Atlanta’s former mayor and member of Coinbase’s global advisory board, Keisha Lance Bottoms, has announced that she will join Joe Biden’s 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign as a senior advisor. Lance Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022 and resigned from her position as a White House advisor in 2023 to join Coinbase’s advisory board in April 2024, stated that she will continue to stay with Coinbase during Biden’s presidential campaign, which is expected to end in November. The former mayor has expressed that cryptocurrency is a “non-political and unifying issue.”
It remains unclear whether Lance Bottoms will provide advice on cryptocurrency-related issues for Biden’s campaign. Reports suggest that the U.S. president is considering accepting cryptocurrency donations from supporters and meeting with lawmakers to discuss digital assets.
Prior to the debate between President Biden and Donald Trump on June 26, Lance Bottoms spoke at one of the Coinbase Stand With Crypto events in Atlanta, calling for users to contact CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash to address cryptocurrency-related issues during the debate. She highlighted Atlanta’s thriving black blockchain community and stated that cryptocurrency provides an opportunity for financial empowerment in communities that often lack access to banking services.
In February, former U.S. Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney stated that he would resign from Coinbase’s global advisory board if President Biden nominated him to represent the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Since the launch of Stand With Crypto by Coinbase in 2023, the organization’s political action committee (PAC) has garnered over 1 million supporters and has been actively supporting or opposing candidates at the state and federal levels. Coinbase is a major supporter of the Fairshake Super PAC, which has launched attack ads against many politicians deemed anti-cryptocurrency on Stand With Crypto.
