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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Marvie Basilan

US Election 2024: Expert Calls Bitcoin Community 'A Politician's Dream Population Segment'

Bitcoin users may be a small community compared to the total American population, but they will play a key role in the campaigns of politicians seeking office this year, an industry expert predicted. (Credit: Ivan Radic/flicker)

KEY POINTS

  • Burnett expects campaign teams to study Bitcoin and the people supporting the digital coin
  • Politicians will soon realize that they have to 'embrace' BTC or lose, he said
  • Trump is one of several politicians who have signaled a softer stance on the crypto industry

With U.S. elections in less than six months, the small but "powerful" Bitcoin community will soon become a voting group that politicians will have their eyes glued to, a cryptocurrency expert predicted.

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