What is most significant about this is that all crypto bills have died in committee before now. And suddenly, all at once, crypto is being debated on the floor of the whole senate in a bill that the President wanted. They are recognizing it as a distinct asset class that is able to have attributes of other asset classes. This means old money has to wake up now.
> In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture.
