{"id":1281,"date":"2025-05-28T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/vance-bitcoin-needs-political-support-to-stay-protected\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:50:50","slug":"vance-bitcoin-needs-political-support-to-stay-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/vance-bitcoin-needs-political-support-to-stay-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance: Bitcoin needs political support to stay protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance emphasized Bitcoin\u2019s strategic role in U.S. policy and warned the crypto community to stay politically engaged or risk being ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Vice President J.D. Vance urged the crypto community to continue its political momentum from 2024, warning that transformational technologies like Bitcoin (BTC) won\u2019t be immune from policy decisions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cUnless you guys get involved in politics, politics is going to ignore this industry,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWhat happens in the world of bureaucracy will affect even the most valuable technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He credited the community\u2019s growing activism with influencing national direction and encouraged attendees to \u201ccarry it forward to 2026 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bitcoin 2025: VP Vance on Building the Future of the Crypto Industry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-YLOQdE84k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Reserve signals deeper investment in crypto<\/h2>\n<p>Vance also spotlighted the strategic role Bitcoin could play in national policy, citing the launch of a government-backed Bitcoin Reserve under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBitcoin is owned by about 50 million Americans,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to start to put in motion the strategic importance of Bitcoin for the United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pointing to China\u2019s anti-Bitcoin stance, Vance argued the U.S. should take the opposite approach, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf the Communist Republic of China is leaning away from Bitcoin, then maybe the United States ought to be leaning into Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance emphasized Bitcoin\u2019s strategic role in U.S. policy and warned the crypto community to stay politically engaged or risk being ignored. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2025&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}