Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy, said in an interview: "Once you've got bitcoins and you're interested in it, your immediate reaction is that I have to buy as many bitcoins as I can because other people will take all my bitcoins."
Kara Calvert, Coinbase's head of US policy, said in an interview: "Both Republicans and Democrats believe that we need cryptocurrency policy in order to remain competitive in the global economy, and probably the worst thing we can do right now is push cryptocurrencies offshore without regulation." It added that getting everyone involved was important for the crypto industry.