GUNTERSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) recently defended cryptocurrency interests backing his campaign, saying they appreciated his conservative, anti-government intervention stance.
Moore spoke Tuesday evening at a Republican club meeting in Guntersville, just one night after his opponent, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, held a rally nearby in Albertville, where he accused Moore of being “bought” by “out-of-state crypto billionaires.”
When asked by 1819 News to respond, Moore said, “Fairshake is a crypto group, and what they do is they support candidates that believe in no CBDC. In other words, the central bank digital currency is the biggest threat we have to your finances and my finances. And so, what we've been saying is, no, no, we don't need the federal government controlling currency."
According to its website, Fairshake "supports candidates committed to securing the United States as the home to innovators building the next generation of the internet."
Moore gave the example of how, after losing access to a regular bank account, the Trump family was able to continue transacting in cryptocurrency.
“When Trump left Washington, D.C in 2020, the entire Trump family was debanked by the big corporate banks. They went to crypto to pay their people to pay their bills. They had to go to blockchain to do that. So I have been one of those people who are, like, no, no, the federal government does not need their hand in that. And so they like that I'm a conservative fighter on that, and I don't want the government controlling our finances.”
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