US VP Vance to speak at the Bitcoin Conference amidst the controversies in Trump Crypto
US vice president JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, approximately one year after presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the same event.
According to a notice of May 9 from the event organizers, Vance will discuss attendees at the conference on May 28, making him the first to sit by the US Vice President to speak at a digital asset conference.
Trump provided a pre-recorded video of himself from the White House to the arrangers of the digital asset summit in March – his first appearance at a crypto event since office in January – and spoke personally at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville while campaigning.
Although Vance is a bitcoin (Btc) Holding – he holds $ 250,000 to $ 500,001 worth of cryptocurrency, according to a financial disclosure filed in August 2024 – it is unclear whether the vice president intends to make a major statement of the event policy. Cointelegraph reached Vance’s office to comment but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
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Ever since the office next to Trump in January, Vance has maintained the media spotlight in terms of crypto-related policy. The President signed executive orders in establishing a crypto reserve and regulating stablecoins, while Vance’s involvement in industrial administration seems limited to Speaking to AI regulation.
Two of the children of the president Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, that Tied to the Crypto World Liberty Financial platformis set to speak at the event in May. Many legislators have expressed concerns that the platformsupported by the Trump family, is used to personally enrich the president.
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The vice president’s appearance at the crypto conference was announced on the same week by democratic lawmakers in the House of Representative and the Senate strongly criticized Trump’s connections to the crypto industry.
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