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Meme coins are for suckers

Trump’s digital trinkets expose the crypto con

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

The rapper Snoop Dogg headlined the Crypto Ball that was held in Washington on 17 January to celebrate the conversion to crypto of President Donald Trump, who had slammed digital assets as a ‘scam’, ‘not money’, enablers of the ‘drug trade’, and as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’.

The ball’s cost was among US$10 million crypto companies reportedly lavished on Trump’s inauguration.

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