Trump Crypto Profits Hit $1B as Bitcoin Crashes 50% From Its ATH
Trump Crypto Profits Hit $1B as Bitcoin Crashes 50% From Its ATH
Capital rotation into AI and semiconductor stocks pulled speculative money away from crypto. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), a publicly traded bitcoin-accumulation firm, reversed its long-held commitment to never sell BTC, rattling confidence in the institutional HODLer narrative.
Forced liquidations in the heavily leveraged crypto derivatives market then compounded the price drops. When BTC broke the $62,000 support level in early June, approximately $1.5 billion in leveraged long positions were liquidated in hours.
Yusuf Fakhro, a partner at crypto infrastructure firm ARP Digital, said in a research note this week that "the most violent selling appears to be moderating, but demand has not yet returned," projecting a "slower bleed."
Regulatory Red Carpet, Trump, and Crypto Market Reality
The Bitcoin crash has unfolded despite an unprecedented policy tailwind. The White House installed industry-friendly officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the SEC subsequently dropped a series of enforcement actions against crypto companies with ties to the Trump family.
The administration also proposed a strategic bitcoin reserve, a government-held BTC stockpile intended to backstop the token's value, and championed two bipartisan bills aimed at establishing clearer federal rules for issuing and trading digital assets.
Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University, argued the long-run picture remains constructive:
"This will of course boost demand for and valuations of digital assets, implying a healthy future for this entire ecosystem notwithstanding some short-term bumps in the road."
What Prasad's framing leaves unresolved is the distributional question – whose ecosystem, and at whose expense.
Retail investors who bought BTC near the October 2025 peak, or who loaded up on the TRUMP memecoin at launch, are sitting on losses measured in the tens of percentage points at best and near-total wipeouts at worst. Trump, when asked about conflict-of-interest concerns at Joint Base Andrews, attributed his wealth gains to the stock market rally.
As of today, the White House maintains he is not actively managing his businesses or investments. But his financial disclosure tells a more specific story.
This article has been published in 99bitcoins.com via Yahoo News.
Trump Crypto Profits Hit $1B as Bitcoin Crashes 50% From Its ATH
President Trump and family crypto ventures cleared more than $1 billion in 2025, according to his latest federal financial disclosure. It was the same year that Bitcoin crashed more than 50% from its $126,000 all-time high, erasing every gain retail investors captured during the post-election...
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