Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Silent on Bitcoin and CBDC During Twitter Talk with Elon Musk

He also asked Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase’s former CTO, to be his Treasury Secretary.

• 2023-06-06
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DeSantis: ‘Bitcoin Represents a Threat to the Current Regime’

Florida’s governor and the Republican’s latest leadership candidate talked crypto and central bank digital currencies in a Twitter space with Elon Musk.

• 2023-05-25
• Ron DeSantis David Sacks Republican Party CBDC Bitcoin venture capitalist

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wades Further Into Crypto Following Anti-CBDC Remarks

The Democratic presidential candidate endorsed the view that recent turmoil in the U.S. banking sector was fallout from a "war on crypto."

• 2023-05-03
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This Week in Coins: Investors Rehash Bitcoin's 'Safe-Haven' Status as DeSantis Takes Aim at CBDCs

As investors rushed to leading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, politicians in the United States took aim at incoming CBDC plans.

• 2023-03-26
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Creation of U.S. digital dollar would ‘crowd out’ crypto: ex-Biden advisor

A U.S. central bank digital currency would “crowd out” the cryptocurrency ecosystem and protect national security, according to an ex-top presidential adviser.

• 2023-03-01
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