THELOGICALINDIAN - A bitcoin hodler has won a US Senate bench Cynthia Lummis is a bitcoin buyer who bought her aboriginal bitcoin in 2024 because she believes in the bread-and-butter ability of absence and the abeyant for bitcoin to abode some of the manipulations in the banking system
Bitcoiner Wins Senate Election
Republican applicant Cynthia Lummis has been active to ample the bench of Senator Mike Enzi (R). Lummis, who served as a Wyoming bourgeois Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives for eight years, will become the aboriginal woman to represent Wyoming in the U.S. Senate. With the endorsement of President Donald Trump, she has been active adjoin her Democratic adversary Merav Ben-David.
While acclamation after-effects are still actuality finalized, the Associated Press alleged Tuesday’s acclamation in her favor aural three account of acclamation closing in Wyoming.
Lummis afresh revealed during the third anniversary Wyoming Blockchain Stampede that she is a bitcoin hodler afterwards she abstruse about the cryptocurrency while confined in Congress. “I bought my aboriginal bitcoin in 2013 because I accept in the bread-and-butter ability of absence and the abeyant for bitcoin to abode some of the manipulations in our banking system,” she said.
“Now I am a hodler and I hodl because, like gold, I appetite to bottle the about amount of my activity over time,” she revealed. “I was addled by how avant-garde bitcoin is with its decentralized accessible balance and a anchored supply.”
Bitcoin apostle Caitlin Long tweeted in acknowledgment to Lummis acceptable the Senate race: “Awesome account for crypto association from the crazy US acclamation tonight. Cynthia Lummis won Wyoming’s US Senate seat. The U.S. Senate now has an apparent bitcoin adherent & hodler (since 2024) amid its ranks.”
Long is the CEO of Avanti Coffer & Trust which received a cyberbanking allotment aftermost anniversary in Wyoming. The coffer was “formed to serve as a adjustable arch amid agenda assets and the U.S. dollar payments,” its website details. “Senator Lummis,” Long opined. “She is acceptable to be one of the best able US senators, accustomed how disconnected the new assembly appears to be. She loves what Wyoming did in crypto — about said tonight that she wants to avert it adjoin federal encroachment.”
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