Blackvegetable » 08 Apr 2025, 7:12 am » wrote: ↑
NEW YORK, Feb 3 - Entities behind President Donald Trump’s crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms, a large windfall from a venture that has seen tens of thousands of small traders lose money.
The meme coin, known as $Trump, was launched by the president on Jan. 17 and quickly surged, reaching a peak of over $14.5 billion in overall market value by Jan. 19, the day before his inauguration. It has since slumped by two-thirds.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currenc ... 025-02-03/
Apples and oranges. private funds vs a non profit that lobbies for tax payer funding.
Allison O’Toole, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland,
earned $721,000 in total compensation in 2022—even as the nonprofit has
lobbied for taxpayer funding and warned of rising hunger across Minnesota, where 26% of households with children are food insecure,
according to its own research.