{"id":17182,"date":"2024-09-23T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/harris-pledges-to-support-cryptocurrencies-and-ai\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T06:11:14","slug":"harris-pledges-to-support-cryptocurrencies-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/harris-pledges-to-support-cryptocurrencies-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Pledges to Support Cryptocurrencies and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris has announced that if elected President of the United States, she intends to &#8220;encourage innovative technologies like AI and digital assets with consumer and investor protection.&#8221; This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-09-22\/harris-vows-to-grow-ai-crypto-industries-in-pitch-to-nyc-donors\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These areas align with her vision of an &#8220;economy of opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;We will collaborate to invest in America&#8217;s competitiveness, to invest in America&#8217;s future. [\u2026] A safe business environment will emerge with consistent and transparent &#8216;rules of the road&#8217;,&#8221;<\/em> she stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s remarks marked her first public statement on cryptocurrencies as a Democratic presidential candidate, the agency noted.<\/p>\n<p>Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams described this move as a positive signal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">? Kamala just said she will encourage innovative technologies like DIGITAL ASSETS<\/p>\n<p>I believe this is her first time referencing crypto publicly and it\u2019s in a positive way <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NLdDcYZira\">https:\/\/t.co\/NLdDcYZira<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hayden Adams ? (@haydenzadams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haydenzadams\/status\/1837944603154030908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In August, journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/doubts-arise-over-harriss-support-for-cryptocurrency\">questioned<\/a> Harris&#8217;s support for the crypto industry due to her absence from Crypto4Harris events. Her campaign team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kamala-harriss-campaign-signals-support-for-cryptocurrency-industry\">refuted<\/a> these doubts.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/live-updates\/trump-harris-2024-presidential-debate\/?id=113525682\">debates<\/a> with Republican opponent Donald Trump, the Democratic candidate&#8217;s chances have increased. According to Polymarket, she leads her opponent by 5%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1219.webp\" alt=\"1-1219\" class=\"wp-image-241650\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/presidential-election-winner-2024?tid=1721030336057\">Polymarket<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In September, Trump treated Bitcoin supporters to burgers at the themed New York bar PubKey, paying with digital gold via the Strike app on the Lightning Network.<\/p>\n<p>The former US President seeks to gain the support of crypto users in the upcoming elections. In July, he <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-dips-to-67000-amid-trumps-bitcoin-2024-speech\">spoke<\/a> at the annual Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, promising to fire <span data-descr=\"US Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span> Chair Gary Gensler and establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris has announced that if elected President of the United States, she intends to &#8220;encourage innovative technologies like AI and digital assets with consumer and investor protection.&#8221; This was reported by Bloomberg. These areas align with her vision of an &#8220;economy of opportunity.&#8221; &#8220;We will collaborate to invest in America&#8217;s competitiveness, to invest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17181,"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":[1638,842,36],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-kamala-harris","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"56","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}