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Biden campaign hires Coinbase advisory board member to serve as 2024 election advisor

The Biden campaign has hired Keisha Lance Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, to serve as a senior adviser for the 2024 election. She joined Coinbase's advisory board in April 2024 after she resigned as a White House adviser in 2023. The Hill said on June 27 that Lance Bottoms will remain on Coinbase during President Biden's campaign, which is expected to end when U.S. voters go to the polls in November. The news outlet reported that the former mayor said cryptocurrency was a "non-political, unifying issue." It is unclear whether Lance Bottoms will advise the Biden campaign on cryptocurrency-related issues. According to The Hill, Lance Bottoms said at the Stand With Crypto Atlanta event: "Cryptocurrencies offer an opportunity to strengthen financial freedom in communities that are often unbanked and underbanked."