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The search for a blockchain voting bloc
The crypto industry is constantly trying to sell us something new. This election season, it’s the rise of the bitcoin voter, a new political constituency supposedly ready to vote for all things pro-crypto. The Crypto Council for Innovation, a pro-crypto trade group that represents platforms like Fidelity and Gemini, published data last Wednesday purportedly indicating that one in seven voters “hold crypto and say that they are ready to vote for pro-crypto candidates.” Coinbase, a crypto trading platform with more than 100 million users across the world, has launched its own voter registration initiative and is ranking candidates on their […]