A rumor swept like wildfire across the crypto world's social media accounts this week: the Democratic party's new standard bearer, Kamala Harris, was "in talks" with the organizers of Bitcoin 2024 to address the annual industry conference, where her rival Donald Trump is slated to speak. “They’re making up their minds today,” organizer David Bailey, tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
Harris had been the Democrats' presumed Presidential nominee for all of a few days, and her team has only begun putting together a campaign schedule—so the chances of her attending a Bitcoin gathering in Nashville on short notice seemed improbable. Nonetheless, when the campaign confirmed she could not attend, the conference treated the news with indignation. "No surprise...…it would have been a disaster for her," Bailey wrote on X.
