Justin Slaughter

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It’s a true irony of life that for all Gary Gensler says about crypto not following unwritten rules, he is personally consumers sloppy about following political norms and rules in his official government job. https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/1834210398842581351?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Stray thought: leftists concerned first and foremost with social welfare programs may be more amenable to crypto than liberals obsessed with building state power. It’s not Bernie Sanders or AOC declaring a war on crypto like Warren has.

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What a surprise, independent academic poll basically tracks polls from us at Paradigm and others in crypto: - Crypto owners lean Trump, voting for him 50-38 over Harris - Ownership skews young and nonwhite - ownership is not ideological: equal percentages of progressives, moderates, MAGA, liberals, conservatives all own crypto. https://www.fdu.edu/news/fdu-poll-finds-trumps-embrace-of-crypto-pays-off/

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In the great battle of Sekigahara, the eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the western forces of Ishida Mitsunari because the eastern forces had a unified command structure and the west didn’t. Better logistics beats better strategy nearly every time.

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Great things are happening in Chicago. https://x.com/crypto/status/1826331383205142779?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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We dropped our new poll of Democrats on crypto today. Best data point on crypto is that 18% of Dems have bought up to this point, 12% currently own, and 27% plan to buy in the next year. Based on the crosstabs, about 14% of Dems plan to buy for first time in next 12 months. AMA https://policy.paradigm.xyz/writing/Dem-polling

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If you want to know who is losing power in Dem politics right now, look at who is screaming that the Biden years were actually awesome. https://x.com/ddayen/status/1821941375723552853?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Anyway, if you wanted a rebuttal of some of the bad points made about crypto in the Washington Post and the New York Times recently, Sheila Warren and I have a new op-ed fact checking them. https://t.co/J6mCVTOQcG

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Publications write headlines of op-eds, not the authors. If you took out the headline (which shows the NYT Editorial page hates crypto), this is annoying but less bad than usual. And if you dropped this piece in 2023, it would seem pro-crypto compared to all other newspaper columns on us. We’re winning. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/opinion/crypto-2024-election.html

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If you had 30 seconds with a senior adviser to the Harris campaign to explain why they should be pro-crypto, what would you say?

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The really wild that about this election is that the Harris team is building a campaign apparatus in basically 90 days, which is a long time for the rest of the world used to 5-6 week election campaigns, and insanely fast for the US and our multi-year death march campaigns.

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Man, Harris went with Walz. I’m shocked. Probably an error, not least that is signal an interest in prevent defense/not rocking the boat rather than playing to win.

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If a campaign is starting to explain why the polls are wrong or “unskewing them,” you should rebenchmark their chances to the downside. That the Trump team is doing this the same day as Harris crossed 50% in Nate Silver’s model is exceptionally bad though; suggests her momentum will continue. https://x.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1820153881071886689?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Harris VP will be Shapiro. All signs point to it. Probably right call since picking a VP from a specific state increases the ticket’s percent of the vote by .5% and PA is clearly the tipping point. But this could be a decision that echoes for decades since this makes Shapiro front runner in either 28 or 32. https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-she-should-pick-shapiro?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

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Research Policy

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According to the best reports available, the key advisors for Kamala Harris on financial matters are: Rohini Kosgolu (former WH) Brian Nelson (Treasury) Mike Pyle (former WH) Sen. Laphonza Butler & Deanne Millison. Only Butler has even vaguely discernible views on crypto, and has largely kept those views quiet.

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A joy in crypto policy over the last week is people who dislike crypto being shocked it’s 1) back 2) gaining ground politically & 3) having no analytical construct to explain it. It’s like watching bullies call for a teacher. https://x.com/bigmeaninternet/status/1817700325161050409?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Real https://x.com/ft/status/1817096076433707427?s=46&t=6pIOBuXCDYR3MDdqas9hTg

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Crowdsourcing this: which Democratic campaigns for Congress currently accept crypto donations?

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It’s a good piece and lags out the how of the breakdown between Democrats and tech, as well as why tech correctly thinks Democrats have turned on tech. The single missing piece is the Democrats’ explanation for the switch. In short: events and a new faction took power.

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