So, it’s possible that this legacy digital-assets issue could survive the departures of DeSantis and Ramaswamy from the field, but besides his brisk personal business in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Trump has shown no special interest in the field and once called Bitcoin a “scam.” And the specter of a U.S. CBDC has so far been a one-sided debate in which Republicans paint President Joe Biden and his administration as pushing a government token to spy on the citizenry when there hasn’t been any evidence that the Fed or Department of the Treasury have any such plans.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/01/22/bailing-desantis-may-leave-deafening-crypto-silence-in-2024-presidential-race/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines