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The governor of Texas and potential president of the United States, Rick Perry criticised Wall Street Banks during a luncheon for the Committee to Unleash Economic Prosperity. He suggested creating regulatory room for bitcoin.

According to the Investor’s Business Daily, the potential president of the United States dedicated considerable part of his address to the reasons of 2008 crisis. Perry thinks that the big banks of Wall Street are to blame:

“Wall Street should not be let off the hook for its bad behaviour. Banks made a lot of mistakes regarding risk management leading up to the crisis. Some financiers intentionally misled investors and customers. They pushed people into deceptive financial products. But instead of them being punished, it was average Americans who paid a tremendous price.”

After speaking harshly about the big banks, Hillary Clinton, and her husband, Rick Perry turned to bitcoin:

“We should create regulatory breathing room for banking with digital currencies, like Bitcoin. Digital currencies harbor the possibility of reducing the cost and improving the quality of financial transactions in much the same way that the conventional internet has done for consumer goods and services.”

“The bitcoin remark” from one of the leading conservative candidates provoked yet another wave of mainstream media publications abound bitcoin. This seems to be the first remark of Perry on the digital currency. Last August, the Yellow Daily News, a fake news portal, informed its readers that one of the Perry’s funds accepts bitcoin donations (as everything in this newspaper it was a hoax).

Reddit users’ reaction was mixed. Some were ready to defend the governor of Texas against “the leftists” while pointing to the ambiguity of Perrys’ bitcoin remark.

“Breathing room, that’s all he said,” wrote user Bitcoin_with_us.

CoinFox reported earlier that a Republican senator from Kentucky Rand Paul announced he was going to run for President in 2016 and his site accepted bitcoin donations. A 52-year-old libertarian, Rand Paul advocates the principles of liberty and limited government. His father, Ron Paul was the presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 1988 and twice a candidate for Republican Party primaries, in 2008 and in 2012. 

Another potential candidate at the President elections in 2016 is Joe Biden. His supporters added an option of sending bitcoin donations under $100 to the political action committee.

 

Roman Korizky