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Bitcoin-friendly U.S president candidate Andrew Yang got the support from the visionary Elon Musk as we can read today in the latest cryptocurrency news.

The CEO of Tesla INC. announced his support for the bitcoin-friendly Andrew Yang and his run for the presidency in 2020. Back a few days ago while hosting the podcast Hard Core History, the American political commentator and podcaster Dan Carlin commented on how qualified Yang is. Responding to the comments, Musk also expressed his support for Yang. The presidential candidate is a Democratic candidate and a huge proponent of a universal basic income. He started accepting donations for his campaign in Ethereum, Bitcoin and other crypto-assets that are in compliance with the ERC20 standard as well as Venmo payments.

In order to finance the campaign of Yang, the super PAC (political action committee) Humanity Forward Fund joined forces with Open node in order to raise unlimited funds from people and corporations through their secure payment platforms which facilitate payments in Bitcoin. What is also very interesting, Humanity Forward Fund and its Opennode platform are accepting campaign donations in Bitcoin for 21 days starting from July 25, 2019 and August 14, 2019. Yang has already qualified for debate No.3 which is scheduled for September 2019 and will have to debate Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.

Being pro-bitcoin is not the only good quality Yang has. His ideas are very innovative and his universal basic income proposal is one of his greatest advances. As noted in the coming altcoin news, Musk and the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos are planning to launch satellites in space in order to provide Internet access to millions of people around the world and use Bitcoin as the currency of the internet. Musk also thinks that bitcoin has an amazing structure and the endorsement of Yang’s candidature by such a visionary will help increase Bitcoin’s rate of adoption. Though Musk has been involved in multiple scandals over the years, his Twitter community is very supportive so his words still mean a lot especially when talking about crypto.