PANews reported on November 19 that U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discussed many topics including bitcoin in an interview this week, saying that the government is "threatened by the existence of bitcoin" and stressed that if the cryptocurrency becomes more popular, it will "pose a threat to the current position of the Federal Reserve itself". He pledged that if he was elected president, he would ensure that the government "does not intervene in the affairs of those who are innovators."