{"id":18783,"date":"2024-11-21T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/trump-team-considers-appointing-a-crypto-czar\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T08:11:06","slug":"trump-team-considers-appointing-a-crypto-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/trump-team-considers-appointing-a-crypto-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Team Considers Appointing a &#8216;Crypto Czar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and his transition team are contemplating the creation of a dedicated White House position focused on digital assets, according to sources cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/trump-team-mulls-creating-first-ever-white-house-crypto-role\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. presidents appoint so-called &#8216;czars&#8217; to address high-priority issues such as climate change and border security.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is being discussed with industry leaders, though no decision has been made yet.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment would provide the digital asset industry with a specific official to discuss industry priorities and indirectly engage with the head of state.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the &#8216;crypto czar&#8217; is expected to act as a liaison between Congress, the White House, as well as the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span> and the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CFTC<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Trump has met with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and former Coinbase <span data-descr=\"Chief Legal Officer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CLO<\/span> and Binance.US head Brian Brooks. The latter is among the potential candidates for the SEC chair position.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is considering appointing candidates supportive of digital assets to key government positions.<\/p>\n<p>He has proposed Elon Musk and former U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<\/p>\n<p>For the position of U.S. Attorney General, Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz, a proponent of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies who advocates for industry deregulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and his transition team are contemplating the creation of a dedicated White House position focused on digital assets, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. U.S. presidents appoint so-called &#8216;czars&#8217; to address high-priority issues such as climate change and border security. The initiative is being discussed with industry leaders, though no decision has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[991,36,26],"class_list":["post-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-donald-trump","tag-regulation","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}