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Pro-crypto Congressman Tom Emmer is advancing an amendment aimed at depriving the United States securities regulator from using government funds to go after crypto enforcement.On Nov. 8, Emmer attached an amendment to HR 4664 — the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, or federal budget. The amendment, which has
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Following October’s tragic events in Israel, a narrative linking Hamas funding to cryptocurrencies emerged from The Wall Street Journal in an Oct. 10 story authored by the paper’s Angus Berwick and Ian Talley. It fueled Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crusade against the crypto sector. Subsequent insights from Chainalysis and Elliptic cast
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Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is looking to demand information on millions of dollars in payments it had previously given to a nonprofit AI safety organization — the Center for AI Safety (CAIS).In an Oct. 25 bankruptcy court filing, the lawyers helming FTX claimed the firm gave $6.5 million to CAIS
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The United Kingdom Tax Reform Council has launched a campaign against the Bank of England’s plan to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The nonprofit organization warns that such a move could seriously harm individual privacy and lead to intrusive changes to the taxation system.The freshly formed Tax Reform
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On the opening day of Messari Mainnet 2021, New York City’s long-awaited first crypto conference since the start of COVID-19, reports came blazing in via a viral tweet that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission had served a subpoena to an event panelist at the top of an escalator
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Ricky Gervais mocked Natalie Portman’s Oscars “virtue signaling” on Twitter. His video showed him calling out “Hollywood perverts” who haven’t yet been brought to justice. Yet his anti-virtue signaling posture is itself a form of virtue signaling. Ricky Gervais isn’t just a culture warrior; he’s on an anti-virtue signaling crusade. When he presented the
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