1/ Today, we’re sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act.
https://t.co/1lSQkoaaXI
blackrock's own SEC filing on IBIT:
"if the bitcoin custodian became subject to insolvency proceedings, the trust would be treated as a general unsecured creditor"
over $53B bitcoin
sitting in one ETF
and blackrock just told you they're not on the hook
‼️🇪🇺 BREAKING: Europol ran a shadow IT system stuffed with more than 2 petabytes of sensitive data on people who were never even suspected of a crime, and part of the data was kept outside of formal oversight...
This lands as the European Commission prepares to expand Europol's mandate and double its budget.
"They protect the law while breaking it," according to a former Europol senior official.
A joint investigation by Solomon, Correctiv, and Computer Weekly uncovered that Europol operated for years outside its own legal limits, with no functioning audit logs, no access controls, and admin rights handed out by the dozen.
They call the system the Computer Forensic Network, or CFN. Built in 2012 to triage forensic data, it became Europol's primary analytical platform. By 2019, the CFN held at least 2 petabytes of operational data, roughly 420 times the size of Europol's official non-forensic database. Drewer, the data protection officer, found that 99% of Europol's data sat in the CFN, processed without basic data protection or security safeguards.
The 2019 internal security assessment listed 32 separate failures. Among them:
- Ineffective assignment of security roles
- Insufficient management of privileged access rights
- Unrestricted software installation
- Lack of password management
- Lack of administrative usage logs
- Insufficient event logging and monitoring
- Insufficient network access control
Independent experts who reviewed the findings called the volume of admin accounts a textbook breach of confidentiality and an open door for both rogue insiders and external attackers. Logs could be modified or deleted by anyone with admin rights, meaning data tampering and unauthorised access could not be reliably traced.
Then there is the Pressure Cooker. A separate clandestine environment run by Europol's Internet Referral Unit, used to pull open-source data without ICT involvement and outside formal oversight. Internal staff flagged it as an "irregular situation" in October 2022. The EU's privacy watchdog, the EDPS, says it was never told about it during the original 2019 investigation.
After almost a decade of negotiation, the EDPS closed its monitoring of the CFN in February 2026. 15 of 150 recommendations remained unimplemented, including ones the watchdog flagged as concerning "issues of particular importance," covering core security safeguards.
🚨If CLARITY Act Gets BLOCKED By Republican Tillis, GOP Won’t Be Able To BLAME Dems — And Could Face The $200 MILLION Crypto PAC Cannon 😳🇺🇸🔥
If Senator @SenThomTillis continues his objections and the CLARITY Act FAILS before midterms…
👉 Republicans may NOT be able to BLAME Democrats anymore.
Because until NOW, the playbook was simple:
👉 “Dems are blocking crypto”
👉 campaign on pro-innovation vs anti-innovation
But that narrative COLLAPSES if a Republican senator becomes one of the reasons the bill gets BLOCKED. ❌
And there’s more…
💣 The crypto industry has deployed roughly $200 MILLION into PACs and political influence — and they’re READY to use it.
👉 attack ads
👉 primary challenges
👉 funding opponents
👉 targeting anti-crypto lawmakers
Whoever gets blamed for killing CLARITY… becomes the TARGET. 🎯
Bank lobbyists are slowing down the CLARITY Act.
Don’t let them silence you.
Sign the petition, and we will deliver it directly to Washington, D.C., and tell the Senate Banking Committee to mark it up.
https://t.co/Xwlzx8o3NW
🚨UPDATE: Senator Moreno Says Democrats Are SCARED Of Innovation & Actively OPPOSE It — CLARITY Act Is Being Delayed By “GROTESQUELY UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE” 😳🇺🇸🔥
During Bitcoin Conference 2026, Senator @berniemoreno gave one of the most BRUTAL explanations yet for why the CLARITY Act is moving so slowly in Washington. 👀
“A lot of my Democrat colleagues have become SCARED of innovation, actively OPPOSED to innovation.” 🤯
He said America is supposed to be a country of pioneers, explorers, and risk-takers…
But instead, Washington has created an ANTI-INNOVATION culture. 😳
“This cannot wait five years, 10 years.” 🚨
Moreno said the CLARITY Act is moving at a “mind-bendingly slow” pace — and should have already been DONE LAST SUMMER. ⚠️
“You have grotesquely UNQUALIFIED people involved in decision-making.” 😵🔥
Senator @berniemoreno says the CLARITY Act keeps getting DELAYED because Washington still DOESN'T UNDERSTAND the industry it’s trying to regulate. ❌
The clock is ticking.
More updates coming.
We don’t need the banks approval to pass the CLARITY Act, and I’m sick of people pretending like we do.
This whole thing is tied straight to the fact that way too many members of congress are bought and paid for by the banking lobby so what are we going to do about that?
Not to be negative but I find it a bit naive to think it’s going to pass when they are most likely being paid millions to delay it indefinitely.
Dear @SenatorTimScott
I write this on behalf of the millions in the crypto community, builders, holders, innovators, and everyday Americans embracing the new era of finance.
Do not delay the CLARITY Act. Do not listen to @SenThomTillis calls to skip an April markup.
The bill has already passed the House with strong bipartisan support. America can’t afford another stall on regulatory clarity.
🇺🇸 GET CLARITY PASSED!
I encourage everyone who wants the Clarity Act passed to "politely" contact Sen Tom Tillis's office asking to pass the Clarity Act.
Every phone call is equal to 10k constituents to Congressional Officials. 🤳👇
Hi Senator Tillis,
Can you please explain to American Investors like we are third grader on this? TIA.. 🙏
Let me get my point across to you, as American we paid your salary not the banks, Senator..
Thank you for your attention to this matter..
@SenThomTillis 🇺🇸