President Trump just issued a pardon to three BitMEX co-founders who pled guilty to money laundering charges in 2022. Unlike the case of Ross Ulbricht, there was no popular movement for these pardons, sparking community confusion. Meanwhile, Polymarket’s odds of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried receiving a pardon also went up after this news. The crypto community is somewhat uneasy with the US president pardoning high-profile individuals who have pled guilty to evident wrongdoings
source: https://beincrypto.com/trump-pardons-bitmex-founders-arthur-hayes/