Standing under a “Bitcoin 2024” logo at a US crypto conference this summer, Donald Trump likened the audience of “bitcoiners” to the inventors and industrialists who pioneered high-tech industries at the turn of the 20th century.
“You are the modern day Edisons and Wright Brothers and Carnegies and Henry Fords,” he said. “My job will be to set you free . . . And to let you do what Americans do best . . . Win! Win! Win!”
Crypto’s modern tycoons have made a big bet that Trump will follow through on this promise. In the two years since the 2022 crypto crash wiped out many of the digital asset industry’s biggest names, many of the big players who survived have hitched themselves to the Maga movement.