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According to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the U.S. government sees no use of diving into cryptocurrency anytime soon.Mnuchin was speaking at the House Financial Services Committee in Washington. The decision to not creating a national digital currency comes after a discussion with Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The
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The anti-crypto United States Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) has been elected to serve as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets.On Dec. 5, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced that Sherman was elected to take up the position of Chair
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Former United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Chris Giancarlo was hired as senior counsel at the New York-based law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.Digitize the dollar and take power away from central banksOn Dec. 2, Reuters reported that Giancarlo in his new role at Willkie Farr &
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Christopher Giancarlo has joined law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher as its new senior counsel, where the former CFTC chief intends to continue advocating for a digital dollar and other policies. Source
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The ICO’s Steve Wood has been appointed as chair of the OECD’s Working Party on Data Governance and Privacy. The working party plays
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Better regulation is needed around bitcoin markets before they can be traded on major exchanges, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday. Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said investors
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The Hyperledger technical steering committee (TSC) has elected another IBM official as its chair amid controversy over the tech giant’s increased representation on the panel. Arnaud Le Hors, a senior technical staff member for blockchain and web open technologies
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Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that the United States Federal Reserve is monitoring digital currencies carefully, but not working on its own at the moment.Speaking at a forum in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 6, Powell addressed the issue of cryptocurrencies, arguing that central banks
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Christine Lagarde, the Chair of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for a balanced approach to cryptocurrencies and said that the financial supervisors and central banks should be more open to digital currencies, in an opening statement to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament.The statement
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