Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayor’s race, and the city’s crypto industry is waiting to see how his administration will affect business.
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Aaron Wood is a senior writer in the Features team at Cointelegraph, covering stories about crypto and policy, regulation, politics and energy usage. Aaron holds degrees in Political Science and Economics. Previous to working at Cointelegraph, Aaron worked on election campaigns for the Democratic Farm-Labor Party in Minnesota and was a managing and technical editor at the ENERPO newsletter and academic journal at the European University in St Petersburg. Aaron holds Bitcoin and Ethereum above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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