Florida Governor Ron DeSantis formally launched his bid for the White House in 2024 on Wednesday, and he made protecting crypto a key part of his pitch while taking aim at President Joe Biden.
“The current regime, clearly, has it out for Bitcoin,” DeSantis said during a Twitter Space with Elon Musk, the social media platform’s CEO, and venture capitalist David Sacks. “And if it continues for another four years, they’ll probably end up killing it.”
DeSantis used the announcement of his candidacy for next year’s Presidential election to position himself as a champion of small government and financial freedom.
“The only reason these people in Washington don’t like [Bitcoin] is because they don’t control it,” DeSantis said. “They’re central planners and they want to have control over society and so Bitcoin represents a threat to them.”
DeSantis added that unlike the current administration, he does not feel the need “to control everything that people may be doing” in the digital assets space. “I think people should be able to do bitcoin,” he said. “As president, we'll protect the ability to do things like bitcoin.”
The presidential hopeful also repeated his forceful opposition to the creation of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC), sometimes referred to as a ‘digital dollar,’ saying he would insist on Congressional authorization before a CBDC could ever be implemented.
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