On July 18th, in response to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's latest remarks "against making a political vote based on whether to support cryptocurrencies", Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson refuted: "My primary goal has always been to get the government as far away from cryptocurrencies as possible, but when that goal is impossible, the remaining options are very clear. If they will continue to over-regulate, then we should not vote for them... A vote for Biden is a vote for the demise of the US cryptocurrency industry, and with that in mind, we should vote for a pro-cryptocurrency candidate."