Crypto takes its fight with SEC directly to Biden and Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : When he was finished, Trump invited the audience members to pipe up. Stuart Alderoty, chief legal officer of the blockchain giant Ripple, explained that the company had spent over $100 million defending itself in litigation brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alderoty's comment was meant as a example of how the SEC's regulatory actions under chairman Gary Gensler had impacted his company and the industry at large, according to a guest and another person familiar with the situation, who were granted anonymity to describe a private meeting.
47% : In recent weeks, crypto investors have raised several names of potential nominees for SEC commissioner, in the event that Trump is elected to a second term, according to three people who have knowledge of the conversations.
46% : Trump promised to loosen the regulation of cryptocurrencies if he is elected president in November, and to "get out of the way of innovation," a person who was in the room told CNBC.
21% : Some in the crypto industry who are siding with Trump are going farther than just complaining about Gensler.
20% : Trump has seized on this frustration in recent months, recasting himself from a crypto skeptic into a crypto supporter.

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