He stands on a stage on the Bitcoin Convention, in Nashville, and says how a lot he likes crypto folks. He publicizes a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve. He guarantees to free Ross Ulbricht. He arms out burgers at PubKey, in NYC. He even kinds his personal DeFi undertaking, World Liberty Monetary, full with an insider-y governance mannequin (what higher method to sign one’s constancy to crypto than that?)
Trump says and does all of the issues crypto desires to listen to and he attracts thousands and thousands in donations in consequence. The loudmouths go to bat for him, tradition warriors in performative hatred. He occupies political area that the Biden Administration and the Harris marketing campaign might have occupied in the event that they weren’t so craven to the Warren Wing. He says all the suitable issues, as a result of Trump is the grasp of claiming what folks need him to say. He matches completely with crypto’s targets, as a result of his politics are adaptable to any state of affairs and crypto was determined for a good friend.
I’ll confess that each one this makes me personally uncomfortable, not as a result of I’ve any nice love for Kamala Harris, however as a result of Trump has an extended observe file of being a fair-weather good friend. He might simply as simply take a wholly reverse view of crypto, if it fits him, and he has. I’m anxious about crypto’s embrace of Trump as a result of I discover it arduous to imagine that Trump shares ideas that attracted me to crypto.
