US Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Pledges Support for Blockchain

Baozou Comment : Although the development momentum of blockchain technology in the United States is strong, the lack of unified policies and regulations and the emphasis on traditional enterprises have greatly restricted it. Therefore, this is bound to become a hot topic in the presidential election. Last year, several candidates mentioned their willingness to support blockchain. This year, the campaign team of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton publicly stated that it would promote the US public sector to join the blockchain exploration. It can be seen that the US political circles pay great attention to blockchain.

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U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has expressed support for blockchain development in the public sector.

Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the Democratic presidential candidate next month, has released a broad technology and innovation agenda during the election campaign, and her campaign team said that US public policy work should include blockchain.

"We should enable American innovators to lead the world's next technological revolution, from cars to machine language learning to blockchain applications in public services, and we should protect the openness of global digital market thinking."

The Clinton campaign also pointed out that if the Democratic presidential candidate wins, he will lower regulatory barriers for startups and entrepreneurs.

"Hillary will push hard for state and local governments to recognize, examine, and change their legal and regulatory responsibilities to protect traditional players while ignoring innovators."

The above speech makes Hillary the latest major American political candidate to express support for blockchain technology and its surrounding industries.

Rand Paul

In April 2015, then-Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul said he would support donations in the form of Bitcoin, a sentiment echoed by recent Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry.