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CRYPTO'S NEWBIE ALLY IN CONGRESS
Fortune US
|February - March 2023
RITCHIE TORRES says he knew nothing about crypto when he joined the House two years ago. Now he could shape its post-FTX future.
UP FROM "UNBANKED" Torres believes crypto can help bolster low-income communities like his Bronx district.
IN EARLY DECEMBER, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres stood at a lectern embossed with the congressional seal in his district office in the Bronx, staring with his head cocked at a line of local news cameras.
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its wunderkind founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a darling in Washington, had collapsed a few weeks earlier. Torres was far from Bankman-Fried's immediate orbit, but he was not free from association, either. Since being sworn in to his seat from New York's 15th Congressional District in January 2021 as a Democrat, Torres had allied with a bipartisan group of crypto-curious politicians. Representing one of the poorest congressional districts, Torres argued for crypto's potential to help low-income people build wealth and disrupt the unjust power dynamics of finance.
This story is from the February - March 2023 edition of Fortune US.
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