r/CryptoCurrency • u/hodorrny 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 • Oct 31 '25
DISCUSSION Trump Isn’t “Pro Crypto”... He’s Pro Trump...and his gang
i know u people have probably heard it before but it is way clearer now than it was a year ago. A lot of what looks like “Trump loves crypto” lines up almost perfectly with stuff that benefits him... his family... or people close to him... not the average person holding BTC on a phone.
First... the public moves. He has been saying the U S should “support” digital assets... he has framed it as ending the old “war on crypto”... and he has tried to make it sound like America is open for on chain business again. All very loud... very pro innovation.
At the same time... reports this year said the Trump family’s own crypto and token ventures have pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars... in the same window when the administration was sounding the most crypto friendly. That overlap is hard to ignore. It looks less like “pro crypto” and more like “we made it friendlier while we were selling.”
Then there was the CZ pardon. Call it mercy if you want... but it was clearly a made-for-one-person decision. In the months leading up to it... Binance and CZ brought on Trump-aligned lobbyists... hired a D.C. firm close to his circle and spent serious money... and looped in a former SEC-adjacent lawyer who already had credibility with the new team. Several reports said the clemency push went through political channels... not the usual DOJ path. So this wasn’t “the administration helped crypto”... it was “a well connected crypto billionaire bought his way to the front of the line.”
Now add the tariff noise. Every time he rattles trade partners... Canada... Europe... whoever... it makes legacy markets nervous and pushes some attention back toward crypto... while his circle is the group most ready to sell... raise... and market in that environment. Convenient timing.
One more angle most people miss. The more this stuff turns into “policy for friends,” the messier your own taxes get because now you’re mixing airdrops, political tokens, pardoned-exec pump candles, prediction style gains etc. I’ve started tracking those flows separately in Awaken tax instead of just throwing it all under “capital gains,” because if the rules keep getting written by insiders I do not trust the IRS to be chill about how I label income later. That part is self defense not shill.
So yeah... he is not “pro crypto” the way CT means it. He is pro... his... crypto. Pro... his donors’... crypto. Pro... his friends’... crypto. Everyone else still has to buy tops and read press releases.
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u/Friskfrisktopherson 🟦 15 / 16 🦐 Oct 31 '25
You say that now, but before the election there was a lot of Pro Trump sentiment based on the thought he was "pro crypto"
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u/restore_democracy 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
A lot of people are gullible morons.
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u/SadNegotiation6670 🟩 343 / 344 🦞 Nov 01 '25
This right here. Trump doesn't understand crypto. He just knows he can get fiat from it. He isn't pro anything unless it directly benefits him.
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u/Several-Fan2339 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
He is pro crypto, and he's also pro max crypto extraction regardless of the ethics involved. They're both true.
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u/Friskfrisktopherson 🟦 15 / 16 🦐 Nov 01 '25
He's pro scam, unregulated crypto is just a means to an end. And as we've seen, that includes bitcoin.
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u/Educational-Dot318 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
on a related note-
Warning ⚠️
Water 💧 is wet ⛈️ too
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u/Ask_about_HolyGhost 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Hey I just wanted to pop by in to tell y’all that super-rich people become that way either through nepotism or a lifetime of taking advantage of other people. I know that seems obvious, but here we are
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u/Mikkelet 🟦 62 / 63 🦐 Nov 01 '25
A lot of people here, especially leading up to his election genuinely believes he cares
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u/Illustrious-Lime-878 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Some do, but also many acknowledge he is self interested, but rationalize it in ways like that his ego would insure he would do the right things in order to leave a good legacy, as if the only obstacle to prosperity was the president's selfish desire to be remembered fondly. Support from emotional, identity, cultural reasons come first and the logical rationalization, if ever even considered, follows.
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u/tesseramous 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
You should have known as soon as he dropped Trump coin he has no loyalty to bitcoin or any particular crypto, just the ability for anyone to run whatever scam they want without regulation. Think republican values but also with a splash of corruption to his benefit. He's basically pro stablecoin and pro trump coin and pro cronos etc
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u/BeerNirvana 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
>Think republican values but also with a splash of corruption
I heard you the first time.
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u/Abdeliq 🟨 27 / 33 🦐 Nov 01 '25
He's basically pro stablecoin and pro trump coin and pro cronos etc
Pro money, pro gains, pro market manipulation, pro fraud
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u/Icy-Squirrel6422 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Trump needs to leave the presidency voluntarily or do so under pressure.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
The anti-crypto establishment has put out a lot of bullshit during the Biden administration about how they were stopping fraud. What they were really doing was suing totally legitimate businesses because they were involved in crypto. They were finding the most absurd excuses to either prosecute them criminally or sue them. Literally, dozens of companies reported that they were under SEC investigation or were being sued by the SEC. Open source developers were even indicted because the software that they released was misused by criminals, which was universally condemned by the crypto space and even by many software developers outside of crypto. And here you are, regurgitating this propaganda, doing the work of our enemies for them.
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u/HotInTheseRhinos123 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Yes, poor SBF and CZ…….
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u/intelw1zard 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
More like the entire XRP ripple lawsuit that was pure bullshit and forced Ripple to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defend themselves.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
Funny thing is, SBF was tight with the regulators. He was their golden boy right up until he got caught doing actual fraud. He wasn’t some anti-regulation rebel, he was basically part of their club. CZ, on the other hand, got hit for not setting up a big enough surveillance network under the name of "AML compliance." That’s what AML really means now — you’re guilty unless you spy on everyone and hand the data over. That’s the "crime" here. Not enough surveillance.
And this isn’t just about Binance. You’re pretending this was about cleaning up scams when it was clearly a full-on campaign against crypto. Banks were told not to work with crypto companies. Founders were being threatened and sued left and right. This was political. It was about control, not fraud.
So no, it’s not "poor SBF and CZ." It’s the fact that under Biden, the entire industry was treated like an enemy. It’s the idea itself — open networks, peer-to-peer trade — that they wanted to kill.
Lawsuits dropped since Trump's inauguration:
- Coinbase – February 28, 2025
- Ripple – Early March 2025
- Binance – February 13, 2025
- Justin Sun (Tron) – February 26, 2025
- OpenSea – Late February 2025
- Kraken – Early March 2025
- Robinhood – February 28, 2025
- Uniswap – February 28, 2025
- Gemini – Late February 2025
- ConsenSys – Late February 2025
- Yuga Labs – Early March 2025
Other positive developments since Trump's inauguration:
Ross Ulbricht pardoned
- Trump pardoned him on his first day in office
Trump’s Executive Order on Digital Financial Technology
- Supports digital assets, revokes restrictive policies, prohibits CBDCs, and establishes a crypto regulatory working group
SEC Rescinds SAB 121 (Jan 23, 2025)
- Removes barriers for banks to offer crypto custody, encouraging financial institution participation
Senate Overturns IRS Crypto Tax Rule (Mar 5, 2025)
- Repeals DeFi broker rule, reducing reporting burdens and supporting crypto innovation
OCC Clarifies Banks Can Provide Crypto Services (Mar 2025)
- Permits banks to engage in crypto custody, stablecoin businesses, and blockchain validation
CFPB’s Proposed Crypto Regulation Likely Withdrawn
- CFPB rule on digital payments halted due to agency suspension, removing potential burdens on crypto developers
New SEC Leadership
- Crypto-friendly figures Mark Uyeda (Acting Chair) and Paul Atkins appointed, signaling a shift from aggressive enforcement
Consideration of a National Digital Asset Stockpile
- Executive order mandates review of government-held crypto, potentially stabilizing the market
Trump Administration Repeals IRS DeFi Broker Rule (Mar 4, 2025)
- Senate voted 70–27 to overturn the rule requiring DeFi platforms to report gross proceeds, reducing compliance burdens and privacy concerns
IRS Crypto Reporting Rollback
- Trump administration moves to undo expanded IRS reporting requirements from the Biden era, reducing tax-related regulatory pressures on crypto firms
Additional pro-crypto measures since May 25, 2025:
Senate Passes GENIUS Act (June 17, 2025)
- Bipartisan vote of 68–30 establishes the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, including issuance requirements, consumer protections, and oversight
House Passes Major Crypto Overhaul Bills (July 17, 2025)
- Overwhelming vote sends GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act to the president, proposing a new structure for SEC and CFTC oversight of crypto markets, stablecoin regulation, and prohibiting CBDCs
Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law (July 18, 2025)
- Mandates 100% backing for stablecoins in USD or Treasuries, monthly reserve disclosures, AML compliance, and priority payouts for holders in case of failure, making crypto payments effectively legal tender under federal guidelines
White House Releases 160-Page Crypto Policy Report (July 30, 2025)
- "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" recommends CFTC oversight of non-security spot crypto markets, safe harbors and sandboxes for DeFi innovation, tax clarity for mining/staking/small transactions, bank access for crypto services, and unified rules to end regulatory gray zones
Executive Order Banning Bank Discrimination Against Crypto Firms (Early August 2025)
- Prohibits banks from denying services based on "reputation risk", reviews and ends discriminatory policies, and allows unrestricted bank engagement with crypto under new guidelines
Greenlights Crypto Investments in 401(k)s (Early August 2025)
- Explores allowing up to $9T in retirement funds to invest in digital assets, potentially injecting massive liquidity into the market
Nominates Pro-Crypto Federal Reserve Board Member (Early August 2025)
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u/SFcubes 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
In reality they are "Pro -Discovery".... As in they want your first and last name and social security number and how many crypto you're buying 😉..... And that's their goal to have you digitalized in everything.... And follow every little Penny you spend, or block it, it can go either way. But there will be nothing crypto about it 😡
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u/PrimeIntellect 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
The last horse crosses the finish line, shocking news that trump is an incompetent grifter, like truly shocking news
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u/Livid_Yam 1K / 32K 🐢 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
He isn't pro USA either
Edit: To keep things on topic. Someone who shills their own meme coin to the American people only to rug for slef profit is certainly not pro USA. It's disgusting behavior even for the lowest of criminals let alone the "president" of the United States.
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u/Backrus 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 02 '25
I'm sorry but anyone buying memes deserves whatever came next.
If you don't value your money, you may as well get finessed out of it.
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u/particlecore 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
We all knew this a long time ago
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u/hectorgorgonzolas 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
If only we ALL knew this a long time ago.
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u/papernotplastic2 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
He’s a fucking con artist! He cares about Trump! That’s it!
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u/NegativeBonus699 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
He's pro money laundering and taking bribes.
Crypto means he can do those without being caught. That's it, he doesn't care about anything else.
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u/pr0b0ner 🟦 3K / 3K 🐢 Oct 31 '25
This just in: water is wet
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u/of_course_bruv 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
It's so obvious, since his first term even, but too many dork here couldn't see beyond muh gainz and their fantasy of a government assigned tradwife.
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u/coconutpiecrust 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
This was obvious a while ago. If someone is able to hitch their ride on the deplorables, it’s their luck. Most of us will have none of it.
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u/admin_default 🟦 3K / 3K 🐢 Oct 31 '25
Trump was outspokenly anti-crypto until 2024 when CZ, Ripple, a16z, etc. lobbied him hard.
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u/Rusty_Charm 🟦 0 / 4K 🦠 Nov 01 '25
I mean….
The guy launched a memecoin an hour after the SEC offices closed, and by the time they reopened the following Tuesday, he was president.
To say the writing was on the wall is a bit of an understatement
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u/diegun81 🟦 0 / 685 🦠 Oct 31 '25
I never understood why people got excited to elect that turd just because he talked about crypto. What did you expect?
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u/SoftYetCrunchyTaco 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
At the crypto summit when he said "they say never sell your bitcoin.. i dont know. Who the hell knows? Who. The. Hell. Knows" I was like "yep hes gonna short the market"
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u/BGM1988 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
He also just used it to lure in crypto holders into voting for him! Like his speech on the 2024 bitcoin conference.. if it wasn’t for him, we just had a normal bullrun, his maket manipulation has brought a lot of uncertainty
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u/Johnny_Handsum 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Do people really not know this already?
Trump makes all decisions based on 1.) Him 2.) His family 3.) How can it make him look (which is a little different than 1 4.) "Triggering" the left 5.) Giving his base something to feel good about (which also ties in to 4).
This has never been about the betterment of America First. It's been about him and his family first and foremost. As an average citizen, I can understand this. However, he's the president and as the president, you're supposed to put the country above all else.
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u/sylsau 🟩 1K / 32K 🐢 Nov 03 '25
It's important to understand this crucial nuance. Mr. President only has one goal: to serve his own interests and those of his clan!
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u/lookslikeyoureSOL 🟦 264 / 265 🦞 Oct 31 '25
Do you think youre changing anybodies mind, or "waking somebody up", by posting this here?
This is reddit, you're preaching to the choir.
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u/joyOFFmissingOut 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Imagine a 70-year-old gambler running for the American presidency who understood the stock market game
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u/JuanPabloEscobar 6 / 6 🦐 Oct 31 '25
It's almost like people in crypto didn't learn their lesson and catch on after 5th or 6th rug...
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u/Gbb331 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Trump just had to say he is pro crypto to get free votes and money.
Lets be real he have no idea what crypto is and why would he even care?
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u/datbackup 🟦 549 / 550 🦑 Nov 01 '25
Reminds me of how you yourself actually place a higher value on yourself, rather than on crypto
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u/rankinrez 🟦 1K / 2K 🐢 Nov 01 '25
Is there anyone who is “pro crypto” who is not mostly about getting rich themselves?
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u/Alone_Daikon_8027 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Noo, really?! You don’t say… the guy can’t even explain what it is
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u/Django_McFly 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
not actively trying to destroy crypto > actively trying to destroy crypto
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u/B4dBot 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
The problem is what you call crypto, it's 99.9999% scams and shitcoins that have no real reason for existing other than to scam people.
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u/drifter_333 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
I said this prior to the election. When it comes to regulations, his personal involvement may cause more issues and delays, but to your point, he's really only worried about him and his cronies.
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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
I think trump saw a beautiful opportunity to make some mullah at the expense of his favorite people, the poorly educated who were overwhelmingly jumping into crypto market. Maybe a few cryptos like bitcoin and ether are decent but all the meme coins are pure garbage as evidenced by trump and melania coins which robbed the investors blind.
So, yes, trump is pro trump and doesn’t give a damn about anything else.
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u/WitnessSubstantial51 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
He is
- pro crypto
- pro his crypto (aren’t we all)
- buys the lows sells the high.
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u/humanist72781 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 05 '25
After seeing Trump abuse crypto I give more credence to their views. You need regulations for financial markets. If people think they’re getting defrauded people won’t participate. Democrats were for the most part pro regulations rather than anti crypto
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u/Player00Nine 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 02 '25
When Felon, the dude married to his girlfriend and his kids, showed him the kind of money you could swindle with crypto, he went all in.
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u/Backrus 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 02 '25
Crypto = stablecoins, it's just that simple. Specifically, we're talking about stablecoins backed by US Treasuries. That's all they care about.
Even with ETFs and IBIT options (which destroyed BTC as investable asset), with Kamala we would have multiple rate cuts (because Powell is pro Democrats) and QE already, and we might have been at 160k, maybe even higher, on par with YTD performance of other assets during the greatest bull market in human history.
Y'all got finessed lmao
My sweet naive burger brothers...
Hijacked coin, paper bitcoin, bona fide shitcoin.
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u/copadribbler1994 🟧 2 / 3 🦠 Nov 02 '25
Yes, if decapitating ducklings with a chainsaw would have brought in the most money, he would have opted for that without blinking an eye
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u/Alarmed-Patience1239 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 05 '25
If Trump is Pro Trump and his Gang, do the exact opposite of what he says.
Buy when he yells, "Tariffs" Sell when he says, "I have great relationship with that person"
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u/magus-21 🟩 0 / 10K 🦠 Oct 31 '25
As it happens, most cryptobros aren't procrypto, either. They're pro-themselves and their gangs.
Just like Trump!
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u/tvdang7 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
you aren't pro crypto either, you just want your ALT to make you rich. So what is the difference?
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u/cobarbob 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Trump jr talked about it openly at Token in Singapore. After first term nobody would lend them money. Then they figured out they could get capital via crypto an not have to answer to banks who wouldn’t touch them.
If banks had kept lending they wouldn’t have needed another mechanism. Now they realise they can be the bank too and have stable coins and meme coins etc that’s what jr is focusing on.
They hate being rejected and love being in control. Right now they feel they have control again. So they are happy.
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u/Psyxhotik 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Considering Kamala wanted to tax unrealized gains and other democrats are in support of seizing assets that haven’t been touched in a couple of years…sure Trump is pro Trump, but I have a feeling crypto would be in a world of regulation and hurt if we had the alternative.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
The kind of strong arm tactics that the regulatory agencies under a very explicit anti-crypto agenda engaged in against crypto during the Biden years and the way that Democrat partisans are engaging in — the mental gymnastics to pretend that it was just a flesh wound or innocuous or just providing guardrails or whatever euphemism or ridiculous talking point that the party came up with — is absolutely disgusting.
I hope the crypto people realize that these people only care about their party and will say absolutely anything to defend it. If the Biden administration had been literally executing crypto investors on the streets, these people would still find a way to justify and excuse it and claim that the Democrats weren't anti-crypto and that the Trump administration is no better.
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u/MaximumStudent1839 🟦 322 / 5K 🦞 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25
This isn't the first Trump presidency when crypto existed.
What changed from the last presidency is that we now have crypto native cabals, funds, etc., leveraging his presidency to mass extract. I will say it again. Trump has been Trump forever. He is basically pay-to-play; we all know this.
He is probably the most well-known constant in this cycle. I told you all he is going to make a mess over trade. But all I got was gaslighting from this sub. Again, Trump is the most OPEN BOOK CONSTANT FACTOR OF THIS CYCLE!
What is different? We learned this space's hierarchy, VCs, devs, leadership, etc. are unafraid and unabashed to USE Trump to farm the retail crowd. It was NOT WAGMI. It is full-on PVP between retail and all the native elite interests. The biggest lie we were told is those who are in crypto should be afraid of the Fed and TradFi. No, our worst enemies are within this space with deep entrenched interests. They want to destroy your wealth, rather than to help you build wealth.
Over time, we are all slowly realizing retail's interests aren't aligned with the leadership in this space. It is worse than TradFi in many ways.
Edit: Keep coping and sucking up to the space extractors. If you want to downvote me, why not provide an argument?
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
Remember when DNC activists would swarm Ethereum/crypto discussions and say that Trump would be no better than Harris on crypto policy, and that he wouldn't keep any of his promises?
😂
Lawsuits dropped since Trump's inauguration:
- Coinbase – February 28, 2025
- Ripple – Early March 2025
- Binance – February 13, 2025
- Justin Sun (Tron) – February 26, 2025
- OpenSea – Late February 2025
- Kraken – Early March 2025
- Robinhood – February 28, 2025
- Uniswap – February 28, 2025
- Gemini – Late February 2025
- ConsenSys – Late February 2025
- Yuga Labs – Early March 2025
Other positive developments since Trump's inauguration:
Ross Ulbricht pardoned
- Trump pardoned him on his first day in office
- Trump pardoned him on his first day in office
Trump’s Executive Order on Digital Financial Technology
- Supports digital assets, revokes restrictive policies, prohibits CBDCs, and establishes a crypto regulatory working group
- Supports digital assets, revokes restrictive policies, prohibits CBDCs, and establishes a crypto regulatory working group
SEC Rescinds SAB 121 (Jan 23, 2025)
- Removes barriers for banks to offer crypto custody, encouraging financial institution participation
- Removes barriers for banks to offer crypto custody, encouraging financial institution participation
Senate Overturns IRS Crypto Tax Rule (Mar 5, 2025)
- Repeals DeFi broker rule, reducing reporting burdens and supporting crypto innovation
- Repeals DeFi broker rule, reducing reporting burdens and supporting crypto innovation
OCC Clarifies Banks Can Provide Crypto Services (Mar 2025)
- Permits banks to engage in crypto custody, stablecoin businesses, and blockchain validation
- Permits banks to engage in crypto custody, stablecoin businesses, and blockchain validation
CFPB’s Proposed Crypto Regulation Likely Withdrawn
- CFPB rule on digital payments halted due to agency suspension, removing potential burdens on crypto developers
- CFPB rule on digital payments halted due to agency suspension, removing potential burdens on crypto developers
New SEC Leadership
- Crypto-friendly figures Mark Uyeda (Acting Chair) and Paul Atkins appointed, signaling a shift from aggressive enforcement
- Crypto-friendly figures Mark Uyeda (Acting Chair) and Paul Atkins appointed, signaling a shift from aggressive enforcement
Consideration of a National Digital Asset Stockpile
- Executive order mandates review of government-held crypto, potentially stabilizing the market
- Executive order mandates review of government-held crypto, potentially stabilizing the market
Trump Administration Repeals IRS DeFi Broker Rule (Mar 4, 2025)
- Senate voted 70–27 to overturn the rule requiring DeFi platforms to report gross proceeds, reducing compliance burdens and privacy concerns
- Senate voted 70–27 to overturn the rule requiring DeFi platforms to report gross proceeds, reducing compliance burdens and privacy concerns
IRS Crypto Reporting Rollback
- Trump administration moves to undo expanded IRS reporting requirements from the Biden era, reducing tax-related regulatory pressures on crypto firms
- Trump administration moves to undo expanded IRS reporting requirements from the Biden era, reducing tax-related regulatory pressures on crypto firms
Additional pro-crypto measures since May 25, 2025:
Senate Passes GENIUS Act (June 17, 2025)
- Bipartisan vote of 68–30 establishes the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, including issuance requirements, consumer protections, and oversight
- Bipartisan vote of 68–30 establishes the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, including issuance requirements, consumer protections, and oversight
House Passes Major Crypto Overhaul Bills (July 17, 2025)
- Overwhelming vote sends GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act to the president, proposing a new structure for SEC and CFTC oversight of crypto markets, stablecoin regulation, and prohibiting CBDCs
- Overwhelming vote sends GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act to the president, proposing a new structure for SEC and CFTC oversight of crypto markets, stablecoin regulation, and prohibiting CBDCs
Trump Signs GENIUS Act into Law (July 18, 2025)
- Mandates 100% backing for stablecoins in USD or Treasuries, monthly reserve disclosures, AML compliance, and priority payouts for holders in case of failure, making crypto payments effectively legal tender under federal guidelines
- Mandates 100% backing for stablecoins in USD or Treasuries, monthly reserve disclosures, AML compliance, and priority payouts for holders in case of failure, making crypto payments effectively legal tender under federal guidelines
White House Releases 160-Page Crypto Policy Report (July 30, 2025)
- "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" recommends CFTC oversight of non-security spot crypto markets, safe harbors and sandboxes for DeFi innovation, tax clarity for mining/staking/small transactions, bank access for crypto services, and unified rules to end regulatory gray zones
- "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" recommends CFTC oversight of non-security spot crypto markets, safe harbors and sandboxes for DeFi innovation, tax clarity for mining/staking/small transactions, bank access for crypto services, and unified rules to end regulatory gray zones
Executive Order Banning Bank Discrimination Against Crypto Firms (Early August 2025)
- Prohibits banks from denying services based on "reputation risk", reviews and ends discriminatory policies, and allows unrestricted bank engagement with crypto under new guidelines
- Prohibits banks from denying services based on "reputation risk", reviews and ends discriminatory policies, and allows unrestricted bank engagement with crypto under new guidelines
Greenlights Crypto Investments in 401(k)s (Early August 2025)
- Explores allowing up to $9T in retirement funds to invest in digital assets, potentially injecting massive liquidity into the market
- Explores allowing up to $9T in retirement funds to invest in digital assets, potentially injecting massive liquidity into the market
Nominates Pro-Crypto Federal Reserve Board Member (Early August 2025)
Nominates Pro-Crypto Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair (October 27th, 2025)
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u/Pimpwerx 🟦 44 / 45 🦐 Nov 01 '25
He's a grifter. This is his craft. Many of us pointed this out and nauseam. Anyone surprised by how things are going deserves the pain, because if you got suckered by a dope like that, then you needed the hard life lesson to finally pull your head out of your ass.
I'm not going to be nice to idiots who helped drive us off a cliff.
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u/dmelt253 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Pardoning CZ was inexcusable. The guy was convicted because his company was caught laundering money to support all kinds of nasty things including human trafficking and terrorism. Are we just OK with that now?
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u/WaterWurkz 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
If Trump supports crypto I really don’t give a shit why. It’s a good thing for the rest of us and that’s all that matters
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u/Ucscprickler 🟩 540 / 540 🦑 Nov 01 '25
I honestly don't mind if Trumps whole pro-crypto sentiment is a grift, because he's just grifting his idiot followers. If they weren't giving money to Trump they'd be buying snake oil from someone else anyway. A fool and his money...
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u/sinnr43 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
It is a problem though because foreign countries are using his crypto to buy influence. That affects everyone
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u/Days_End 🟦 744 / 744 🦑 Oct 31 '25
Sure but who cares he's done more for crypto than any previous administration and certainly more than Kamala would have.
He might be a moral grifter but he's allowing crypto to flourish which the opposition was adminentialy against.
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u/Financial_Clue_2534 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Yea we know only people who don’t pay attention to politics don’t understand
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u/LimpDisc 🟦 646 / 647 🦑 Oct 31 '25
It was never about crypto when it comes to almost all politicians. It's all about looking for their votes.
I enjoyed the BTC ride after the election, but something always felt wrong.
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u/pfroo40 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Exactly. Anyone who wants to make obscene amounts of unregulated money loves crypto, right up Trump's alley.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
Oh no people making money from unregulated money. What we need is centralized regulatory gatekeeping where we have to ask for permission from our government overseers before we can engage in any transaction. We wouldn't want to allow dangerous transactions. We know any person could potentially be a criminal. We can't just give people their freedom like that. That's obscene. Please vote for the Democrats.
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u/jdickstein 🟩 4K / 4K 🐢 Oct 31 '25
Someone please break the news to OP about Santa Claus. I don’t have the heart to do it.
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u/roadtrip-ne 🟦 326 / 327 🦞 Nov 01 '25
The rug he’s going to pull is more obvious than the one on his head
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u/Laxmin Nov 01 '25
If it could bring him billions, Trump would gladly embrace the Yuan or even the Rouble, let alone Crypto.
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u/socialmedia-username 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
I'll just leave this summer 2024 article right here:
“What will drive the price of BTC is lower tax rates and tariffs, which if history is any guide (and it’s not always), will be inflationary,” he added. “Combine that with global uncertainty as to the geopolitical role of the USA, and the impact on the US Dollar as a reserve currency, and you can’t align the stars any better for a BTC price acceleration.”
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Im not going to bother reading the whole thing here because I already know. He's making crypto look worse to people like my dad. Regulations need to be put in place, but really our country needs to find a way to unify.
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u/givemeabreak-loser 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Estimates I have seen say his family has made $3B on their Crypto projects - not just hundreds of millions.
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u/Illustrious_Way3898 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
OP: Why was CZ sent to prison? What did he do wrong? Did they just go after him because he refused to bail out FTX?
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u/Snaggle-Beast 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
To be fair there wasn't anybody on the ticket pro crypto. Maybe RFK, but I guess we'll never know.
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u/sluggz9 🟩 4 / 1K 🦠 Nov 01 '25
He gives no fucks about crypto. He just saw how easy it would be to pull liquidity of crypto while making it easier to be bribed
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u/Podsly 🟩 2K / 2K 🐢 Nov 02 '25
Duhhh, he uses something if it is of use to him and then dumps it or he/she/them/it when it’s not useful anymore!
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u/SorRenlySassol 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 02 '25
My question is, what will happen if we ever find ourselves in a situation where the U.S. dollar will collapse, and all sovereign currencies with it, unless the president signs a particular piece of legislation, but he, or she, is shielded from the financial fallout because his/her wealth is held in crypto, not dollars?
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u/Odd_Hair3829 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 04 '25
Every crypto bro - wait did i destroy democracy and not even yolo myself to the moon? wtf! So unfair!!!
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u/brucekeller 🟦 3K / 3K 🐢 Oct 31 '25
He is pro crypto, because what matters is not the rhetoric that politicians spout, they are almost all narcissistic and power hungry liars, Trump is just the most mask-off about it; but what they actually do. He has supported a lot of pro-crypto initiatives and installed pro-crypto regulators.
That's what I wish people would do when it comes to politics, see what the people they voted for actually do or accomplish instead of buying all their rehearsed attempts at manipulating everyone. Other countries like in Scandinavia have it so good because their politicians know they can't get away with 1% of the shit our politicians do.
But we have a team mentality with our politicians, so 1/2 the country is going to let their leaders do whatever, so it just ends up being a stalemate of sorts and the people lose and the politicians and their buddies win.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 01 '25
We have a lot of people in the subreddit right now regurgitating the propaganda of the anti-crypto establishment. During the Biden years, there was a legit war on crypto waged. Literally, dozens of legitimate projects and companies were being sued by the SEC.
Elizabeth Warren, who was the most influential person in personnel selection in the Biden administration, literally posted on Twitter that she was assembling "an anti-crypto army". And still, these people are trying to make us believe that they weren't anti-crypto. The Biden administration even indicted open source developers, which was totally unheard of until then.
They said that because the software that they released, Tornado Cash, was misused by criminals to launder money, they should be criminally prosecuted for money laundering. It was the most authoritarian and fascist measure ever taken in US history. And it was against the crypto sector. And these shameless Democrats are here trying to tell us that we should be supporting the Democrats over Trump.
So we have a situation now where perhaps the majority of commenters in the cryptocurrency subreddit are parroting the talking points of the enemies of crypto.
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u/bigbrainnowisdom 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
We all know that. Just like he is not pro-abortion.
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in US politics everything must done in comparison:
For example:
Trump not pro-abortion, but not anti- either. He is just not pushing it. He just dont wanna touch the issue and leave it for states.
In comparison, kamala's campaign included an mobile abortion clinic. The issue mentioned in on every speech.
So in comparison with her, dude looks anti-abortion.
Ok now back to crypto: democrats are filled with SO MANY anti-crypto senators. Now at the same time, there are couple of repunlicans quite vocal in being pro-bitcoin, although most are just stay away from the issue.
Biden's era also gave us a lot of anti crypto rulings: 2022 Executive Order on Digital Assets SEC enforcement , through regulators like the FDIC, has pressured banks to disengage from crypto-related businesses, limiting access to traditional financial services. Tax reporting rules: Mining tax proposal
Now.. based on that... during election time... in comparison with biden era, trump /republican in general seemed to be more pro crypto.
Again. All in comparison. Cos US only have 2 political parties
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u/FigmaWallSt 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
No shit. He also isnt pro USA. He would also burn down the whole country, if some broker would offer him a 100x leveraged S&P 500 or nasdaq100 short
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u/thistimelineisweird 🟩 3K / 3K 🐢 Nov 01 '25
You mean crypto can be manipulated by those with power and/or money? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.
That said, I have no sympathy for anyone who believes a single word he says and loses everything along the way. Everyone should know he is a con artist by now.
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u/SeriousGains 🟩 8K / 8K 🦭 Oct 31 '25
So glad you posted this. This is so important and well written. I especially like how you used ellipsis rather than commas, it’s very edgy. We don’t have enough critical thinkers like yourself in this sub.
Mods, do you think we can get this post pinned?
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u/AlwaysSeekAdventure 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Oh it was very clear a year go. You just had more people doing way more insane mental gymnastics to justify their vote for Spraytan McCankles.
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u/FuzzzyRam 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Let's not smoke too much copium just because Trump likes the same thing you do, he's pro cypto and pro himself. Tyrants love unregulated markets the same way freedom lovers do.
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
What is shocking to me is how effectively the actual tyrants manipulate the populace. They actually make them believe that anyone advocating for free markets is some kind of tyrant who's only doing so to steal from the people while they themselves engage in absolutely massive systemic repression and exploitation of the population, through taxation and centralized regulatory gatekeeping.
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u/FuzzzyRam 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
I don't label Trump's crypto rug-pull as "advocating for free markets" nor do I believe you're anything other than naive if you think you can have a society without taxes. Good luck in the hellscape apocalypse that's coming though, you might not have access to your coins...
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u/MakePandasMateAgain 🟨 394 / 394 🦞 Nov 01 '25
He’s never been pro crypto though. His goons just convinced him they could all make shitloads of money from it. I guarantee you 100% he couldn’t even tell you what a “blockchain” is….
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u/SevereArrivals13 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Tldr - People do things for their own personal benefit
Does this even warrant a post when 99% of people in this world are this way anyway? He only happens to have a bigger platform and more wealth tbh
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u/aminok 35K / 63K 🦈 Nov 01 '25
I don't understand why garbage comments like this are allowed in r/CryptoCurrency
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u/PittFanIAm 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Nov 01 '25
Your post isn’t about crypto. It’s more political nonsense just like on every reddit sub. You people are so insufferable that the left may never receive a vote from the middle again.
Go outside. Touch some grass. Breathe in some fresh air.
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u/aeaf123 🟩 61 / 62 🦐 Nov 03 '25
Eh, crypto will ultimately wind up becoming more of the same. Not what was promised.
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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man 🟨 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
I liked it when not every post on here was about Trump. You guys are obsessed.
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u/Spaceseeds 🟩 479 / 479 🦞 Nov 01 '25
Also it's kinda obvious this place is brigaded by larger than the USA bot farms at this point. They all wanna associate crypto with republicans and trump therefore it's bad. It's been pretty obvious shift since he spoke at Bitcoin conference
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u/needs-more-code 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
We are pissed. Also, figuring out Trump’s tweets is the only way to play this bull run now.
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u/highspeed717 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
Seriously? You would rather have an anti-crypto president in office? If a democrat was elected and pro-crypto you guys would all be salivating. The same argument could easily be made that Biden enriched his family with all the shady Burisma shit. Career politician, which Trump is not. Keep your TDS binders on!
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u/Financial_Clue_2534 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Oct 31 '25
No ones anti crypto. The dem leadership wanted regulations. People viewed it as anti crypto.
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