The Senate Shoves a Dangerous, Last-Minute $28B Crypto Provision Into the Infrastructure Bill
The bipartisan bill contains potential impacts to crypto intermediaries.
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Jul 29, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 29, 2021
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Senate Banking Committee Bashes Bitcoin's 'Phony' Populism
The hearing was almost certainly the testiest in a trio of crypto-themed inquiries Tuesday morning.
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Jul 27, 2021 at 5:14 p.m. UTC
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State of Crypto: Congress Is Holding 3 Hearings Today, Here's What to Expect
Congress is holding three simultaneous hearings around cryptocurrencies today – and they're all on different types of use cases.
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Jul 27, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. UTC
Jul 27, 2021
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Washington Should Let DeFi Succeed
Regulators should prosecute fraud, but also acknowledge the limits of their effectiveness and allow DeFi to mature.
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Jul 23, 2021 at 3:57 p.m. UTC
Jul 23, 2021
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Senate to Investigate Crypto’s Role in Cybercrime
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is adding another front in lawmakers’ crypto probe.
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Jul 20, 2021 at 7:38 p.m. UTC
Jul 20, 2021
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Republican Senator Highlights Bitcoin's Battle in Shedding Criminal Baggage
Sen. Chuck Grassley is using "deeply flawed" estimates of illicit bitcoin activity to call for closer scrutiny of the industry, according to multiple crypto intelligence firms...
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Jul 15, 2021 at 8:54 p.m. UTC
Jul 15, 2021
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Bipartisan US Bill Would Define Digital Assets, Emerging Technologies
The reintroduced bill has a Democrat co-sponsor this time, which might help its passage through the House.
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Jul 15, 2021 at 4:26 p.m. UTC
Jul 15, 2021
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Jerome Powell: CBDC Report Coming in Early September
The report will address cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDCs.
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Jul 14, 2021 at 4:57 p.m. UTC
Jul 14, 2021
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State of Crypto: Yes, We're Still Talking About Regulatory Clarity
An expressed desire for regulatory clarity in the U.S. isn’t new. But there’s increasing pressure for lawmakers and regulators to define just what sorts of digital asset activ...
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Jul 6, 2021 at 2:10 p.m. UTC
Jul 6, 2021
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Before We Regulate Crypto, We Need to Know What Crypto Is
UPenn's Sarah Hammer raised an interesting point in her congressional testimony yesterday: We don't have a unified source of data to make sense of crypto.
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Jul 1, 2021 at 6:01 p.m. UTC
Jul 1, 2021