Trump’s comments to the Blockworks Digital Asset Summit are the archetypal clip a sitting US President has addressed a crypto conference.
United States President Donald Trump is steadily aligning his medication with the crypto industry. On March 20, helium addressed a assemblage league for the archetypal clip since being elected.
Speaking astatine the Blockworks Digital Asset Summit connected March 20 successful a pre-recorded statement, Trump reiterated that the US would instrumentality steps to guarantee it is the “crypto superior of the world.”
The President lauded the caller regulatory displacement successful the crypto manufacture implicit the erstwhile medication and added:
"Pioneers similar you volition beryllium capable to amended our Banking and outgo strategy and beforehand greater privacy, safety, security, and wealthiness for American consumers and businesses alike. You volition unleash an detonation of economical growth."“With dollar-backed stablecoins, you volition assistance grow the dominance of the US dollar for many, galore years to come,” the President continued.
The President has signed respective pro-crypto enforcement orders, including the Jan. 23 bid commissioning the Working Group connected Digital Assets, and an enforcement bid establishing a Bitcoin strategical reserve, alongside a abstracted crypto stockpile.
President Trump addresses the Digital Asset Summit. Source: Cointelegraph/Turner Wright
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The crypto assemblage has mixed reactions to the White House Crypto Summit
President Trump hosted the archetypal White House Crypto Summit, bringing unneurotic manufacture executives to sermon the aboriginal of crypto regulatory argumentation connected March 7.
During the meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US would absorption connected passing stablecoin regulations and touted stablecoins arsenic a mode to guarantee the US dollar remains the planetary reserve currency.
Speaking astatine the Blockworks Digital Asset Summit, Bo Hines, the enforcement manager of the Council of Advisers connected Digital Assets, said that a stablecoin measure volition likely beryllium presented to President Trump successful the adjacent 2 months.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discusses stablecoin plans astatine the White House Crypto Summit. Source: The Associated Press
The highly-anticipated crypto acme fell abbreviated of expectations, with the crypto assemblage voicing mixed reactions to the summit.
Institutional investors and executives tended to qualify the humanities quality of the lawsuit arsenic a nett affirmative for the industry, portion retail investors and the Bitcoin assemblage tended to presumption the lawsuit arsenic underwhelming.
“The White House crypto acme is simply a gathering of rent-seeking lobbyists pushing state-approved surveillance tokens,” Bitcoin (BTC) maximalist Justin Bechler wrote successful an X post.
The terms of Bitcoin declined by 7.3% successful the days pursuing the White House Crypto Summit and the Bitcoin strategical reserve order, which stipulated that the authorities could lone get much BTC done budget-neutral strategies.
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