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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, February 3rd. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

We are exploring what President Trump's second term could mean for the tech industry over the next four years and beyond.

Crypto Bulls and crypto enthusiasts had been excitedly cheering on President Trump's return to the White House,

hoping it heralded a new era for cryptocurrency.

But has that played out so far?

And why are Trump and the First Lady's so-called meme coins getting dragged into the mix?

Tellis Demos, a writer for our Hurt on the Street column

and the co-host of WSJ's Take on the Week podcast,

tells us how Trump's appointees might alter the way crypto is regulated

and why there seemed to be more questions than answers right now over crypto's future.

Okay, tell us, the crypto tech community is pretty thrilled that President Trump seems to be a big

supporter of their cause. What do we know about Trump's stance on crypto?

Well, certainly, we know that he personally has a meme coin, as does Melania, that got a lot of

attention in the early days of the administration.

But since then, he has not taken too many official steps with regards to crypto, but did

sign an executive order that had a couple of key points. One is that he basically

has ordered the government to abandon any work on an official U.S. digital currency. That was something

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