Trump’s latest nominees are a gift to his wealthiest crypto boosters | CNN Business

CNN  — 

If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: President-elect Donald Trump plans to boost the cryptocurrency industry while continuing a broad antitrust crackdown on Big Tech giants such as Amazon, Meta and Google.

That combination would appear to reward Trump’s wealthiest and most influential donors in Silicon Valley, some of whom have specifically called for less regulation of crypto and weakening the power of large tech monopolies.

In short, it’s the venture capitalist tech agenda.

On Wednesday, Trump said he plans to nominate Paul Atkins to lead the Securities and

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