2026-10-16 15:51 UTC
Newsletter: A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/
#crypo #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io 2026-10-16 15:54
While Bo Hines shaped the Genius Act as Trump’s crypto council director, his family’s consulting firm took $6.3M+ from Tether. He pushed a change to the law that would primarily benefit Tether, then left to run Tether’s US arm. #crypo #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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@cbowns@xoxo.zone 2026-10-16 16:16
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io shout out from OR-5! is the tracker showing basically 100% of attributable PAC spending in the race? If so, I’m quite surprised that a ~third of outside spending is coming from crypto for Bynum, that’s so so high