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Occasionally, we feel compelled to remind everyone of the shebeens basic rule regarding cryptocurrency: When somebody comes up to you and says, Hey, look, I invented new money and theres no seltzer bottle or cream pie handy, run like hell in the other direction. In addition, there is an unusually high strange-to-normal ratio

Mr. Pan may not have been tripping balls when he delivered the speech, but you cant tell by that string of words pretending to be a sentence there at the end. Also, Im not exactly sure why Mr. Pan didnt go for the gold and saw poor Ted Carter in half. The whole scene lacked only a medicine wagon and a dancing bear.

For a while, it looked like crypto had evaporated. The SEC was all over it. Congress, with Senator Professor Warren in the lead, was questioning its bona fides. Its become plain, however, that the industry is counting on the 2024 elections to recapture its momentum and to make new and influential friends. From Public Citizen:

The rest of the crypto super PACs political war chests comes from billionaire crypto executives and venture capitalists, including $11 million each from the founders of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, $5 million from the Winklevoss twins, and $1 million from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. In the six 2024 primary races now concluded where the crypto super PACs intervened, only one crypto-backed candidate lost. Eleven primary races that include crypto-backed candidates remain. The crypto super PACs have pledged to spend money in general-election Senate races in the battleground states of Ohio and Montana, which are seen as essential for securing a Senate majority. Democratic incumbents in both races have been critical of the crypto sector.

One of the two Republicans campaigning to challenge Senator Professor Warren this November is a crypto advocate (and lawyer) named John Deaton. From WGBH:

Deaton undoubtedly will benefit from that war chest that crypto has piled up, not one buck of it anything but good old American greenbacks. Thats irony for you.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.

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Cryptocurrency Super PACs Are Sweeping 2024 Elections - Esquire