Link without paywall: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-crypto-empire-growing-144200616.html

The Trumps have never been known for their subtlety: They like to do things fast, big, and loud. This is especially so in the context of cryptocurrency, a noisy and chaotic industry by nature. Remember our president’s collection of NFTs? Among the depictions on these digital trading cards is a portrait of Donald Trump in an Iron Man–inspired suit, accompanied by the caption “SUPERTRUMP.” Or how about the $TRUMP meme coin and accompanying gamified gala dinner for its biggest investors

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    People who complain that crypto is a “pyramid scheme” or whatever are correct, but they fail to realize that capitalism is a pyramid scheme at best. I mean the biggest stock last year was a fascist surveillance company… And stuff like this is exactly why crypto will continue to succeed under capitalism.

    It’s a casino economy. Our lives have already been sold for chips. The branding of the chips doesn’t actually matter but improved chip technology does. Casinos aren’t actually using the same chips from the 1800s but the state is.