Crypto Donors Flooded 2026 Midterms With a Record $471 Million
The cryptocurrency industry poured a staggering $471 million into the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, nearly doubling its 2024 contributions. An extensive investigation by James Delmore, a blockchain and crypto market analyst for Breadcrumbs and an independent writer, traces the extraordinary flow of political money,…
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Cryptocurrency
A digital currency secured by cryptography and recorded on a blockchain, without a central bank issuing it.
Crypto prices are volatile, and governments are still deciding how to regulate it.
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A shared digital ledger in which records are grouped into blocks and linked so that past entries are very hard to change.
It underpins cryptocurrencies and is tested for payments, supply tracking and record keeping.
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