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Sam Bankman-Fried – crypto billionaire and head executive of FTX, one of the largest (and newest) digital currency platforms in the world – is spending millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elections. He has stated in recent interviews that he expects to spend more than $100 million, though people shouldn’t be surprised if he spends up to a billion. Sam Bankman-Fried: How Much Will He Spend? At the time of writing, Bankman-Fried has a net worth estimated to exceed...

Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is the latest politician to enter the bitcoin space. Not long ago, Cruz bought the dip that bitcoin was experiencing and purchased roughly $50,000 worth of the world’s most popular digital currency. Ted Cruz Has Jumped on the BTC Train Cruz has long been a serious bitcoin advocate, and thus traders should consider him a friend and ally against Biden’s disastrous digital currency tactics and would-be regulations. Cruz was one of...

If anyone is interested in starting their own major crypto company somewhere, they should probably look at how Coinbase operates. The exchange is one of the largest trading platforms in the United States, and while that’s certainly important, the company appears to have its head on straight when it comes to all the distractions of the outside world.Brian Armstrong States How Coinbase Will Move in the FutureIn a blog post published on Sunday by CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase mentioned that it...

Many more congressional and political candidates have turned to accepting bitcoin as a means of support for their campaigns. While they’re always open to cash donations, bitcoin has become something of a norm for many people running for office. The reason: because bitcoin is not controlled by banks. It is not recognized as legitimate money by many financial institutions, and thus provides anonymity and other benefits to both the sender and the receiver.Running for Office? Considering Bitcoin...

According to a report out of The Logic, the Bank of Canada is preparing to run the gauntlet and potentially launch its own digital currency in the near future. Journalists secured access to a presentation dubbed “Central Bank Money: The Next Generation”. The paper was prepared for the central bank’s board of directors and its governor Stephen Poloz. If launched, the digital currency would work hand in hand with physical cash. The bank, however, plans to eventually scrap physical trading...

Amid the escalating chaos of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, bitcoin’s trading volume has hit an all-time high on peer to peer exchange, LocalBitcoins. Residents of Hong Kong are still staggering from what was an exceptionally violent week of protests. The outrage over the now- withdrawn extradition bill has boiled over into issues such as income disparity, and democratic prerogative. Yesterday, the protests reached a fever pitch, as police switched rubber bottles in exchange for...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has openly declared his regime’s love for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The controversial politician on Tuesday said his government is using cryptocurrencies to access national and international payment infrastructure. He confirmed that Venezuela’s finance minister and central bank are close to introducing “new instruments.” It would give every Venezuelan access to “national and international payments through the central bank’s accounts.”...

Former U.S. Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul will be headlining the Litecoin Summit. Paul will be sharing the stage in the luxurious Cosmopolitan hotel on the Las Vegas strip this October with Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and Morgan Creek Digital partner Anthony Pompliano.The LTC Foundation announced the surprise keynote speaker on Twitter Thursday:Cryptocurrency and PoliticsIn a CNBC Squawk Box interview this July, Ron Paul gave his enthusiastic endorsement to...

It seems Facebook’s woes are starting to mount as the European Central Bank (ECB) revives plans to create its own digital currency in direct competition to Libra and bitcoin. Yet another Libra challenger steps up to the plate. This time, it isn’t China’s incipient central bank digital currency (CBDC) but instead a newly proposed CBDC from the ECB. According to Reuters, speaking at a news conference after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Helsinki, ECB board member Benoit Coeure noted that...

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) admitted that it would be difficult or impossible to ban bitcoin in the United States. The Senator offered a number of positive comments on bitcoin as he chaired the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs cryptocurrency hearing yesterday.“If the United States were to decide, and I’m not saying it should, if the United States decided we didn’t want cryptocurrency to happen in the United States, and tried to ban it, I’m pretty confident we...