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A four-way deadlock is now blocking the US Clarity Act crypto bill — and each side can stop it
The CLARITY Act entered Washington as a bid to impose a durable market structure on crypto. It now…
Iran threatens major US companies in the Middle East creating new risk for crypto
What looks like a geopolitical threat aimed at US multinationals could quickly become a crypto story too. That…
Britain’s bond panic is currently making the case for Bitcoin many people seem to have forgetten
Britain’s bond scare is reopening a question Bitcoin was built for – moments when trust in sovereign debt…
Banks risk another 2008 crisis after moving the equivalent of 18 million BTC into shadow lenders
US banks “reduced” their credit risk after 2008 by shifting more of it to nonbank lenders. Since 2008,…
Congress has only weeks left to convince banks on crypto CLARITY Act or risk losing it to midterms
The President-backed effort to set broader rules for US crypto markets is nearing a political deadline in Congress…
Is Mastercard embracing crypto or trying to contain it?
Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to…
Kraken just got rare Federal Reserve access in a move crypto firms have chased for years
Kraken has cleared a regulatory hurdle that crypto firms have chased for years: direct access to the Federal…
SBI Holdings is dangling XRP to sell a plain three year bond, but the numbers show how small
Japan’s SBI Holdings will issue a ¥10 billion retail bond on March 24, but the story is the…
Google Cloud and MoneyGram just signed on to run launch Midnight nodes for new privacy network banks want
Google Cloud, MoneyGram, Vodafone’s Pairpoint, and eToro will run launch-phase nodes on Midnight, a zero-knowledge privacy network targeting…
Bitcoin price is sliding today because the government admitted nearly 1 million jobs from last year never existed
At 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the U.S. labor market handed traders a breaking story with two timelines, one for…