2022-11-16 20:30 |
Two weeks ago, I thought the biggest story for the week of Nov. 8 would be the U. S. midterm election. Control of both the House and the Senate were up for grabs, with the future of crypto legislation at stake. origin »
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The U. S. House of Representatives passed H. R. 1602, the “Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021,” last week, sending it to the Senate. The senate subsequently referred it to the Senate Banking Committee.
2021-5-1 23:00 | |
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The State of Iowa House has unanimously passed a bill, Senate File (SF) 541, that facilitates electronic transactions. According to the Gazette, the bill formally recognizes smart contracts. It also confirms the blockchain as a secure and reliable ledger for storing information.
2021-3-31 13:00 | |
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Wyoming continues to show the way to the world in embracing a digital, decentralized economy. DAO Bill Moves to the Wyoming House of Representatives Recently, the Wyoming state senate approved historical legislation that seeks to recognize decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as companies.
2021-3-11 13:45 | |
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The Kentucky House Budget Committee approved a bill in a 19-2 vote to eliminate the sales tax on electricity for use in cryptocurrency mining operations. The bill, designed to attract more miners to the state, is now in the Kentucky Senate for review.
2021-3-5 11:30 | |
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Both the Senate and the House are looking into Wall Street's market practices, especially short selling.
2021-1-29 00:40 | |
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This comes after the current administration’s failed attempts to secure $2,000 stimulus checks, due to opposition from Senate Republicans. Now that the Democrats control both the House and the Senate, President-elect Biden can push for the higher figure without facing the same level of opposition the current administration has.
2021-1-15 10:24 | |
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Two new stimulus packages have been proposed while lawmakers continue to push for second stimulus checks to help Americans cope with the coronavirus-led economic crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to add stimulus measures to the spending bill that must be passed before the Dec.
2020-12-7 03:35 | |
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Negotiations on a new coronavirus aid stimulus package are still underway as Americans wait to receive their second round of stimulus checks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have their own ideas of when the next stimulus package with direct payments to Americans will pass.
2020-11-3 05:35 | |
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The speaker, though saying the boosted offer comes up short in several areas, didn't shut the door on a deal.
2020-10-11 19:48 | |
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Following a two-week debate in the U. S. Congressional House, the Consumer Technology Act, which covers the Digital Taxonomy Act and the Blockchain Innovation Act, passed on Tuesday. The Act will now head to the Senate for debate.
2020-10-1 21:06 | |
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Blockchain legislation in the United States has passed the House and is now headed...
The post Blockchain legislation heads to US senate appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-9-30 13:14 | |
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White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow told CNN Sunday that a new stimulus plan is on the way. The bill, put forward by Senate Republicans, will provide a new round of $1,200 stimulus checks and lengthen the rent moratorium.
2020-7-27 22:40 | |
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A virtual currency business licensing bill (HB701) sponsored by state Rep. Mark Wright was cleared unanimously by the state House of Representatives and now has been forwarded to the Senate Committee on Commerce, International Affairs, and Consumer Protection.
2020-5-24 19:22 | |
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The Louisiana State House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday to regulate and license virtual currency businesses. A Senate committee will now evaluate the proposal.
2020-5-23 21:34 | |
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On Friday, U. S. bureaucrats passed the 2020 stimulus bill, which has become the largest cash injection package ever created by the federal government. However, following the bill making it through the Senate and House, Republican representative Thomas Massie told the public the stimulus bill bolsters a shroud of secrecy surrounding the Federal Reserve.
2020-3-29 23:15 | |
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Coinspeaker Stock Futures Revamp as Senate and White House Agree on Coronavirus Stimulus BillIt was a relief to the Dow Jones and the stock market at large when the White House and the Senate agreed on a deal regarding the coronavirus stimulus bill.
2020-3-25 13:30 | |
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A draft bill posted Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs defines a "digital dollar" and details how it might be maintained.
2020-3-25 18:59 | |
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Apart from Bitcoin’s resurgence and the brief bull run the market had been on since April, 2019 has been highlighted by governments and financial institutions seriously discussing crypto-regulations.
2019-8-9 16:00 | |
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With yesterday's Senate hearing centering on lawmakers' distrust of Facebook, the social media giant's House Financial Services Committee hearing focused much more on what exactly Libra is and saw regulators speaking in a surprisingly positive manner about Bitcoin.
2019-7-18 00:08 | |
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Coinspeaker David Marcus: Libra Doesn’t Want to Conquer Dollar, It is Not InvestmentToday’s hearing in the House of Representatives follows one in the Senate. Amid questions of safety, compliance and consumer protection, Marcus kept stressing that Libra project would seek proper approval and registrations with the relevant authorities.
2019-7-17 19:36 | |
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Facebook’s Libra has been knee-deep in criticism ever since it was unveiled. Another hurdle that Facebook is currently facing is testifying during US governmental hearings. David Marcus, the head of the Calibra wallet, will be testifying before the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th respectively.
2019-7-16 10:24 | |
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With Facebook set to meet with the Senate on Tuesday and the House on Wednesday, Washington insiders report that lawmakers will be interested in Libra's classification as a possible exchange-traded fund, what Facebook will do to ensure user privacy, and what the Swiss headquarters of the Libra Association will mean for US oversight of the project.
2019-7-16 18:45 | |
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David Marcus, the head of Calibra, wrote a letter to the House Financial Services Committee solidifying Facebook’s stance that they will ensure customer privacy and are taking their time to roll out Libra, allowing it to be done correctly, as reported by The Hill.
2019-7-10 13:00 | |
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Apart from Bitcoin’s monumental rise recently, Libra has undoubtedly been one of the hottest topics in the cryptocurrency space. The coin that is expected to make its debut in the first half of 2020 saw the disapproval of several regulatory bodies as soon as it was introduced.
2019-6-28 21:30 | |
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The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing on Facebook's libra cryptocurrency for July 17, one day after the Senate holds its hearing.
2019-6-25 01:12 | |
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The United States Senate Banking Committee has announced a July 16, 2019 hearing date for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project according to a MarketWatch report on June 19, 2019 More Clarity Required On June 18, 2019, reports emerged that Rep.
2019-6-22 13:00 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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The U. S. Senate voted today to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration at the United States-Mexico border. Following a weeks-long government shutdown and stalemate with House Democrats over funding to reinforce barriers on the southern border, Donald Trump invoked the Nixon-era National Emergencies Act of 1976.
2019-3-15 00:15 | |
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The Dow Jones has demonstrated an underwhelming performance in the last seven days, deleting nearly 400 points in less than four days during which the market was open. On February 12, senior lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees achieved a deal to build 55 miles of the southern border wall with a budget of $1.
2019-2-12 15:43 | |
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Shortly after the attacks of September 11th, the United States passed legislation giving the federal government sweeping powers. The Patriot Act was designed to be a temporary measure to prevent terrorism in the new age that America found itself in.
2018-11-29 01:14 | |
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Ohio is now setting up an official website to allow businesses to pay taxes with bitcoin. According to a recent article published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the state of Ohio seems to have given tacit acceptance to bitcoin by allowing businesses, although not individuals, to pay all manner of taxes with the cryptocurrency.
2018-11-27 21:32 | |
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Americans went to the polls on November 6 to cast their votes in the mid-term elections. Ultimately, the Democrats won the House, the Republicans held the Senate — and Bitcoin locked in some influential governorships
2018-11-14 23:00 | |
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The mid-term elections allow the United States to make some changes to the Congress and state authorities. On these elections, 36 governor seats, 435 House of Representatives seats, and approximately a third of the 100 Senate seats.
2018-11-12 12:18 | |
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The most important legislative body on earth is now divided between the Democrat controlled House and Republican controlled Senate. Trump’s command over all Capitol Hill law making bodies has come.
2018-11-7 17:25 | |
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Twitter yesterday released a bevy of data related to Iranian and Russian-sponsored misinformation campaigns started as long ago as 2009. The hope, in releasing the trove, is that academics and researchers will use it to come up with solutions to the propaganda problem plaguing US politics.
2018-10-18 20:49 | |
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A bill that seeks to create a task force to combat the use of cryptocurrency in financing terrorism has just passed the House of Representatives. House Resolution 5036 (H.
2018-9-28 01:12 | |
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A bill enabling the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to investigate cryptocurrencies is now headed to the Senate.
2018-9-15 00:07 | |
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As we reported on July 19, 2018, Bermuda is determined to establish itself as the leading jurisdiction for fintech entrepreneurs, in particular those involved in initial coin offerings (ICOs), digital assets and virtual currencies.
2018-8-23 23:03 | |
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Voters from West Virginia will be able to use the blockchain application for voting during the election of members of the House of Representatives and Senate in November 2018.
2018-8-9 13:14 | |
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The U. S. Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Secret Service (USSS), the Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have apprehended more than 35 dark web drugs and arms dealers in a nation-wide bust.
2018-6-27 20:26 | |
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The US administration has issued warning that overseas companies executing legitimate virtual currencies operations in reality, Russia-backed disruptors, with the potential to influence election news in the USA.
2018-6-27 16:24 | |
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Members of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the U. S. Congress, must begin disclosing cryptocurrency investments that exceed $1,000. The guidance was laid out in a June 18 memo drafted by the House Ethics Committee.
2018-6-21 01:11 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.