What makes him complicated for crypto is that he's not entirely against it. Warsh invested in [firms] behind a spot Bitcoin ETF, and in Electric Capital, a crypto-focused venture firm. He has called Bitcoin a "policeman" that keeps central banks honest. But his policy preferences—tighter money, higher real interest rates, and a smaller Fed balance sheet—are exactly the conditions that pull capital out of risk assets and back into bonds.
President Trump's plans for a more receptive Fed may have backfired so spectacularly that Jerome Powell may end up staying as chairman beyond the end of his term, while Stephen Miran, Trump's most loyal supporter on the bank's rate-setting committee, leaves the institution. Trump has repeatedly taken aim at the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve-often via personal insults-since launching his presidential bid. First, he wanted Powell to hold interest rates higher to avoid boosting President Biden's ratings on the economy.