'The first crypto president': bitcoin fans bet on Donald Trump to change fortunes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Last month Pishevar co-hosted a fundraiser for Trump in Silicon Valley at investor David Sacks' home, along with Coinbase executives and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, founders of exchange Gemini, who have each donated $1mn in bitcoin to his campaign.
56% : Trump was so surprised by the audience's raucous roar that he repeated his vow.
52% : "My job will be to set you free," said Trump.
51% : "It's clear [Trump's] long thought about keeping American industry here.
48% : In a sign of Democrats' concern about the scale of crypto support behind Trump, Kamala Harris' advisers have in recent days sought to "reset" relations between the party and the industry, by contacting people at companies including Coinbase and Ripple, the FT reported.
45% : "I think he's going to be the first crypto president," venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar told the FT.Crypto's embrace of Trump comes as it tries to throw off the dark cloud cast by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sent this year to jail for 25 years for fraud, and a crackdown by US regulators.
44% : "I think he definitely earned some votes," said Fred Thiel, chief executive of crypto miner Marathon Digital Holdings, after meeting Trump.
40% : Others are critical of the self-serving relationship between Trump and the crypto industry.
18% : But not everyone is convinced by Trump's commitment to crypto.Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, criticised the market's self-interested backing of Trump.

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