Election Day Retrospective: Looking Back At The Bitcoin Campaign Trail
Today is Election Day and with it (hopefully) arrives the outcome of one of the most pivotal and polarizing Presidential showdowns in history. It also marks the third election since Bitcoin’s inception. On this monumental day, we’re looking back at the more than a decade of crypto asset’s ongoing campaign trail to take over money. Crypto Campaign Retrospective: Looking Back At Bitcoin Performance Between Each Major Election Things are looking brighter for Bitcoin than they […]
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign season is in full swing, and both major parties – the Democrats and the Republicans – will soon be voting for the next president. Where do the major candidates stand with regard to Bitcoin? Which candidates are most likely to encourage the growth of Bitcoin, and which candidates will do the most to try to hinder it?....
The US election is fast approaching, with voters set to cast the final votes in the next 48 hours. This election season has seen a unique focus on the crypto industry, as the two major candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, have addressed the future of digital assets as a key campaign point. Related Reading: […]
Dan Elder, a US House candidate in the 1st Congressional District of Missouri, has announced that he will fund his election campaign solely on bitcoin donations. Starting on 11th July, Elder's campaign website will only accept bitcoin donations. The candidate hopes to draw attention to digital currency during both his campaign and, if elected, his time in office. A decision by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) allows in-kind donations in bitcoin, with a limit of $100. The May decision, prompted by questions from political action committees, opened the doors for campaigns to accept....
The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has delayed a formal decision on whether to allow bitcoin-denominated campaign contributions, widely expected to be announced today. However, a senior official suggested that limited contributions may be acceptable in the future. As reported by The Hill, the commission was considering a petition to allow bitcoin campaign contributions in amounts up to $100. The petition was submitted by Make Your Laws (MYL) PAC. During the meeting, Commission Vice Chairwoman Anne Ravel reportedly gave voice to potential issues regarding the anonymity associated with....
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....