At Ten31, we hold no views on any particular candidate, and we initially became interested in bitcoin partially because we recognized that the politicians and regulators that created one financial crisis after another and an ongoing fiscal catastrophe will not save us. However, the events of the last few weeks are still extremely noteworthy in what they indicate about the shifting tectonic plates beneath the nascent bitcoin industry – just a few years ago, the bitcoin network was a triviality at best and a threat at worst in the eyes of most politicians hungry for votes and power.