We sat down with British MP DrLisaCameronMP and it seems that the UK might be warming up to Bitcoin and crypto.
, Cointelegraph spoke to Lisa Cameron, a Member of Parliament who is spending more and more time working with digital assets. Cameron told Cointelegraph:
“I have spoken to companies who are involved in CBDCs and stablecoins. We’ve looked at crypto tokens, and Bitcoin is obviously part of the sector.” As the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow , Cameron works in Westminster–a metonym for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She rubs shoulders with the newCameron is also the chairperson of The Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group . The forum discusses, “The challenges and opportunities relating to the crypto sector and explores the need for future regulation of the sector.
While the creation of the APPG would suggest that Bitcoin and crypto might be making it mainstream, the future of money remains a fringe discussion topic in the United Kingdom. Interest in “digital assets” waxes and wanes with the crypto bear and bull runs.