Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell #crypto:
“Existing regulations were not built with digital currencies in mind. There will have to be new rules, laws and frameworks to deal with digital currencies.”
#cryptocurrency
People across the country have lost faith that Congress is acting in the public interest. There’s a lot we must do to root corruption out of Washington—and a great first step would be passing my Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act.
What’s up Vitalik! You may not know me but just wanted to say I’m a big fan of yours. thank you for everything you’ve built in the world of crypto, otherwise @Autograph wouldn’t have been possible. Hope I get to meet you some day you’re the 🐐
The scale of Western sanctions caught Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich off guard. “I don’t think he or anyone else expected what would come.” https://t.co/hmULPnctGf
So the Hunt brothers squeezed silver futures in early 80s
Many silver miners who actually take silver out of the ground and were hedging future production, couldn't meet margin calls
In the end it nuked when comex changed rules, retail got hosed anyway as they bagheld
Leading Bank in Ukraine bans clients from sending ukrainian hryvnia to crypto trading platforms.
The ban comes despite President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signing this week the country’s new law “On Virtual Assets.”
Binance Shuts Down Ontario Users from its Platform, to halt trading in existing accounts in the province, and to waive or pay fees for some Ontario users. #trading#fees
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While China has publicly been neutral (despite state reporting clearly following Russian narratives) there has been interesting movement leading up to the Xi-Biden call.
China has pulled back a bit from full support economically from Russia.
#GameStop announced that its highly-anticipated NFT marketplace is expected to launch "by the end of the Q2 of fiscal year 2022." This gives GameStop until June 30 to come good on its promise.