New York Mayoral Candidates Turn to Crypto for Votes - page 2.

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Quote from: passwordnow on September 02, 2021, 03:53:10 PM

They know that there are a lot of crypto folks that are living in New York. But that will work? we don't know, in every campaign, they have to convince everyone that's part of their city to get their votes. And that's why every sector that they think that has a large number of vote, they should feel that they're with them. It's just another political style of campaigning and you'll see most of them as part of those sectors, organizations and other social parties.

I agree with you that it's just another political style of campaigning. We all know restrictions for US citizens in the crypto ecosystem despite the US has the largest adoption for cryptocurrencies since early days of bitcoin.
I may believe him or whoever if he promises to integrate blockchain technology in some economy/monetary fields. I remember an independant candidate from the US presidential election who also propised voters to get into crypto if he would win but we didn't here that he has a decent numbers of votes due to his promises.
NYC citizens who are interested in the cryptocurrencies would be sure that this candidate is selling them the illusion toward their votes, and ignorant people don't even know about the existence of bitcoin .

That was Andrew Yang but he has seen his lose and that's why he has cancelled his presidential run. And with all of these, they're all easy to talk about it and have the topic brought to the people and say that they'll do this and they'll do that.
We're no longer young with politics and we've seen a lot of them promised about what's with the trend and current issues. They're all bringing that to the table and nothing other than all for the votes.

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That's just a bad decision through and through, the crypto community is meticulous and I am pretty sure that one wrong move from this candidate is going turn the crypto against him. Plus, focusing on crypto alone won't get you anywhere because it's not like it's a fundamental issue that can help you win the hearts of the voters during the campaign.

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Quote from: Leviathan.007 on September 02, 2021, 01:13:01 PM

New York City mayoral candidates have turned to cryptocurrencies as part of their campaign promises.
Republican candidate Curtis Silwa wrote on Twitter yesterday: "As mayor of New York City, I will make New York the Crypto-friendly city in the country. "Property taxes, fines, and commissions will be payable with cryptocurrencies."
“We will open more crypto ATMs and incentivize businesses to accept crypto. We must modernize our economy and make it accessible for all,” he added.
Silwa’s tweet, which featured graphics from Dogecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Ripple ATMs, is not the first time a New York City mayoral candidate has used cryptocurrencies to the campaign.

Ahh, I would love to pay my taxes to EMI's with crypto currencies because that will literally weigh out my burden from crypto earnings. I am saying the context that, today I literally have to think twice whether I should convert my crypto earnings into fiat or not because in my country it is still illegal and the decision is yet to be made. This makes my crypto asset virtually inaccessible to be used in the real world. If they are okay with it, then dam, I am gonna scan the address. Grin

Quote from: Leviathan.007 on September 02, 2021, 01:13:01 PM

New York Democratic nominee Eric Adams has vowed to make New York City the "center of bitcoin."
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That is an eye catchy statement and as far as I know New York is pretty great economic country and can bring more attention to the crypto usage. Being the costly its gonna make crypto enthusiast more happy about the investments. It won't be far when they will reach out to wall street as well. Tongue

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Quote from: Leviathan.007 on September 02, 2021, 01:13:01 PM

New York City mayoral candidates have turned to cryptocurrencies as part of their campaign promises.
Republican candidate Curtis Silwa wrote on Twitter yesterday: "As mayor of New York City, I will make New York the Crypto-friendly city in the country. "Property taxes, fines, and commissions will be payable with cryptocurrencies."
“We will open more crypto ATMs and incentivize businesses to accept crypto. We must modernize our economy and make it accessible for all,” he added.

Well, as much as I love cryptocurrency and I am fan of it, I don’t think that’s what I am really going to be expecting from them. Whether they do it or not, cryptocurrency is still going to thrive, so that’s the least thing I would expect. But it’s still good that they have recognized it and have plans to move the cryptocurrency community forward.

But that aside, it’s not just by talking about cryptocurrency, there are lots of other vital things that people are expecting from them, so what do they have to offer in those vital areas? After they have talked about cryptocurrency, what next? That’s the question that follows. It’s the other things that follows that determines whether they will get the vote or not.

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Wow, if the candidates from both parties are talking about cryptos, it prpbably means that this is now a hot topic that matters to the electorate, and that people want favorable regulations in New York. And it seems to me that these are not unpopular candidates trying to get some hype; they're actually the main contestants. So either way, it's going to be a win for the local crypto community if, of course, things like crypto regulations can be done at the local level and the federal authorities won't mind things like taxes in Bitcoin.

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Well, I hope what they choose for their voters are the right cryptos and the right way of using them. What they choose to implement should help sustain the voters during earth shaking crisis.
*The sheep in Babylon (who could be part of the voters) should not be exposed to harm though. They are really valuable to their CREATOR.

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New York's heavy handed, inefficient and authoritarian policies continue to alienate residents. Forcing them to flee new york for texas or florida. It doesn't appear relief in new york will come anytime soon. Politicians are obsessed with raising taxes, increasing overregulation and redtape and otherwise taking steps to cripple their own business and finance sectors. These promises by new york politicians to "support cryptocurrencies" are likely more of the same. Desperation pleas intended to stall residents and fool them into thinking things will change.

Texas and florida are emerging as crypto friendly states. New york feels forced to do the same to remain competitive and offer attractive living conditions to residents. But these promises by new york have been common for many years and always failed to materialize.

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He would be more successful securing votes from the poor or the homeless people than securing votes from crypto enthusiast. he would get more supporters talking about fixing far more important issues.

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Quote from: bittraffic on September 03, 2021, 01:26:44 AM

It does sound like people in New York are all crypto users that they thought the majority are going to vote for them upon having those promises. But then anyway, people will be very curious about cryptocurrency because of these mayors.

Both of them already promise the same development for the city so whichever wins, there will be someone to make Bitcoin known to the people.

That's very tunnel vision of the citizens of New York City to only care about one thing to improve in their city, pretty sure that those promises won't come to fruition because some of the regulation might be problematic to become official. It's good that there's a tie in this one, it's only a matter of who is the one that is sincere and will put people first.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on September 02, 2021, 03:51:31 PM

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Andrew Yang was another candidate for New York mayor, he also supported crypto and was blown out of the water, and that was a democratic candidate with some name recognition. This guy is a republican and has precisely a zero chance of going anywhere. Voters don't understand nor care about crypto, they probably never will.

Interesting. I do remember Yang but didn't remember his party (and I'm surprised to learn that he's a democrat). You're probably right about a republican having no chance of getting elected as governor of NY. We can only hope.

Colorado's governor Jared Polis is one of the few politicians that I actually follow, mainly for his really good questions when they were first having the bitcoin/ cryptocurrency discussions.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis wants his state to be the first to accept cryptocurrencies for taxes
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/crypto-acceptance-for-taxes-colorado-governor-jared-polis-state-accept-2021-5

Gov. Polis signs Colorado's first blockchain-related bill into law
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2019/03/07/colorado-first-blockchain-related-law.html

I am an appreciator of Andrew Yang, something like Democracy Dollars would be an improvement to our current political system ---> yes I can immediately see a few ways it could be gamed but...

What would it potentially be like if money was out of the equation for candidates?

H.R.1572 - Democracy Dollars Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1572

https://democracydollarsatx.org/

"A similar plan was put forward by the 2020 presidential campaign of Andrew Yang. The campaign's "Democracy Dollars" would have given each registered voter $100 to put towards the political campaign of their choice annually."

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It does sound like people in New York are all crypto users that they thought the majority are going to vote for them upon having those promises. But then anyway, people will be very curious about cryptocurrency because of these mayors.

Both of them already promise the same development for the city so whichever wins, there will be someone to make Bitcoin known to the people.

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I'm surprised every candidates are trying to farm some votes with bitcoin. It doesn't even look that same bitcoin hated by the establishment anymore. Now every politicians want to be crypto friendly and that is a reason to be concerned, because politicians aren't to be trusted and if they are in love with bitcoin it's because there is a shady reason for that. Soon we will see.

Actually they would be more helpful to crypto universe by just not interfering on it. Let the businesses and independent individuals incentivize the usage of bitcoin. Since the beginning it's working this way without any "help" from politicians or governments and it has been a great success.

Quote from: Leviathan.007 on September 02, 2021, 01:13:01 PM

“We will open more crypto ATMs and incentivize businesses to accept crypto. We must modernize our economy and make it accessible for all,” he added.

I don't understand the obssession people have for ATMs since personal smartphones already fullfil the function of ATMs anywhere. All you need is internet connection and an account in a crypto app.

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Quote from: Gyfts on September 02, 2021, 01:25:02 PM

Andrew Yang was another candidate for New York mayor, he also supported crypto and was blown out of the water, and that was a democratic candidate with some name recognition. This guy is a republican and has precisely a zero chance of going anywhere. Voters don't understand nor care about crypto, they probably never will. Politics is a game of pandering.

Well, it is true that today the crypto issue does not move a mass of voters as other issues can do, but what I find interesting is the trend. It seems to me that we are going to see more and more politicians talking about measures favorable to cryptocurrencies in their election campaigns, and that is positive for the normalization and mass adoption of Bitcoin.

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I don't know the guy but I feel like this candidate isn't going to win, not because of a fair fight but because some companies that's going to be affected by crypto directly will be using every connection that they have for this candidate to not win. That's just my hunch though because I know how politics work even just a little.

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Well, every vote counts. There might be more than a handful crypto supporters out there whose votes are still untapped. These candidates are trying to grab this particular demographic. Well, good luck to them.

The attention of crypto supporters might have been caught by these politicians' statements. They might end up getting the support of these voters. But then this area is definitely not the only thing that matters. There are definitely other factors whose priority comes before crypto but then it probably counts to several voters that their leader is future-looking.

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People don’t care about crypto at this time of the pandemic. All they want is someone who will sway them into believing that there is still hope in politics. While there may be some groups of people wanting to get their crypto voices heard on politics, the majority’s interest isn’t really resting on cryptocurrencies alone. Take for example, Andrew Yang. The dude is obviously a pro-crypto politician with democratic leanings and an overall favorite to win, but still ended up losing badly.

I’d like to see what else Curtis Sliwa has to offer to New York. The city is plagued with crimes and unemployment, and I don’t think marketing himself as another crypto dude without tackling about the main issues of the city will help his political run.

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For a change, it's a different way to catch the attention of the people especially if New York is full of crypto geeks and there are stores established that accept crypto as a payment method.

With that, people there will think that crypto is getting attention from the officials and wants to make it good.

I don't see anything wrong there. But as always in every election, expect that some "promises are made to be broken" if you know what I mean.

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I know it's pretty difficult to believe whatsoever politicians say, worse even when they start making promises using a decentralized network that they cannot control, but it doesn't really matter here and I'm taking the positive side of this news, I see it as a big news that politicians are trying to convince people to vote for them by using cryptocurrency, it means Bitcoin is really getting more and more popular and it is only that way that mass adoption can become possible, another thing is that even with government regulations and bans, governments are well and fully aware of the immense positive role Bitcoin plays in the society and are just being hostile for their own selfish reason, which is their inability to control the network.

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Until he gets in and do the job of going through the legislation to make the use of bitcoin and other cryptocreency legal then we won't take it seriously. It is a positive vibe to win the population until is made law as we see El Salvador. It needs legislative process just like the abortion bill that was signed info law in Texas, it will be a good news if New York adopts it. This will grow even dogecoin as mentioned.

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If he was able to survey that the New York community mostly uses crypto, that's a big plus factor for people to notice him.

For a crypto-friendly country, mentioning crypto by a big personality, like government officials or someone related to it, is always a big deal be it positive or negative. But for me, mentioning crypto just to make sounds is just a common part of propaganda when a person is running for a government position.

A unique way though compare to the usual election jingle and advertisement we always see every campaign period.

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