Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, August 9th 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

crypto flexes its lobbying muscle in an attempt to craft that infrastructure bill.

Apple tries to beat back the controversy around its photo scanning plans.

The cyber truck is delayed.

And what if the whole democratization of investing thing moves beyond options or even

NFTs into angel and venture investing. Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech. The big stories over the weekend were kind of the same ones we left you with on Friday.

First of all, all of crypto was applying public pressure on social media and traditional media to try to get wording in that

infrastructure bill ironed out. Two groups of senators say they are nearing a

last-minute deal on the crypto oversight provisions in the bill but an agreement may come too late to get

added into the final wording.

Quoting Bloomberg, Wyden, along with Republican Senators Pat Toomey and Cynthia

Loomis had offered one approach that had the support of the

cryptocurrency industry.

A competing amendment sponsored by Republican Senator Rob Portman and Democrats Mark Werner and

Kristen Cinema was the White House's preferred option.

We're still talking, Widen said, declining to discuss what issues still are unsettled.

The last minute frenzy to reach a deal may prove to be fruitless if the Senators are unable

to get the amendment called up for a vote.

The Senate has been deadlocked for days over addressing more changes to the bill because of disputes

between lawmakers about which amendments to consider and

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