The ‘crypto bros’ are spending big in the 2024 election

Left: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks about the tax code and manufacturing at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Right: Right: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Bojangles Coliseum, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).

Left: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks about the tax code and manufacturing at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Savannah, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Right: Right: Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Bojangles Coliseum, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin).

Back in Holland in the 1600s the market went wild for tulips — and then crashed in a spectacular fashion. As Syracuse law professor Christian Day wrote, “when the markets crashed … society often rejoiced in schadenfreude.”

Today the craze is crypto. And one of the reasons to take this more seriously than Tulip Mania is that cryptocurrency companies — and their evangelistic boosters, often referred to as “crypto bros” — are spending big money in the 2024 elections to influence American voters.

As I write about in my book “Corporatocracy,” cryptocurrency spending in American elections isn’t completely novel. Back in 2020, the largest single corporate donation to a super PAC was a $5 million donation from a company called Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency hedge fund run by the then-wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, better known as SBF.

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