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9/18/23: Is Elizabeth Warren About To Ruin Crypto? 📜👋🇭🇰
Today’s Top Stories ⌐◪-◪
📜 Senator Warren’s anti-money laundering bill sees major support
👋 Bitboy and others dismissed from FTX case ahead of SBF’s trial
🇨🇳 Hong Kong influencer arrested for ties to troubled JPEX exchange
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⌐◪-◪ → Senator Warren’s ability to rally 12 influential senators (from both sides of the aisle) shows that there is a heightened sense of awareness over crypto on Capital Hill. I’m worried about what this bill means for privacy as well as general crypto innovation in the US.
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⌐◪-◪ → This is probably a smart move considering SBF’s trial starts in two weeks and the entire world will be watching. I’d want to get as far away from that as possible.
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⌐◪-◪ → At the moment, it’s unclear what this influencer did other than simply promote the exchange. The JPEX situation itself is starting to look a lot like FTX - definitely something worth keeping an eye on this week.
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Peripheral Vision ⌐◪-◪
⛓️ Crypto & DeFi
Ethereum developers postpone Holesky launch, the new testnet
Mark Cuban gets crypto wallet drained for $870k - noob
Texas Bitcoin miners shut down operations amid energy crisis
Multiswap lets users swap up to 300 different tokens in a single tx
Tether CEO roasts PayPal’s stablecoin, saying it will lack innovation
PolkaWorld sees major issues with its governance model, OpenGov
🏦 Wallstreet
Bubblemaps raises $3.2M seed round, led by INCE Capital
Citigroup introduces new “token service”
🏛️ Legal & Regulatory
🌎 Rest of the Word
🖼️ NFTs
Nouns Fork completes with $27M of the $50M treasury depleted
Patrick Mahome's NFT project doesn’t sell out - fail
Zombie CryptoPunk sells for 420 ETH - bargain
Stoner Cats settles with SEC and agrees to pay $1M fine - sorry Mila
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