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What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, July 9th, and today we are talking about crypto in the official GOP platform.

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Hello, friends. Today feels like a bit of a culmination of the political wind-changing stories

that we've been covering for the last month or so. TLDR, the Republican National Committee,

has released their policy platform, and for the first time in history, crypto has been formally included.

So let's talk about what that means and what it says about the state of the political

crypto discourse. The platform is intended to lay out the priorities of a Trump administration

as the presumptive nominee heads to the Republican National Convention next week.

The party stance on crypto is outlined in a section that is in their words aimed at building

the greatest

economy in history under the subsection of championing innovation. It reads,

Republicans will end Democrats unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation

of a central bank digital currency. We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin and ensure every

American has the right to self-custody of their digital assets and transact

free from government surveillance and control. That's the entire position. And frankly, it is

three lines that address a huge swath of the big-picture priorities put forward by the industry.

Cryptopolicy fits in alongside AI and the commercial space sector as key areas of innovation

the GOP wants to promote. The overall

economic theme is regulation and tax cuts alongside protectionist trade reform and energy dominance.

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