“This is the Empire State,” Adams said at a press briefing at Gracie Mansion on Monday. “We should be looking forward to building empires, particularly in the crypto space.”
Adams, who is running for reelection, reiterated his commitment to making New York City a crypto hub, telling reporters that he would work with tech and crypto companies, both big and small, to create a friendly environment to attract them and help them succeed.
“My goal remains the same as it was on day one as mayor: making New York City the crypto capital of the globe,” Adams said. His remarks echo similar pledges from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said he wants to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet.”
Read: “I’m open to being bribed.”
I think it’s about time NYC survived on their own water. Have fun.
-Upstate NY
Crypto is a solution looking for a problem.
The people behind crypto never studied the history of the gold standard.
Crypto is a ponzi scheme virtual asset, not a currency.
Why is it so hard to get rid of that knobhead?
Elections are coming up, Adams is extremely unpopular in the city and I expect him to get voted out. Unfortunately, We have Andrew Cuomo trying to regain some of the power he once had, but I don’t think his chances are great outside of name recognition.
Personally, I’m not registered in NYC but everyone I know there is putting their support behind Zohran Mamdani.
The crypto industry produces so little jobs. Just conceptually server farms that run single applications or pretty much marketing firms that make advertising coin dumps. Companies that employ single digit people locally
Scams are never job-producing schemes. The scammers want to extract the maximum amount of cash from the rubes with the minimum of overheads.
He’s still not in jail? I thought they caught him taking Azeri or Israeli or Russian bribes or all of the listed.
Nope, and it’s actually pretty clever what happened. The judge in the case basically let him go (which is what Trump wanted) but in such a way that the DoJ can’t ever relitigate it (something Trump didn’t want).
Justice was denied, imo, but under the circumstances, the judge managed to thread the needle and keep Trump from being able to blackmail him into doing his bidding.
Well, taking bribes seems to not only be tolerated but encouraged by the current administration. Can’t break the law if you are the law!
"Running for re election. "
NY you’ve gotten to know this grifter, if you choose him again may you fall as hard as your towers. For this stupidity though, there will be no sympathy.
Let’s be frank about it, the second he dropped the (D) after his name, he officially became a lame duck. Even if people were willing to overlook the corruption and the corruption to get out of the trial for his corruption, no non-Democrat is going to get elected Mayor of NYC in the near future.
No, fuck off with your scams.
Look, more corruption.
Unless Kathy Hochul somehow contributes to the final end of the American democracy, not removing this cretin from office will be the worst thing she has ever done. Gonna be a rough couple of years for New York incumbents.
I think it’s a constitutional block that prevents her, somehow.
From everything I’ve read, the New York constitution allows her to remove him since he has been charged. Though it may be too late now.
The common theory is she didn’t want a special election that Cuomo could win without going through a primary.
Maybe. I’ll try to search later this week. Thanks.
They never sell. What income does he expect to see. They may use electricity. But they will move t9nthe caimans before selling… so no significant tax revenue
He’s honestly probably just hoping to get insider info on a rug pull meme coin. Doesn’t make sense from any other angle.
You can call people you don’t need rhwm to move in to get insider.
Why would they tell him anything unless he’s done something for them?
Hey there decentralized digital currency systems, you wanna… centralize?
Take crypto and dump it in the trash where it belongs.
Serious Queensryche vibes
Minus lucidity.
