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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

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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

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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

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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

“Mundus sine Caesaribus” in dark grey, all-caps, gothic font on a black background

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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

Donald Trump appears to prop up the price of bitcoin, which has declined until a recent partial recovery

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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

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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.

Representative GT Thompson speaks at a hearing on digital asset legislation

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Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

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

Trump poses with a signed executive order, which has been photoshopped to show the TRUMP memecoin branding and price chart

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Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous

Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world in the next four years.