A late addition to the infrastructure bill moving through Congress would impose impossible reporting requirements on miners and wallets.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said the existing digital asset market structure and regulatory framework are too “ambiguous and dangerous for investors and consumers.”
The hearing was almost certainly the testiest in a trio of crypto-themed inquiries Tuesday morning.
Congress is holding three simultaneous hearings around cryptocurrencies today – and they're all on different types of use cases.
Regulators should prosecute fraud, but also acknowledge the limits of their effectiveness and allow DeFi to mature.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is adding another front in lawmakers’ crypto probe.
The report will address cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDCs.
An expressed desire for regulatory clarity in the U.S. isn’t new. But there’s increasing pressure for lawmakers and regulators to define just what sorts of digital asset activities are all right.
UPenn's Sarah Hammer raised an interesting point in her congressional testimony yesterday: We don't have a unified source of data to make sense of crypto.
The Hamas International Financing Prevention Act would leverage sanctions against individuals and governments donating to Hamas, including donations made in bitcoin.
The Blockchain Innovation Act and parts of the Digital Taxonomy Act were included in the broader Consumer Safety Technology Act.
The announcement came in a hearing about central bank digital currencies.
The CEO will face the Senate Homeland Security Committee to explain the reasoning behind his decision to pay a $4.4M bitcoin ransom.
"Prior to this meeting, Vice Chair Quarles, Chair McWilliams and I had talked about potentially putting together an interagency policy sprint team just on crypto because of exactly the concerns you've described," Hsu said.
Wyoming's Cynthia Lummis wants the U.S. government to make blockchain a priority.