{"id":26848,"date":"2024-07-30T22:52:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2024-07-30T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T22:52:13","slug":"foreign-policy-trumps-crypto-turnaround-heralds-an-economic-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/07\/30\/foreign-policy-trumps-crypto-turnaround-heralds-an-economic-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy: Trump\u2019s Crypto Turnaround Heralds an Economic Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is finally out, and not before time! [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/07\/30\/trump-crypto-2024-election-economic-nightmare\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>, paywalled<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>That was originally my placeholder headline, which I was sure they&#8217;d replace with something punchier. Evidently it was up to the task.<\/p>\n<p>$5-and-up patrons will have read my original submitted version of this story nine days ago. The final version is barely edited \u2014 though we did add last-second updates from Bitcoin 2024 \u2014 so evidently I got it mostly right the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/07\/30\/foreign-policy-trumps-crypto-turnaround-heralds-an-economic-nightmare\/trump-july-27\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26849\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-july-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-july-27.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-july-27-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-july-27-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><i>Not &#8220;weird,&#8221; all right?<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With updates from Bitcoin 2024!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[612,21,1362,1150],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-andreessen-horowitz","tag-bitcoin","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-july-27.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26852,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions\/26852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}