{"id":27776,"date":"2024-09-04T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/2024\/09\/04\/coinbase-cfo-says-kamala-harris-campaign-accepts-crypto-donations-fortune\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:11:53","slug":"coinbase-cfo-says-kamala-harris-campaign-accepts-crypto-donations-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/2024\/09\/04\/coinbase-cfo-says-kamala-harris-campaign-accepts-crypto-donations-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CFO Says Kamala Harris Campaign Accepts Crypto Donations: Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/09\/04\/coinbase-cfo-says-kamala-harris-is-using-firm-to-accept-crypto-donations\/\">According<\/a> to Fortune, Coinbase\u2019s Chief Financial Officer, Alesia Haas, said that U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is using the company\u2019s Commerce platform to accept cryptocurrency donations for her campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made during a conversation with Citigroup\u2019s Director of Payments, Peter Christiansen, at the Citi 2024 Global TMT Conference in New York, in which Fortune reviewed a\u00a0recording of the conversation.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1831414843242639521\"><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe is accepting crypto donations,\u201d\u00a0reportedly said\u00a0Haas.\u00a0\u201cShe\u2019s using Coinbase Commerce now to accept crypto for her own campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0pro-Harris\u00a0advocacy group Crypto4Harris said that they were unaware of this move. Additionally, Harris&#8217;s official fundraising site does not yet display crypto donation options. So far, Harris\u2019s campaign and Coinbase were reached out to for comment, but Fortune has not heard back yet at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Crypto for Harris&#8221; initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/politics\/democrats-launch-crypto-for-harris-to-rival-trumps-crypto-appeal-fox-business\">launched<\/a> last month, aims to garner support from crypto enthusiasts as Harris seeks to strengthen her presidential bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has a huge opportunity, we\u2019re cautiously optimistic,\u201d Haas reportedly continued. \u201cShe has not rolled out the details yet, but she has made overtures that she would like to drive crypto legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 decision to accept cryptocurrency donations marks a strategic move to rival her opponent Donald Trump, who earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/trump-becomes-first-president-to-accept-bitcoin-lightning-payments-for-campaign-donations\">embraced<\/a> Bitcoin Lightning Network donations for his campaign. Trump&#8217;s alignment with the Bitcoin community was further solidified when he spoke at The Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville\u2014an event Harris notably declined to attend.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fortune, Coinbase\u2019s Chief Financial Officer, Alesia Haas, said that U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is using the company\u2019s Commerce platform to accept cryptocurrency donations for her campaign.\u00a0 The statement was made during a conversation with Citigroup\u2019s Director of Payments, Peter Christiansen, at the Citi 2024 Global TMT Conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crypto-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoins-101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}