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The Binance.US PAC arrives as the dust settles on this month’s congressional elections, so it has a full two years to gear up for the next federal races, including for the White House. Its CEO, Brian Shroder, has individually given relatively small donations to Democratic candidates in the past, including
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United States-based trade group Blockchain Association announced Monday that it had formed a political action committee, to be called BA PAC, thus joining an industry trend to attempt to exert greater influence on candidates as they approach the midterm elections in November.The Blockchain Association, founded in 2019, has 90 members,
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The PAC will be chaired by Julie Stitzel, vice president of public policy at CoinDesk parent company Digital Currency Group, and will see Smith, Messari founder Ryan Selkis, Kraken Head of Policy Jonathan Jachym, Wicklow Capital Counsel John McCarthy and Ledger Head of Policy Seth Hertlein take roles as directors. Original
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Andrea Salinas has won the Democratic primary election for the newly created Oregon 6th District seat in the United States House of Representatives. Practically since it started, the election race was the object of intensive media attention, which most often centered around Salinas’ opponent Carrick Flynn, whose campaign was generously
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FTX Co-CEO Donates $4M to Republican PAC Ahead of Midterm Elections Original Source
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On Friday, Grant McCarty, the director of policy and public affairs at Bitcoin Magazine, announced the launch of three political efforts aimed at bolstering bitcoin public policy at the Bitcoin 22 conference in Miami. McCarty revealed the Bitcoin Advocacy Project (BAP), the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and an independent expenditure-only
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Another wave of crypto executives ponied up for GMI PAC last month as midterm elections approached. Source
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Crypto exchange Coinbase has filed for a political action committee reportedly to support "crypto-forward lawmakers" ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in the United States.According to a Feb. 7 filing with the Federal Election Commission, Coinbase’s chief financial officer Alesia Haas and head of U.S. policy Kara Calvert registered the
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“Coinbase is committed to engaging with policymakers and to promote crypto-forward policy at the federal level in the U.S.,” a Coinbase spokesperson told CoinDesk via email. “We believe the bipartisan potential is clear and we intend to support crypto-forward lawmakers who align with our mission to advance economic freedom for
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FTX has denied a Decrypt story on Monday that the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange would be creating a Political Action Committee (PAC) that would operate in Washington, D.C., and be led by its founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.“FTX has no plans to establish any PAC or super PAC nor are we
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