Washington, March 8 -- U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to lend policy support to the cryptocurrency industry and other digital assets at a Friday meeting at the White House.
At the Digital Assets Summit, the first of its kind, Trump expressed his strong support for industry-friendly legislation and flexible regulation.
He bashed relevant regulatory policies implemented during the previous administration and emphasized the ongoing efforts to "end the federal bureaucracies' war on crypto."
The meeting was held one day after Trump signed an executive order to build a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile.
The U.S. federal government holds as many as 200,000 bitcoin, said Trump at the meeting.
The Treasury and Comm...