Bitcoin Policy Institute Challenges NYC Wallet Seizure Rule
If untouched Bitcoin is treated as abandoned after five years, every cold wallet becomes a legal liability, and the Institute's amicus makes that exact argument to the court.
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If untouched Bitcoin is treated as abandoned after five years, every cold wallet becomes a legal liability, and the Institute's amicus makes that exact argument to the court.
The case spans a half-billion-dollar-plus fraud and a Trump-era pivot; the optics alone will shape how crypto enforcement reads through 2026.
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A statutory ban on retail and wholesale central bank digital dollars now sits on the books through 2030, removing the policy ambiguity that hung over US digital-asset strategy for years and reshaping…
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An OpenAI-built model's prediction is unusual less for the headline number and more for the checklist behind it: regulatory clarity, accounting reform, and a corporate bid that the model frames as…
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The suit targets senior engineers who moved from Apple's Foundation Models unit to OpenAI, claiming they carried model-training data and chip design files with them.
The BitClub takedown once read as one of the DOJ's loudest crypto-fraud wins; if the ringleader's counts are dropped after eight years, the message that sends to pending crypto-fraud dockets is…
A near-year-later pivot from the House floor to the Senate, with the August recess now the binding deadline and the Blockchain Association pressing lawmakers to clear remaining technical questions.
A national trust charter is the structural prize stablecoin issuers have spent years lobbying for: it puts USDC under the same federal supervisor as the country's largest banks and sidelines…
Around three in four EU-registered crypto firms are expected to fail MiCA's June 30 deadline, and AscendEX is the first major name to publicly warn users their funds may be stuck.
The pick puts a venture capitalist who has spent a decade arguing AI is underhyped at the table where the Fed frames its productivity and labour-market assumptions.