Donald Trump was swept into power in the November 2024 elections funded to a large extent by Silicon Valley billionaires. In return for their support, Trump appointed JD Vance, who was handpicked by Silicon Valley as the Vice President. JD Vance is a disciple of Peter Thiel, who along with Elon Musk founded PayPal as part of the PayPal Mafia. Big Tech has been a huge part of Trump's 2.0 Presidency, as we have seen here in 2025 with the push to make cryptocurrencies a larger part of the U.S. and worldwide financial system. Before the end of the first quarter in March of 2025, the Trump family started their own cryptocurrency financial network to challenge traditional banking, called "World Liberty Financial." However, the most common way people use cryptocurrency today is through selling and buying it like an asset, which is why Blackrock and other giant Wall Street investors have created their own hedge funds around the price of cryptocurrencies. To truly replace banks and become an entirely new financial system, crypto has to be used in financial transactions in places like the retail sector, where currently the credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, etc.), backed by FDIC insured bank accounts, still dominate. So in August this year, the Trump family-owned World Liberty Financial purchased a publicly traded Canadian company, Alt5 Sigma, giving World Liberty Financial a public stock listing in the U.S., and giving them an existing platform where cryptocurrencies were already being used for online payments in ecommerce stores and gaming sites. Fast forward to today as we near the end of 2025, and things are not going well for Trump's new crypto financial system, or its investors, as their value has plummeted. It is not surprising that the Trump family's desire to create a financial system that would replace traditional banking with cryptocurrency has failed, forcing them to pivot to using cryptocurrencies as investment assets instead, just as the Wall Street hedge fund managers are doing. To gain any traction in the payments sector and replace credit cards, consumers need to use it. And overwhelmingly in the U.S., consumers are NOT buying it, and prefer to stick with traditional banking and credit cards. According to a Pew Research Center survey last year, in 2024, only 17% of U.S. adults say they have ever invested in, traded or used a cryptocurrency. They also report that this number remained roughly unchanged since 2021, and it has not changed much here in 2025 either. The American consumer still has more power than they realize....