Trump Names Crypto-Pleasant Stephen Miran as Chair of Council of Financial Advisers

President-elect Donald Trump introduced over the weekend that he’s appointing Stephan Miran, a former Treasury official from the primary Trump White Home, and present economist with Hudson Bay Capital Administration, to chair the Council of Financial Advisors (CEA).

The CEA’s function is to advise the president on financial points, together with evaluating the effectiveness of federal insurance policies and applications, analyzing financial developments, and crafting suggestions to foster progress and stability.

Miran has lengthy been an advocate for crypto, not too long ago showing on Blockworks’ Ahead Steerage podcast. He has beforehand tweeted about how crypto rules should be reformed within the U.S. to permit for innovation to flourish.

Miran has beforehand criticized Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell as “fallacious politically and economically” for urging Congress to cross a stimulus invoice in October 2020.

This appointment comes as Trump himself has pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet” and earlier floated the thought of a strategic bitcoin reserve.

Not too long ago, Trump introduced he was appointing crypto advocate Paul Atkins as Securities and Trade Fee chair. Atkins had beforehand served as a Commissioner on the SEC throughout the George W. Bush administration.

Trump additionally appointed former congressional candidate Bo Hines as Govt Director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Belongings.

In a put up on Reality Social, Trump stated Hines would collaborate with David Sacks, the incoming “Crypto Czar,” to advance the administration’s crypto agenda.

Whereas Trump endorsed Hines in his Congressional run, Hines doesn’t have a historical past of crypto advocacy.