Gemini founders donate $1 million in bitcoin to Trump

(Reuters) – The Winklevoss brothers, founders of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday that they donated $1 million in bitcoin to Donald Trump and that they will vote for him in November.

“Over the past few years, the Biden Administration has openly declared war on crypto. It has weaponized multiple government agencies to bully, harass, and sue good players in our industry in an attempt to destroy our industry,” Tyler Winklevoss wrote in his post. said. .

Earlier in the month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump presented himself as a champion of cryptocurrency and criticized Democrats’ attempts to regulate the industry during a fundraiser in San Francisco.

(Reporting by Pritam Biswas in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)