Aux United States, there House and Senate have just passed a new bill entitled “CHIPS Act of 2022”, focusing on the crypto industry. The said project is even about to become a law. It would be enough for this to be signed by President Joe Biden. That said, within the framework of this project, a new position was born in the White House.
A position as a crypto specialist
Under tweet from Bitcoin Archive on July 31, 2022, in the United States, “ a new bill creates a position of cryptocurrency specialist in the White House ». In fact, the House and Senate this week passed a new bill called the “CHIPS Act of 2022”. All that remains is President Biden’s signature for the bill to become law.
In this draft, there is an amendment, which arouses the need to hire a crypto and blockchain specialist. The amendment was introduced by Congressman Darren Soto (D-FL) who is the co-chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus in the House of Representatives.
Indeed, according to section 10671 of the bill we are talking about, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) will take care of “ to establish or designate a position as an advisory specialist on blockchain and cryptocurrencies within the Office, to coordinate federal activities and advise the President on research and development issues related to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies. »
According to the new bill, the OSTP should create the position of advisory specialist on blockchain and cryptocurrencies at the White House. But, for now, the OSTP must work to accomplish other missions that are its own. These missions concern the technology of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. They fall under Mr. Biden’s Executive Order 10,467 concerning the “responsible development of digital assets”.
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