📊 Chainalysis put out some data claiming that at least half of all TRUMP and MELANIA #memecoin “investors” never bought a token on Solana before and most of them hold less than $200 worth while 50 “whales” have made profits of more than $10 million each, strongly suggesting that the biggest suckers in the #TrumpCoin grift are the #MAGA voter base. Feels like #JustinSun made a deal with Trump to let him fleece the MAGA base and drain money back to #China.
Here’s the Chainalysis thread with the charts: x.com/chainalysis/status/18822
I have some issues with #Chainalysis and suspect the data is actually even more damning than they’re saying… but I don’t have access to the data and what they’re saying is already extremely damning. (Kind of expect them to be forced to retract it by the company ownership because of the bad PR).
Lots of talk about how these coins fleeced the rubes. Significantly less about where all that money went and how Trump’s finance-bro allies are becoming bolder than ever.
Don’t forget the Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide Act of 2024 or the BITCOIN Act of 2024 which will likely see the floor again in 2025.
So much of the exit strategy for cryptocurrency brokers involves offloading them to the US Treasury and other public brokers / pension funds at these hyper-inflated values. Are we really that far away from $TRUMP and $MELANIA coins being bulk-purchased by the President’s cabinet secretaries at the order of his cronies in the legislature?