{"id":108454,"date":"2020-11-09T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/monero-podcaster-loses-ny-congressional-race\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:22:12","slug":"monero-podcaster-loses-ny-congressional-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/monero-podcaster-loses-ny-congressional-race\/","title":{"rendered":"# Monero podcaster loses NY congressional race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Monero podcaster loses NY congressional race  <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTEvMzRmMmEzOTUtY2VjMy00ZTRlLTkyNzUtOWI1ZmFmYThmZmRlLmpwZWc=.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">Douglas Tuman, a crypto enthusiast and host of the Monero Talk podcast, has lost in his bid to represent New York\u2019s 4th District in the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-new-york-legislature-andrew-cuomo-elections-1416a762d32d249669708ecd172393d1\">election results<\/a> from The Associated Press, Tuman, a Republican, received 134,243 votes to incumbent Democrat Kathleen Rice\u2019s 147,580 in New York\u2019s 4th District, which includes parts of central and southern Nassau County. Rice has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The Monero (XMR) podcaster first <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoneroTalk\/status\/1244024230569816065\">announced<\/a> his intentions to run for Congress in March, stating that he was running on a platform \u201cto improve representative democracy and money.\u201d Tuman <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectTuman\/status\/1251482927839481856\">said<\/a> he was willing to accept XMR and other crypto donations for his campaign to create a \u201cmore pro crypto\u201d U.S. government. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the crypto community behind me we can probably get Monero national attention as free speech money,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CryptoCurrency\/comments\/fv4f7l\/the_host_of_the_monero_talk_podcast_doug_tuman_is\/fmhxfx2\/?context=3\">said<\/a> the congressional candidate. \u201cMonero aligns with the ideals America was founded upon. It is America 2.0 \u2014 a protocol to preserve liberty in the digital age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"law_decoded\"\/>Privacy coins like XMR have been involved in U.S. elections and legislation this year in one form or another. In October, crypto scammers briefly replaced a page on Donald Trump\u2019s re-election campaign website, calling for readers to make donations to two Monero wallets if they wanted certain \u201cstrictly classified information\u201d about the president released. The Internal Revenue Service also recently offered a bounty of up to $625,000 to anyone who can break the purportedly untraceable features of XMR.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cointelegraph has reached out to Douglas Tuman, but had not received a response at the time of publication.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/monero-podcaster-loses-ny-congressional-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Monero podcaster loses NY congressional race &#8221; Douglas Tuman, a crypto enthusiast and host of the Monero Talk podcast, has lost in his bid to represent New York\u2019s 4th District in the U.S. Congress. According to election results from The Associated Press, Tuman, a Republican, received 134,243 votes to incumbent Democrat Kathleen Rice\u2019s 147,580&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-11\/34f2a395-cec3-4e4e-9275-9b5fafa8ffde.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15047,74963,70288,32681,70934,67874],"class_list":["post-108454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy","tag-monero","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}