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The Trump administration is building closer ties to crypto

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Bitcoin 2025 — billed as the world's largest event dedicated to the digital currency — kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Among the speakers: Vice President JD Vance and the White House's AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks. their attendance marks another clear signal of the administration's growing embrace of cryptocurrency. Plus: What happened to corporate pledges made five years ago to help historically Black colleges and universities? We look into how some of those commitments have held up.

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It's about keeping

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everything secure. In a few minutes, what happened to the pledges to help historically black

1:01.1

campuses from five years ago? I'm David Brown-Cachio in New York. First, on the program at

1:08.0

Bitcoin 2025, said to be the world's biggest event devoted to digital currency,

1:13.4

Vice President J.D. Vance and the White House AI and Crypto Tsar David Sachs.

1:18.3

Clear signal is that the Trump administration loves its crypto.

1:21.8

Here's Marketplace's Samantha Fields.

1:24.2

The Biden administration was not exactly seen as being friendly to crypto.

1:28.4

Almost every day a new enforcement action was announced by agencies like the Securities and Exchange

1:34.9

Commission.

1:36.0

Olga Karif at Bloomberg says because of that for the last few years.

1:39.7

The overall impression a lot of investors got was that crypto is not a safe place to be.

1:47.5

Just a few months into the Trump administration, Ari Redboard at TRM Labs says there's been a sea change.

1:53.5

The SEC has dropped a number of Biden-era investigations and lawsuits.

1:57.8

The White House announced a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

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