Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his help for bitcoin through the BTC 2024 convention
Crypto and its position within the economic system has develop into a hot-button concern within the election.
Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his help for bitcoin on the BTC 2024 convention in Nashville.
“I’m an enormous supporter of Bitcoin. I’ve most of my wealth in Bitcoin,” he mentioned. I’m absolutely dedicated.”
Bitcoin has develop into a hot-button concern on this electoral cycle with Republican nominee Donald Trump’s marketing campaign saying it might settle for crypto donations in Might. Many crypto entrepreneurs have come out to help the Trump marketing campaign, with Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell donating $1 million in crypto to Trump and the Winklevoss Twins donating to a Trump-aligned PAC.
Kennedy, a libertarian-leaning candidate, took goal on the Federal Reserve, saying the central financial institution had the curiosity of bankers, not most people, at coronary heart.
“The connection between Congress and the Fed is each parasitical to our nation, and it’s a symbiotic relationship. The Fed will not be a public establishment … The choice-makers are appointed by the banking business,” he mentioned throughout a convention panel hosted by TheStreet.
Kennedy additionally argued that Covid lockdowns have been vastly in favor of billionaires and never “Essential Road.”
“Lockdowns … shut down all of the small enterprise on this nation, which is what we must be nurturing, and saved open the Walmarts, and the Amazons, and Fb, and the oil business, and the processed meals industries, and Large Ag. All of them flourished throughout that interval,” he mentioned.
Earlier this yr Kennedy spoke at CoinDesk’s Consensus convention in Austin, Texas the place he mentioned crypto is vital to “transactional freedom.”
“We’d like sovereignty over our personal wallets, transactional freedom and a forex that’s clear. We’d like to ensure America stays the hub of blockchain know-how,” he mentioned throughout Consensus.
