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Trump to Speak at Bitcoin Conference in Nashville
Former US President Donald Trump is set to speak at the upcoming Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tennessee later this month, according to conference organizers. announced Wednesday. “Witness History,” reads the conference headline website.
The Republican Party’s likely candidate for US president is joining a platform that already included independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump’s appearance at the largest Bitcoin conference is the latest move by his campaign to court Bitcoin believers and turn their enthusiasm into votes in November.
In May, the Trump campaign began accepting cryptocurrencies donationsIncluding Bitcoin, Ethereum, DogecoinIt is Solanafulfilling a promise he made to Trump NFT holders during an event at Mar-a-Lago. That meeting was seen by many as a inflection point for the national debate on cryptocurrency policies.
Upon learning that Trump had started accepting Bitcoin, rival candidate Kennedy said he was “charmed“that Trump has changed his mind about Bitcoin.
“My supporters, if I’m not in the race, will vote for President Trump,” Kennedy said in May, citing polls conducted by his team that show him beating the two major party candidates in a theoretical head-to-head race. “There is no condition under which President Biden can win.”
Bitcoin has become a partisan issue in the US On Monday, the Republican Party promised to protect Bitcoin and end what he called the Biden administration’s “un-American crackdown on cryptocurrencies” in his draft policy platform.
“We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin and ensure that every American has the right to self-custody their digital assets and transact freely from government surveillance and control,” the platform said.
Other politicians who will join Trump and Kennedy in Bitcoin 2024 include former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, Tennessee Senators Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburnand former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
“Crypto innovators and others in the tech sector are under attack from Biden and the Democrats,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes. previously “While Biden stifles innovation with more regulation and higher taxes, President Trump is ready to encourage American leadership in this and other emerging technologies,” he told Decrypt.
Although Trump has done this in the past spoken against Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, calling it “highly volatile and based on nothing,” his recent change of heart has galvanized the crypto community, including Gemini cryptocurrency exchange co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who last month announced donations $2 million in Bitcoin for the Trump campaign.
The conference agenda has not yet been updated to specify when Trump will speak during the three-day event, which will take place July 25-27 at Nashville’s Music City Center.
The program also includes talks by Michael Saylor on Friday and Edward Snowden on Saturday. Kennedy is being featured in a fireside chat on Friday.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.