"En todas pasó lo mismo: un pequeño número de insiders se llevó el botín a casa y el resto perdió. Unos pocos ganaron cientos de millones con $TRUMP y $MELANIA. El resto perdió colectivamente 2.000 millones de dólares. Los promotores sacaron más de 100 millones de comisiones por transacción. La memecoin centroafricana llegó a valer 900 millones de dólares antes del colapso. Libra llegó a valer 4.400 millones. Poco después, Musk subió un 123% el valor de su memecoin favorita (DOGE) cambiando su foto de perfil por una sosteniendo la motosierra metálica roja que le regaló Milei.

Quizá solo son presidentes haciéndose ricos a costa de su electorado. Pero las cripto son el vehículo perfecto para financiar campañas y esquivar las regulaciones tradicionales de financiación. De hecho, son un medio popular entre los grupos supremacistas, nazis y antisemitas americanos. Solo en 2023, la Liga Antidifamación llegó a certificar al menos 15 grupos de extrema derecha moviendo importantes cantidades en criptomonedas para sus actividades. En noviembre de 2020, varios activistas ultras recibieron medio millón de dólares en bitcoin de un donante francés, poco antes del asalto al Capitolio. El FBI cree que se usaron para financiar la operación.

Es improbable que la nueva Administración norteamericana siga investigando esos usos."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2025-02-24/la-nueva-criptoeconomia-de-la-ultraderecha.html

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"Montenegro has recently been able to reach its first “final verdict” that was actually final enough to see Kwon actually board a plane, and he arrived in the United States to appear in court on January 2. This was celebrated by Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, who tweeted that he believed the extradition would “put an end to pre-election manipulations and attempts to stage a scandal”. Kwon is probably not as happy about the outcome as Spajić. Although he fought both extradition to the United States and South Korea, he seemed particularly opposed to the idea of winding up in the United States, with his lawyers at one point arguing that Montenegrin courts had falsified information so as to suggest that the United States requested Kwon's extradition before South Korea, and stating that the facts “absolutely and one hundred percent give priority to Korea.” He’d tried again to halt this extradition, too, by again claiming that Minister of Justice Bojan Božović had illegally granted it, but to no avail.

The eight fraud, market manipulation, and money laundering charges carry hefty maximum sentences, and Kwon stands accused of causing $40 billion in losses to at least hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million people. He’s entered a not guilty plea, as is to be expected this early on, and is likely to do a whole lot more sitting around in a jail cell as prosecutors and defense attorneys sift through discovery. “Sounds like we’re going to be backing up a U-Haul to the Southern District,” District Judge Paul Engelmayer joked about the apparent six terabytes of data, before scheduling the trial start date a whopping year away in January 2026 (while offering Kwon and his defense team the opportunity to request an earlier trial)."

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-73/

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