seems to be June 12th -- the day of the SpaceX IPO


MIM (Magic Internet Money) stablecoin price in purple.

Strategy perpetual preferred (STRC) stock price in green.


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https://bsky.app/profile/tobyn.bsky.social/post/3mp5ayyubpc2r

[Winehole23]

selling Bitcoin to buy SpaceX

"The Great Brotation"?

[Winehole23]

"I do not take a salary"


President Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto, digital tokens and related partnerships in 2025, appearing to have substantially increased his income after reentering the White House last year.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/30/trump-earned-over-1-billion-cryptocurrency-coin-ventures-last-year/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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Trump “reported more crypto-related income last year than any publicly traded US digital-asset company earned.”www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/trump-s-1-4-billion-haul-makes-him-biggest-us-crypto-moneymaker)

[Winehole23]

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[Facts]

With the crypto price yoyo up and down it's tempting to buy IBIT when bitcoin drops to $66,000 and sell it when it hits $76,000 and rinse and repeat.

Quantum computing will very soon find it trivially easy to break the encryption schemes that comprise crypto-currency.

When that happens the value of crypto will fall to practically zero, because the criminals that comprise the majority of real demand for them will flee the medium.

[Facts]

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His ankles are not swollen enough in this picture.

[Winehole23]

Quantum computing will very soon find it trivially easy to break the encryption schemes that comprise crypto-currency.

When that happens the value of crypto will fall to practically zero, because the criminals that comprise the majority of real demand for them will flee the medium.Sounds interesting, got a link?

[Winehole23]

His ankles are not swollen enough in this picture.not derogatory enough for you?

:lol

[Winehole23]

Eric Trump encourages HODLers to HODL after a reverse 15-1 stock split


American Bitcoin Corp shares hit an all-time low Wednesday, erasing more than $600 million from Eric Trump's stake as competitors that pivoted to AI averaged 60% gains against ABTC's 77% plunge.https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/eric-trump-said-just-hold-173104822.html

[Facts]

Eric Trump encourages HODLers to HODL after a reverse 15-1 stock split

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/eric-trump-said-just-hold-173104822.html

Current costs to mine new bitcoin is approximately 70,000 dollars each.

Its trading price has been below this for over a month.

[Facts]

Sounds interesting, got a link?

I am not some random guy you can just demand a link from.

HA.

Q-day is the term you should search for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTM95-gZtOs

[ChumpDumper]

I am not some random guy you can just demand a link from.Sure you are.

[Blake]

I am not some random guy you can just demand a link from.

HA.

Q-day is the term you should search for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTM95-gZtOs

But you'll post a YouTube instead

[Winehole23]

I am not some random guy you can just demand a link from.

HA.

you are some random guy, tbh

HA

[Facts]

Sure you are.

Indeed I am some random guy.

[Facts]

you are some random guy, tbh

HA

kinda wish I knew what my main account password was. Forgot this account even existed. Fun schtick though.

[Facts]

But you'll post a YouTube instead

...Which comes in the form of a.... wait for it.... clickable link.

[Facts]

"heads we win, tails you lose"

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/

Pure grift.

I often wondered what the outcome would be of the American tendency to worship materialism.

This is it. A grift culture to rival that of the russian empire, a pure Kleptocracy.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate bitcoin BTC $63,177.02 (https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin) holder, reported (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050446/000162828026051027/mstr-20260730x8kxex991.htm) Thursday an $8.2 billion second-quarter net loss after the cryptocurrency’s price decline erased billions of dollars from the value of its digital asset holdings.


The quarterly loss was driven almost entirely by an $8.32 billion unrealized markdown on its bitcoin holdings under fair-value accounting.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/30/strategy-books-usd8-2-billion-second-quarter-loss-on-bitcoin-price-decline

[Winehole23]

During the World Cup soccer final in New Jersey last month, Zach Witkoff, co-founder of President Trump’s cryptocurrency company, took in the action from a luxury suite. Joining him was a man who had made the president, and all the company’s co-founders, much richer.


Two years earlier, the man, Guren “Bobby” Zhou, was a failed hardwood flooring retailer in Britain who had come under investigation there for money laundering and presided over the collapse of a small crypto start-up.


Then seemingly out of nowhere, he became one of the biggest buyers of tokens from Mr. Trump’s company, World Liberty Financial, dropping a total of $100 million through a new firm called Aqua 1. He kept quiet about it for months, other than speaking briefly as “Mr. Bobby” from Aqua 1 during a little-noticed audio stream on X.


“We’re very proud to be a major player in the World Liberty, which is Trump’s family’s crypto venture,” he said.



In any prior era, a windfall for the president of that size from a foreigner with no public signs of access to that level of wealth would have certainly gone against norms and might have spawned a congressional investigation.


Instead, the curious case of Mr. Zhou illustrates the ease with which buyers with unknown backgrounds and motivations can use the anonymity of cryptocurrency to shower Mr. Trump with money. The president’s recent financial disclosure form shows that he collected $1.4 billion from his crypto businesses last year, the majority of it from anonymous sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/us/politics/bobby-zhou-trump-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4FA._SDl.vfygu soAmQxL&smid=nytcore-android-share

[Winehole23]

our shady af president has some shady af financial backers


Patrick Prinz, the chief operating officer of Recoveris (https://recoveris.io/), a Switzerland-based firm that investigates digital asset crimes, said a combination of the red flags described to him by The New York Times should have triggered the documentation requirement: Mr. Zhou’s business failures, his sudden access to wealth, the size of the transaction and the investigation.

David Wachsman, a spokesman for World Liberty, said in a statement that the company had followed all applicable laws and regulations. “World Liberty maintains a compliance program that meets or exceeds industry standards,” he said.

[Winehole23]

titanic corruption


The president’s recent financial disclosure form shows that he collected $1.4 billion from his crypto businesses last year, the majority of it from anonymous sources.

[Winehole23]

not bothering to hide his own corruption/self-dealing is one of Trump's superpowers


President Trump gathered cryptocurrency executives, crypto lobbyists, and their federal regulators at the White House on Wednesday to advance policies benefiting an industry that has become a major source of income for his family—including companies that directly do business with his crypto ventures.

Today’s session preceded the inaugural meeting of the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee, or IAC, to be held Thursday—a 35-member body that includes not only crypto titans, but also prediction market companies with financial ties to Donald Trump Jr.

Many of the companies at today’s meeting have made large donations to the Trump–Vance inaugural committee, his super PAC MAGA Inc., or the White House ballroom project that is one of the president’s top priorities.

https://readsludge.com/2026/08/20/trump-convenes-white-house-crypto-meeting-with-his-own-business-partners/

[ChumpDumper]

He asked them if there is another rug he can pull somewhere.

[Winehole23]

Trump 2.0 is a criminal enterprise, any subsequent transfer of power should reflect that

[Winehole23]

UAE backs Trump's new crypto bank


The Abu Dhabi (https://www.wsj.com/topics/place/abu-dhabi) royal sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh” is a major shareholder backing a new U.S. bank the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture is preparing to launch, according to people familiar with the matter.


Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan and co-investors are behind an entity that owns the largest stake—49%—in the holding company that World Liberty Financial created to house its banking venture, according to people familiar with the matter. The sheikh last year backed a $500 million investment (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8?mod=article_inline) into World Liberty Financial in exchange for a 49% stake in the company, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-familys-new-crypto-bank-is-backed-by-abu-dhabi-sheikh-38579473

[Winehole23]

Ethics experts said the timing of the new banking venture is significant because the expansion of Trump’s business relationship with a foreign government official is taking place while he is a sitting president—and at a time when his administration was actively negotiating with the U.A.E…

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Blue-coded rug pull

$LAPTOP


Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme Coin

The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital tokenhttps://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/hunter-biden-and-his-laptop-enter-the-cryptosphere-with-new-meme-coin-4d46fc9c

[Winehole23]

Milkshake Duck Coin

[Winehole23]

Trump crime family positions itself to cash out of WLF


President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to cash out the digital “tokens” created by the family’s cryptocurrency firm, intensifying concerns from ethics experts about potential conflicts of interest.

On May 19, four anonymous digital wallets simultaneously moved more than 20 billion in $WLFI — one of the two crypto “tokens” launched by the Trumps’ firm — to a vesting contract. The new contract kicks off a waiting period after which the accounts are able to sell their holdings.

One of the exchanges was for the precise amount of crypto that Trump was awarded when setting up the firm, World Liberty Financial, which he controls. Three of the others match precisely the amount of crypto given to other relatives of the president. Trump’s sons — Don Jr., Eric, and Barron — are the only other family members who have been identified as founders.

The change to the holdings has not been previously reported. In a statement to The Washington Sun, Eric Hageman, a partner at a law firm representing World Liberty Financial, said that new governance rules approved by the company required its founders to move the tokens to a vesting contract and denied that the new vesting contract represented a first step toward a sale of the tokens.https://www.washingtonsun.com/donald-trump/trump-family-crypto-world-liberty-financial-vesting

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didn't want to get locked in to a deteriorating position


While their value would decline if sold, the tokens owned by the family are currently valued at more than $1 billion. The president has already reported more than $550 million in income from sale of World Liberty Financial tokens, while retail investors have lost $1 billion from their investments in the company, according to an analysis by a blockchain company.


Hageman said the founders were obligated to remove 10% of their $WLFI holdings from circulation, and that “the only way” to do so was to move them into a vesting contract. Wachsman also said that “all” the co-founders of the company agreed to the “overwhelmingly popular governance proposal.”


The company’s latest governance rules, approved on May 6, state that founders “will have the option to elect less favorable unlock terms or remain locked indefinitely.” Before the transfers, the crypto tokens were considered “locked” and could not be moved. After the transfers, the tokens can be sold after a vesting period.


Additionally, the governance document states the conditions of the vesting contract apply “if” founders “opt in.” It adds that if a founder “does not affirmatively accept this new vesting schedule, their tokens will not be burned and they will continue to have their tokens locked indefinitely.” The tokens can be used to vote on World Liberty Financial’s governance.

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Trump’s personal allotment of 14.175 billion in $WLFI tokens has a current market value of roughly $1 billion, though that would surely plummet if the president tried to sell them. The other three accounts, appearing to belong to Trump’s sons, each contain roughly 2.75 billion in $WLFI tokens, which would likely be worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the event of a sale.

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The opportunity to use Trump’s crypto firm to buy influence with the White House has raised alarms. Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun bought $75 million in $WLFI tokens, after which the Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed an outstanding civil fraud lawsuit against Sun and his businesses. Four days before Trump’s inauguration, a firm backed by top officials in the United Arab Emirates also purchased a 49% stake in the family crypto firm.

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The opportunity to use Trump’s crypto firm to buy influence with the White House has raised alarms. Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun bought $75 million in $WLFI tokens, after which the Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed an outstanding civil fraud lawsuit against Sun and his businesses. Four days before Trump’s inauguration, a firm backed by top officials in the United Arab Emirates also purchased a 49% stake in the family crypto firm.

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lol hunter biden

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/hunter-biden-lashes-out-after-laptop-meme-coin-collapse

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Trump solicits more crypto bribes


In a new page on its website, GetTrumpMemes.com, the crypto firm promises (https://gettrumpmemes.com/gala-dinner) invitations to “an evening with 3 Legends and President Donald J. Trump” for the 185 largest holders of the “Trump Coin.” (The number of “legends” promised dropped from four to three on Wednesday.) The top 29 purchasers will be invited to an additional “VIP Reception with YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT,” while the four biggest will also receive an 18-karat Trump-branded gold watch.


Trump’s “meme coin” has been the most lucrative of the multiple crypto products tied to the president. The president has earned $635 million from this venture since it started in 2025, as part of the $1.4 billion he has disclosed (https://www.washingtonsun.com/trump-white-house/trump-annual-financial-disclosure-crypto-earnings) as having earned from business ventures through last year.

Purchasers of Trump’s crypto products have lost (https://www.citizen.org/news/trumps-crypto-ventures-leave-investors-4-7-billion-underwater-while-he-pockets-1-4-billion/) an estimated $4.7 billion combined thus far, according to an analysis by Public Citizen, a watchdog group.


https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-meme-coin-dinner-crypto-firm

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Nick Pinto, a 26-year-old crypto investor, said he invested $450,000 in the Trump meme coin and the value of his investments is down to roughly $50,000. He said he was disappointed by the first dinner last year, as Trump was there for “no more” than 20 minutes and did not take photos with the crypto holders.

The steak was only 5 ounces and “not something you’d get at a steakhouse in New York,” he said. Pinto also said that, if it was an option, he could see himself voting for Trump again. He plans on attending the upcoming dinner.


“I hope the food is better this time,” he said.

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money funnel for foreign influence on Trump


More than half of the top holders listed as competing for seats at President Trump's next meme coin dinner have used cryptocurrency exchanges that prohibit U.S. customers, indicating that many of the buyers are based overseas, according to a CBS News analysis.

The gala, set for Nov. 22 at the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, D.C., will seat the 185 largest holders of the $TRUMP meme coin, according to the website for Fight Fight Fight LLC, the company behind the coin. A public leaderboard (https://gettrumpmemes.com/leaderboards?experience=trump-dinner&page=2) for the event only lists the top 100 holders.

Mr. Trump is billed as the featured speaker alongside three yet-to-be-named "legends." The top 29 holders will get upfront seating and a VIP reception with the president, the website says.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-meme-coin-dinner-foreign-top-bidders/

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Bo Hines harmonized US crypto policy with his private financial interests, while working in the White House


Lawmakers and executives crowded into the East Room of the White House in July 2025 to watch President Trump sign the Genius Act, a landmark crypto bill that set rules for selling stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar.

From a podium, Trump rattled off thank-yous to the law’s architects. “Where’s Bo Hines?” he asked. The president’s 29-year-old crypto adviser rose from the front row to applause.

What most people in the room didn’t know: While Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the legislation—was steering millions of dollars to a business he co-owned, according to messages, internal documents and payment records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Hines exchanged Signal messages showing that while he was in the White House, he took part in a group chat with his company partners, where he discussed legislative developments and relayed Genius Act talking points as his partners were communicating with Tether’s chief executive.

Once the bill was signed, Tether hired him—to run its U.S. operations.

Hines had started Nxum, a small consulting firm, with his father and another partner around 2022. Each owned one-third. He stepped back from day-to-day management of the company when he joined the administration in early 2025 but kept his ownership stake, his government ethics disclosures show.
Weeks after Hines began working on stablecoin legislation inside the White House, Nxum, which had only dabbled in crypto until that point, started pursuing business with Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/crypto-law-trump-tether-bo-hines-45bcd95d?st=keaNUj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink