ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, on Friday afternoon local time, Trump-backed Republican Congressman Mike Johnson successfully secured enough votes to be re-elected as Speaker of the House.Johnson is considered a crypto-friendly individual, having previously voted in favor of the "21st Century Financial Innovation and Technology Act" (commonly known as FIT21) and the anti-Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) bill.Johnson's re-election and Emmer's continued role as Majority Whip mean that crypto-friendly members in Congress are likely to push for crypto legislation in 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will vote on December 11 to decide whether to re-nominate SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, a cryptocurrency skeptic. Several executives in the crypto industry have expressed disappointment over her potential reappointment. Crenshaw was one of the two SEC commissioners who voted against approving the spot Bitcoin ETF in January.Coinbase President and COO Emilie Choi stated, "Caroline Crenshaw is against cryptocurrency. She even embarrassingly opposed the Bitcoin ETF. The SEC needs to change."Alexander Grieve, Vice President of Government Affairs at crypto investment firm Paradigm, said that Crenshaw's departure would be "the last 'gift' to the cryptocurrency industry," as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown is trying to force through the re-nomination of anti-crypto SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw.Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart noted that Crenshaw is not only an "ally" of SEC Chairman and cryptocurrency skeptic Gary Gensler but is also "more strongly opposed to cryptocurrency" than Gensler himself."Just read her opposition letter to the Bitcoin ETF approval from January," Seyffart added, noting that another opposing SEC commissioner, Jaime Lizárraga, "didn't even join the position she expressed in her letter." After the SEC approved the issuance of a Bitcoin spot ETF in the U.S. on January 10, Crenshaw, who was sworn in as an SEC commissioner in August 2020, stated that the SEC's approval of the ETF was "unreasonable and inconsistent with historical norms."Austin Campbell, CEO of digital payment company WSPN, stated that he wants to "remind all Democrats that Caroline Crenshaw voted to say that the SEC should defy a federal judge's order, break the law, and reject BTC ETFs after being ordered by the court to approve them."

ChainCatcher news, according to Fox News, on November 13 local time, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, was nominated by the Republican Party to continue serving as Speaker of the House in a vote that day. He will face a full House vote in January next year.

ChainCatcher news, the Complex Decision Analysis Center of Fudan University has released the prediction results for the 2024 U.S. presidential election based on computer simulation modeling, showing that Trump is very likely to reclaim the U.S. presidency (with a probability exceeding 60%).The research team stated that the prediction is primarily based on agent-based modeling (ABM) simulation technology. Our prediction is divided into three steps: (1) Through ABM-based simulation predictions, we obtained the vote share distribution and electoral vote allocation for 8 key states in the U.S. (limited by budget constraints, we selected 8 key states); (2) Through 1 million rounds of Monte Carlo simulations, we obtained tracking poll prediction results and electoral vote allocation for the remaining 42 states and Washington D.C.; (3) The two results were summarized to finally derive the overall prediction result for the 2024 U.S. election.Fudan's ABM prediction covers eight key states (these eight states are those where the gap between the Democratic and Republican parties was less than 5% in the 2020 election). The specific prediction results for the 8 key states (based on ABM simulation predictions) are as follows. Trump is expected to win: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin. Harris is expected to win: Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina.

ChainCatcher news, Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," made a prediction stating that if Trump is re-elected as President of the United States, he may implement policies such as a weaker dollar and increased oil extraction, which will lead to rising prices for gold, silver, and Bitcoin.Kiyosaki expects that by August 2025, the price of gold will rise to $3,300 per ounce, silver will reach $79, and Bitcoin will hit $105,000. He believes these policies could increase exports, create jobs, and drive up asset prices.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, Malta's Member of the European Parliament and blockchain advocate Roberta Metsola has been re-elected as the President of the European Parliament.In 2018, Roberta, as a Member of the European Parliament from Malta, called for regulation of cryptocurrencies and blockchain where appropriate, without stifling innovation.

ChainCatcher news, Trump stated that if he wins a second term, he will ensure that Florida has a lot of cryptocurrency activity.