Coinbase’s Paul Grewal to face Congress: is ‘Operation Chokepoint 2.0’ a threat?

Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, is set to testify before the US Congress this week as lawmakers investigate allegations that financial regulators systematically cut off banking access for cryptocurrency firms.

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Coinbase Trading Desk Plans Revive Market Manipulation Concerns

Coinbase reportedly tested the trading arm after team members testified before Congress that it didnt use its own accounts to trade crypto. Coinbase Tests Trading Desk, WSJ Claims Coinbase tested...

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Coinbase Integrating Politician ‘Crypto Scorecard’ Into Its App After Banning Politics at Work

Coinbase has begun integrating a crypto scorecard that ranks members of congress in the U.S.-based on their stances on crypto. The data is taken from Crypto Action Network. The post Coinbase Integrating Politician ‘Crypto Scorecard’ Into Its App After Banning Politics at Work appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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XRP Price Reacts by Adding 15% to Its Value as Former Coinbase CLO, Brian Brooks, Tells Congress to "Let Them In"

Brian Brooks, former CLO of Coinbase, tells Congress to "let them in" as XRP reacts by 15%

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Coinbase Open Sources Crypto Proposal to Biden and Congress

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Coinbase States Infrastructure Bill Could Impact 60 Million American Crypto Owners

Coinbase’s global tax VP has condemned Congress’s controversial decision to introduce crypto tax provisions into the infrastructural bill. They warned that this bill might impact 20% of the U.

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Our response to a recent editorial from Bloomberg on Congress’s crypto tax proposal

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Coinbase and Ripple Push for Regulatory Framework, US Congress Stalls

Coinbase and Ripple execs co-chair the newly established working group tasked with pushing for a U.S.-wide regulatory framework. What is this unit exactly, and will Congress listen?

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BCH News Roundup: Transactions Spike, Cashaddr Support and Developer Congress

The last seven days have been busy within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem with a slew of announcements and developments. Kraken exchange recently added the BCH-based Cashaddr address format and Coinbase open-sourced a utility that makes it easy to convert between Base58 and Cashaddr addresses.

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Palestinian Fundamentalist Group Hamas Receives Funding via Bitcoin

In a particularly interesting case study for the consequence of Bitcoin’s global impact, the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas has announced that it will accept bitcoin to fund itself.

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Weekly Crypto Roundup: Roubini Vs Buterin, Bithumb Sells Stake, Coinbase Lists First ERC-20 Token

When one of the biggest Bitcoin critics had his day to testify before Congress, the crypto world knew it would be brutal. Popularly known as Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini held nothing back as he attacked crypto, but it was the aftermath that was even more exciting.

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Presenting a United Front of Blockchain Companies to Work With Congress

It’s a sign of the times and the growing maturity of the crypto industry that a new industry trade association launched in Washington, D. C. , on September 11, 2018, to lobby the U.

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Congress Committee Chairman is Betting on Crypto – Reveals Investments in Annual Disclosure

Rep. Bob Goodlatte has become the first person in Congress to reveal his cryptocurrency holdings to the world. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee owns digital currencies, as revealed in his annual disclosure report.

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