The crypto community was looking for a savior; the Trump family was just looking for a new line of credit and saw an easy mark.
Iโve spent a lot of time putting this together because its important that people know the reality is much darker and uglier than the "pro-crypto" headlines suggest. My new piece, The Great Crypto Heist, is a full breakdown of how the industry didn't just get a seat at the table, it got taken over.
The article goes over all the moves that got us here: from secret half-billion-dollar deals with foreign royals to the cynical policy changes that traded away the industry's independence for a family revenue split.
If you want to understand how a movement built on decentralization became a private family ATM, and see exactly how they turned the entire crypto industry into a family grift, you need to read this.