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Patrick Hansen

@paddi_hansen
11 posts
2025-10-08
Great news and big win for privacy in the EU! 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Germany's ruling CDU/CSU party made it clear today: there will be no chat control - as pushed for by other EU countries - with this German government.
2025-10-08 View on X
Politico

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

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With Germany opposing, there is no majority of EU member states in the Council in favor of the chat control proposal. The vote will thus likely be canceled. Still concerning to see how many EU countries support it. [image]
2025-10-08 View on X
Politico

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

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2024-12-12
X is flooded with partnership announcements every day - most are noise, but some are true signals. @binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by far with 240 million users, joining forces with @circle to boost USDC accessibility could be a true game changer in crypto. [image]
2024-12-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Binance and Circle partner to promote USDC; Binance plans to list more crypto trading pairs denominated in USDC and hold USDC for its own corporate treasury

- Circle faces increased challenges in the stablecoin market  — Binance will support more USDC usage on its platform

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2023-10-19
It's official, the ECB has concluded it's two year “investigation phase” of the digital euro (CBDC) and decided to move to the next phase of the project. This next phase will last again two years and was renamed from a “realisation phase” to a “preparation phase”. Ultimately,... [image]
2023-10-19 View on X
Reuters

The European Central Bank plans to start a two-year “preparation phase” for the digital euro on November 1, to finalize rules, select partners, and do testing

The European Central Bank took a further step on Wednesday towards launching a digital version of the euro …

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2022-11-30
Tradelens was probably the number one showcase project for permissioned blockchains pitched everywhere between 2018-2020. The platform will now be discontinued. https://www.maersk.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
The Block

IBM and Maersk plan to shutter their blockchain supply chain service TradeLens, launched in 2018, in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration

- The companies made a viable platform but couldn't get a global collaboration going.  —  Danish shipping company Maersk and IBM …

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2022-06-26
The largest European crypto investment platform @bitpanda is laying off several hundred people or +30% of its staff. All job offers are rescinded. The only EU crypto company with >1k employees is scaling back to ~730 people. https://blog.bitpanda.com/...
2022-06-26 View on X
Finextra

Crypto trading platform Bitpanda, which has 1,000+ staff per LinkedIn and raised $263M at a $4.1B valuation in 2021, says it is cutting its headcount to ~730

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2022-06-25
The largest European crypto investment platform @bitpanda is laying off several hundred people or +30% of its staff. All job offers are rescinded. The only EU crypto company with >1k employees is scaling back to ~730 people. https://blog.bitpanda.com/...
2022-06-25 View on X
Finextra

Crypto trading platform Bitpanda, which has 1,000+ staff per LinkedIn and raised $263M at a $4.1B valuation in 2021, says it is cutting its headcount to ~730

Vienna-based Bitpanda is the latest crypto player to make job cuts, informing staffers that it will axe hundreds of positions as it face up to a dramatically altered market.

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2022-04-04
1/4 Best article I have read on Luna/UST and the new #BTC reserve. I have been skeptical of the robustness/sustainability of UST (yields) & Terra. But what they are doing is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious/interesting macro experiments in crypto. https://mirror.xyz/...
2022-04-04 View on X
P — Mirror

Unpacking Terra's design for its algorithmic stablecoins and how partial collateralization using bitcoin reserves could impact its price stabilization mechanism

Mirror : Tweets: @paddi_hansen , @darky999 , @tlagomi , and @jwang815 Tweets: Patrick Hansen / @paddi_hansen : 1/4 Best article I have read on Luna/UST and the new #BTC reserve. I...

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2022-03-15
BREAKING: The ECON committee of the EU Parliament just voted against the de-facto POW-ban: 32 against, 24 in favor. Big relief & political success for the bitcoin & crypto community in the EU💪💪 Will share a breakdown of the vote and what's next here in this thread. #Bitcoin
2022-03-15 View on X
CoinDesk

An EU Parliament committee rejects a provision for its Markets in Crypto Assets framework that would have effectively banned proof-of-work cryptocurrencies

Dubai recently adopted a law to regulate the crypto sector.  Good for you! Scott Chipolina / Decrypt : EU Votes 32-23 Against ‘De Facto Bitcoin Mining Ban’ Kevin Helms / Bitcoin Ne...

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2022-02-14
The EU Commission will propose a CBDC bill in early 2023. A legislative consultation on CBDC use cases will already be tabled in the next couple of weeks. @iamsandali @fintechfrank @laurashin @RyanSAdams @jchervinsky @nic__carter @twobitidiot https://www.politico.eu/...
2022-02-14 View on X
Politico

European Commission says it is planning to propose a bill for a digital euro in early 2023; the ECB expects to start working on a prototype at the end of 2023

Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico :

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2021-10-29
1/ There it is: the FATF has updated its guidance for #Crypto and #DeFi. It seems the FATF wants to impose its concept of financial intermediation on DeFi services and DApps, potentially affecting DeFi developers, DAO members and other builders. 👇 https://www.fatf-gafi.org/...
2021-10-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Global money laundering watchdog FATF releases guidelines that could force crypto companies to check customers' identities and report suspicious transactions

at best—suppressed. https://www.fatf-gafi.org/... Patrick Hansen / @paddi_hansen : 1/ There it is: the FATF has updated its guidance for #Crypto and #DeFi. It seems the FATF wants ...

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