Bitcoin has dropped back from levels near $7,000 despite the rapidly increasing scope of fiscal stimulus efforts in the US and across the globe.
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing next month on Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra.
DarkTower director Scott Dueweke said cryptocurrencies are "tailor made" for foreign powers hoping to influence American elections.
The head of the CFTC told lawmakers Thursday that any federal approach to crypto regulation should be "carefully tailored" to the risks involved.
"It's important to remember that if there were no bitcoin, there would be no distributed ledger technology," Giancarlo told a U.S. Senate committee.
As might be expected, Tuesday's Senate hearing touched on cryptocurrencies' volatility. But the head of the CFTC put the matter in perspective.
Initial coin offerings were one of several subjects up for discussion during Tuesday's U.S. Senate hearing.
Congress will hold what may be the most consequential hearing in years on cryptocurrency Tuesday, with the heads of the SEC and CFTC in the hot seat.
A new state bill introduced to the Colorado Senate is looking at using blockchain technology to secure private data from cyberattacks.
A major defense spending bill passed by the US Senate yesterday calls for a blockchain study, public records show.
The CFTC has cited the advance of technologies like blockchain in a request to obtain additional funding for its oversight activities.
Congress wants answers from the Internal Revenue Service about its investigation into bitcoin tax avoidance – and they’re due by next week.
A pair of US senators have filed a new anti-money laundering bill aimed at beefing up oversight of digital currency activities.
Legislators gathered this week to hold a hearing on a measure that would prohibit cannabis firms in the state of Washington from working with bitcoin.
Twenty-two US senators sent a leader to senior government officials and the Federal Reserve requesting information about the regulation of blockchain.