On December 23, 2024, blockchain explorers recorded three transactions: 450 BTC flowing into public addresses belonging to Trump Media & Technology Group. This marked another expansion of the former U.S. president’s publicly listed company’s Bitcoin reserves, now valued at approximately $1.04 billion, and signaled deeper political engagement with the crypto sector. When the Trump Group announced plans to raise $3 billion to continue purchasing Bitcoin and to “institutionalize” cryptocurrency ...