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Disclosure was an important theme at a United States House of Representatives hearing on digital asset regulation Thursday. Although chair of the House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit Sean Maloney specified that it would focus on gaps in the oversight and regulation of derivatives and underlying
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"These malign actors almost exclusively demand cryptocurrencies when extorting large sums of money, because they can take steps to obscure their transactions and circumvent regulatory scrutiny, making payments more difficult to trace," said Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Original Source
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Hayes and his BitMEX co-founders, Samuel Reed and Ben Delo, as well as the company’s first employee, Gregory Dwyer, were initially charged in October 2020 with one count each of violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and another of conspiring to do so. Original Source
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The dramatic fall of Terra (LUNA) along with the algorithmic stablecoin UST has been a major talking point among the crypto industry. And now the South Korean Conservative Party has requested a parliamentary hearing on the matter.Korea's conservative party requested to have a hearing about the Terra incident. The politician
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen focused on the ongoing distress of stablecoin UST during testimony before a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday, just hours after the purportedly dollar-pegged token plummeted to a low of $0.65 and at least one platform halted trading. Source
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Individuals, on the other hand, may be better able to take advantage of crypto. Even here, however, it seems unlikely there will be any crypto-for-sanctions-evasion at scale. Several Treasury officials, on the record, have said they’re not concerned about this issue. Source
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Whether regulations on stablecoins and digital assets should be addressed at the state or federal level was the topic of discussion among at least two U.S. lawmakers in a hearing for the House Committee on Financial Services.Speaking virtually at a Tuesday hearing titled “Digital Assets and the Future of Finance:
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The House of Representatives will discuss stablecoins and how to regulate them today. Plus, crypto provisions in the House's America COMPETES Act and contextualizing some recent IRS news. Original Source
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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeThis week on the “Weekly Recap,” NLW breaks down the House hearing on energy in the crypto industry. He looks at problems with the advance memo and provides refutations of some of the misunderstandings.See also: Witnesses Debate Crypto Mining's
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On Jan. 20, the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the U.S. Congress House Energy and Commerce Committee convened a hearing to investigate the environmental effects of cryptocurrency mining. Despite the narrow focus, the conversation that ensued — which many industry experts appraised as a meaningful educational experience for the lawmakers
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