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Hello friends, happy Monday. Hope you had a great summer weekend. We got some interesting stuff to kick off the week. And in the ongoing follow-up to the shifting political sands underneath

crypto in the U.S., Biden administration officials are expected to attend a

Bitcoin and blockchain roundtable in early July. The event will be hosted by California Democrat

Rokana in Washington, D.C. According to a private invitation email cited by Bitcoin magazine,

the event is expected to feature House and Senate officials as well as pro-crypto businessman Mark Cuban.

The email said the meeting's

objective is to strategize on how to keep Bitcoin and blockchain innovation in the United States.

Kana's office described the event as, quote, the most significant meeting between

policymakers and innovation leaders in blockchain to date. This is all very plainly a reaction to

Trump's crypto pivot, which is only intensified over the past month. Last week,

the former president hosted a Bitcoin mining summit at Mara Lago. By all reports, Trump was engaged

with the discussion and took the time to listen to industry executives. He came away from the

event with a new catchphrase, stating that he wants, quote, all the remaining Bitcoin to be

made in the USA. Leaving aside the technical issues with that statement, it was still a clearly

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