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U.S. SEC committee urges ‘aggressive enforcement’ on crypto, says most tokens are securities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Investor Advisory Committee sent a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler on April 6, urging the federal...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Joins Ron DeSantis in Railing Against CBDCs

As potential candidates fine-tune their platforms in anticipation of 2024 presidential campaigns, Robert F. Kennedy Jr jumped on board the CBDC hate train last...

Digital Dollar and Tensions Over Transaction-Monitoring

Bloomberg Law | Andrea Vittorio  | Apr 3, 2023 Image: Unsplash/Sander Sammy While the US government weighs whether to launch a central bank-backed virtual currency, civil...

A Group Has Formed to Stop the SEC from Hurting Crypto

An advocacy consumer group has formed that’s designed to go after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and stop it from getting in the...

Banking Sector Wary of Crypto After Silvergate, Signature Closures

The United States banking sector is hesitant to do business with crypto firms following the closures of the nation’s most crypto-supportive financial institutions...

US Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Affirm Blockchain Developers and Non-Custodial Services Are Not Money Transmitters

A U.S. lawmaker has introduced the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act to ensure that developers and non-custodial service providers in the crypto space are...

FL Gov. DeSantis Proposes Ban on Central Bank Digital Currency Use as Money

Governor Ron DeSantis of the U.S. state of Florida has proposed legislation to prohibit the use of central bank digital currency (CBDC) as...

Republican Congressman Tom Emmer Queries FDIC on Alleged Efforts to Purge Crypto Activity from US

On Wednesday, Tom Emmer, the U.S. Republican congressman from Minnesota, revealed he sent a letter to Martin Gruenberg, the chairman of the Federal...

Congressman Emmer attacks FDIC for ‘weaponizing’ bank closures to attack crypto

Tom Emmer, Republican Congressman for Minnesota, wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Mark Gruenberg, on March 15...

CBDCs should protect privacy, not be a surveillance tool: Former CFTC chair

The United States should lead the development of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) away from being “surveillance coins” and towards being "freedom coins,” says...

This Week in Coins: Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bitcoin and Ethereum Crash

It was the third consecutive week of market-wide depreciation in 2023. The repercussions of the announced "wind down" of Silvergate Bank  were still unfolding...

Future of Bitcoin and Crypto Will Be Determined by Congress – Not the Biden Administration, Says House GOP Leader

A Republican House leader says Congress will shape the future of Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency in the US – not the White House. House majority...

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