Crypto & The Democrats | Rep. Ro Khanna
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Representative Ro Khanna, a Congressman from California and a key advocate for crypto within the Democratic party joins us on today’s episode. We discuss his efforts to bring crypto into the mainstream, including recent meetings he's helped broker between the White House, the Kamala Harris campaign, and key figures from the crypto industry. We explore the challenges and opportunities for the Democrats to embrace pro-crypto policies, the potential future of crypto regulation, and how this could shape the party's platform moving forward.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
6:08 Harris vs. Trump Debate Reaction
8:58 Kamala Admin's Crypto Silence
11:27 Pro-Crypto Meetings with Democrats
17:01 Biden, Warren, & Crypto Stances
21:43 Future of Crypto Under Harris?
24:09 Ideal Democratic Crypto Policy
27:37 Kamala's Plans for Gary Gensler
28:37 Crypto Advocates in the DNC
30:43 Convincing Undecided Democrats on Crypto
33:27 Future of DeFi Regulation
34:58 Explaining DeFi Benefits to Democrats
37:50 Educating on Crypto's Transparency
39:55 Crypto Voter Dilemma: Harris vs. Trump
42:18 Closing & Disclosures
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin and crypto are the next generation of financial innovation in store of value. |
| 0:05.6 | Democrats, which are the party in the future, will make sure that America leads in this. In this. Welcome to Bankless, where today we explore the frontier of the Democrats on |
| 0:20.4 | crypto. |
| 0:21.4 | Oh, is there a frontier there? That was the question for Congressman Roconna, who is a |
| 0:26.7 | Democrat who's been very supportive of crypto and trying to gain the support of the Biden administration |
| 0:32.0 | and now the Harris campaign. |
| 0:33.8 | This is Ryan John Adams. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:39.2 | To help the Democrats become more bankless. |
| 0:41.2 | They need it. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah, because they need it. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, so I guess context going to this episode |
| 0:45.0 | we've had a number of congressmen and politicians, |
| 0:48.0 | representatives, senators even on bank lists. |
| 0:50.0 | Most of those have skewed Republican. |
| 0:53.0 | Almost all of them. |
| 0:54.0 | Not because we've hand selected. |
| 0:55.0 | Right. |
| 0:56.0 | It's because we're looking for politicians that have something to say on crypto. |
| 1:00.0 | By the way, we would bring on someone who has something negative to say about crypto. |
| 1:05.6 | So Elizabeth Warren... |
| 1:06.6 | If it was legit. |
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