At the White House, crypto policy vacancy looms large
Source: CoinDesk ·
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The departure of President Donald Trump's crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, leaves the digital assets office vacant and its policy aims uncertain. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he not only shed his earlier resistance to crypto technology but embraced the industry with the hiring of a high-profile crypto czar and the establishment of his President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets. Almost two years later, that policy push seems to have gone quiet for the moment, with the departure of Patrick Witt, who had been the final crypto adviser running that office. And when the president recently ushered in a new artificial intelligence czar, the job that was once split between crypto and AI seemed to have dropped its crypto remit. So who is minding the store for crypto policy at the White House? It's not clear, even as a handful of people on Capitol Hill continue to suggest that the final weeks of the congressional session after the November elections…