Tagged: president trump

October 16, 2020 @ 2:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently spoke to Meltem Demirors, the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, a digital asset treasury management firm that manages over $1 billion in assets. Demirors talked about how financial markets reacted after US President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. She also discussed… Read More

July 11, 2019 @ 11:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

President Donald Trump declared on Twitter this evening that he is not a fan of cryptocurrency. Following the Social Media Summit, which took place at the White House earlier in the day, the U.S. leader revealed his true thoughts on digital currency, including what he… Read More

December 28, 2017 @ 2:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Kickstarter Co-Founder and current CEO, Yancey Strickler, took to Twitter to announce his support for five nonprofits after reading predictions that President Trump’s tax bill may have a huge negative impact against the organizations. Strickler’s support went to the following nonprofits, Bold Alliance,… Read More

December 26, 2017 @ 12:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after the Trump Administration announced it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo revealed its support for the program. The funding portal revealed in a blog post last week: “A few months ago, President… Read More

November 2, 2017 @ 3:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, crowdfunding success BrewDog launched a “Make Earth Great Again” beer in protest of the leader’s decision.  Make Earth Great Again is described as a saison… Read More

August 23, 2017 @ 2:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Valerie Plame Wilson, a former undercover CIA operations agent, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to purchase Twitter for $1 billion in order to get President Trump off the social media platform. The initiative debuted last week. Plame tweeted: If @Twitter executives won’t shut… Read More

February 14, 2017 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace for small business loans, Lendio, announced on Tuesday the results of its latest survey, which showed that small business owners’ perception of Trump’s presidency three weeks in is split. According to the survey, 56% of small business owners stated they believe the economy will… Read More

February 2, 2017 @ 2:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week after President Trump signed an immigration and refugee executive order on seven countries in the middle east (Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen), crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced it is going against the new President’s decision and siding with those… Read More