2022-7-5 19:49 |
Unhosted wallets and decentralized finance were left largely unscathed by two landmark crypto laws agreed to last week, but left-wing lawmakers may seek another go as they discuss dirty-money rules. origin »
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Unhosted wallets and decentralized finance were left largely unscathed by two landmark crypto laws agreed to last week, but left-wing lawmakers may seek another go as they discuss dirty-money rules.
2022-7-5 19:49 | |
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We’ll be in Austin, Texas this week for CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022. Regulators and lawmakers will be out in force to discuss how they’re approaching the rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector.
2022-6-7 18:30 | |
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The week in DeFi saw European lawmakers write a new chapter on DeFi, a Virginia county plan to put its pension fund in a DeFi yield, DeFi protocols lose $1.6 billion to exploits, and more
2022-5-7 23:00 | |
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Hey folks. We’re still talking central bank digital currencies and digital dollars, so this week's State of Crypto has some quick and vaguely unhinged thoughts on recent actions and statements on this front.
2022-4-6 22:47 | |
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Crypto Chiefs’ date with lawmakers at Capitol hill kicked off on Wednesday amid crypto markets struggling to gain a footing following last week’s sell-off and one thing was clear; they were determined to go down with their detractors.
2021-12-13 22:13 | |
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This week, ETH price came within 2% of a new all-time high before U.S. lawmakers announced a hearing to discuss stablecoins and the need for eventual regulation.
2021-12-3 01:20 | |
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The chairman of Russia’s legislature, the State Duma, called for creating a new working group to focus on cryptocurrencies with a special focus on the rapidly growing local mining industry. This week, Vyacheslav Volodin directed his deputy Aleksei Gordeyev to create an inter-committee working group on cryptocurrency.
2021-11-13 20:51 | |
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A group of Paraguayan lawmakers presented a ‘Bitcoin bill’ in the National Congress last week, but it turned out to be a very different proposal than what crypto followers expected. The bill seeks to control and regulate cryptocurrency transactions and establish taxes.
2021-7-19 10:30 | |
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Rumors of a fourth and possible fifth round of direct stimulus checks have become a hot conversation topic this week, as lawmakers are urging the President to act. Over 80 U.S. legislators have sent letters to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking the administration to push forward direct economic stimulus payments and […]
2021-6-2 15:30 | |
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An Outright Ban Won’t Solve Much Nigerian lawmakers have summoned the country's Central Bank Governor and the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigerian Tribune reports. The decision came following a session concerning the recent crypto ban that was announced by the Central Bank last week.
2021-2-12 17:39 | |
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While being one of the only financial institutions of its kind within the United States, the Bank of North Dakota is being considered as a potential crypto-custodian. A group of lawmakers in the state government of North Dakota proposed making this a possibility this week.
2021-1-22 00:26 | |
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US lawmakers are intensely discussing a new stimulus package that could cost between $2. 2 trillion and $2. 6 trillion. The bill could be voted on this week as talks between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin heat up over the content of the bill.
2020-10-1 13:10 | |
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Major breakthroughs the U.S., Russia and China lead this week’s cryptocurrency policy news as it looks like everyone is trying to bring the industry in from the cold.
2020-7-25 20:50 | |
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Facebook’s Libra continued to make the headlines this week after it was recently announced that Mark Zuckerberg was scheduled to appear and testify before a Congressional Committee on 23 October.
2019-10-11 19:00 | |
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Last week, six members from the US House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee met with Swiss regulators, including the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner and the Financial Market Supervisory Authority, to discuss Facebook's Libra project.
2019-8-27 19:31 | |
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters and other U.S. lawmakers will discuss Facebook's crypto project with the Swiss data privacy chief this week.
2019-8-20 15:40 | |
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Following a couple of weeks of outright lambasting by US lawmakers, Facebook’s Libra crypto project appears to be cracking at the seams before it even gets off the ground. A fresh round of regulatory pressure has piled on this week from concerned countries around the world.
2019-8-6 16:00 | |
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Libra project head, David Marcus, has had the uphill task of mollifying skeptical lawmakers. Appearing before the Senate Banking Committee hearing earlier this week, the former PayPal executive was in… The post Facebook Accused of Moving Fast to “Break Things” During Senate Hearing appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-7-24 22:06 | |
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Lawmakers at last week’s hearings took pains to distinguish Facebook’s Libra from the broader crypto space, showing a new maturity in their approach.
2019-7-23 07:30 | |
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U. S. Congress has shown that it is starting to care about cryptocurrency as a number of lawmakers spoke up in favor of it this week. “The world Satoshi Nakamoto had envisioned is an unstoppable force” and “there’s no capacity to kill bitcoin” are some of the comments made by lawmakers.
2019-7-21 13:45 | |
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I never thought I’d see a high-ranking politician stand up and declare, “I like bitcoin. ” But that’s exactly what just happened. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy practically sung bitcoin’s praises this week.
2019-7-18 17:40 | |
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US lawmakers are mulling a new bill that will boost bitcoin and prohibit tech monopolies from launching their own cryptocurrencies. The draft discussion has surfaced ahead of Facebook’s scheduled congressional hearing this week on the Calibra crypto project.
2019-7-14 15:00 | |
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The launch of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency – Libra – has been met with a lot of mixed reviews. The social media platform left many people in the dark for the last year, but the whitepaper for Libra was released a whole week ago.
2019-6-25 22:23 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has denied knowledge of a proposed bill which would see Bitcoin and crypto ownership in India made entirely illegal. Reports surfaced last week that lawmakers in India were working on legislation that could carry a 10-year prison sentence for anyone caught holding cryptocurrency.
2019-6-17 12:23 | |
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The proposed ‘digital assets’ law aims to “legalize ICOs” in Russia and is expected to be reviewed in May. But lawmakers are slowly realizing the futility of regulating Bitcoin and cryptocurrency that are un-regulatable by design.
2019-4-19 14:00 | |
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Actors are often done in by their egos, and in the case of Jussie Smollett, a few moments of arrogance could cost him a lot more than the $130,000 Chicago was demanding last week. The city, led by former Barack Obama advisor and now-Mayor Rahm Emanuel, sued the “Empire” actor following his refusal to pay back the $130,000 lawmakers initially requested following overtime hours spent investigating his case.
2019-4-13 01:00 | |
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It’s Monday which means it’s time for a wrap-up of the weekends top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Here’s Moonday Mornings for you. 1. The United Global Resolve For Peace is petitioning the Central Bank of Nigeria after thousands of the country’s residents claim to have been “defrauded” out of millions of dollars earned from trading cryptocurrencies on exchange service Paxful, The Guardian, a local Nigerian outlet reports.
2019-4-8 11:17 | |
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Disgraced alleged hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett is finally learning what most entertainers understand by the end of their first acting class: you won’t ever live down a bad performance. Jussie Smollett Flunks out of $130,000 Audition After allegedly staging a phony hate crime on himself, Smollett tried desperately to play the role of “an innocent man” for Chicago lawmakers.
2019-4-7 16:00 | |
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The U. S. stock market was mixed on Monday, as investors braced for another busy week for corporate earnings and economic data. President Donald Trump’s forthcoming State of the Union address will up the ante on congressional lawmakers racing to get a deal in place by the end of the week.
2019-2-5 19:27 | |
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Lawmakers from Colorado are looking to introduce legislation that would exempt cryptocurrencies from current securities laws. Last week, Stephen Fenberg (Democrat) and Jack Tate (Republican) together filed the “Colorado Digital Token Act” – spotted by CoinDesk.
2019-1-7 16:13 | |
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Iranian National Crypto To Face Sanctions Imposed By US Lawmakers A number of western governments and international human right groups have increased pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran over their systemic violations of human rights.
2018-12-23 19:01 | |
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A bill introduced this week in Congress takes a hard line on Iran's efforts to develop its own sovereign cryptocurrency.
2018-12-22 00:30 | |
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In France, several proposed changes to the laws governing the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies were rejected in the parliament on December 17th. The proposals would have made the tax treatment for transacting in cryptocurrencies more advantageous.
2018-12-19 11:36 | |
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A bipartisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives this week proposes creating a "consensus-based definition of blockchain."
2018-10-3 16:00 | |
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U. S. lawmakers met venture capital firms and entrepreneurs operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space this week, with the latter group cautioning watchdogs of the possible “brain-drain” if digital assets continue to be abided by 72-year-old regulations.
2018-9-27 05:00 | |
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A roundtable discussion will be held this week in Washington ahead of the submission of four cryptocurrency and blockchain-related draft bills.
2018-9-25 12:22 | |
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This week, South Korean lawmakers observed the government’s confusing stance on distributed ledger applications, with blockchain technology promoted across the board and ICO projects facing strict crackdowns.
2018-8-31 12:00 | |
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The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will host a crypto hearing focused on its use as a form of money next week.
2018-7-13 23:00 | |
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Spain’s ruling party believes the government should utilize blockchain to operate the country’s public administration more efficiently. Last week, 133 deputies from the Popular Party submitted a blockchain-related proposal to the Congress of Deputies, the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament.
2018-7-5 08:48 | |
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Its publication diversifies the broad EU standpoint on the technology, which continues to include legal projects to monitor residents’ usage and clamp down on anonymity. However, they remain unlikely to challenge the dominant position of sovereign currencies and central banks, especially those in major currency areas. In addition to staking its belief in their longevity,
2018-7-2 17:53 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.