This weekend U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a 50 minute speech at Bitcoin 24, making several pledges. He provided plenty of soundbites, including, “If crypto is going to define the future, I want it to be mined, minted and made in the USA.” And “If Bitcoin is going to the moon… I want … America to be the nation that leads the way.”
While much of his speech was off script, the teleprompter provided the pledges. The first was “the day I take the oath of office Joe Biden and Camala Harris’s anti-crypto crusade will be over. It will end. It’ll be done the moment I’m sworn in. The persecution stops.”
He also committed to fire Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler “on day one”, although the New York Times questioned the legality of whether that’s viable, given Gensler’s term runs until 2026. “I didn’t know he was that unpopular,” said Mr Trump.
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