What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Bitcoin Takes the White House
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Cryptocurrency spent generously on this last election cycle, and now they’ve got their top pick in the White House, and wins across Congress. Where is the industry looking to go with these favorable, regulatory winds?
Guest: David Yaffe-Bellany, tech reporter covering the crypto industry for the New York Times.
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| 1:04.0 | In mid-December, Eric Trump went to Abu Dhabi for a Bitcoin conference. |
| 1:13.6 | These events are always a little wild. |
| 1:16.6 | You've got cryptocurrency diehards. |
| 1:20.3 | Some pay $10,000 for special event access. |
| 1:22.3 | Others dress up in costume. |
| 1:28.2 | It's, you know, everyone from, you know, radical libertarians like, former Wall Street bankers who are super interested in crypto now. |
| 1:31.2 | That's David Yafi Bellini, who covers the crypto industry for the New York Times. |
| 1:36.5 | And so the scene around Eric Trump was really no different, |
| 1:40.4 | except that suddenly the crypto world is just thrilled about its association with the Trump family. |
| 1:46.3 | So you had people posing for photographs in front of giant cutouts of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, |
| 1:53.4 | people holding up signs proclaiming their support for the Trump family. |
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