Members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs are set to hold a hearing on central bank digital currencies later this month.

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Michael J. Hsu, the Acting Comptroller of the OCC, said in a statement that the agency will review past crypto guidelines issued by the agency.

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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler told Congress that the crypto market needs more investor protection, likely dampening hopes of a Bitcoin ETF being approved anytime soon.

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Wood had previously invested in Amun’s exchange traded product (ETP) 21Shares Short Bitcoin ETP. The Zurich-based company intends to use Wood’s expertise to expand 21Shares globally. 

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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said that he would like to work with Congress to prevent fraud and crypto market manipulation.

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Think about it this way: “It would be a mistake to think the internet won’t do to money the same thing it’s done to communications. When was the last time you wrote a letter, as opposed to sending a mail, [look also at] what it did to photography; when was the last time you took […]

The Digital Dollar Project has committed to launching "at least" five pilot programs in the next year to test possible frameworks for a CBDC.

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The Digital Dollar Project, a non-profit organization co-founded by former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) chairman Christopher Giancarlo, plans to launch five pilot programs focused on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) within the next 12 months, a report by Reuters said yesterday.

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Five pilot programs will gather data on a digital dollar in the United States over the next 12 months.

The pilots will be launched over the next 12 months.

J. Christopher Giancarlo, the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman who left office in 2019, is joining the board of directors of BlockFi.

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During a hearing on the potential introduction of a digital dollar, Senator Tom Cotton claimed whatever the United States comes up with, it...