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Messari CEO Ryan Selkis on Future of Crypto's Role in Politics

CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023 recognizes 50 people who defined the year in the digital assets space, which includes Messari CEO Ryan Selkis. Selkis built a political fundraising machine for crypto that could sway elections in 2024. Selkis joins CoinDesk TV to discuss the state of crypto and politics.

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U.S. Crypto Lobbying on Course for Record Spend This Year

Crypto companies spent almost $19 million on lobbying by the end of the third quarter compared with $16 million in the same period last year.

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Ramaswamy Shares Crypto Plan, Making Him the Only GOP Candidate Who Has One

The 2024 U.S. presidential candidate would fire most of the SEC, direct the government to back off crypto software developers and ease a path for digital assets as commodities.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has shared his plan for how he'd deal with crypto. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Consensus Magazine

How a Crypto Fraud Gave Florida Its First Forward Party Candidate

Brian Beute is running for office under the pro-tech political party founded by Andrew Yang. While not a supporter of crypto, his story shows crypto — now a widespread phenomenon — might be on the ballot in even the smallest elections.

Brian Beute got into politics motivated to root out fraud in Seminole County, Florida. While he lost his first election cycle, his principal opponent is behind bars. (Brian Beute/X)

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Vote if You Want, but Remember 'Cypherpunks Write Code'

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy's unfinished crypto mandate shows the hollowness of crypto as a political concern.

The New York Department of Financial Services is concerned about token delistings disrupting markets. (Gilbert Ortega/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinyon

What Can DAOs Learn From Partisan Politics?

Decentralized autonomous organizations can be global, transparent and efficient machines to do anything. So what could they take away from political parties? Danny Chong explains.

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Policy

A Crypto President? Top U.S. 2024 Contenders Aren’t Fans, and Rivals Are Way Behind

A look at the crypto positions of the major presidential candidates shows some of them are huge digital assets supporters but have significant distance to make up in early polling.

Republican presidential hopefuls chose not to mention crypto in the first debate of the GOP primary season in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Crypto and the Real Meaning of 'Radicalism'

The right-wing economics that shaped crypto doesn’t determine its future, argues a new book by Joshua Dávila – aka The Blockchain Socialist.

Karl Marx believed industrial technological progress would help lead to socialism. What about crypto? (John Mayal c. 1865/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Has the Bear Market Called Crypto's Bluff?

Despite crypto's problems, there is hope in the industry's capacity to enable more creative and democratic kinds of governance, Nathan Schneider writes.

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No, Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Being Bailed Out by Democrats

The Department of Justice dropped campaign finance charges against the FTX founder that are likely to return. The issue is about paperwork, not politics.

Despite claims by right-wing political figures, Sam Bankman-Fried was definitely not a free man when he (right) exited a Manhattan courtroom on July 26, 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)