Inside the White House's Crypto Strategy | Consensus 2025 Highlights
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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Summary
Robert Hines, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets at the White House, joins CoinDesk's Jesse Hamilton on stage at Consensus 2025 to discusses the progress and future of U.S. digital assets regulation. He shares his journey into the crypto space, the role of his office, and the administration's commitment to making the U.S. a world leader in crypto.
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| 0:00.0 | You're watching Coin Desk. This next interview is one of the highlights from Consensus 2025. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey folks. Amazing to be almost done with our first day of consensus. |
| 0:12.0 | It's been a busy day so far. We've talked about stable coins a lot and the role of the states in regulation, prosecution |
| 0:25.4 | of software developers, how to head off truly bad actors. |
| 0:29.4 | And we've now got a guy who's going to bring it all together for us, going to close it |
| 0:35.3 | out for us. |
| 0:36.5 | So we're honored and lucky to have a White House official cross into foreign territory today. |
| 0:42.7 | Bo Heinz, the executive director of the President's Council of Advisors on Digital Assets. Does they get that right? |
| 0:49.0 | You got it right. It's not the sexiest acronym, but he gets the job done. It's a heck of a title. |
| 0:54.3 | It's a bit of a long one. |
| 0:55.4 | But basically you're the, I don't want to put words in your mouth, |
| 0:58.9 | but you're the administration's sort of liaison for crypto, |
| 1:05.1 | working beside Cryptos are David Sachs, basically trying to move |
| 1:09.9 | a U.S. Digital Assis regulation forward. I get that right? |
| 1:13.9 | That's right. Okay, so welcome, Bo. Thanks so much for joining us at consensus. We appreciate it. So before we get started, by applause if I could, I'm curious about this. Who hears from Canada? |
| 1:29.3 | Canadians? Okay. |
| 1:31.3 | And how about from the States? |
| 1:34.3 | It's a good mix. |
| 1:37.3 | Kind of a mix there. |
| 1:39.3 | Anyway, there is a considerable |
| 1:41.3 | constituency for you out, the U.S. people out there, obviously. |
| 1:44.9 | This is, we're going to be a bit U.S. centric on this discussion for obvious reasons. |
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