President Donald Trump’s crypto advisor Bo Hines was released after only months of work, and the next online – his assistant, Patrick Witt – will be apparently reduced by industry’s political priorities in Washington because she is still looking for industry -scale regulations and the institution of a stock of federal cryptography.
Witt shares a remarkably similar story with Hines – the two ex -football stars who played Yale before looking for diplomas in law and not lowering in offers for the congress. Witt had a brief passage as a quarter of free agent for the Saints of New Orleans after having managed the team of Yale Bulldogs who later played on the wide receiver. The two ex-athletes have closely linked their political career to Trump in recent years, and Witt will now be the main connection of Trump’s White House industry, according to his social media profile which refers to the title Hines left.
As executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, Witt goes up to the role without a significant cryptography background, although Hines also occupied the role without a deep digital past.
“We had the pleasure of working with Patrick throughout the year and we are delighted to continue implementing policies that will make the United States this world center for cryptographic innovation and development,” said Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO of Solana Policy Institute, in a press release.
When Witt helped to present Trump during a rally in 2022, he told the crowd that “the government, too often, is the problem”. But the graduate of the Harvard Law School spent a little time serving at the federal level and describes himself as a “civil servant” on his LinkedIn account.
Witt has some of the common Curriculum Vitae food from DC careers: three years to McKinsey & Co., and stays at the staff management office in the first Trump presidency and some time at the Ministry of Defense. But in his original state, Georgia, his political career had not yet found an impulse, with a failed offer to be the state insurance commissioner (under a promise to “prevent your assurance of wake up”) and a brief effort to present himself at the Congress.
Although his predecessor to the White House recently celebrated the significant victory of the first legislation on American cryptography to establish a law governing the stablecoins, Hines has left a large list of tasks. When the congress returns from its summer vacation, Witt will have to master the progress towards a version of the Senate of the law on the clarity of the digital asset market adopted by the Chamber. Hines had also closely monitored developments in the formation of what the administration calls its Bitcoin strategic reserve – a project in which the industry is looking forward to seeing the progress since Trump’s order began to work on it
“I love this community and everything we have built together,” said Hines in a farewell publication on X, surprising the industry starting after less than a year of work. “While I go back to the private sector, I can’t wait to continue my support for the cryptography ecosystem while prospering here in the United States.”
Witt has republished this feeling but has not yet explained his own program. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on its promotion.
Trump’s most senior crypto policy, David Sacks, remains in his position.
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