Why are the crypto cartels trying to eat our democracy whole?

This scammy digital hustle was once derided as a tool for criminals, drug traffickers, terrorists, and pariah states like North Korea. Now its true purpose has been revealed: crypto is a weapon of mass corruption. Very few Americans use crypto, but crypto billionaires are pouring obscene amounts of money into our elections. And the Trump family is raking in billions in ill-gotten crypto wealth.

We’ve never seen anything like it, and it’s a gun to the head of democracy.

On this week’s episode of The Nerd Reich, I talk to tech researcher and writer Molly White, creator of the Citation Needed newsletter. Her essential project, Tech Influence Watch, exposes how tech oligarchs are flooding hundreds of millions of dollars through deceptively named super PACs to decapitate dissenters, capture federal regulators, and line Donald Trump’s pockets.

This is Silicon Valley’s hostile takeover of the USA. It’s happening in broad daylight. Click here to take a look at the receipts.