Trump's "Chief Crypto Market Maker" Road: From MEME to National Strategic Reserves, An Analysis of the Operational Logic of Political Capitalization
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Trump's "Chief Crypto Market Maker" Road: From MEME to National Strategic Reserves, An Analysis of the Operational Logic of Political Capitalization
The decentralization of blockchain恰恰 provides an excellent, covert space for manipulation by centralized power.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy Bingwa
Disclaimer: This article is highly emotional and personal. Readers are advised to engage lightly to avoid being overwhelmed. Thank you!
The politicians of the White House and Wall Street capital are reconstructing power dynamics on-chain, using decentralization as a pretext to build a more隐蔽 (concealed), more ruthless new system of exploitation.
When Trump’s tweets become part of political insider trading, we must acknowledge an extremely ironic paradox: blockchain's decentralization has ironically provided a perfect, hidden space for centralized power to manipulate.
I. The Colonial Experiment of Power: Trump’s Rise as Chief Crypto Market Maker
While you stay up late monitoring Trump’s tweets, you might believe you’re participating in a financial revolution launched by the Commander-in-Chief. But the harsh reality may be far worse: you could simply be crowdfunding the electricity bill for Mar-a-Lago.
Yes, Trump’s presidency brings benefits to crypto—but just as there’s no such thing as unconditional love, the other side of political favor may carry a heavy price: the beginning of power’s colonization over the decentralized world.
Recently, two news items have factually substantiated this very point.
First, chain data revealed days ago that the operations behind LIBRA and MELANIA are laundering money through wash trading.
Second, last night, a whale used 50x leverage to go long on BTC and ETH. With such leverage, their liquidation price was only a few hundred dollars away from the spot price. As everyone puzzled over this risky move, Trump tweeted about a national strategic reserve for digital currencies. Within half an hour, this address made a $50 million profit.
Two brief news snippets—and anyone with basic financial literacy can draw one clear conclusion: If this isn’t insider trading, then what is? The ultimate political-capitalist playbook, laid bare in its stark simplicity.
Trump truly understands decentralization—especially how, when combined with political power, making money becomes as effortless as breathing. And at least for now, it comes with zero legal liability.
Satoshi’s original vision promised a path beyond national sovereignty and capital hegemony. Yet Trump’s actions prove that power, through overt or subtle signals and even more seductive narratives, is leveraging capital’s leverage to digitally possess and colonize blockchain. Inside information is being transformed by power-aligned groups into tradable leveraged derivatives.
The monetization of political power and capital’s on-chain cashouts—from memes to tweets laden with implicit political donations—Trump is supercharging the Washington revolving door with a blockchain engine. From information privilege to political capitalization, the market’s feverish fantasy around Trump’s policies is nothing but new colonial marketing.
Some say Trump is launching an American political revolution. But as a blockchain practitioner, we must face a grim truth: Trump, wielding information privilege as market-making dominance, is burying Satoshi’s anarchism—albeit with a state funeral of great dignity.
Make America Great Again. Let Anarchism Die. That epitaph is carved by Trump himself.
II. The Logic of Political Capitalization: The Trinity of Harvesting and Profit Distribution
Political capitalization is part of modern politics. In traditional finance, legal constraints and time lags help smooth out the extreme volatility caused by power monetization.
Trump, however, has pioneered an advanced harvesting paradigm: the fusion of political power and crypto. At its core lies arbitrage via volatility, where tweets and information privileges serve as the primary tools to generate that volatility.
A revolving-door profit chain—“policy leaks → market manipulation → lobbying legislation”—is quietly forming in Washington. After all, even the SEC has declared: “MEMEs are not securities; investment risks are borne by investors.”
When “code is law” meets “power is law,” the former collapses instantly.
More deeply, the SEC and Gary Gensler themselves are merely cogs in this harvesting machine. Only by creating an obvious “enemy” can subsequent token marketing and on-chain colonization achieve emotional amplification, enabling profit through information manipulation and capital leverage.
People mistake Trump for erratic, unaware that he is in fact a master of social psychology—a top-tier expert in hype and attention economics.
This triple-harvest strategy is not new in history—or more provocatively, it mirrors the logic of religious faith: create guilt, sell salvation, monetize power. The economics of redemption has never changed, whether in medieval religion or the cyclical collapses of modern financial markets. It always follows the same rule.
The brilliance of power lies not in forcing submission through violence, but in making you pay out of your own pocket for illusions of security and wealth.
Beyond personal gains and losses, there are no winners in this game. The “meme wash trades” and “leveraged insider manipulation” behind the Trump phenomenon are not merely abuses of technology by power—they represent a real, fundamental reshaping of blockchain itself.
Traditional money laundering and power corruption rely on clearly centralized intermediaries, heavily constrained by law and geography. Trump’s so-called technological neutrality, while improving the industry’s real-world standing, has undeniably transformed its essence.
The politicians of the White House and the capital of Wall Street are reconstructing power relations on-chain. Under the banner of decentralization, they are building a more concealed, more brutal new system of exploitation.
You think you're chasing financial freedom, but in the eyes of those in power, you’re just fuel for more efficient wealth extraction. In their view, you’re merely a number that can be reset to zero at any moment.
We hate capital, despise centralization, yet depend on them to survive, exploited by them. Individual retail investors swing between attachment and resistance, while shrinking wallets remind us of the harsh truth: Yes, it’s time to wake up.
III. The Paradox: The More Decentralized, the More Complete the Centralization of Control
Perhaps we must admit: cryptocurrency has never been free from politics. When the taming of the crypto world by power is openly displayed, everything feels overwhelming—except the daily spectacle of wealth extraction continues unabated.
From a conspiratorial angle, we might pessimistically conclude: “technological neutrality” simply means cutting out the middlemen in韭菜 (lambo) farming.
Recent events have delivered a brutal truth: blockchain has not disrupted traditional power. Instead, it has provided politics with a real augmented pathway for manipulation—or more brutally, blockchain has given rulers sharper weapons of control.
When your trust is controlled by algorithms, power no longer needs to manifest in traditional, complex forms. Every transaction can be shaped by higher-order rules of authority. This bursts the myth of technology. In each insider trade, we do not see Satoshi’s ideal of freedom, but rather a cyber reflection of humanity’s age-old power games.
We are all pawns caught in the game. But I still hope we understand it—and strive not to become cannon fodder. Life must go on.
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