As he is sworn in as President of the United States for a second time, Donald Trump and his nascent administration have begun laying groundwork to fulfill one of his key campaign promises: to make the U.S. a ”bitcoin superpower” and “the crypto capital of the planet.”

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...