Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis is Congress' resident cryptocurrency enthusiast.
She' owns a large bitcoin stake and co-sponsored a significant crypto bill.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis is known on Capitol Hill as the "Crypto Queen."
The Republican from Wyoming has earned a reputation as a cryptocurrency educator in Congress, demystifying and advocating for the technology among her older colleagues.
She's a self-described HODLer, crypto-speak for someone who invests in bitcoin as a way to get in before it takes over larger swaths of the financial system. In June, she introduced a bill, alongside Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to some of the first federal guardrails for the growing and largely unregulated world of decentralized finance.
"There are groups who want no regulation. There are other groups that want to completely ban digital assets," a spokesperson for Sen. Lummis told Insider. "We need to meet somewhere in the middle to make sure that bad actors are not taking advantage of the...
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