Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators

Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire

Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry

As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit

Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus

The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal to its target demographic by bashing trans people

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

The formerly anti-establishment bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight

Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there

A major crypto scandal tarnishes the reputation of Solana bigwigs, crypto influencers, and Argentine President Javier Milei.

Transcript of leaked call with Meteora’s Ben Chow

A transcript of a leaked call between DefiTuna’s Moty Povolotski and Meteora’s Ben Chow

The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen

Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it

Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.

Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies.