OpenSecrets - The crypto trio: How the cryptocurrency industry has made its mark on 2024 elections
Where to begin? Donald J. Trump won the U.S. election against Kamala Harris, in great part by the backing of the Bitcoin/crypto industry. Super PACs spent well over $133 million into the 2024 election, notably Fairshake, Protect Progress, & Defend American Jobs. Besides the trio, for years already, prominent individuals with Bitcoin and all other crypto communities have spewed propaganda upon propaganda, convincing new investors and people extremely vulnerable to the dying state of the U.S. to take a ponzi chance. And one such individual is the inventor of the cryptocurrency Ethereum.
Meet Vitalik Buterin
Who is Vitalik Buterin? History of the Founder of Ethereum
Who is Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, more known commonly as Vitalik Buterin? Born on January 31, 1994, in Kolomna, Russia, Buterin demonstrated prodigious skills in computer science and programming. But as a former World of Warcraft gamer, Buterin got very salty when gaming company Blizzard decided to nerf his character’s “beloved warlock’s Siphon Life spell”. This strange encounter resulted in Buterin to brain fart by exploring Bitcoin, and in 2011, co-found his own company.
Bitcoin Magazine
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By 2012 and onward, Bitcoin Magazine through Buterin remains the original and most established source of news, information, and commentary centering around Bitcoin. As passionate as Buterin and other contributors of Bitcoin Magazine have become over the years, the company itself got bought out by BTC Media. Since then, additional investors, developers, and entrepreneurs have transformed cryptocurrency into one giant ponzi scheme. BTC Media claims to wanting to build bridges, to promote freedom, to value creation. But when massive conflicts of interest involving politics, corporate media, billionaires and institutions, and even Presidential candidates get involved, what if all the dialogues promoted by Bitcoin Magazine has been one big lie all along?
In a Reddit forum, Bitcoin Magazine’s and its conferences since 2022 have been largely polarizing and shitty due to several conflicts of interests happening. These include:
Heavy promotion of NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), DeFi (Decentralized finance), “shitcoins”, centralized yield farming exchanges, stablecoins (crypto tied to a fiat currency or commodity)
Many of the promotions were sponsors
Bitcoin Magazine previously lost its investment when investing in former company Three Arrows Capitol Chapter 11 bankruptcies of crypto firms
Bitcoin Magazine selling NFTs at auctions, up to 10 BTC each
Ignoring and enabling 3rd parties to promote scams
The list of complaints forced both Bitcoin Magazine and its current owner, David Bailey, to respond back. Bailey objected to the Three Arrows Capitol investment of being a loss and merely just a fantasy, denied NFTs and “shitcoins” being inherently bad as long they related to Bitcoin, and overly promoted “Bitcoin hype” rather than Bitcoin itself. None of these remarks and actions from Bailey were good outlets for Bitcoin Magazine. And like Bailey, Buterin doesn’t display very good outlets as a influential leader in the ponzi world of crypto.
Ukraine
Vitalik Buterin Quietly Donates $5M in Ethereum to Ukraine
When conflict between Ukraine and Russia escalated, no thanks to the U.S. and NATO to put pressure on Russia to back off from responding to the rise of Azov Nazis, what did corporate media, politicians, and even Hollywood do? They went extremely hard on promoting “RussiaGate” and Ukrainian propaganda, including its “leader” Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy. The trio dismissed any previous rhetoric of Azov Nazism and more notably any dark money involving Hunter Biden and his involvement as a board member of Ukrainian company Burisma. So has Buterin.
In April 2022, Buterin donated $5 million worth of cryptocurrency to two Ukrainian charities, Aid for Ukraine and Unchain Fund. $2.5 million went to each charity. Upon closing examination, Buterin commented that the conflict was a “crime against the Ukrainian and Russian people”. With regards to crypto, Buterin said, “Ethereum is neutral, but I am not.” Bullshit; Vitalik is the inventor of Ethereum, and thus Buterin has openly given away his political position as to how Ethereum should be integrated in going forward to advance Western interests.
What exactly did Aid for Ukraine provide?
Help Ukraine with crypto, don’t leave us alone with the enemy (Final report)
Digital rifle scopes, Thermal imagers, Monoculars, Optical sights, Armor vests, Helmets, Military clothing & accessories, Tactical backpack, Field rations, Fuel, Worldwide anti-war media campaign, Radio communication kits and stations, Laptops, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), Medical supplies, Military medical kits, Cars, Transportation expenses, Solar batteries, Purchase of specialized hardware & software complexes (non-public information), Lethal equipment (non-public information), Communication devices, Administrative/logistic costs & bank commissions, Purchase for the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (Non-public information)
Buterin is essentially a warmonger who uses Ethereum to promote a proxy war. One must wonder how much close ties does Buterin have with Zelensky…
What exactly did Unchain for Ukraine provide?
Coinbase filming the "story" of Unchain Fund
Unchain’s specifications of what it provided for Ukraine isn’t as detailed as Aid for Ukraine. As far as the Unchain website had stated, donators could donate:
Medical aid, host refugees via AirBnb, donate to the British Red Cross, UN Crisis Relief, Voices of Children, etc.
Honestly, some of these non-profit based organizations scream massive conflicts of interests. Ukrainians did not have to be put in this dire situation had the U.S. and NATO actually dealt with disbanding the rise of Azov Nazis in Ukraine as early back as 2014.
Even the crypto exchange Coinbase assisted Unchain. Coinbase painted Unchain’s efforts to aid Ukranians as being the victims of the Russians’ invasion, even though it was both the U.S. and NATO that put pressure against Russia when Zelensky wanted desperately to join NATO, which NATO still hasn’t accepted Ukraine into. On top of that, Coinbase is infamously partnered with the WEF (World Economic Forum) who want to make systematic changes such as using blockchain technology to commonly adapt CBDC (Central Banking Digital Currency) to further benefit elites and keep the working class under.
As of April 2023, Unchain stopped accepting donations. But the damage has been done; Buterin’s Ethereum donations partly contributed to the proxy war extending rather than using Ethereum for something more productive that is anything but a Western ponzi.
Incrypted Conference 2024
Vitalik Buterin on changes in the Ukrainian community and its contribution to the Ethereum ecosystem
Earlier in June, Buterin participated in the Incrypted Conference, a blockchain conference that welcomed and supported the latest developments of blockchain technology, including that of Web3, NFTs, Solana, a Binance yellow car (no joke), etc. Upon closer inspection (Incrypt’s photo gallery), the conference is filled with a bunch of out of touch overly optimistic young adolescents who think that blockchain technology is what will pioneer Ukraine going forward; they couldn’t be more wrong.
Buterin’s involvement in Incrypted was to gaslight Ukrainians are making a big impact everywhere in the crypto space, meme coins are “fun” and will become more sustainable in the long run, and projects involving crypto need to move away from speculation and think long-term. In a nutshell, Buterin is an idiot who adds more indirect insult to the destabilization of Ukraine. The grim reality of what has been happening in Ukraine, to a degree much like Gaza and Lebanon, is that Ukraine has been seized by pro-Wall Street/pro-crypto industry billionaires and institutions who are doing everything they can to brainwash the next generations of young adolescents and even children to continue supporting blockchain so that the very wealthy and its crypto pioneers like Buterin can remain rich and virtually untouched.
Trump’s Ethereum-based Trading Card NFTs
Donald Trump Holds Over $1M in Ether, Also Receives NFT Licensing Fees
Former US President Donald Trump sells out NFT trading cards
Trump Releases 4th Digital Trading Card Set, Reactions Mixed
The Biggest Bitcoin/crypto scammers of 2024
Dishonorable mention: the topic of Ethereum could not be completed without mentioning Trump’s own involvement with using Ethereum.
Since the end of 2022, Trump thought he could make more money selling digital trading cards of himself as a superhero, an astronaut, a Nascar driver, etc. Owners of these trading cards could have “limited-edition cards” and could “make a great Christmas gift”.
Initially, there was backlash from Republicans including that of currently convicted Steve Bannon, who said any involved in the Ethereum-backed NFT project “ought to be fired”. The Trump NFT website claimed that any funds received from the NFTs would not be put towards Trump’s presidential campaign. But Trump himself contradicted what the website stated. Trump went the opposite direction, and as of 2024, has publicly and loudly cheered on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, notably when Trump made his speech in Bitcoin Nashville Conference/RNC 2.0.
As crappy and rather pointless these NFT cards were, idiots nonetheless bought them, and demanded more trading cards from Trump. As of today, there have been four sets of digital trading cards, with the fourth set, Polygon-based NFT cards, being released earlier in August.
If it wasn’t for Buterin and Ethereum, Trump may have never explored exploiting blockchain technology.
What now for Azov Ethereum?
Like Zionist Bitcoin, Azov Ethereum remains under the hands of very greedy, elitist warmongers and con artists all while the trends surrounding Ethereum have managed to slowly convince enough desperate fools in the working class to trust Bitcoin, Ethereum, and all other crypto because they are genuine, safe, will make everyone rich, and are untouchable by traditional banks. But what many of these fools forget is that the Biden presidency paved way for the crypto industry to come out even stronger and much more deceptive out of the post-FTX scandal. And with Trump, while the reminder of his cabinet picks are being finalized, Trump has convinced enough idiots from MAGA to the gatekeeping Bitcoin/crypto crowd that Trump will deliver these idiots’ salvation. But they will all be reminded (again) of how indifferent Trump is from any other politician or actor who vehemently supports Israel and only Israel’s unjust causes. There is no guarantee Trump and his administration will permanently cut ties with Ukraine; Trump still profits off of his NFT Trading Cards and Ethereum investments. Ukraine and Russia might no longer fight a proxy war but the pro-Wall Street/pro-crypto industry propaganda has thus far turned Ukraine into yet another technocratic zone for Bitcoin/crypto fanatics to exploit and distract Ukrainians from reality. Like Bitcoin, Ethereum will continue to painted as something “good”, when it is not. Should another colossal market crash involving crypto were to happen (again), hopefully Buterin is caught as being yet another fraudster who allowed his invention, Ethereum, to become grossly misused, and quite frankly, drawn out all kinds of religious cults, scammers, and opportunists such as Trump and Zelensky.
With that said,
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #FuckBitcoin