Bitcoin was largely steady on Thursday as the U.S. House of Representatives cleared a key procedural hurdle to open debate on a suite of crypto bills, after a nine-hour deadlock. The world’s largest cryptocurrency last traded 0.2% higher at $118,747.5 as of 02:25 ET (06:25 GMT). The token had surged to record highs above $123,000 at […]
March 21 (Reuters) – (This March 21 story has been corrected to fix the crypto firm’s name to, “a16z crypto,” from “Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z,” in paragraph 2) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force held its first public meeting with experts on Friday, focusing on how securities laws might apply to […]
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing. Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. Key Takeaways In his first significant speech to Congress as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins shared updates on the agency’s new crypto task force and vowed […]
