Politics

A hypothetical technique of backing the favourite on prediction market Polymarket in each scored 2026 US primary would have lost 4%, though these candidates gained 87% of the time, based on blockchain information supplier Bitquery’s scorecard dated Oct. 9. The outcome separates two questions for election bettors: who’s most probably to win, and whether or…

The Senate fell wanting advancing the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, when a 49-50 cloture vote failed to achieve the 60-vote threshold. Six days later, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong mentioned Stand With Crypto had surpassed 4 million members. Armstrong wrote in a post that “the 2024 election proved the significance of the crypto voter,” including that…

The CLARITY Act missed its July 4 target, so the focus has now shifted as to if Senate leaders can discover time to deliver it to the ground earlier than the August work interval begins. Stand With Crypto urged supporters to press senators for a vote earlier than August 7, calling that date a arduous deadline…

Admiral Samuel Paparo appeared earlier than the Senate Armed Services Committee on Apr. 21 for a posture assessment for the US Indo-Pacific Command forward of the fiscal yr 2027 protection request. Paparo reportedly disclosed that INDOPACOM is running a Bitcoin node and treating the protocol’s structure as operationally related for securing networks and projecting power….

When Customs launched the CAPE refund portal, it put administrative certainty behind an asset class that Wall Street had already begun pricing. As of Apr. 9, 56,497 importers had registered for digital refunds totaling $127 billion, out of roughly $166 billion the authorities expects to be returned after the Supreme Court dominated in February that…

The stablecoin yield fight has as soon as once more consumed the CLARITY Act debate on Capitol Hill, and the price of that consumption is now measurable. The invoice stalled in January when Coinbase objected to its phrases, a White House assembly in February failed to interrupt the impasse, and by March, the calendar itself…

This month, Kentucky lawmakers superior one other bill that critics say might make self-custody not possible for {hardware} pockets producers to ship with out constructing a backdoor into their merchandise. It comes after passing a bill final yr defending residents’ proper to use crypto wallets. The car is HB 380, a consumer-protection measure geared toward cryptocurrency…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent advised Congress he has no authority to bail out Bitcoin. The change got here throughout a Senate Banking Committee listening to, when Senator Brad Sherman requested whether or not the Treasury might intervene to help cryptocurrency costs. Bessent’s reply was direct: he can’t use taxpayer {dollars} to purchase Bitcoin, and the…