The White House took an adversarial stance towards crypto through most of U.S. President Joe Biden’s term – for example, going out of its way to veto a controversial accounting measure, SAB 121, which makes it hard for banks to custody crypto.
But things started to change when former President Donald Trump said in May that he’d champion the industry. He then doubled down by vowing to constitute a strategic bitcoin reserve, to free Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht from prison and to help the bitcoin mining industry develop in the U.S.
