The US state of Virginia, which is seeking to safeguard the crypto rights of its citizens, is one-step closer to creating a working group to deep-dive into crypto expansion. Virginia state Senate on Monday, passed a bill, which aims to create a research group to study blockchain and cryptos. The proposition was introduced as a…
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A bill that seeks to safeguard the cryptocurrency rights of the citizens has been introduced to the Senate of Virginia. The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, would guarantee that citizens can self-custody, transact, mine, and pay with cryptocurrency, also exempting cryptocurrency transactions of less than $200 from paying state capital gains tax.…
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On September 2, the crypto market aggregation web portal Coingecko.com published a study that identifies the top ten states in America that are most interested in the two leading digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum. The team leveraged Coingecko’s page traffic data and found that California captures 43% of the traffic visiting the site’s bitcoin and…
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The week in DeFi saw European lawmakers write a new chapter on DeFi, a Virginia county plan to put its pension fund in a DeFi yield, DeFi protocols lose $1.6 billion to exploits, and more The past week in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem saw many new developments from an adoption perspective and protocol developments.…
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Delegate Christopher T. Head introduced the bill (House Bill No. 263) back in January 2022, seeking an amendment to allow eligible banks to offer crypto custody services. The Senate of Virginia in the United States unanimously approved a bill amendment request that now allows traditional banks operating in the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide virtual…
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Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain technology in a bid to protect voter records and election results. In the United States, Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain to improve elections and voting. Prefiled on Dec. 27 and scheduled for offering on Jan. 8, a new bill requesting further study into blockchain-based elections has…
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