US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin hasn’t been really good for cryptocurrencies. As we reported, the Treasury said in a statement on Monday, “There is strong support across the G7 on the need to regulate digital currencies.”

The G7 finance officials discussed the responses to the evolving landscape of cryptocurrencies to prevent their use for “malign purposes and illicit activities,” Treasury said.

Just last month, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that Mnuchin is planning to “rush out some new regulation regarding self-hosted crypto wallets before the end of his term,” although exchange’s former employer Brian Brooks, the acting Comptroller of the Currency, said there is no plan on killing cryptos.

However, Munchin hasn’t much time left in his term with Janet Yellen chosen as the new Treasury Secretary by President-elect Joe Biden.

Yellen’s views on crypto aren’t positive; she has called Bitcoin a “highly speculative asset” in the past and expressed concerns about its volatility when she should have shown more concern about the decreasing value of the US dollar.

However, Yellen won’t be bearish for Bitcoin price rather the opposite, wrote Alex Mashinsky, founder & CEO of Celsius Network, in an article on Monday.

According to him, Yellen’s track record as an economist and a civil servant is unimpeachable, but her ability to manage the current economic crisis and mounting debt is something to be worried about.

Coming from a long line of Keynesian believers in MMT, Yellen advocates for creating endless amounts for fiat to grow the economy, said Mashinksy.

The Fed has already been printing money like crazy, with over 20% of dollar supply created in 2020 alone.

“Joe Biden along with Janet Yellen and J-Pow are gonna drive the Dollar into the ground,” said analyst Mati Greenspan.

Mashinksy argues that MMT is a dangerous ideology that injects boatloads of cash into the market, pushing the asset prices up, which only benefits large corporations and billionaires.

Although Yellen’s appointment can lead to Bitcoin restrictions and regulating DeFi but the fact that Yellen and Biden Administration need to ensure that the US Dollar remains the reserve currency, it would involve “funding new businesses and technologies in future industries such as Blockchain, Machine Learning, and AI.”

Mashinsky said it is “overdue” for the Fed and Treasury to give up their old ways and start taking advantage of crypto.

“The FED and the White House will be filled with Keynesian MMT FIAT maximalists in 2021. This guarantees that Bitcoin continues to hit new highs during the 2021–2025,” he wrote.

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