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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday regarding the agency’s enforcement actions against the crypto industry over the past few months.  The chair was pressed for answers on how exactly he differentiates between crypto securities and crypto commodities, and recent difficulties for crypto firms to access financial services.  Where is the Clarity? In his opening statement, committee chair...

Former presidential candidate and political commentator Tulsi Gabbard is taking a stand against the Biden administration’s plans to develop a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the United States.  The ex-congresswoman argued on Sunday that CBDCs will be used as tools of mass financial surveillance that “undermine our autonomy and freedom.”  Standing Against a Cashless Society In a tweet released over the weekend, Gabbard said that the federal government has already begun...

Lee Reiners, policy director at the Duke Financial Economics Center, recommended that banking agenices restrict the crypto industry from accessing the banking system while testifying to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.  The professor claimed that crypto has produced nothing of benefit during the 14 years since Bitcoin’s whitepaper was published.  What to Do About Crypto The hearing, titled “Crypto Crash,” explored why crypto needs tighter regulation and safeguards to...

A cohort of the United States Senate is questioning crypto bank Silvergate about its knowledge of the FTX fraud, after finding responses to prior questioning “evasive” and “incomplete.” The senators suspect that Silvergate may have played a role in illegally transmitting FTX user funds to Alameda Research through the trading firm’s accounts with the bank.  Silvergate and FTX According to BNN Bloomberg, the senators sent a letter to Silvergate on Monday questioning the bank...

U.S. Congressman Tom Emmer doesn’t believe that the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) – which allowed him to miss a scheduled congressional hearing on December 13 – was purely due to good fortune.  Rather, the politician suspects that the arrest was “purposeful,” due to Bankman-Fried’s various connections and information.  Centralized Failure Speaking with Nicholas Carter during the On the Brink podcast published on Tuesday, Emmer stressed that FTX’s failure was a...

U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sherrod Brown (D-OH), spoke on Sunday about what actions regulators need to take after the implosion of FTX.  He suggested that crypto may be something that “ought to be banned” if not for the risk of sending the industry offshore.  Banning Crypto Speaking with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Brown agreed that Sam Bankman-Fried – FTX’s former and disgraced boss – used political favor and donations to create an...

Yet another US politician at the center of crypto industry regulation has changed stances on Ether’s legal classification. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) revealed Wednesday that she now views the second largest cryptocurrency as a security – not a commodity.  Bitcoin is the Only Crypto Commodity: Lummis Lummis expressed her changed view on the asset with CoinDesk on Tuesday while discussing the measures that may have prevented FTX’s collapse last month. She suggested that her...

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Tom Emmer – the U.S. congressional representative for Minnesota – recently spoke on the political meetings and failures surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), prior to his exchange’s collapse.  The Republican suggested that Bankman-Fried tried currying “special treatment” from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through meetings with the agency, and attempted to push legislation to the same effect.  Bankman-Fried’s Political Relationships In an interview with FOX on...

Congressman Brad Sherman, who represents California’s San Fernando Valley in the U.S. Congress, is a keen critic of the cryptocurrency industry. In his view, it undermines the dominance of the American dollar and is a threat to the country’s national security. However, Sherman does not believe the government can prohibit the asset class “anytime soon” since there is too much money and power behind it. Crypto Should Have Been Banned Years ago Unlike some other American...