The US presidential candidate said that the SEC should have people from the crypto community

The head of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, initiated a poll on Twitter on whether US presidential candidates are required to support the right of citizens to use digital assets. The elections will take place next year, and their likely results are already being discussed among crypto enthusiasts.

More than 31,000 people took part in the survey. It turned out that for 84% of the respondents, it is important that the candidate they choose supports the crypto industry.

The tough policy of the US authorities has been criticized more than once for its approach to cryptocurrencies. Not only community members, but also politicians are afraid that overly radical actions of regulators can halt the development of the industry in the country and even force promising crypto projects to change jurisdiction.

And US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. once again criticized the SEC for its bias towards digital assets. According to him, people who oppose cryptocurrencies should not work in the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The politician promised that if he is elected president, he will propose candidates for SEC employees who are loyal to digital currencies. According to Kennedy Jr., now the work of the regulator in this direction is non-transparent. The agency does not even intend to clarify the rules for regulating the industry.

“I don’t want people on the SEC commission who are anti-crypto. At most, they should be neutral, and we should have people on there who are from the crypto community. The department should have people from the crypto community, in extreme cases, they should have a neutral position towards digital assets. Now the function of the SEC is not to protect the American people, but to protect banks, especially the interests of the Central Bank,” said Kennedy Jr.

The politician has repeatedly defended bitcoin, as he accepts the first cryptocurrency to conduct his own political campaign. Kennedy considers BTC an ideal underlying asset that is valuable to people because it gives them a chance to improve their financial situation against the backdrop of the current crisis.

“One of the main advantages of bitcoin is that it can be trusted. There is not a single person who could manipulate him. Everything is decided by the miners, democratically, with the help of algorithms that cannot be manipulated,” Kennedy summed up earlier.