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Destiny And Halo Composer Is Running For Congress

4.3.2024
Video games and Washington politics are converging in a way you might not have had on your 2024 bingo card. Martin “Marty” O’Donnell, the composer behind Bungie’s Destiny and Halo games, has announced his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Nevada’s third congressional district...

Nigeria’s Financial Watchdog Summons Binance CEO Over Crime Concerns

4.3.2024
New Binance CEO Richard Teng must appear before Nigeria’s House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes to answer questions about his company’s lax KYC and AML policies, which may have played a part in terrorism financing and money laundering. Committee Chairman Ginger Onwusibe...

Binance Nigeria Standoff: Crypto Exchange’s Top Executives Summoned by House of Representatives Committee

4.3.2024
Top executives from Binance have been summoned to appear before the Nigerian House of Representatives Financial Crimes Committee no later than March 4. Ginger Onwusibe, the committee’s chairperson, has warned of possible repercussions should Binance executives fail to comply with the request....

Democratic Presidential Candidate Dean Phillips Says Biden and Trump Don’t “Understand” Crypto

12.12.2023
Source: Pixabay Representative Dean Phillips, a member of the United States House of Representatives running against Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election, recently criticized President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump for their positions on crypto....

House Approves Amendment to Limit SEC’s Crypto Enforcement Authority

10.11.2023
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act that limits the authority of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to carry out enforcement actions against the crypto industry. “Gary Gensler is...

U.S. House's Spending Bill Aims to Hamstring SEC's Gensler Amid His Crypto Crackdown

9.11.2023
As the U.S. House of Representatives weighs legislation on next year's spending, a provision was added on Wednesday that would deprive funding from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions against crypto businesses

New U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson Sparks Hope for Advancing Digital Asset Legislation

26.10.2023
U.S. Representative Mike Johnson has been elected by his fellow Republicans to serve as the 56th Speaker of the US House of Representatives after three weeks of turmoil and three failed candidates. In a decisive election on October 25, Representative Johnson secured the Speaker’s position...

Lesser-known Johnson Wins Speaker Job as Crypto-focused Lawmakers Return to Old Roles

26.10.2023
After several failed attempts, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives dug deep into their roster to elevate a less prominent and less controversial lawmaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), as the new Speaker of the House

Crypto-Fan Tom Emmer's Rise and Fall in the U.S. House Speaker Race Was Extremely Quick

24.10.2023
Rep. Tom Emmer, the No. 3 in U.S. House leadership, has been Mr. Crypto on Capitol Hill, so his brush with the speaker nomination gave a jolt of hope to the industry

Lawmaker Tom Emmer Throws Hat in Ring for House Speaker Role

23.10.2023
Congressman Tom Emmer, who's sponsored a number of crypto-related bills over the past few years and is a member of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, said he's considering a bid for the vacant Speaker of the House position

U.S. House Speaker Drama Could Threaten to Unravel Crypto's 2023 Chances

13.10.2023
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are sprinting toward the worst case scenario in their scramble for a new speaker of the House, and their infighting could worsen the prospects for crypto legislation this year

Crypto Bills May Depend on U.S. House GOP Battle Over Scalise Speaker Pick

11.10.2023
The U.S. House of Representatives won’t get back to work on crypto legislation if Republicans can’t unify behind majority choice Steve Scalise – or some alternative – after the party’s ousting of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) derailed the congressional agenda

Crypto Needs Congress, But U.S. Lawmakers Have Opted for Pandemonium

9.10.2023
Without the U.S. Congress outlining a clear system of rules, the crypto industry fears it’ll be relegated as a volatile financial backwater. But Capitol Hill is beset by drama, including a U.S. House of Representatives that fired its speaker and a budget debate that could derail the federal...

Crypto-friendly Patrick McHenry takes interim House Speaker position

4.10.2023
Eight Republicans voted against Republican Representative McCarthy, making it the first time in U.S. history that the House Speaker has been ousted by Congress

Crypto-Friendly Congressman McHenry Temporarily Takes Over U.S. House

4.10.2023
Crypto-friendly Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has landed in the driver’s seat of the U.S. House of Representatives just as legislation to establish digital-asset regulations nears a finish line there

U.S. House Bill Seeks Centralized Record of Off-Chain Crypto Transactions

28.9.2023
It would be hard for a big exchange to repeat an FTX collapse if the firm’s internal flow of crypto assets was also reported to an outside repository that U.S. regulators could see. That’s the idea behind new legislation from Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) that would force exchanges to share the movement...

Users on Ethereum’s Decentralized Polymarket Speculate on Biden’s Impeachment

19.9.2023
After the Republican House of Representatives speaker, Kevin McCarthy, directed the House to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, bettors on the cryptocurrency-powered Polymarket platform have started placing bets on whether Biden will be impeached by two specific dates. Currently, bettors...