Declaring himself the first “crypto president”, US President Donald Trump ended a regulatory crackdown on crypto companies.PHOTO: REUTERS

What Trump’s embrace of crypto has unleashed

· The Straits Times

WASHINGTON - This summer, a group of executives pitched a business plan to Mr Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier and short-lived adviser to US President Donald Trump.

They wanted Mr Scaramucci to join a publicly traded company with a peculiar strategy: accumulating enormous quantities of cryptocurrency to make its business more appealing to investors.