This Week in Coins: Markets Barely Move, Biden Asks Agencies for Plan, FTX Expands to Cyprus

This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. If you’ve been following this column closely since 2022 began, you’ll likely have noticed that while crypto prices have been as volati...

California lawmaker files bill to let state agencies accept Bitcoin

advertisement California became the latest state last week of the current legislative cycle to weigh allowing residents to pay for government services in the form of crypto. Senate Bill 1275, filed on...

US Agencies Seized Around $30M of Crypto Related to NetWalker Ransomware

The January 2021 seizure is the largest related to ransomware U.S. law enforcement agencies seized almost $30 million worth of crypto One such hacker was Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins who had netted mor...

Warren Davidson’s New Bill Bans Federal Agencies From Restricting Crypto

Is U.S. Congressman Warren Davidson reacting to the current situation in Canada? He recently introduced the “Keep Your Coins Act” to protect private bitcoin and crypto usage in his country. Specifical...

Trump Reportedly Played Direct Role In Exploring Possible Seizure Of Voting Machines By Federal Agencies

Topline Weeks after election day, former president Donald Trump reportedly ordered his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if it could legally seize voting machines i...

Fed Readying To Launch The US Crypto Policy? White House Directs Agencies To Prepare Report

As the White House has set out to etch out a U.S. Crypto Policy, the Biden Administration is all set to aim for the same via an executive order to be sent out in February. The executive order will ask...