The Senate Agriculture Committee advancing a large portion of crypto market structure legislation is a big step forward. The vote wasn’t bipartisan this time, but the momentum is clearly there, with both parties working together to get a comprehensive bill done. As with any major legislation, the details will evolve as the bill moves through Congress.
This progress is significant, but we can’t wait any longer. Builders and users need lasting legislation and long-term certainty. It’s time for policymakers on both sides to come together to finish this bill and make sure the U.S. remains the leader in crypto.
One of the most overlooked aspects of crypto security is the amount of personal information that is publicly accessible online. Offenders involved in wrench attacks and other physical crimes routinely use open-source records to identify where potential victims live, work or spend time.
In the UK, websites such as Companies House can unintentionally expose sensitive details — including home addresses — for individuals involved in directorships or business filings. In several crypto-related cases, attackers have used this information to locate victims and plan physical offences.
It’s worth taking the time to review:
- What information about you is publicly available
- Whether your home address appears in company filings
- How easily someone could connect your identity to your crypto involvement
What details could help an offender build a profile of your routines or locations
Not all information can be removed, but keeping personal, sensitive data — especially home addresses — out of public view wherever possible significantly reduces vulnerability. Many people underestimate how much can be discovered through open sources, and how criminals rely on exactly this information to select targets.
These issues were explored in CryptoUK’s recent webinar, where Detective Constable Anastasia Bezanidou of the Metropolitan Police discussed how offenders use publicly available data to identify high-value crypto holders and what steps individuals can take to protect themselves.
Watch the full webinar here: https://t.co/T54iZrpRFM
Crypto builders need clear rules of the road.
Over the past five years, Republicans, Democrats, and the Trump Administration have worked closely with members across the crypto industry to protect decentralization, support developers, and give entrepreneurs a fair shot.
At its core, this bill does that.
It’s not perfect, and changes are needed before it becomes law. But now is the time to move the CLARITY Act forward if we want the U.S. to remain the best place in the world to build the future of crypto.
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I’m realising that what happens in your life and career matters far less than whether you can trust your strength of character to handle it when it does.
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Whether you made good or bad decisions, you failed in some projects or succeeded in others, you should tell you startup life changing moments and the hard decisions that turned out to be your best moves.
Always keep in mind: large success are never made overnight. Experience is compounded through years of practise.