Facebook Lobbying Congress on Blockchain Policy
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2021 – Facebook has registered this month to lobby Congress on blockchain policy, following a rebranding of the company that is intended to take the company beyond its social...
View ArticleGovernment Needs to Enact Cryptocurrency Policy to Get Ahead on Global...
WASHINGTON, December 1, 2021 – Cryptocurrency experts say the federal government needs to implement more policy governing cryptocurrency to get in front of international competition in the space, as...
View ArticleU.S. Needs to Modernize with Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Said Former...
WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 – A former chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the federal government needs to catch up and modernize the currency system to include...
View ArticleCES 2022: Cryptocurrency Leaders Press Benefits as Uncertain Over Regional...
LAS VEGAS, January 11, 2022 – Cryptocurrency advocates at the Consumer Electronics Show last week tried calming fears that growing global uncertainty and clampdowns on coin mining would cast a shadow...
View ArticleNFTs May Be Central to the Emerging ‘Internet of Value,’ Say Experts at...
February 3, 2022 – The explosion of interest in non-fungible tokens — digital assets of unique internet content — is a result of, and an important player in, the next phase of the evolution of the...
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Experts Caution Against Overregulating Cryptocurrency
WASHINGTON, February 16, 2022 – Despite the unknowns of cryptocurrency, experts cautioned last week against overregulating it for fear of stifling innovation in the burgeoning sector. During the...
View ArticleAcademics Note Financial Inclusion Possibilities of Stablecoins, But Also...
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 — Academics at an event hosted by the Federalist Society argued Thursday that stablecoins, digital currency that bases their value on other currencies, can improve financial...
View ArticleCentral Bank Wise to Move Cautiously with Digital Currency, Event Hears
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2022 – The Federal Reserve is “very wisely moving cautiously” about whether to adopt a central bank digital currency, an American Enterprise Institute event heard Tuesday, as...
View ArticleU.S. Facing Pressure from China as Digital Currency Adoption Debate Continues
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2022 – The U.S. is falling behind China as the central bank ponders whether to adopt a digital currency, according to observers. “If other countries are innovating in a direction...
View ArticleFinance Experts Weigh Merging Regulatory Agencies to Tackle Cryptocurrencies
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2022 – Crypto market observers are calling for a change in the regulatory system and laws to tackle the quickly growing world of digital currencies. “We will need new substantial...
View ArticleU.S. Must At Least Be ‘Fast Followers’ On Digital Currency, Panel Hears
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2022 – Industry and a House representative pushed the benefits of a central bank digital currency on Thursday, arguing that the regulated coin would help reduce banking costs and...
View ArticleHunter Abramson: Why Ticket Sales are the Next Stage of Non-Fungible Tokens...
Many new technologies tend to evolve rapidly, and that has particularly been the case with non-fungible tokens. It’s a technology that has shown vast potential, and early adopters picked up on this,...
View ArticleCommodity Futures Chairman Calls for Single Regulator as Crypto Falls and...
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 – In light of dwindling crypto stock prices and reports of the increasing risk of fraud associated with the digital currencies, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading...
View ArticleIBM Exec Touts Blockchain Technology as Economy Accelerator
WASHINGTON, August 23 – Blockchain technology will speed up the economy in the coming decade in part by making the process of verifying information – such as user identity – more safe, streamlined and...
View ArticleTreasury to Release Three Reports on Digital Currencies in ‘Coming Weeks’
WASHINGTON, August 29, 2022 – The Treasury Department announced last week it will be releasing a series of reports about the security and state of digital currencies in the U.S. “in the coming weeks.”...
View ArticlePayment Stablecoins Should be Regulated for Safety, FDIC Chair Says
WASHINGTON, October 20, 2022 – Martin Gruenberg, acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, on Thursday argued payment stablecoins would be safer if subjected to “prudential” – or...
View ArticleSenators Join CFTB’s Chairman in Calling for Crypto Regulation in Light of...
WASHINGTON, December 1, 2022 – The swift collapse of crypto exchange FTX is fortifying the public resolve of federal legislators and regulators to expand the executive branch’s power in digital asset...
View ArticleGOP Senator Pushes Back Against Crypto Skeptics, Calls for Consumer Protections
WASHINGTON, December 14, 2022 – As legislators’ animosity toward digital assets builds following the FTX meltdown, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., on Wednesday defended the industry during a Senate Banking...
View ArticleBrookings Panelists Debate the Future of Crypto
December 20, 2022 – Academics discussed the potential usefulness of crypto-related technologies and how they should be regulated at a web event hosted Tuesday by The Brookings Institution. The prices...
View ArticleCES 2023: Crypto Protects Privacy and Civil Liberties
LAS VEGAS, January 5, 2023 – Despite the crypto industry’s recent stumbles, a panel of experts at the Consumer Electronics Show remained bullish on its potential – as well as that of its underlying...
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