Professional-Bitcoin Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, at completely different instances, jumped to the protection of the flagship cryptocurrency, BTC. This time, he guarantees to guard it if elected as President throughout the Presidential elections subsequent 12 months.

What Kennedy Desires To Do For Bitcoin

In an interview, the Presidential Candidate talked about that he intends to finish the “present White Home struggle on Bitcoin.” This assertion is in reference to the anti-crypto stance that the federal government appears to have taken in opposition to Bitcoin and different crypto tokens. 

It’s believed that, as an alternative of implementing insurance policies to advertise cryptocurrencies, the federal government has clamped down on the business and its stakeholders. Nevertheless, Kennedy plans to vary that as he talked about that he’ll make sure that folks can maintain their wallets (self-custody) and that transactions are protected, which might foster the usage of Bitcoin and different crypto tokens.

Curiously, Kennedy not solely occurs to be a Bitcoin proponent however can also be closely invested within the token, as he has as much as $250,000 in BTC holdings. He’s additionally making certain that others get in on the foremost cryptocurrency, as he talked about in July that he had purchased two BTC every for his seven youngsters. 

In the meantime, apart from ending the White Home struggle on Bitcoin, the Presidential Candidate needs Bitcoin (and probably different cryptocurrencies) to be handled as a forex fairly than a commodity. That manner, Bitcoin isn’t subjected to capital positive aspects. It’s because cryptocurrencies are majorly thought of property or funding, and house owners are normally anticipated to pay tax on positive aspects from a sale. 

This isn’t the primary time Kennedy has made such an assertion. In July, he talked about that he deliberate to again the US greenback with BTC and make the conversion of BTC to the US greenback free from capital positive aspects taxes below his administration.

Crypto And Politics

Cryptocurrencies have taken heart stage forward of the upcoming Presidential election subsequent 12 months. Noteworthy is the truth that Kennedy isn’t the one candidate who has talked about plans to cease the “struggle” on Bitcoin. 

Republican Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis has additionally vowed to guard folks’s proper to personal cryptocurrencies and finish “Biden’s struggle on Bitcoin” if elected. He prompt that the present administration wasn’t so welcoming to cryptocurrencies as a result of it poses a “risk” to them attributable to its decentralized nature. 

Whereas these candidates proceed to cozy as much as the rising pro-crypto US voters, many are cautious that they could merely be making an attempt to do all the pieces attainable to get this specific group of voters of their nook and will not have plans to implement any crypto-friendly insurance policies. 

Nevertheless, a former SEC lawyer has alluded to the actual fact that crypto regulation within the nation could certainly be political and that there’s a greater likelihood of having fun with a crypto-friendly regulatory ambiance if a Republican candidate will get elected subsequent 12 months. 

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