📣 Bitcoin Will Be 'Strategically Important Asset' for US, Says JD Vance
Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, headlining the event less than one year after President Donald Trump stood before a throng of Bitcoin supporters at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville.
On the conference’s main stage, named after pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the VP opened by thanking the packed crowd of Bitcoin supporters and broader BTC community for helping him and Trump move “from candidacy to the White House.”
Vance used the rest of his time to reassure the digital assets community of its importance, and remind the crowd that it finally has a “champion and an ally in the White House.”
“In our administration, we understand the full potential of the digital assets industry—not just as an investment, not just as a flashy technology, but as a symbol and driver of personal liberty for all our citizens,” said Vance. “We are dedicated to seeing that promise fulfilled.”
According to the VP, that potential was hindered by the Biden administration, a point that he made clear multiple times throughout his keynote address, indicating the first substantive step to fulfilling crypto’s promise was by cleaning up the mess left before Trump took office.
“We’ve got to clean up the wreckage that the last administration left us, and since day one, that is exactly what we’ve been trying to do,” he said. “We’ve prioritized eliminating the rules, the red tape, and the lawfare that we saw aimed at crypto by our predecessors.”
Vance added that “maybe the most important thing we did for this community—we reject regulators and we fired Gary Gensler, and we’re going to fire everybody like him.”
Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler was not fired, though Trump had made threats of the sort on the campaign trail, last year. Instead, Gensler said last November—following Trump’s election win—that he would resign on inauguration day, January 20.