In 2016 US Election, Bitcoin and Blockchain Were Blips on Campaign Radar
As the US election ramped up last summer, the CoinDesk editorial team began to wonder: Given the mistrust in banks and financial firms, would bitcoin and blockchain become an election issue? The answer, it turned out, was a resounding no, as neither major party candidate weighed in substantively on the issue. CoinDesk spent much of the past year and a half attempting to engage with the campaigns of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump to no avail. Phone calls to their respective headquarters in Brooklyn and Manhattan went unanswered. We saw Clinton's....
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