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Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff

Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom

The UAE’s chair of the sovereign wealth fund, Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, sits with President Trump in the Oval Office

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Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

David Sacks, Donald Trump, and Bo Hines pose for a photo in the Oval Office. Trump is seated at the Resolute Desk, the others stand to either side.

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Issue 93 – Undermining deregulation

Democratic lawmakers sound corruption alarms while crypto PACs gear up for the midterms

Tweet by Bruno Skvorc: I just got a reply from @worldlibertyfi . TLDR is, they stole my money, and because it's the @POTUS family, I can't do anything about it...

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Issue 92 – The scam of all scams

The Trumps “debank” major customers from their “anti-debanking” cryptocurrency venture, and a CFTC nominee says the Winklevosses are blackballing him

Howard Lutnick speaking at a Cabinet meeting, with subtitles about putting “GDP on the blockchain”

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Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain

The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms

Screenshot of I Think You Should Leave episode, where the focus group man states “Oh my God, he admit it!”

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Issue 90 – Crime szn bro

The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors

A blue vending machine with branding that reads “Crypto is like a bar of chocolate” in the foreground, with the Capitol building behind

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Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat

Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector

A stock trader on the floor of the NYSE in 1963, photoshopped to show him holding up a large physical “bitcoin”

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Issue 88 – The stockchain

Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it

Portrait of Bill Pulte, superimposed with his “SO ORDERED” tweet about crypto and mortgages

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Issue 87 – SO ORDERED

Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat

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Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase

The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun cozies up even closer to the Trump family

Extremely tangled diagram depicting relationships between LLCs, major companies, the Trump family, Bill Zanker, and various other individuals, and various crypto projects

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Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens

As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis

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Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents

Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill regains momentum in the Senate

Collage of Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking into a bullhorn, and Senator Richard Blumenthal speaking into a microphone

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Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House

Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and block industry-backed bills

A banner reading “Have Dinner with President Trump”, featuring an uncanny AI illustration of a much younger-looking Trump pointing at the viewer

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Issue 82 – E-moluments

As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access

Todd Blanche wearing a suit amid a throng of reporters

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Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

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

A photograph of the White House, photoshopped with a Bitcoin flag flying above it

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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