Former President Donald Trump may head to Nashville to speak at Bitcoin 2024 in late July, Reuters reports. Axios.
President Trump is in talks to speak at the event, according to Axios on Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Other politicians, including presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former President Vivek Ramaswamy, and Republican Senators Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn I am scheduled to speak at Bitcoin 2024.
Sources familiar with the situation told The Block that President Trump has been invited to the meeting, but could not confirm whether the former president would speak or attend.
He said cryptocurrencies are “under attack” Trump’s senior adviser, Brian Hughes, said in a statement emailed to The Block.
“Crypto innovators and others in technology are under attack from Biden and the Democrats,” Hughes said. “While Biden stifles innovation with more regulation and higher taxes, President Trump is ready to promote American leadership in this and other emerging technologies.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been increasingly supporting cryptocurrencies over the past few months ahead of the November election. that He told attendees at an event at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month that he would advocate for Bitcoin mining at the White House and that miners contribute to energy grid stability. He said he would accept it too. political donations He said he would do so in the form of cryptocurrency. Stop “Joe Biden’s campaign to crush cryptocurrencies.”
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is reportedly asking members of the cryptocurrency industry for guidance on digital asset policy. the block. This marks a significant shift from the Biden administration’s less friendly stance on cryptocurrencies.
Both are scheduled to take the stage for Thursday’s debate hosted by CNN. The advocacy group Stand with Crypto posted a form last week asking people to fill out a form demanding that CNN ask candidates about their positions on cryptocurrencies. pass It came out of the U.S. House of Representatives in May. The Republican-led bill, called FIT 21, aims to regulate the cryptocurrency industry and has garnered support from 71 Democratic lawmakers, including former House Speaker and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California.
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