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White House Discloses Plan To Fund Crypto Research
Law360 ^

Posted on 01/30/2023 12:56:46 PM PST by Brilliant

Top advisers for President Joe Biden revealed on Friday that the administration was planning to fund the research and development of digital asset technology but was first seeking public input on where to invest its money.

The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy said  members of the public have until March 3 to help identify priority areas of research for its new national digital assets research and development agenda.

The agenda is part of a plan by the executive branch to build a "new digital economy" that "works for the many, not just the few," top Biden officials wrote in a blog post.

"The administration wholeheartedly supports responsible technological innovations that make financial services cheaper, faster, safer and more accessible," the post said.  "Yet to realize these benefits, new technologies need commensurate safeguards."

The officials who wrote the post include Brian Deese, director of the president's National Economic Council, and Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.

They say they were directed by the president a year ago to identify risks related to cryptocurrencies and identify  ways the executive branch could mitigate those risks.

The White House will release its priorities for digital asset research in the "coming months," the officials said. The government has identified blockchain, distributed ledgers, decentralized finance, smart contract and cybersecurity issues as some of the possible areas for research and development...

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If they need public comment on where to "invest their money," then that shows me that it's a waste of money. That should have been decided before Congress approved it.

Crypto is finished. At this point, it's clear that they are just trying to create jobs for Beltway insiders.

1 posted on 01/30/2023 12:56:46 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Just another opportunity to grift


2 posted on 01/30/2023 12:57:52 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Brilliant

If it’s an $8billion fund to have FTX do research, we know something is wrong.


3 posted on 01/30/2023 12:59:34 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: V_TWIN

Whatever company will launder the most taxpayer money back to “the big guy” and the democrat party.


4 posted on 01/30/2023 1:00:38 PM PST by Mogger
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To: Brilliant

It isn’t finished. It has been subsumed into the coming digital dollar, where they can then keep interest rates permanently negative and track your use of money so they can invest ahead of you to buy up the world’s economy.


5 posted on 01/30/2023 1:01:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Brilliant
"Research"


6 posted on 01/30/2023 1:01:59 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Just trying to create jobs for Beltway insiders

Yes Ukraine banks aren’t very safe right now have to launder it some place.


7 posted on 01/30/2023 1:04:37 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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"...where to invest its money."

"Its" money? "ITs" money?????

8 posted on 01/30/2023 1:05:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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Fake money controlled by leftists in the Government...

What could go wrong? Sign me up!


9 posted on 01/30/2023 1:06:09 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“All your money are belong to us.”


10 posted on 01/30/2023 1:09:33 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

...but was first seeking public input on where to invest its money.......

FTX sounds good....................


11 posted on 01/30/2023 1:11:46 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Brilliant

To Sam Banking-Fraud. He really needs the money.


12 posted on 01/30/2023 1:15:35 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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Fund Crypto Research = Control and Monitor every financial transaction.

You want to buy mind altering drug? Fine.

You want to buy ammo? Not Happening!

13 posted on 01/30/2023 1:17:31 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: John Milner
Fake money controlled by leftists in the Government...

“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”

(Revelation 13:16-17).

14 posted on 01/30/2023 1:18:26 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Brilliant
No kidding. What a mentality! Fire all of them!


15 posted on 01/30/2023 1:33:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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