Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal :...
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services that aren't compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”
US Treasury Damilola Lawrence / Cryptopolitan : U.S Treasury report reveals how North Korea and criminals use DeFi services to facilitate money laundering Florence Muchai / Cryptopolitan : US Treasury...
US Commerce Dept. says it will close a unit that monitored Americans' social media for Census disinformation, after finding it had overstepped its authority
Kim Lyons / The Verge : Tweets: @davetroy Tweets: Dave Troy / @davetroy : No one owns anti-disinfo counterintelligence in the United States. And it shows. “discontinue the criminal law enforcement fu...
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...