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Michael Terpin

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821 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

You know, these are the people who put Trump into office, quite frankly, because if you look, I mean, you know, money talks and BS walks in politics, right?

Digital Social Hour
Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

I mean, the influence of money on politics is, you know, unmistakable.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

It's too bad, but it is what it is.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

And if you look at historically the U.S.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

presidential campaigns, the biggest dollar participants have been big pharma and the big banks.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

And you can see how policy has gone.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

This last election cycle was the first time that those two were not the top categories.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

Crypto was the biggest investor.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

48% of all funding for the presidential election was from the crypto industry.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

They contributed to both sides, but mainly they contributed to the Trump campaign because Trump said, I'm pro-Bitcoin.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

And Kamala was like, well, you know, we're going to look at it.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

And of course, they were the same party that just had a war on crypto with Bitcoin.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

Gary Gensler, Elizabeth Warren.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

So even though they were saying, well, look at it, you know, it was very I mean, I think the most positive thing that Kamala ever said was she said, well, I understand that black men are making some money on crypto.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

So there must be something good here.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

But, you know, the whole identity politics that kind of cost the election as well.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

Yeah.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

Yeah.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

I got in just because I contributed to meet President Trump, get a grip and grin shot at Bitcoin 2024.

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Michael Terpin: What Billionaires Aren’t Telling You About Bitcoin’s Next Cycle | DSH #1622

So when he was a candidate, he spoke in Nashville.