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Senators add crypto taxes to infrastructure deal to raise $28B in extra revenue

29.7.2021
U.S. lawmakers believe they can find $28 billion worth of infrastructure funding by expanding taxation on crypto transactions

Shanghai Man: US senators tell athletes to avoid digital yuan, Chinese exchange volumes rebound … and more

23.7.2021

US Senators Seek to Forbid American Athletes From Receiving and Using Digital Yuan During Beijing Olympics

21.7.2021
Three U.S. senators have urged the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to forbid American athletes from receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics. Raising many concerns, including privacy, they warned, “Olympic athletes should be aware that the digital yuan...

China Hits out at Senators Who Asked for an Olympic Block on Digital Yuan

21.7.2021
Beijing has lashed out at three Republican senators who have asked the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to block American athletes from using the digital yuan, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) that China is hoping to dazzle the world with at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics...

China wants US senators to ‘stop making trouble’ out of digital yuan

21.7.2021
China's Foreign Ministry responded to U.S. senators' claim regarding the digital yuan's function as a tracking and tracing tool during the 2022 Beijing Winter Games

US Senator’s Advice: Buy, Hold, Save Bitcoin for Retirement as Congress Floods Economy With Trillions of Dollars

2.7.2021
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis has encouraged “people to buy and hold” bitcoin in their portfolios. “I encourage them to save bitcoin for their retirement, for their future,” she said, adding that with Congress flooding the economy with trillions and trillions of dollars...

US Senators Call for Increased Measures to Regulate and Trace Cryptocurrencies

7.6.2021
Two U.S. senators have urged lawmakers to increase measures to regulate cryptocurrencies, including how to trace cryptocurrency transactions, in order to combat ransomware attacks. “We haven’t figured out in the country or in the world how to trace cryptocurrency,” one senator...

Climate Change Targets Bitcoin Mining: NY Lawmaker Proposes 3-Year Moratorium on Mining Operations in the State

5.5.2021
U.S. bureaucrats, particularly Democrats, are concerned about climate change and have introduced lots of legislation in order to address these concerns. Now a lawmaker from New York wants to establish a moratorium for bitcoin mining facilities located in the state, which means cryptocurrency miners...

Coalition of US Senators Press President Biden for a Fourth Round of Stimulus Checks

19.4.2021
While Americans are still getting their third stimulus payments, discussions of tacking on a fourth round of direct payments to Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal have started trending. Just recently, a coalition led by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden and over a dozen...

Nigerian Senators Blast Central Bank For Its Crypto Ban

12.2.2021
Following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) clampdown on banks facilitating crypto investments, a number of the country’s senators have voiced their outrage at the bank, calling on the Nigerian regulators to facilitate the further adoption of cryptocurrencies across the country. The CBN Governor...

US Treasury Nominee Yellen Tells Senators that Crypto Has ‘Benefits’

22.1.2021
Janet Yellen. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Credit Suisse American President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen has been blamed by many for the recent slide in token prices after expressing “concerns” about crypto – now many will hope that more positive comments on the matter...

US Senators Float Bill Requiring Congressional Watchdog Study Crypto’s Role in Trafficking

1.7.2020
Top members of the Senate Banking Committee plan to introduce legislation that would direct the congressional watchdog to study virtual currency’s role in drug and human trafficking

US Senators Introduce ‘Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act’ — With Backdoor Mandate

25.6.2020
US lawmakers have introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted information. This bill is “a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States,” one expert says. It requires manufacturers of encrypted devices...

Reports of Senators Selling Stocks After Closed-Door COVID-19 Briefing Emerge

20.3.2020
The novel Coronavirus has shaken the world, developed and emerging nations alike, claiming more than 10,000 lives and infecting more than 250,000 people in at least 182 countries. The world hasn’t seen a pandemic of this scale for decades, and unsurprisingly, the impact on the economic aspects...

U.S. Warns Visa, Mastercard to ‘Proceed With Caution’ Regarding Libra

11.10.2019
In the wake of Paypal’s very public exit from the Libra project, U.S. lawmakers are now pressuring Stripe, Visa and Mastercard to rethink their membership of the Libra Association as well. On October 8, three letters from two U.S. senators urged the tech and finance giants to “carefully...