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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Crypto fans need to understand something once and for all: the government is not here to help you, and it is clearly incapable of accomplishing anything major within a reasonable period. Crypto Players, It’s Time to Wake Up! This warning applies to all parties and corners of the present political system,...

Senators in the U.S. say if Congress is going to get serious about establishing crypto regulations, they need to be bipartisan. This means both democrats and republicans need to agree on how the rules should play out and what they should accomplish. Congress Needs to Find Common Ground Over the last six years, one can easily say that both sides of the political spectrum have been at war with each other. It’s an ugly sight, in many ways. Both democrats and republicans are...

With January having arrived, the new Congress has convened. While at the time of writing, the House of Representatives is still struggling to elect or even nominate a republican speaker, we can rest assured that things are going to go quite well for crypto in the coming months and that the country is now well on its way towards garnering a small bit of healing from all the trouble it’s been through since Biden entered the fray. Congress Needs to Stay Out of Crypto One of...

Republican Senator of Wyoming Cynthia Lummis says what happened with FTX is exactly why Congress needs to begin paying attention to cryptocurrency. She cited the bipartisan bill she established in early 2022 with New York congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (a democrat from New York) and said U.S. regulators need to give the bill their full attention so that what happened with the exchange can never happen again. Cynthia Lummis on the Future of Crypto in Congress Lummis is...

The House Financial Services Committee has said that it is opening an investigation into fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its disgraced head executive Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX Will Be the Subject of a Congressional Inquiry The announcement came from Maxine Waters, a democrat from California that heads the committee. She stated that the team also expects Bankman-Fried to testify on what occurred and hinted that Congress is using what happened with the company to get...

With FTX filing bankruptcy and Sam Bankman-Fried now leaving the throes of his once-great company, Congress and the elites in Washington are once again turning up the volume on their arguments for regulating the crypto space. Congress Is Coming After FTX There have been far too many accidents this year in the world of crypto. With companies like Celsius suddenly halting withdrawals and then filing for bankruptcy and assets like the Terra Luna (allegedly) stable coin crashing to the ground,...

The U.S. Congress has completed a meeting in which members discussed how they can make the process of bitcoin mining greener. The situation is a bit of a two-sided coin in that they want to ensure renewable energy is available to this growing industry as they acknowledge it’s not likely to go anywhere soon. Why Is Congress Getting Involved in Crypto Mining? The meeting took place amongst members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The U.S. has become a major...

Senators Pat Toomey and Cynthia Lummis should sound familiar to most crypto fans out there. They are both Republicans from the states of Pennsylvania and Wyoming respectively, and they are both doing all they can to raise awareness regarding crypto in America. They both sit on the Senate Banking Committee and are some of the only members of Congress who own crypto. Some Members of Congress Are Very Excited About Crypto At the time of writing, it is estimated that Lummis...

This infrastructure bill is turning into an absolute joke. After allegedly coming to an agreement over a potential amendment to the cryptocurrency portion of the bill, the new language detailing crypto transactions and brokers is getting attacked by senators such as Bernie Sanders of Vermont, thereby resulting in additional holdbacks. The Infrastructure Bill Is Becoming a Major Problem The bill is already stupid given that it is presently worth approximately $1 trillion....

It looks like another congressman has caught the bitcoin bug. Darren Soto – a democratic representative of the state of Florida – has announced that his reelection campaign this year will accept cryptocurrency donations and payments.Darren Soto Has His Eye on BlockchainSoto seems to believe that blockchain has what it takes to lead the U.S. into a new digital age. He’s also confident that the technology offers more benefits than many analysts seem to give it credit for. In a recent interview,...