Cryptocurrency investors could decide the US presidential election, says Anthony Scaramucci, who warns that the Democrat campaign will need to work hard to woo the so-called “bitcoin bros” away from backing his former boss, Republican nominee Donald Trump.

The SkyBridge Capital managing partner and short-lived Trump administration spin doctor, who has flipped his allegiance to Democrat nominee Kamala Harris, is among a group of digital asset advocates advising the US vice president on her still-nascent digital asset policy platform.