Former California advocate and Bitcoin advocate Ian Calderon kicked his campaign for the California governor in 2026, entering a tight and competitive race to replace the Gavin Newsom.
Calderon confirmed His bidding for the governor in an X post on Tuesday, centered on most of his promises around reaching -friendly homes, groceries and gas while positioning himself as a bitcoin (Btc) Proponent.
“My generation pays fees on our phones, we send money to each other with Venmo and we save Bitcoin – but people who run our government, they try to use yesterday’s ideas to solve problems today, and it doesn’t work,” he said.
It’s time for a new generation of leadership in California. pic.twitter.com/wmxijcc1j1
– Ian Calderon (@iiancalderon) September 23, 2025
Calderon placed excessive emphasis on Bitcoin in a separate X post, Says: “California has always been the leader in technology. It’s time for us to get back to our roots and make California unobtrusive leader in Bitcoin.”
Legislators at the federal and state levels have been more widely promised by policies that are friendly to their campaigns after the crypto lobby appeared as a leading donor during the 2024 election, spending millions on successful bids from Donald Trump and many lawmakers.
Calderon entered the California legislature in 2012 at 27 years old, making him a youngest member at that time. He served until 2020, leading the working group in the California blockchain and putting the foundation for the state’s blockchain roadmap.
California is the most popular US state with a $ 4.3 trillion economy. State lawmakers recently advanced to a bill that would allow state agencies that Accept crypto for payments, but it has never seen the same level of support and development for a Bitcoin’s reserve like other states.
Calderon indicates the State’s Bitcoin reserve promise
During a Livestream In X, Calderon said he believes that “California should hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet.”
“When I’m governor, I will make sure we hold Bitcoin on our sheet of balance,” he added.
Calderon also said he would push California to use Bitcoin as a way to pay for state programs.
Calderon faces fierce competition
California will go to polls for gubernatorial elections on November 3, 2026. Calderon is a long shot to win because there are many established candidates Succeed in the newsomthat cannot ask for a reelection at the end of his second term.
The career opened in late July by the former vice president Kamala Harris confirmed that he will not run for position.
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Vote Shut up Former democratic congressman Katie Porter is the current frontrunner, followed by Sheriff Chad Bianco, who runs as a Republican, and former Republican political advisor and contributed Fox News Steve Hilton.
Calderon wants bitcoin as legal soft in California
While out of politics for the past five years, Calderon cooperated with Satoshi Action Fund CEO Dennis Porter to introduce a bill exploring Bitcoin as legal soft in early 2022.
However, the proposal has made a bit of a development since then.
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