SINGAPORE – SkyBridge Capital founder and managing partner Anthony Scaramucci said he and a group of cryptocurrency advocates are working with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to develop a strategy for her campaign ahead of the November election. Digital Asset Policy.
“There is a group of cryptocurrency advocates, Bitcoin On Thursday, he told a panel at the annual TOKEN2049 event, one of the largest cryptocurrency conferences in the world:
Democratic Senator Warren and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gensler are widely viewed as enemies of the cryptocurrency industry and have supported regulation and crackdowns on the space.
Harris said he has been listening to cryptocurrency supporters and is urging her to support policies that benefit the industry, adding that the vice president has even scheduled some of those talks this week.
“I believe we're making progress, and I think it's moving in the right direction,” Scaramucci said.
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.
Scaramucci, who Support Harris Joining the 2024 campaign, served as former President Donald Trump's communications director at the White House for six days in 2017, set record The person who has held the position the shortest amount of time.
Since then, his relationship with Trump has been tense. Last year, in an interview with NBC News' Chuck Todd, Scaramucci called his former boss a “liar.”
In recent months, Trump has expressed strong support for the crypto industry. He was a keynote speaker at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville in July, where he pledged to ensure the federal government never sells its Bitcoin holdings and laid out a plan to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.” .
The Trump family recently launched a new crypto project called World Liberty Financial earlier this month, with goals set by those involved suggesting the project would be similar to a crypto banking platform.
“Whatever I think of President Trump, I applaud him for understanding the importance of this industry to America, and I think it's ironic that he's pulling Democrats toward the center of regulation,” Scaramucci said Thursday. position.
He added that he and other cryptocurrency insiders (who he claims are working with Harris) want to prevent policies surrounding the industry from becoming a partisan issue. “We want cryptocurrencies in the United States to have bipartisan standards that are free from politics and tribal conflicts.”
Meanwhile, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe Support Trump in the electionThe next U.S. president will have “tremendous power” to shape the cryptocurrency space, and the Republican candidate has made his stance on the issue clear.
“We haven't heard the same message from Harris,” Belshe said on Token2049. “Maybe she will change her attitude, but she really hasn't come out and said much.”