On March 12, Ohio gubernatorial candidate and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy argued at the "Bitcoin For America" summit that the return on holding bitcoin for more than ten years has become the new high-risk benchmark yield. He believes that the world is returning to the "era of capital scarcity", which is the opposite of the large-scale printing of money by the Federal Reserve in the past 15 years. Ramaswamy explains that institutional investors will once again need to consider "capital...
Cointelegraph published a statement saying that the Ohio Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act has passed the committee and is one step closer to approval.
On December 23rd, newly elected Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno will serve on the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and plays a key role in developing crypto legislation. In 2018, Moreno founded Ownum, a company that sells technology to put car ownership on the blockchain. Before entering politics, he was a member of the Digital Chamber, a blockchain policy group.
Ohio's new majority whip Steve Demetriou is very supportive of Bitcoin. Ohio is set for a big win.
An Ohio man, Larry Harmon, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for helping criminals launder more than $300 million in bitcoin drug money, according to Bloomberg. Harmon ran Helix, a bitcoin mixer on the dark web that helped hundreds of drug dealers evade tracking. Despite his serious behavior, the judge granted clemency for Harmon's assistance in prosecuting other cryptocurrency cases in the United States. Harmon was ordered to forfeit $311 million and was fined $60 million by...
According to official news, after obtaining currency transmission licenses in Arkansas, Iowa, and New Hampshire, Fiat-crypto payment solution provider Alchemy Pay announced that it has obtained another currency transmission license in New Mexico, USA. Due to the regulatory independence of each state in the United States, Alchemy Pay also revealed that it is currently actively applying for currency transmission licenses in other states.
On November 6th, the US Republican Party gained control after securing key seats in the Senate of Ohio and West Virginia, that is, the Republican Party has obtained majority control of the US Senate, which also brings a bright future for cryptocurrency regulation, as the Republican-dominated Senate is expected to prepare for the introduction of clearer cryptocurrency regulations, indicating that the United States will shift to policies that benefit the industry. It is reported that the US Senate...
"In two days, we're going to take out the trash, and the name of the trash is Kamala Harris," Mr. Trump's running mate, Senator Vance of Ohio, said at a campaign rally on Monday afternoon, shortly after claiming that Mr. Harris was "disrespectful" and "even hateful" to some Americans. In his final appearance at the Atlanta campaign, Mr. Vance tried to put Harry...
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced Friday that the U.S. has filed a civil forfeiture indictment seeking the forfeiture of $200,000 worth of USDT. The action stems from an incident that occurred in February 2024 when $340,000 worth of bitcoin was fraudulently transferred from the wallet of an Ohio victim.
US Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Senator James Vance encountered an emergency when he was on a plane from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Cincinnati, Ohio on August 16 local time, and returned to Milwaukee for an emergency landing. It is reported that Vance was on a Boeing 737 aircraft that day. The reason for the emergency appears to be a malfunction of the sealed hatch, but the plane was able to land normally without an accident. A week ago, former US President and Republican preside...
On August 3rd, according to News.bitcoin, the Department of Financial Institutions Group (DFI) of the Ohio Department of Commerce recently announced that it has ordered cryptocurrency exchange Coinzoom Inc. to immediately cease operations in the state. Coinzoom has a currency transfer license in Ohio, offers a variety of financial products, and supports more than 30 cryptocurrencies. The directive went into effect on August 1 and prohibits Coinzoom from accepting new business or assets from Ohio...
Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio), who pushed for changes to cryptocurrency regulation, has a 29% chance of becoming former President Donald Trump's running mate. That's based on bets by traders on crypto prediction market platform Polymarket. Trump is reportedly expected to announce his vice presidential pick next week.
Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer Technologies Group has announced that it has signed a 30-year industrial site lease with the Monroe County Port Authority in Ohio to expand its mining operations by leasing an industrial park that is expected to receive 570 trillion watts of power capacity.
Ohio, the 16th state this year to introduce a bill protecting basic bitcoin rights, includes the right to buy and sell bitcoin, the right to mine bitcoin, the right to run a full node and the right to self-custody digital assets.