United States Senator Edward Markey and Representative Jared Huffman announced on March 3 that they would reintroduce the Crypto-Asset Environmental Transparency Act in Congress. The move comes ahead ...
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Crypto Industry Hopes Turn to French Legislators as Regulators Back Mandatory License
His worry is that, under Maurey’s plans and until MiCA is up and running, crypto firms based in other EU member states could have to seek a duplicate license in France – despite the fact that MiCA is ...
Draft legislation for the digital Ruble forwarded by legislators in Russia
A group of Russian legislators, headed by Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the Financial Market Committee, have proposed draft legislation to create the digital Ruble that the Bank of Russia will issue. T...
Project Hamilton has concluded, weeks after legislators’ enquiry, according to Boston Fed
Project Hamilton, the research project of the United States Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its conclusion in the runup to Christmas. The two-...
HK legislator’s company will attract 1,000 Web3 startups in three years.
The aim of a start-up accelerator that was co-founded by Jonny Ng Kit Chong, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, is to entice one thousand Web3 enterprises to locate their operations in the...
HK legislator’s firm to lure 1,000 Web3 start-ups over 3 years
A start-up accelerator co-founded by Hong Kong legislative council member Jonny Ng Kit-Chong wants to attract 1,000 Web3 businesses to set up shop in the city-state over the next three years. Ng Kit-C...
Legislators propose federal reports of gas emissions for crypto miners
Three U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would ask the Environmental Protection Agency to study crypto mining activity and require that miners that use more than 5 megawatts of power submit informa...
Does Nancy Pelosi have any hope of passing her ‘kitchen-sink package’ limiting legislators from stock trading after midterms are over?
The calls are coming from inside the House: Does Nancy Pelosi have any hope of passing her ‘kitchen-sink package’ limiting legislators from stock trading after midterms are over? With the midterm elec...
Russian Legislators Propose New Bill Legalizing Crypto Mining
16 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News There has been an uptick in the notion of allowing cross-border crypto. The liberal New People group proposed mining measure, but it was shot down. Russia’s l...
U.S legislators remain split on crypto regulation. Should investors be worried?
What a crazy day it’s been for the crypto community. Since the start of the most severe crypto winter, crypto regulation has been all anyone can talk about. The crypto market had shown signs of improv...
In Big Win For Nuclear, California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon
Thanks to today’s passage of SB 846 by the California legislature, Diablo Canyon Power Plant will … [+] continue operating until at last 2030. Robert Bryce Sometimes facts and rationality ...
Legislators Need to Cooperate with Crypto Businesses
Regulation: Government regulatory agencies mostly remain skeptical about the crypto sector’s ability to efficiently regulate itself, says Justin Hartzman, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinSmart. Regulators a...
Confusion between lawmakers and crypto regulators
This is not a new issue, but it is made topical by the flurry of statements and stances of important names in institutional finance, which followed the tsunami that swept through the Terra – LUNA ecos...
Dubai Regulator Grants Virtual Asset License to Former Singapore Legislator’s Company
Former Singapore nominated Member of Parliament Calvin Cheng announced on Monday the establishment of his non-fungible token (NFT) and fan token investment holding company, Calvin Cheng Web3 Holdings ...
Bitcoin miners rebut claims made by US Democratic legislators to EPA administrator
The Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC) responded to a letter sent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Michael Regan by Democratic legislators last month with a letter of...
New York legislators to vote on PoW mining moratorium this week
New York’s legislature might ban proof-of-work (PoW) crypto mining in the state for at least two years, citing environmental concerns. Over the past weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, several cry...
U.S. legislators urge the EPA to investigate whether crypto mining is environmentally legal
Concerns over the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining have been in the limelight for some time now among lawmakers around the world, including those in the United States, who have recently w...
New York legislators weigh moratorium on crypto mining, while some look to an executive order from the governor
New York state lawmakers will discuss a bill proposing a two-year moratorium on proof-of-work crypto mining on Tuesday. The New York State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee is hold...
US Legislators Grill SEC Chair on ‘Overburdensome’ Crypto Reporting Requirements in New Letter
More than half a dozen United States congressmen are defending blockchain developers in the face of new government regulatory pressure. In a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hea...
Nouriel Roubini Advises El Salvador Legislators to Impeach President Bukele
When El Salvador President Nayib Bukele introduced pro-Bitcoin laws to the country and bought the flagship digital currency with its fund last year, many saw it as the start of a new era. But several ...