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“For all the concerns about the First Amendment, the First Amendment… what about all the amendments Charlie Kirk lost, because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now.” - @kayleighmcenany

NEW: I'm told 60 Minutes is planning to release a new piece looking at The Trumps' growing crypto empire and his controversial pardon of Binance founder CZ In August, producers on 60 Minutes reached out to me. Here's why the biggest name in news turned to a small crypto outlet: We had been investigating Trump's crypto rise for the past two years. Personally, I thought nothing much of Trump's crypto endeavors being particularly unique until a few months ago. Sure, he had the Trump NFT digital trading cards. (Fairly harmless stuff.) Then the Trump memecoin (slightly less harmless.) The President and Eric Trump even RT'd one of my threads highlighting their projects. But then their family's crypto project launched their own digital dollar, and things categorically changed. When they launched their own stablecoin, it was no longer the case that their crypto endeavors were limited to buyers who wanted to speculate under their own free liberties — it shifted more into the realm of a family leveraging the power of the Presidency for profit. It opened an entirely new can of worms. Interestingly, no one seemed to cover this. Then, it became clear why: The journalists who understood what was happening were at crypto outlets that maybe didn't want to tell the story for fear of retribution from those in the industry. And those in the mainstream press didn't really understand the nuances of crypto. We started @coinage_media as the first community-owned Web3 media outlet precisely to fix that problem. In August, when 60 Minutes reached out for help, they were originally planning to cover Trump's memecoin. I mentioned that that story might be a little dated after 7 months, and explained that there was a much bigger story happening out in the open: The Trumps' crypto project World Liberty Financial had launched a digital dollar. They were shopping it around to various people. If anyone used it, the company could collect interest payments to the tune of potentially billions of dollars a year. (Even some Republicans I spoke with took issue with this.) Along the way, Binance inked a deal to accept $2 billion in USD1, the Trump stablecoin. Rather than earn interest on $2 billion, that meant the interest would instead be collected by the Trump company. That seemed weird, because why would Binance want to give up what could have been ~$40M in interest? And why would they pick USD1 of all stablecoins? (The one deal alone constituted 90% of USD1's entire market cap.) Around the same time, our own members (NFT holders) were asking me why Coinage wasn't covering Trump's stablecoin. But after helping 60 Minutes' producers understand the connections and how things worked, I realized Coinage was perfectly suited to explain all this in an objective way. Our little team of 3 sprung into action, our editor slept on the floor of our office and in a week, we had produced a 17-minute mini-documentary that even Trump supporters said changed their minds on what they thought about what was going on. After all, we were making the piece for them — the viewers who paid to co-own our outlet and find the truth together. Then, months later, Trump pardoned Binance's founder CZ. Binance has not responded to whether they plan to now sell their USD1. I'm not sure what the 60 Minutes piece will include or how they will tell the story with a larger team and a larger budget, but I'm proud to have played a part in at least helping to explain what's happening in crypto. We are a small, independent news co-op owned by our NFT holders and built transparently onchain and funded by our memberships and $COINAGE For crypto to succeed in its mission for transparency and community ownership, I think it is paramount for the industry to have simple examples to cite in order to show we are walking the walk. I have no doubt the 60 Minutes piece will get more views and coverage than our documentary which came out in September, but if you're curious, it's linked below and every view helps. Just know where the search for truth started: In a newsroom, built onchain, funded and co-owned by a completely random set of people from around the world who wanted to co-own a media outlet.

If there is one takeaway from this #ElectionDay it’s this: It pays to be pro-crypto

I will be interviewing @MANTRA_Chain co-founder @jp_mullin888 on @coinage_media's Monday show to learn more about the recent developments Tune in ⬇️

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“For all the concerns about the First Amendment, the First Amendment… what about all the amendments Charlie Kirk lost, because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now.” - @kayleighmcenany

I will be interviewing @MANTRA_Chain co-founder @jp_mullin888 on @coinage_media's Monday show to learn more about the recent developments Tune in ⬇️

NEW: I'm told 60 Minutes is planning to release a new piece looking at The Trumps' growing crypto empire and his controversial pardon of Binance founder CZ In August, producers on 60 Minutes reached out to me. Here's why the biggest name in news turned to a small crypto outlet: We had been investigating Trump's crypto rise for the past two years. Personally, I thought nothing much of Trump's crypto endeavors being particularly unique until a few months ago. Sure, he had the Trump NFT digital trading cards. (Fairly harmless stuff.) Then the Trump memecoin (slightly less harmless.) The President and Eric Trump even RT'd one of my threads highlighting their projects. But then their family's crypto project launched their own digital dollar, and things categorically changed. When they launched their own stablecoin, it was no longer the case that their crypto endeavors were limited to buyers who wanted to speculate under their own free liberties — it shifted more into the realm of a family leveraging the power of the Presidency for profit. It opened an entirely new can of worms. Interestingly, no one seemed to cover this. Then, it became clear why: The journalists who understood what was happening were at crypto outlets that maybe didn't want to tell the story for fear of retribution from those in the industry. And those in the mainstream press didn't really understand the nuances of crypto. We started @coinage_media as the first community-owned Web3 media outlet precisely to fix that problem. In August, when 60 Minutes reached out for help, they were originally planning to cover Trump's memecoin. I mentioned that that story might be a little dated after 7 months, and explained that there was a much bigger story happening out in the open: The Trumps' crypto project World Liberty Financial had launched a digital dollar. They were shopping it around to various people. If anyone used it, the company could collect interest payments to the tune of potentially billions of dollars a year. (Even some Republicans I spoke with took issue with this.) Along the way, Binance inked a deal to accept $2 billion in USD1, the Trump stablecoin. Rather than earn interest on $2 billion, that meant the interest would instead be collected by the Trump company. That seemed weird, because why would Binance want to give up what could have been ~$40M in interest? And why would they pick USD1 of all stablecoins? (The one deal alone constituted 90% of USD1's entire market cap.) Around the same time, our own members (NFT holders) were asking me why Coinage wasn't covering Trump's stablecoin. But after helping 60 Minutes' producers understand the connections and how things worked, I realized Coinage was perfectly suited to explain all this in an objective way. Our little team of 3 sprung into action, our editor slept on the floor of our office and in a week, we had produced a 17-minute mini-documentary that even Trump supporters said changed their minds on what they thought about what was going on. After all, we were making the piece for them — the viewers who paid to co-own our outlet and find the truth together. Then, months later, Trump pardoned Binance's founder CZ. Binance has not responded to whether they plan to now sell their USD1. I'm not sure what the 60 Minutes piece will include or how they will tell the story with a larger team and a larger budget, but I'm proud to have played a part in at least helping to explain what's happening in crypto. We are a small, independent news co-op owned by our NFT holders and built transparently onchain and funded by our memberships and $COINAGE For crypto to succeed in its mission for transparency and community ownership, I think it is paramount for the industry to have simple examples to cite in order to show we are walking the walk. I have no doubt the 60 Minutes piece will get more views and coverage than our documentary which came out in September, but if you're curious, it's linked below and every view helps. Just know where the search for truth started: In a newsroom, built onchain, funded and co-owned by a completely random set of people from around the world who wanted to co-own a media outlet.

Like this if you think @Polymarket should add odds on Do Kwon’s criminal charges getting dropped