Kamala Harris, who is certain to be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the USA, still seems to have not closed the crypto book. Harris’ large-scale donors, who managed to raise $200 million in donations in the first week when her name was launched, are trying to get her to give a speech at the first crypto conference after that.
There will be bipartisan participation
Kamala Harris may be the heavyweight of the event, which will be organised by Blockworks and is expected to be attended by many deputies and senators from both parties. Blockworks founder Jason Yanowitz told Decrypt that large-scale donors of Democrats have contacted the organisers and are currently trying to include Harris in the programme.
At the event, there will also be pro-crypto senators and deputies of the Democratic Party, who seem to be anti-crypto.
‘It will be the biggest event’
Yanowitz said, ‘They are clearly saying, ’We will arrange this for you. We will take care of it‘… So far, Harris’ close working group has not contacted us. But it is our job to invite both sides, to send them invitations. Permissionless will be the biggest event in the US in terms of tickets sold.”
Secret service employee: Harris couldn’t come to Bitcoin Conference even if he wanted to
On the other hand, Decrypt also reached an employee of the US Secret Service, which was widely criticised in the assassination of Donald Trump. This unnamed person stated that Harris could not attend the Bitcoin Conference due to security measures, even if he wanted to:
“Such invitations are notified weeks in advance. Here, there was only a 3-day period. Harris could not attend this event even if he wanted to. There was no time.”
Many names from the cryptocurrency world criticised Harris’ non-attendance at the conference. A large part even reacted by stating that Harris did not even take them seriously.
In a report yesterday, the Financial Times stated that Harris wanted to restart relations with the crypto world and that he had contacted companies such as Circle, Coinbase and Ripple Labs in this direction. However, yesterday, the US government’s movement of 30 thousand BTC for sale caused the Harris government to react again.