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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, recently endorsed by incumbent Joe Biden for the November presidential elections, is reportedly in talks to join the speaker lineup at the forthcoming Bitcoin Conference in Nashville. If Kamala decides to speak at the conference, she will join the roster that already includes her Republican challenger, Donald Trump.
Fresh commentary from these U.S. presidential candidates at the blockbuster annual event may shed light on the future of crypto regulation in the United States.
Kamala Harris Considering Bitcoin Conference Appearance
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris may be joining Donald Trump on stage at the Bitcoin Conference.
Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey revealed in a Tuesday post on the X platform that the conference organizers were in communication with Harrisâ campaign, who are âmaking up their minds today.â
Bailey asserted that it would be âvery savvy of her to reset the democrat positioning on the fastest-growing voter block in the country.â
Weâre in talks with Kamala Harris campaign for her to speak at the conference. Would be very savvy of her to reset the democrat positioning on the fastest growing voter block in the country. Theyâre making up their minds today.
â David Bailey$0.65mm/btc is the floor (@DavidFBailey) July 23, 2024
In a separate post, Bailey urged Harris to follow the footsteps of other Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by pledging to commute the sentence of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht before addressing Bitcoin faithfuls at the conference.
âThatâs the tables stakes,â he postulated.
While Harris has yet to make any public remarks regarding crypto assets, tech billionaire and Bitcoin evangelist Mark Cuban recently disclosed that he had received âmultiple questions from her camp about crypto.â Cuban added:
âSo I take that as a good sign. The feedback Iâm getting, but certainly not confirmed by the VP, is that she will be far more open to business, [artificial intelligence], crypto, and government as a service.â
Community Reaction
Whether Kamala accepts to appear at the Bitcoin conference after the talks with the organizers remains to be seen. Nevertheless, her potential appearance has sparked mixed reactions from well-known figures in the cryptosphere.
Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss voiced his skepticism, noting, âTalk is cheap. She would need to start by immediately firing Gary Gensler, withdrawing all SEC enforcement actions against good actors, and ending Operation Chokepoint 2.0. She wonât do this so she wonât stand a chance in winning back the crypto voting block. Time for change.â
David Gokhshtein, the founder of blockchain-focused media company Gokhshtein Media, weighed in as well, commenting in a July 24 post: âItâs hilarious that Harris is speaking at the Bitcoin conference. Whatâs she going to talk about? How she and the Biden administration did everything they could to kill Bitcoin and crypto?â
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has successfully wooed several crypto CEOs, who have reciprocated with multi-million dollar campaign donations.
The outcome of the impending US elections could have consequential implications for the crypto industry in the worldâs biggest economy and regulatory impacts in other parts of the world.