Politics

Bitcoin think tanks, policy specialists, and social hubs unite to launch the “Satoshi Needs You!” campaign, which aims to catalyze everyday Bitcoiners to contact their elected officials to protect their right to transact peer-to-peer as well as the developers who create the technology that enables such transactions.

Paystand CEO and co-founder Jeremy Almond speaks to the power of Bitcoin circular economies at an event associated with the United Nations (UN) General Assembly week.

Speaker Johnson looks to maintain a “symbiotic” relationship between the Bitcoin and crypto industry and the Republican-led House, while advocacy groups such as the Bitcoin Voter PAC are committed to protecting the Republican majority in the House come midterms.

In a recent framework for digital asset market structure legislation, Senate Democrats state that they aim to protect financial privacy while “denying” bad actors access to crypto but offer few specifics about how they plan to strike this balance.

In the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s most recent version of the CLARITY Act, Bitcoin and crypto developers would be protected from being charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business moving forward — and retroactively.

Over 110 crypto investors, developers, and advocacy groups have signed a sweeping letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, warning that failure to protect open-source software developers could drive innovation overseas and stall crypto adoption.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti stated publicly today that the DoJ does not plan to prosecute open-source crypto developers simply for writing code, but the devil may have been in the details of his talk.

Bitcoin Policy UK, the UK’s premier Bitcoin think tank and advocacy group, has launched an app that enables residents of the U.K. to contact their member of parliament (MP) to advocate for Bitcoin in just a few clicks.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute of India has announced its launch on India’s Independence Day to highlight the notion that true freedom comes with the type of financial and economic sovereignty that Bitcoin provides.

The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arrive through a nationwide ban or an emergency executive order. It quietly...