Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell: U.S. Has No Plans To Ban Bitcoin and Crypto

On Thursday afternoon during the Oversight of the Treasury Department’s and Federal Reserve’s Pandemic Response hearing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed that the U.S. has no plans to ban Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

During the hearing, House Representative Ted Budd (R-N.C) questioned Chairman Powell about the state of inflation in the United States. Powell deflected the inflation questions, claiming the inflation in this country is due to the oft-repeated supply chain crises caused by the Government’s pandemic response.