Mike Novogratz, the founder and CEO of $US10 billion ($15 billion) crypto asset manager Galaxy Digital, was sitting in a bar in New York drinking a cocktail with a name he couldn’t pronounce when Chanticleer caught him just hours before vote counting started in the US presidential election.

Novogratz was nervously waiting for the results from North Carolina; as a rusted-on supporter of Kamala Harris, he was hoping that if the vice president could win that battleground state, she could win the whole thing.