วงการคริปโตใช้เงิน 200 ล้าน ซื้อนโยบาย-ชนะเลือกตั้งอเมริกา อย่างถูกกฎหมาย
Summary
The crypto industry spent just $200 million to shape US crypto policy, entirely within the law.
It was led by Coinbase’s CEO, funding politicians friendly to crypto and working to remove those hostile to it.
Backed candidates won 47 of 56 races, including Ohio, where Bernie Moreno — supported with $40 million — unseated the anti-crypto senator Sherrod Brown.
Even Trump, who had called Bitcoin a scam, went on to declare he would make the US the crypto capital of the world.
The episode raises a question about an American system that permits effectively unlimited political spending.
Key points
All of it was legal
That is the central point: not corruption, but rules that permit this.
$200 million is remarkably cheap
Against the industry value the policy affects, it is a very high-return investment.
The strategy was to pick close races
Concentrating money where margins are thin lets one fund change outcomes.
Ohio is the clearest case
$40 million unseated a sitting anti-crypto senator.
Leaders will move their position
Trump went from calling Bitcoin a scam to championing it.
The remaining question is about the system, not crypto
If one industry can do this, so can any other.