Nearly half of corporate donations in 2024 are from crypto corps

drinkypoo writes: Public Citizen reports that 48% of all corporate contributions in 2024 elections have come from cryptocurrency corporations, with over $119 million spent influencing federal elections. Only fossil fuel companies have spent more over the last ten years. The crypto sector's chosen SuperPACs won their preferred outcomes in 36 out of 42 primary races they invested in. Is this undue influence when only 7% of Americans have used cryptocurrency?

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[RockDoctor]

... the contributions are to American politics, not (say) code to Github. This may be a US-dominated site, but there are non-Americans here, and we're not all totally obsessed with USian politics. For us, it's very much a case of - Same cart, different driver, but on another road, so "Meh".