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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The most valuable crypto stories for Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.
The swift and surprising collapse of FTX last week continues to send shockwaves across the crypto industry and beyond – and Capitol Hill is not immune. "The Hash" team discusses what could happen to the bipartisan Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (DCCPA), a bill Bankman-Fried supported. Plus, the European Union could ban banks and crypto providers from dealing in privacy-enhancing coins per a leaked draft of a money laundering bill obtained by CoinDesk.
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0:00.0 | This episode of The HASH is sponsored by Minima.global, Circle, and Pastile Network. |
0:12.0 | This is The HASH podcast. |
0:14.7 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more, |
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0:32.5 | Hello and welcome to The Hash. You are watching us on CoinDest TV or listening to us on the podcast network. |
0:39.3 | Thank you so much for being here. I'm Zach Seward. We got Wendy O. Jensen, Asie, Will Foxley, here to get you up to speed on all that is going on in the wild world of crypto. |
0:49.7 | Jen, take us to D.C. will you? |
0:52.1 | Yeah, so we've been talking about FTX for about a week, and there is no end in sight. |
0:59.1 | So senators are planning to push forward with crypto legislation backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, |
1:05.3 | despite the FTX founders fall from grace. |
1:08.7 | Now, as we know, Bankman-Fed frequently met with lawmakers to weigh in on how |
1:13.1 | the industry should be regulated. The Bipartisan Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act |
1:18.6 | is backed by Senator Debbie Stave now and ranking member John Boosman. Both have received donations |
1:25.7 | from Bankman Freed. The bill would give the CFTC oversight of |
1:30.0 | the crypto spot market and crypto broker dealers would be required to register with the CFTC. |
1:37.7 | A lot to unpack here. Zach, I'm kicking it right back to you. What do you think of this? BCCPA is still alive after all these |
1:48.5 | implosions. We're still talking about this. In some ways, I think this sort of catalyzed some of the |
1:52.7 | blowback that Sam Bangorfried caught from big figures in the crypto world. You know, |
1:58.3 | Eric Voorhees of ShapeShift, CZ, we're certainly taking him to |
2:02.5 | task over this bill because it was unfavorable to defy, to centralize exchanges, to on-chain |
2:09.2 | trading activity that may be some of the transparency of that would have prevented what we saw |
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