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Lumis & Gillibrand's massive crypto bill is probably not going anywhere soon but interesting:Definite Altcoin carvouts: allows altcoins to register as 'ancillary assets'CFTC Chair wants BTC to become POSHuman rights activists pen letter to congress in epic response/troll to last weeks 'concerned technologist's' letterGary Kasparov, Navalny's org, Nigerian feminists and GladsteinPayPal enables crypto paymentsTheir explanations of 'crypto' are not terribleHead of MIT digital currency initiate consultedHow did they decide on BTC, BCH, LTC, and ETH?BCH and LTC are not top 10 coinsNew York Times article questions bitcoin's decentralizationNon-peer reviewed paper makes pretty benign claimsTakes simple facts about bitcoin out of contextComment section is heartening, much more sophisticated than in the pastPSA: CryptoKyle identifies Cold Card bag problem/potential avenue for supplychain attackEconomics
US Treasury Secretary Yellen denies that fiscal policy has driven inflation upArgument that inflation is everywhere so it couldn't be US fiscal policy aloneEnergy
Chelan County creates rate 36 for cryptominers but it's not clear whyChelan County PUD Commissioner Garry Arseneault is the new President of the Washington Public Utility Districts Association.Washington state accounted for 4% of the whole U.S. hashrate in December close by Douglas County has stopped permitting new Bitcoin miners to arrange operations there as a result of they already eat 25% of the county’s obtainable vitality.Salcido can maintain his Chelan facility on the decrease, high-density vitality fee if he processes information as a substitute of mining crypto. The info processing makes use of the identical quantity of energy as crypto mining, he instructed the Wenatchee World."Do you really want to be in the business of regulating what kind of processing happens on servers in your territory," Salcido said.
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Norwegian statistics burea wants to track all supermarket purchasesBitcoin Education
A list of bitcoin privacy proposals by Seth for PrivacyOutput descriptors as recomended by bitcoinlizard
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