{"id":69472,"date":"2026-03-19T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/cryptocurrency-firms-suffer-heavy-losses-in-illinois-primaries-after-spending-big\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:58:47","slug":"cryptocurrency-firms-suffer-heavy-losses-in-illinois-primaries-after-spending-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/cryptocurrency-firms-suffer-heavy-losses-in-illinois-primaries-after-spending-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency\u2019s biggest Pac spent more than $10m for their candidates, only to be defeated by those who are anti-crypto<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week\u2019s Illinois primaries.<\/p>\n<p>As the industry prepares to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/13\/midterms-crypto-pacs-political-spending\">make massive donations in the 2026 midterm elections<\/a> to replicate its success in 2024, the Illinois losses mark an early setback for firms that are trying to establish themselves as power players in American politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/19\/cryptocurrency-firms-losses-illinois-primaries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency\u2019s biggest Pac spent more than $10m for their candidates, only to be defeated by those who are anti-crypto Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week\u2019s Illinois primaries. As the industry prepares to make massive donations &#8230; <a title=\"Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/cryptocurrency-firms-suffer-heavy-losses-in-illinois-primaries-after-spending-big\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}