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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Asks Twitter Followers if Bank of America Accounts Were Closed Because of Crypto Transactions

While 19.3% answered Armstrong’s query “no,” a whopping 9%, which would translate into roughly 1,200 people given there were 13,746 respondents to the question as of press time, said “yes.” The rest didn’t participate in the poll but were solely interested in seeing the results. Source

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US Senate Finance Committee asks digital asset community how to tax it in open letter

United States Senate Financial Services Committee Chair Ron Wyden and ranking member Mike Crapo released an open letter to the digital asset community on July 11 asking for input on the taxation of digital assets. The senators are looking for solutions to highly complex taxation issues, so much so that

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U.S. Senator Thomas Tuberville Asks DOJ, SEC to Investigate Crypto Broker Prometheum

Prometheum "may have provided false testimony to Congress or violated U.S. securities laws," the open letter began. The lawmaker said Prometheum CEO Aaron Kaplan told Congress that it developed its own blockchain platform independently starting in December 2019. However, in SEC filings filed through 2021, Prometheum said it depended on

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The Crypto Industry’s New Favorite Punching Bag – Prometheum – Asks for a Chance

A U.S. senator, Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), also accused his company of being a tool of Chinese investors. Kaplan responded, saying that while HashKey Group, the digital assets and blockchain arm of Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang Group, still owns about 20%, it has no access to the company’s data or technology. He

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SEC can’t find Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, asks court for ‘alternative service’

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking ‘alternative service’ from the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to issue a legal summons to Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.Zhao and Binance were recently sued by the SEC over alleged unregistered securities operations. Related: SEC sues Coinbase

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DCG asks judge to consolidate class-action suits to avoid conflicting decisions

Venture capital firm the Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its CEO Barry Silbert have requested to consolidate two class-action lawsuits over alleged losses during the crypto winter.In a letter sent to United States District Judge Stefan Underhill in Connecticut, the defendants argued that both cases “arise from the same facts,

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Australia asks if ‘high-risk’ AI should be banned in surprise consultation

The Australian government has announced a sudden eight-week consultation that will seek to understand whether any “high-risk” artificial intelligence tools should be banned.Other regions, including the United States, the European Union and China, have also launched measures to understand and potentially mitigate risks associated with rapid AI development in recent

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Filecoin Labeled as Security, SEC Asks Grayscale to Withdraw Filecoin Trust

The SEC crackdown on crypto firms has intensified significantly since the bear market of last year incited by several collapses and bankruptcy filings of crypto exchanges. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has tagged Filecoin (FIL) as an unregistered security. As a result, the regulator expects Grayscale Investments its

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