If Democrats Win the Midterms and Take Back the White House, What Happens to Bitcoin? VanEck Says Bitcoin Investors Don't Need to Worry.
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The U.S. midterm elections are about two months away, and right now, Democrats are favored. They have an 89% chance of winning a House majority, according to Polymarket. Their odds of winning the Senate are essentially a coin flip at 51%. The conventional wisdom is that Republican control of Washington, D.C. benefits Bitcoin ( BTC +4.44% ) , whereas Democratic control would be bearish for the top cryptocurrency. However, Matthew Sigel, VanEck's head of digital assets research, offered a different view in a recent CNBC interview. When discussing the possibility of Democrats winning the midterms, Sigel said that "(former President Joe) Biden was actually OK for Bitcoin. It's the rest of cryptos that might have a problem." His assertion about Bitcoin checks out. Although it experienced significant price fluctuations during Biden's presidency, it reached multiple all-time highs from 2021 to 2025. Biden's term also saw the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approve the first spot Bitcoin ETFs , one of the factors that drove the cryptocurrency's growth in 2024 and seems to have given it a more stable price floor. While Sigel didn't explain why he thought altcoins (cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin) would have a problem, many of the major altcoins are more vulnerable to regulatory scrutiny than Bitcoin. Ethereum , Solana , and XRP , to give a few examples, all benefit from traditional financial institutions using their blockchain infrastructure. Financial institutions need an established regulatory environment to do that. The Clarity Act would introduce a clear federal framework for cryptocurrencies, but it stalled in the Senate and could be further delayed if Democrats win the midterms.
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