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Freezing Their Assets Off

February 6, 2026 Buck Banks

The Trumps said the crypto market was a good one to enter,
But that was before the value of bitcoin began to splinter.
Now it’s worth even less
Than when Trump took office,
So welcome to 12 to 18 months of cold, cruel crypto winter.

Crypto Lost $400 Billion Last Week

November 22, 2025 Buck Banks

$400 billion

“A plunge in cryptocurrency assets accelerated Friday morning, led by bitcoin, which has lost more than a third of its value since setting an all-time high in October,” Axios reports. “The bloodbath has left no corner of the market untouched, and is reviving the debate about crypto as a long-term asset.”

Majority Not Interested in Cryptocurrencies

July 22, 2025 Buck Banks

60%

Fourteen percent of American adults say they own bitcoin or another type of cryptocurrency, according to new Gallup polling, while a much larger share — 60% — said they will never be interested in buying it. Ownership is higher among conservatives, younger men, and high earners.

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Freezing Their Assets Off

Crypto Lost $400 Billion Last Week

$400 billion

Majority Not Interested in Cryptocurrencies

60%

Fourteen percent of American adults say they own bitcoin or another type of cryptocurrency, according to new Gallup polling, while a much larger share — 60% — said they will never be interested in buying it. Ownership is higher among conservatives, younger men, and high earners.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

“I think it’s embarrassing, still, even more so. I mean, sure, like, take care of yourself, get healthy, but who gets to take four months off of work because they’re sad?”

— Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called Rep. Tom Kean Jr’s (R-NJ) explanation on Tuesday for his prolonged absence from Congress “embarrassing” in an interview with TMZ, Mediaite reports.

Numerati

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.

$3.81 billion

53%

A new Cato Institute poll found that only 53% of Americans could correctly identify the adoption of the Declaration of Independence as the historical event marked by July 4. And 46% said they did not know what the day commemorated, including 61% of Gen Z respondents.

$26 million

“President Donald Trump said he had earned at least $26 million in income from an array of new real estate ventures abroad, illustrating how his fortune has grown as his family embraces foreign deal-making in his second term,” Bloomberg reports.