WASHINGTON
Vice President JD Vance spoke the language of love to cryptocurrency investors Wednesday when he proclaimed at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas , “We reject regulators.”
As the veep sees it, Bitcoin is not just a good investment, it’s also good for the country. Crypto, he argued, “is a hedge against bad policymaking in Washington.”
And “Crypto finally has a champion and an ally in the White House.”
True that. Trump Media, with its top gun in the Oval Office, announced it is raising $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin.
For some of us chickens, President Donald Trump’s alliance with crypto is not quite cause for celebration.
Yes, I realize that Big Money’s practice of de-banking payday lenders, gun-related businesses and other unglamorous pursuits put big banks in the right’s crossha