The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.
President Donald Trump has welcomed nearly 130 donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their contributions to a new $250 million ballroom project.
The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s committed to making the U.S. a world leader in cryptocurrencies as industry leaders heaped praise on him for reversing what they said had been unfair attacks on digital assets by the previous administration.
MENLO PARK, California - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have long been known for their legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over who invented Facebook. "I think there is a day in the future where we can't live without crypto, or imagine a world before crypto," Cameron Winklevoss said. The Winklevoss brothers said they've been in talks with Facebook about joining the project's governing body, the Libra Association. Cameron Winklevoss expects every one of the FAANG companies Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google to get into crypto. They're probably watching Libra and Facebook to see how that fares as they develop it," Cameron Winklevoss said.
