Tag Archives: ftx

Last week, President Donald Trump made dubious history when he signed legislation that gave a rubber stamp to companies — including some owned by his family — to issue their own digital currencies known as stablecoins. Never before has a president signed a bill that legalized his own hustle. Not …

As he courted cryptocurrency investors last year, Donald Trump promised to fire Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair who had scrutinized the industry, and install a new crypto-friendly regulator in his place. Trump, who launched his own crypto meme coin days before he took office, didn’t just …