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🚨 LATEST: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says zero-knowledge proofs could verify compliance without collecting users’ personal data. She warns current KYC/AML practices create “data haystacks.”
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André Casterman retweeted
LATEST: 🇺🇸 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says new technologies like blockchain and ZK proofs can give Americans "both security and privacy," protecting people's data while more effectively "rooting out illegal conduct."
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André Casterman retweeted
BREAKING: BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK JUST ANNOUNCED IT'S BRINGING #BITCOIN LIGHTNING PAYMENTS TO AI AGENTS THE AI ECONOMY IS BUILDING ON BTC THIS IS MASSIVE 🚀
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Welcoming the rebrand xdc.si xdce-crowd-sale:native
BREAKING: President Trump declares at the UN General Assembly that Artificial Intelligence is now officially known as "Super Intelligence."
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André Casterman retweeted
Imagine a KOREAN EXCHANGE LISTING $XDC NOW. #Upbit PING ME
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André Casterman retweeted
Fixed it for you @WSJ
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Fully agreed, it's time for @Apple to innovate, not just to milk the cow (which is great for shareholder in the short-term but not sustainable medium term)
I just unboxed my silver iPhone 18 Pro and in the background is the Tesla Cybercab. And the difference between these two companies is too big now to ignore… Apple just put on this huge, glamorous live event with beautiful lights, stages, cameras, and world-class production & acting. All that energy around a phone that, from the outside, mostly looks new bc of new colors. And don’t get me wrong… This phone is beautiful, I still think it’s the best phone in the world. But then I look at the Cybercab sitting on my wallpaper. It has no steering wheel, no pedals, driving real people around cities. It’s a brand new vehicle designed so one day humans won’t need to drive at all. Something that will fundamentally change how millions of people and things move from point A to B. And it made me think… This is what happens when a founder is gone. A company can keep making great products. It can keep making and milking $ billions from one product iteration to the next. It can keep hiring super incredible people. It can become more polished, more efficient, more professional than ever. But that founder-level obsession with changing the world slowly gets replaced by protecting what already works. That’s why I honestly miss Steve Jobs... Apple events used to feel unpredictable. You waited for that “one more thing” bc there was this feeling that Jobs might walk onto that stage and show you something you’ve never seen and hadn’t even realized you wanted yet. He truly made the company feel like it was unveiling the future, something unbelievable… Apple still knows how to put on one heck of a show… but I feel the show has become bigger and the leaps in technology/products have become smaller. And that’s what makes me think about Tesla. Tesla is still founder-led. Elon and the team are still willing to build things that sound completely insane before they become real. Cars that drive themselves. Robotaxis with no steering wheel or pedals. Humanoid robots. Factories designed around entirely new ways of building vehicles. Huge risk. Huge ambition. Huge chance of failure. Believe it or not, that founder mentality and leadership really matter. Bc founders are often willing to risk the comfortable business they already have to build the thing that could completely replace it. I really hope Tesla never loses that spark… bc one day I know Elon won’t be there. And when that day comes, I hope Tesla stays a company obsessed with building brand new crazy cool risky things that make us super excited about the future and doesn’t become a company that simply protects what it already built.
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Epstein tried everything to get Elon to his island, even using Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates to get to him Elon refused multiple times and eventually blocked his emails at the server level permanently So, in retaliation, Epstein and Gates launched a massive campaign to short Tesla, betting heavily to try and bankrupt the company (Gates lost billions to his madness) And then with the Biden administration, launched massive nonsensical lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla All because Elon pushed for the Epstein files to be released to expose the most heinous crimes committed against innocent children and put those responsible behind bars Elon is the major reason the Epstein files are finally public
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André Casterman retweeted
Looks who’s bragging. You don’t hate the big banks enough.
JPMorgan Says SEC Rules Cannot Give Crypto The CLARITY Act’s Protection JPMorgan says SEC rules could provide crypto with clearer regulatory guidance. However, the bank says agency rules are less durable than congressional legislation. The warning followed the Senate’s 49-50 vote against advancing the CLARITY Act. JPMorgan said SEC rules could be changed or challenged in court. This makes their long-term durability weaker than legislation passed by Congress. The SEC now faces greater attention as it considers further crypto rules.
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André Casterman retweeted
Where the Senate fumbled the ball… 🏈 The CFTC picked it up and started running!
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No doubt! Pure politics
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senator Marsha Blackburn told Fox Business she believes Democrats voted down the CLARITY Act because "they do not want to give Republicans and the president a win."
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André Casterman retweeted
It's not: "crypto vs banks" It's just fintech.
JUST IN: 🇩🇪 $1.7 trillion Deutsche Bank launches crypto custody service for institutions.
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My thanks go to everyone who put so much effort into the CLARITY Act— across the Administration, Congress, investors, and innovators. Our collective conviction that America must continue to lead is indispensable. I have been unequivocal: with or without legislation, we will act decisively within the SEC’s statutory authority to deliver certainty for American investors and for the entrepreneurs shaping our technological future. Stay tuned.
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The biggest loser from the CLARITY Act failing? The banks. They may have just shot themselves in the foot. Banks spent months warning about stablecoins draining deposits from the banking system. The CLARITY Act had explicit protections designed to address that exact risk. Now the bill is dead. Crypto regulation shifts back towards SEC and CFTC, who don't need to pander to the banks for support. The banks killed the very legislation that could have saved them, and the consequences could be massive.
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With CLARITY stalled, I expect the SEC, CFTC, and Treasury to advance rules under existing law, banks to expand Bitcoin custody and loans against it, and more capital to favor Bitcoin and digital credit. GENIUS supports stablecoin adoption. Progress need not wait for Congress.
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You have to vote Republican in the midterms even if you disagree.
Not a single Democrat voted for Clarity. There's a lesson in that.
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André Casterman retweeted
Now we move to Plan B. @SECPaulSAtkins and @ChairmanSelig writing Clarity through rulemaking.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate fails to advance Crypto Clarity Act.
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Far-left Marxists, many of them mentally ill, have hijacked the Democratic party, the reasonable center-left liberals have collapsed. The party ideology is now just easily disprovable conspiracy theories about capitalism’s technological progress.
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André Casterman retweeted
This afternoon, Senate Democrats proved they were never truly serious about protecting consumers and preserving American leadership. I sat at the table with Senate Democrats working in good faith to get this done while they played games. For over a year, they presented demands and the second we met them, they made new demands and moved the goal posts. Today they voted against real limitations on politicians’ personal crypto investments. They voted against protecting American consumers from the scammers and fraudsters this bill would have shut down. They voted against American leadership, and handed China and every one of our foreign competitors exactly what they wanted. Democrats chose politics over the American people—again. That’s not leadership on their part, that’s surrender to their radical, socialist base. The once-proud Democratic party is anti-consumer and pro-illicit finance, anti-ethics, anti-free enterprise, anti-worker, anti-livable wage jobs, and pro-socialism. The Democrats are now anti-American. Sad!
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André Casterman retweeted
Today, @SenateDems refused to give Clarity a final vote. America should be the leader in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Democrats are ceding the ground to our foreign adversaries. The American people deserve better, and now they know where Democrats stand after a year of back and forth negotiations. Shameful!
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