On the campaign trail, Trump courted crypto cash with promises to be a "crypto president," and the industry wants him to make good on that pledge with executive orders creating a bitcoin stockpile, ensuring the industry can access banking services, and creating a crypto council, the people said.

One industry group has gone as far as to draft a text of a potential executive order Trump could use to establish a bitcoin stockpile.

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