{"id":9433,"date":"2025-01-24T04:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2025-01-24T04:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:31:34","slug":"amid-trump-melania-token-frenzy-ethereums-vitalik-buterin-warns-of-unlimited-political-bribery-via-memecoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9433","title":{"rendered":"Amid Trump, Melania Token Frenzy, Ethereum&#8217;s Vitalik Buterin Warns Of &#8216;Unlimited Political Bribery&#8217; Via Memecoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>, co-founder of <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), expressed concerns over the rise of political meme coins on Thursday, warning that they could become \u201cvehicles for unlimited political bribery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: In an X post, Buterin criticized the current state of the cryptocurrency industry, particularly the increasing popularity of political tokens. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not just sources of fun, whose harm is at most contained to mistakes made by voluntary participants; they are vehicles for unlimited political bribery, including from foreign nation states,\u201d the cryptocurrency mogul said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is perhaps an analogy with weed here.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, to many weed represented freedom, and rebellion against sclerotic old order that denied self-sovereignty over &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/43182670\/amid-trump-token-frenzy-ethereums-vitalik-buterin-warns-of-unlimited-political-bribery-via\" alt=\"Amid\" trump melania token frenzy ethereum vitalik buterin warns of political bribery via memecoins>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), expressed concerns over the rise of political meme coins on Thursday, warning that they could become \u201cvehicles for unlimited political bribery.\u201d What Happened: In an X post, Buterin criticized the current state of the cryptocurrency industry, particularly the increasing popularity of political tokens. \u201cThey are not just sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}