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Off the chain
Coinbase doesn’t want its employees to talk politics at work. But it’s hoping its customers will go to the polls. “We don’t regularly talk about politics here at Coinbase, but we’ve always said that we will engage in the political process at moments when it relates to our mission of increasing economic freedom in the world,” chief policy officer Faryar Shirzad wrote in a blog post about its new voter-education initiative. More crypto-friendly candidates are running in 2022, and Coinbase and other companies are hoping to expand the size — and maybe tilt the tenor — of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus. That may be an uphill battle, since some crypto-friendly candidates like the Association for Digital Asset Markets’ Michelle Bond haven’t made it past the primary contests.
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