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Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown.
https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #artificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #midterms
@molly0xfff so they threw pocket change at it basically. Need to get money out of politics. If I could spend 25 cents to influence an election that should be illegal.
@molly0xfff In the future they will concentrate on more cost-effective forms of corruption. Maybe direct bribes work better?
@molly0xfff Thank you for sharing these details. It adds much needed context to how big a lift these wins were.
@molly0xfff they knew they were going to lose, the key is to keep the numbers close enough. They will still vote together on this administration's disastrous foreign policy
@molly0xfff this must be such a sweet article to write!
@molly0xfff #Crypto is done unless it starts a moon run again (it will not), even as there are super interesting use cases out there that neither enthusiasts or detractors really understand. But if those succeed, and I think many will, nobody will call it #crypto. Just like #AI will be called search, discovery, models, simulations, trained sets... All to mute the stink after #OpenAI and #Anthropic and #SpaceX flame out. The great renaming is upon us.
@molly0xfff 🎉