Elected to the position of the governors of Colorado, California and Wyoming politicians expressed support for the cryptocurrency market. Chapter and previously loyal to the digital assets of States, Rhode island and Texas have retained and will continue to work on promoting this industry. This is evidenced by data survey, conducted by Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA).
So, the new Governor of Colorado Jared Polis, during the period of his membership of the Congressional Future Caucus in the U.S. House of representatives actively encouraged the country to take a leading role in regulating the cryptocurrency space. And in February of this year, the politician wanted to oblige congressmen to declare the digital currency.
Congratulations to early Bitcoin advocate @jaredpolis on being elected Governor of Colorado!
“Polis said that he will use his powers in Congress to fight against any attempts by the government to enact policies that restrict the growth of bitcoin” — 2014 pic.twitter.com/LOjTsYwiyK
— Francis Pouliot (@francispouliot_) 7 Nov 2018
The present election campaign, Jared Polis included initiatives to improve the protection of digital voting and the use of the blockchain for digitizing government records. In addition, he will continue to work over the Law about justice in the field of cryptocurrency, to provide tax benefits for certain cryptocurrency transactions.
New appointee from California Gavin Newsom is interested in bloccano in 2014. Since then, he was in favour of regulation of the industry, which would allow not only to attract qualified DLT developers, but to use the data from the blockchain as evidence in court. With the participation of Newsom in California has already approved a bill to establish a working group to study the blockchain.
Congratulations to early Bitcoin adopter @GavinNewsom on being elected Governor of California!
“I should promote the technology ever so subtly by saying I’ll accept bitcoin in the campaign”. “I’m ready for it”. “But how the hell do I explain it to anybody?” — 2014 pic.twitter.com/4RLGa9BdMf
— Francis Pouliot (@francispouliot_) 7 Nov 2018
The winner of the election in Wyoming mark Gordon took a most friendly attitude to the industry, supporting the liberation of buyers cryptocurrency tax and cryptocurrency companies from laws regulating remittances. The new Governor also proposes to issue licenses for virtual currency, similar to the new York Regulations.
Re-elected Texas Governor Greg Abbott has previously accepted donations in bitcoins.
In turn, retained the position of head of the state of Rhode island Gina Raimondo offers on the legal level to recognize cryptocurrency transactions conducted by entrepreneurs, and apply the blockchain to administer public programs, for example, issuing food stamps and free medical care.
We will remind, earlier in November on the backdrop of the midterm elections in the United States the amount of open bets in the network Augur exceeded $2.5 million.
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