Representative Mike Collins, a United States congressman for the State of Georgia, announced that his Congress campaign is now accepting cryptocurrency donations to March 5.
Donations can be made in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethher (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (Doge), Solana (Sun), USDT (USDT) and others. Collins issued a statement together with the announcement:
“America has been slowed down by our reluctance to adapt to emerging technology, either AI, automatic learning or alternative assets such as Crypto. I hope that when presenting this platform, you can dismiss the cryptographic industry. “
The legislator previously revealed $ 65,000 in ETH purchases for 2024 and several Altcoins acquisitions, including up to $ 15,000 in velodrome (veil), up to $ 15,000 in the graph (GRT) and up to $ 115,000 in Aerodrome Finance (Aero).
More recently, Collins revealed a purchase of Ski Mask Dog (SKI), a memory released in 2024. Revelations mark a seismic change in the political perception of digital assets as legislators and political candidates accept more and more campaign contributions called crypto.
Collins representative who addresses Congress in 2024. Source: Mike Collins representative
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United States presidential candidates accept cryptographic political donations
Robert F. Kennedy JR became the first presidential candidate of the United States to accept BTC for campaign donations in May 2023.
Speaking at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami, Florida, the former independent candidate called BTC an asset that promotes freedom, individual freedom and democracy.
The former Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramasswamy, followed his example after Kennedy and also announced that his campaign would accept political campaign contributions in BTC.
“Let’s make the election of 2024 a referendum on fiduciary currency,” said the former audience candidate in Bitcoin 2023.
During the US elections of 2024, now President Donald Trump announced that his campaign would accept cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, Doge, Sun, USDC (USDC), Shiba Inu (Shib) and XRP (XRP).
Trump promised to finish the war against cryptography, and after his re -election in November 2024, the United States government drastically changed its position towards cryptocurrencies.
This regulatory pivot included the stock exchange and values ​​commission that ends several high profile demands against industry companies and opened the dialogue with industry executives.
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