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“This is not acceptable behavior … to indiscriminately crack down on an entire industry, blow off invitations to attend a leading U.S. industry conference this year in this space and ultimately make a good-faith effort to engage and try to educate themselves on what’s actually going on,” Selkis said about
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Crypto-related companies and figures have provided evidence about being de-banked by Australian financial institutions to a Senate inquiry. Crypto investment firm Aus Merchant, global remittance provider Nium and small peer-to-peer crypto brokerage platform Bitcoin Babe were speaking on a panel as part of the senate inquiry into “Australia as a
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Australian buy now pay later (BNPL) firm Afterpay believes that local merchants can slash payment costs by utilizing cryptocurrencies. In a submission to the Senate inquiry into “Australia as a Technology and Financial Center”, Afterpay stated that the use of blockchain-based transactions would cut the fees associated with traditional payment
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United States Senators have cast their votes, and the contentious HR 3684 infrastructure bill cleared in the upper Congress chamber. Now, the gigantic document of over 2,700 pages and amounting to almost $1 trillion is heading to the House of Representatives, including the provisions expanding the definition of a cryptocurrency
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The bigger $3.5 trillion budget package passed by the American Senate has been tagged as a complementary expenditure plan to the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed on Tuesday. The American Senate has passed a comprehensive $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a move that helped in advancing the broader economic
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An Australian senate committee has published a report calling for a blockchain-based national land registry, better clarity over laws relating to smart contracts, and continued efforts to establish international standards for DLT.The Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre's second interim report offers 23 recommendations spanning blockchain,
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The price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached over $51,000 on March 7 after the U.S. Senate passed the anticipated $1.9-trillion stimulus bill, which is roughly two times larger than the market capitalization of BTC.United States’ President Joe Biden said that the Senate’s approval shows major progress in delivering a “desperately needed”
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Nigeria’s Senate has summoned the country’s top financial regulators for a briefing after the central bank ordered local financial institutions to stop providing services to crypto companies and users last Friday.The Nigerian Tribune reported Thursday the Senate has mandated its banking committee to invite the governor of the central bank
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Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis – the first U.S. senator to publicly hold bitcoin – has been appointed to the key financial regulatory committee.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.On this edition of The Breakdown’s weekly recap, NLW discusses:The state of WallStreetBetsThe Bitcoin for Corporations eventETH all-time highs in advance of CME ETH
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