LIVEDonald Trump negotiates support with the owners of cryptocurrency exchanges
Reuters, citing sources, reported that the candidate from the Republican Party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November organized a meeting with cryptocurrency market participants in San Francisco for the sake of raising funds for the campaign.
Donald Trump (Donald Trump) thanks to the meeting managed to raise about $12 million, according to the interlocutors of the news agency. The event for venture capital funds from Silicon Valley in Pacific Heights was organized by former top manager of Facebook, investor Chamath Palihapitiya (Chamath Palihapitiya).
The meeting was attended by executives from U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Gemini platform founders brothers Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss and several other representatives of the cryptocurrency market, Reuters' sources said.
According to Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe, those who dared to give money to Trump believe that he will be able to change the policy on cryptocurrencies and market regulation for the better.
Earlier, Donald Trump, speaking to voters in Washington, promised to make the United States a cryptohub, as well as pardon the founder of the darknet site Silk Road Ross Ulbricht (Ross Ulbricht).
LIVE